This comprehensive new text explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. The contributors draw on comparative research from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and touch on themes including history and philosophy of comparative education, the right to education, teacher formation, alternative pedagogies, testing, multiculturalism, gender, conflict resolution, and global citizenship. Offering a vivid portrayal of global educational practices, contributions from preeminent scholars, and invaluable teaching resources, this text is vital reading for teachers, teachers-in-training, and comparative education scholars.

Karen Mundy is Professor of Comparative and International Education, Associate Dean of Research, International and Innovation, and President Elect of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) at the University of Toronto.

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Kathy Bickmore is Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto.

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Ruth Hayhoe is Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto.

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Meggan Madden is Assistant Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She teaches in the International Education Management program.

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Katherine Madjidi, PhD, has her doctorate in Leadership, Higher and Adult Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She currently teaches the Ecology of Leadership program at the Regenerative Design Institute.

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"This is a timely, well crafted, and topically important work that adds so much to our understanding of the past trajectories, actual realities, and future prospects of comparative and international education. By combining the historical and the sociological with the philosophical and the geographical, the editors and their contributors achieve an excellent perspective that should refine the way we understand and interact with the contours and intersections of comparative and international education. The book will, undoubtedly, serve the interests of scholars, students, and the wider public."— “Ali A. Abdi, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta