Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods

List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Abbreviations.- Preface.- Introduction: Mark BRAY, Bob ADAMSON & Mark MASON.- I: DIRECTIONS.- 1. Actors and Purposes in Comparative Education: Mark BRAY.- 2. Scholarly Enquiry and the Field of Comparative Education: Mark BRAY.- 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Comparative Education: Gregory P. FAIRBROTHER.- II: UNITS OF COMPARISON.- 4. Comparing Places: Maria MANZON.- 5. Comparing Systems: Mark BRAY & Kai JIANG.- 6. Comparing Times: Anthony SWEETING.- 7. Comparing Race, Class and Gender: Liz JACKSON.- 8. Comparing Cultures: Mark MASON.- 9. Comparing Values: Wing On LEE & Maria MANZON.- 10. Comparing Policies: Rui YANG.- 11. Comparing Curricula: Bob ADAMSON & Paul MORRIS.- 12. Comparing Pedagogical Innovations: Nancy LAW.- 13. Comparing Ways of Learning: David A. WATKINS & Jan VAN AALST.- 14. Comparing Educational Achievements: Frederick LEUNG & Kyungmee PARK.- III: CONCLUSIONS.- 15. Different Models, Different Emphases, Different Insights: Mark BRAY, Bob ADAMSON & Mark MASON.- Contributors.- Index.