Syllabus (EDUCATION)

Course Type: MAJ-10

Semester: 6

Course Code: BEDCMAJ010T

Course Title: Comparative Education

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Practical

Course Objective: Learning Objective and Learning Outcome: After completion of the course the students shall be able: To develop an understanding of the concepts ofComparative Education To develop an understanding of factors and forces of comparative education To    

Learning Outcome: Learning Objective and Learning Outcome: After completion of the course the students shall be able: To develop an understanding of the concepts ofComparative Education To develop an understanding of factors and forces of comparative education To    

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Comparative Education

[Credit: 5+1]

Learning Objective and Learning Outcome:

After completion of the course the students shall be able:

1. To develop an understanding of the concepts ofComparative Education
2. To develop an understanding of factors and forces of comparative education
3. To acquaint with the structure, aims and objectives of education of different countries

Course Contents:

Unit-I: The Origins and Usefulness of Comparative Education

1. Meaning and Nature of Comparative Education
2. Approaches of Comparative Education – (i) Human Capital, (ii) Social Capital, (iii) School Quality, (iv) Alternative Student Outcomes
3. Methods of Comparative Education – (i) Philosophical Method, (ii) Sociological Method, (iii)Psychological Method

Unit-II: Factors and Forces of Comparative Education

1. Natural Factors – (i) World Systems, Dependency, and Neo-colonial Theories; (ii) Neo-institutionalist Approaches: Historical, Racial, Linguistic and Social Factors; (iii) Decentralization
2. School Choice and Privatization
3. Research for Policy and Future of Comparative Education

Unit-III: Elementary, Secondary and Higher Education in India, UK andUSA

1. Structure, Aims and Objectives
2. Curriculum, Methodology and Evaluation system
3. Administration including Finance

Suggested Readings:

Altbach, Phillip (1977). “Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neo- Colonialism,” Teachers College Record 79(2), pp. 187-203.

Baker, David, Ruth Hayhoe, Stephen Heyneman, Keith Lewin, M. NajeebShafiq, Amy Stambach, Nelly Stromquist and Fran Vavrus (2008). “Response to Steven Klees’ presidential address,” invited contributors, Newsletter of the Comparative and International Education Society, May. Go to: http://cies.us/newsletter/may08/index_may08.htm.

Bereday, George (1977). “Comparative Analysis in Education,” Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education 7(4), pp. 472-487.

Boli, John, Francisco Ramirez, and John Meyer (1985). “Explaining the Origins and Expansion of Mass Education,” Comparative Education Review 29(2)

Bray, Mark and R. Murray Thomas (1995). “Levels of Comparison in Education: Different Insights from Different Literatures and the Value of Multilevel Analysis,” Harvard Educational Review 65(3), pp. 472-490.

Carnoy, Martin and Jeffrey Marshall (2005). “Comparing Cuban Academic Performance with the Rest of Latin America,” Comparative Education Review 49(2), pp. 230-261.

Chapman, David, Elizabeth Barcikowski, Michael Sowan, Emma Gyamera, and George Woode (2002). “Do Communities Know Best? Testing a Premise of Educational Decentralization: Community Members’ Perceptions of their Local Schools in Ghana,” International Journal of Educational Development 22(2), pp. 181-189.

Coleman, James (1988). “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital,” American Journal of Sociology 94, pp. S95-S120.

Collins, Randall (1994). “Prologue: The Rise of the Social Sciences,” in Four Sociological Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Emler, Nicholas and Elizabeth Frazer (1999). “Politics: The Education Effect,” Oxford Review of Education 25(1/2), pp. 251-273.

Farrell, Joseph (1979). “The Necessity of Comparisons in the Study of Education: The Salience of Science and the Problem of Comparability,” Comparative Education Review 23(1), pp. 255-261.

