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Peer reviewedKelly, Gail P.; Altbach, Philip G. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Examines research reported in major books and journals of comparative education since 1977, focusing on challenges to established research traditions and the field's responses. Highlights work directing attention to new subjects of inquiry and challenging the nation-state as the exclusive research framework, input-output models and dominant…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Research, Global Approach, Input Output Analysis
Peer reviewedAltbach, Philip G. – Comparative Education Review, 1985
Reviews the 10-volume "International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies," edited by Torsten Husen and T. Neville Postlethwaite. Discusses useful features, organizational framework, clusters of educational themes, bias toward English-language sources, articles on specific national educational systems, theme essays concerning…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedAltbach, Philip G. – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Examines societal and academic factors influencing the development of comparative education since 1945, particularly in the United States. Discusses the dominance of structural functionalism and human capital theory in the 1960s, the recent shift to diverse research orientations and ideologies, and effects of institutional decline and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Research
Peer reviewedAltbach, Philip G. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
On this journal's 30th anniversary, the editor reflects on the development of the field of comparative education and its "infrastructure" (scholars and practitioners, scholarly journals, book publishers, and international agencies); the field's internationalization; influence of international aid donors on research; symbiosis of comparative and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Education, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Download full textAltbach, Philip G. – 1985
Literature and research on higher education are analyzed in an international and comparative context. After summarizing the development of higher education as a field of study, the following kinds of research arrangements in Europe are discussed: individual scholars, university research centers/departments, independent research centers, national…
Descriptors: Books, Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Research
Altbach, Philip G.; Kelly, David H. – 1985
International and comparative trends in higher education since the mid-1960s throughout the world are addressed in two essays, and a bibliography of some 7,000 works of higher education worldwide is presented. The essays were commissioned by the European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES), a decentralized unit of UNESCO. Philip G. Altbach's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
Altbach, Philip G. – 1979
Consisting of an essay and a bibliography, this book provides a discussion of the origins and development of comparative higher education as a field of study, an interpretation of the key issues in higher education as they affect different countries, and a select list of significant contributions to the literature on the subject. The essay begins…
Descriptors: Activism, Articulation (Education), Bibliographies, Books
