This article is an initial attempt to illustrate how patterns of academic mobility in the history of universities have been framed by the international politics of particular time periods. The article briefly looks at "the medieval period" and then at the emergent colonial and nationalist periods, including the ways that institutions as…

It is not yet well known that there has been a selective bias in writing the "world" history of higher education. Western hegemony prevails in this academic endeavour. To recover one of the many lost traditions of higher education, this paper will make a historical comparison of the two distinctive academic traditions representing the…

Since Independence in 1963, Kenya has launched three Free Primary Education programmes: the first in 1974, the second in 1979 and the most recent in 2003. Using historical data, this paper first outlines each initiative in turn, and discusses why, in the case of the earlier initiatives, impressive initial gains in improved access proved difficult…

The impact on educational analysis of mainstream international relations (IR) theories is yet to realize its full potential. The problem of education in relation to the construction of world order is considered in relation to core developments in IR theory since the Second World War. In particular, the global architecture of education is seen as a…

Formulates some important criteria of a comparative discipline--independent of whichever sphere of knowledge it belongs to--and measures the comparative historical sciences mapped out against criteria. Focuses on the following main points: method, subject, intention, forms, and point of reference or form of reference of comparison. (Author/AH)

In our internationalizing world, even countries that have had a reputation of being so-called "homogeneous" are facing cultural diversification within. Though Japan is a country often described as homogeneous or, at least, homogeneously minded, with the inflows of new types of foreigners, it is presently experiencing what has been dubbed…

Pinpoints the implications raised for comparative studies by the internationalization of educational institutions. (Editor/RK)

As post-Independence but still ethnically divided Cyprus enters Europe and speaks the idiom of multiculturalism, the fear of Others and otherness become re-inscribed in its cultural self-projections and the politics of the history of education. This article argues that the post-Independence fascination with roots and derision for otherness has…

Suggests that comparative education tries to obtain an idea of the development and differentiation of the modern educational structure.

Are western psychological and educational theory and practice truly applicable to a range of diverse settings around the world? We demonstrate that there is a globally dominant pedagogical orthodoxy--not exclusively western--for which there is little supportive theory nor evidence of efficacy. There is an alternative--Standards for Effective…

The purpose of this paper is to consider against the background of the current situation of the Black in American schools, two questions: what insight does literature give to the present position and future prospect of Negro education and secondly do these insights suggest parallels in other societies? (Author)

This article sketched the history of education in Chinese cities during the 20th century to show that although no necessary connection between urban schools and bourgeois values exists that, nonetheless, in China such a connection was a historical reality. (Author/RK)

Although sport is supposedly non-political in the Soviet Union, it is used to achieve non-sport objectives such as political socialization, political indoctrination and political integration. Article considered sport in the Soviet Union as it is interrelated with other aspects of society. (Author/RK)

Considers the history of educational practice in Europe and how Britain's new European contacts should be a catalyst for new and productive interdependence within the European Community. (Author/RK)

This essay describes the pertinence of Social Network Analysis (SNA) for the social sciences in general, and discusses its methodological and conceptual implications for comparative research in particular. The authors first present a basic summary of the theoretical and methodological assumptions of SNA, followed by a succinct overview of its…