Ginsburg, Mark and Jorge Gorostiaga (2001). “Relationships between Theorists/Researchers and Policy Makers/Practitioners: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Thesis and the Possibility of Dialogue,” Comparative Education Review 45(2), pp. 173- 196.

Ginsburg, Mark, Susan Cooper, Rajeshwari Raghu, and Hugo Zegarra (1990). “National and World System Explanations of Educational Reform,” Comparative Education Review 34(4), pp. 474-499.

Hayhoe, Ruth and Karen Mundy (2010). Introduction to Comparative and International Education: Why Study Comparative Education? http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cidec/UserFiles/Media/Research/Issues_for_Teachers/ATA_ ChapterOne.mov

Heyneman, Stephen and William Loxley (1983). “The Effect of Primary-School Quality on Academic Achievement Across Twenty-Nine High- and Low-Income Countries,” American Journal of Sociology 88(6), pp. 1162-1194.

Horvat, Erin, Elliot Weininger, and Annette Lareau (2003). “From Social Ties to Social Capital: Class Differences in the Relations between Schools and Parent Networks,” American Journal of Educational Research 40(2), pp. 319-351.

Klees, Steven (2008). “Reflections on Theory, Method, and Practice in Comparative and International Education,” Comparative Education Review 52(3), pp. 301-328

Levin, Henry (1984). “Assessing the Equalization Potential of Education,” Comparative Education Review 28(1), pp. 11-27.

Levin, Henry (1992).“Effective Schools in Comparative Focus.”In Phillip Altbach, Robert Arnove, and Gail Kelly (Eds.), Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 229-248. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Levin, Henry (2002). “A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Educational Vouchers,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24, pp. 159-174.

Mattei, Paola (2012). “Market Accountability in Schools: Policy Reforms in England, Germany, France, and Italy,” Oxford Review of Education 38(3), pp. 247-266.

McGinn, Noel and Luzete Pereira (1992).“Why States Change the Governance of Education: A Historical Comparison of Brazil and the United States,” Comparative Education 28(2), pp. 167-180.

Meyer, John W. and David Baker (1996).“Forming American Education Policy with International Data: Lessons from the Sociology of Education,” Sociology of Education (extra issue), pp. 123-130.

Meyer, John, Joane Nagel, and Conrad Snyder (1993). “The Expansion of Mass Education in Botswana: Local and World Society Perspectives,” Comparative Education Review 37(4), pp. 454-475.

Noah, Harold (1984). “Uses and Abuses of Comparative Education,” Comparative Education Review 28, pp. 153-163.

Noah, Harold and Max Eckstein (1969).Toward a Science of Comparative Education. New York: Macmillan.

Phillips, David and Michele Schweisfurth (2008). “Chapter 1: Making Comparisons,” in Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice, pp. 8-27. New York: Continuum.

Phillips, David and Michele Schweisfurth (2008). “Chapter 2: How Comparative Education has Developed,” in Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice, pp. 28-42. New York: Continuum.

Psacharapoulos, George and Harry Patrinos (2004). “Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update,” Education Economics 12, pp. 111-134. (Focus on the tables only)

Rust, Val (2004).“Method and Methodology in Comparative Education,” Comparative Education Review 47(3), iii-vii.

Samoff, Joel (1999). “Education Sector Analysis in Africa: Limited National Control and Even Less National Ownership,” International Journal of Educational Development 19, pp. 249-272.

Schultz, Theodore (1961). “Investment in Human Capital,” American Economic Review

Shafiq, M. Najeeb& Karen Ross (2010). “Educational Attainment and Attitudes towards War in Muslim Countries Contemplating War: The Cases of Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Turkey,” Journal of Development Studies 46(8), pp. 1424-1441.

Sorensen, Clark (1994). “Success and Education in South Korea,” Comparative Education Review 38(1), pp. 10-35.

Weiler, Hans (1990). “Comparative Perspectives on Educational Decentralization: An Exercise in Contradiction,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 12(4), pp. 433- 438.