This cross-cutting and insightful volume reflects on more than four decades of continuity and change in comparative and international education (CIE) through selected publications by Michael Crossley.Inspired by early work in Papua New Guinea, the volume highlights Crossley’s seminal contributions to qualitative research and case study in CIE; shifting priorities in the interrogation of international policy transfer in education, research methodologies, epistemological positioning and decolonial theory; the potential and challenges of collaborative, international research partnerships; and the dilemmas of educational and environmental development in small states at the ‘sharp end’ of climate change. Together with new sections of critical reflection and analysis, the collection engages with contemporary global challenges and presents a coherent and flexible framework for multiple forms of innovative bridge-building across and beyond traditional academic boundaries.Reflecting upon and across this body of work within a single volume, enables a wide range of readers, including researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners, to understand and follow how the selected papers and related arguments have contributed to the development of CIE over time.
Michael Crossley, FAcSS, is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, Senior Research Fellow, and Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) at the University of Bristol, UK.
Introduction PART 1: Bridging Cultures and Traditions 1. Reconceptualising comparative and international education 2. Bridging cultures and traditions in the reconceptualisation of comparative and international education 3. Postcolonial perspectives and comparative and international research in education 4. Reconceptualising the teaching of comparative and international education PART 2: Education Policy Transfer and Context Sensitivity 5. Strategies for curriculum change and the question of international transfer 6. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 7. Policy transfer, sustainable development and the contexts of education PART 3: Qualitative Research and Epistemic Justice 8. Case-study research methods and comparative education 9. Issues and trends in qualitative research: potential for developing countries 10. Prioritising social, environmental and epistemic justice for comparative and international research in education PART 4: Educational and Environmental Development in Small States 11. Whose knowledge, whose values? The contribution of local knowledge to education policy processes 12. Education for sustainable development: implications for small island developing states 13. Commonwealth small states, education and environmental uncertainty: learning from the Sharp End