Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education

tavis d. jules is Associate Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago, USA. He is the author of Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2018).Robin Shields is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Globalization and International Education (Bloomsbury, 2013) and a co-editor of the Comparative Education Review. Matthew A.M. Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Education and Sociology of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor of Examining Teach For All (2020).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: New Directions in Comparative and International Education, tavis julesSECTION 1: FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES· Section Introduction1. Structural-functionalism in Comparative and International Education: Antecedents, developments, and applications – Marcelo Marques2. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Coloniality in Comparative and International Education: Conquest, Slavery, and Prejudice – Tavis Jules, Syed Amir Shah, and Pravindharan Balakrishnan 3. Marxism in Comparative and International Education: Foundational Political Economy Perspectives on Education – Robin Shields and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara4. Human Capital Theory in Comparative and International Education: Development, Application, and Problematics – Donna C. Tonini5. Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Critical Accounts of Education and Development – Tom G. GriffithsSECTION 2: POST-FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES· Section Introduction6. Post-colonialism in Comparative and International Education: Interrogating power, epistemologies, and educational practice – Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, Arzhia Habibi, and Olga Mun7. Post-modernism and Post-structuralism in Comparative and International Education: Examining background context, application, and prospective – Edith Mukudi Omwami8. Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparative and International Education: Monuments, Movements, and Metamorphoses – Iveta Silova, Zsuzsa Millei, Ketevan Chachkhiani, Garine Palandjian, and Mariia Vitrukh9. Gender in Comparative and International Education: Gender as noun, adjective, and verb – Laura Wangsness Willemsen and Payal Shah10. Post-Foundational Approaches in Comparative and International Education: Uncertain Moves toward Unknown Horizons – Jordan Corson and Susanne RessSECTION 3: THEORETICAL ADAPTION AND REVISION · Section Introduction11. Neo-liberalism in Comparative and International Education: Theory, Practice, Paradox – Anthony Welch12. Framing Comparative and International Education Through a Neo-Institutional Lens: The Discourse on Global Patterns and Shared Expectations – Alexander W. Wiseman13. Neo-realism in Comparative and International Education: Power, Influence, and Priorities – Tavis D. Jules, Syed Amir Shah, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Serene Ismail14. Neo-Gramscian Theory in Comparative and International Education: Power, ideas, and institutions – Tavis D. Jules, Richard Arnol, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Victoria Desimoni15. Regimes and Regionalism in Comparative and International Education: Cooperation and Competition – Marcelo Parreira do Amaral16. Cultural Political Economy (CPE) in Comparative and International Education: Putting CPE to Work in Studying Globalisation – Susan L. Robertson and Roger DaleSECTION 4: THEORIES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE · Section Introduction17. Constructivism and Learner-Centeredness in Comparative and International Education: Where Theories Meet Practice – Matthew A.M. Thomas and Michele Schweisfurth18. Differentiation Theory and Externalization in Comparative and International Education: Understanding the Intersections of the global and the local – Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and Marvin Erfurth19. Policy Borrowing and Lending in Comparative and International Education: A Key Area of Research – Gita Steiner-Khamsi20. Situating Peace Education Theories, Scholarship, and Practice in Comparative and International Education – Maria Hantzopoulos, Zeena Zakharia, and Brooke Harris Garad21. Theories of Human Rights Education in Comparative and International Education: From Declarations to New Directions – Monisha Bajaj and Nomsa MabonaSECTION 5: INTERDISCIPLINARY AND EMERGING APPROACHES· Section Introduction22. Theorizing race and racism in Comparative and International Education – Sharon Walker, Arathi Sriprakash, and Leon Tikly23. Queer Theory in Comparative and International Education: How Queer is CIE – Christian A. Bracho24. Transitologies in Comparative and International Education: Transformation and Metamorphisms – Tavis D. Jules25. Actor-Network-Theory and Comparative and International Education: Addressing the complexity of socio material foundations of power in education – Jason Beech and Alejandro Artopoulos26. Social Network Theory and Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Connecting the Dots for Better Understanding of Education – Oren Pizmony-Levy27. The Capabilities Approach in Comparative and International Education: A Justice-Enhancing Framework – Joan DeJaeghere and Melanie J. WalkerIndex

This is an excellent project. It is brilliantly timed, worth continuing, and perhaps worth expanding. The editors (and the publisher) are to be congratulated on seeing something so simple, important - and absent - amid the confusions of a rapidly changing field of study … This book is remarkable.