Research
Issues for Teachers
Click here to reach the Ask the Authors film series.
Click here to watch guest lectures by the authors.
The Project
Eleven CIDEC faculty members and students have created an anthology on comparative and international education for teacher candidates. The book, Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers, was published by Canadian Scholars Press Inc. and Teachers College Press in 2008. For the past four years, the OISE Initial Teacher Education program and the Faculty of Education at York University have offered courses using this textbook. To order it, please see our brochure for further details.
Less than two years after its publication in 2008, we now have excellent reports of the use of the textbook outside of OISE. CSPI has sold close to 300 copies through direct orders; Teachers College 867. Universities that are using the textbook include York University, Nippissing University, University of Minnesota, Hong Kong Institute of Education (Hong Kong), Hacettepe University (Turkey), and Northeast Normal University (Changchun, China), University of British Columbia, Laval, the Nova Scotia Department of Education, McGill University, Canadore College, and Wilfrid Laurier University. The book has now been translated into Chinese and published under the title Bijiao yu Guoji jiaoyu daolun: Jiaoshi Mianlin de wenti by publisher Education Science Press in Beijing.
Supplemental Resources
We hope to provide further resources for faculty and students using this anthology. Please check this site often as we will continue to upload lectures, Powerpoint presentations, and recommended films, internet sites, etc.
In order to support broader use of the textbook, our centre developed an Ask the Authors film series with matching funds from the University of Toronto's Instructional Technology and Course Development Fund. Each of the authors answered three questions: What are the main themes of your chapter; How does the field of comparative and international education contribute to the discussion of these themes; and What can teacher candidates and current teachers learn from the comparative perspective of your topic? The films are also available as a podcast.
Guest Lecturers
Ruth Hayhoe was invited to give the keynote lecture for the 2008 Monolith Lecture Series, a collaborative lecture series with five universities across the globe. Her lecture was based on Chapter Two "Philosophy and Comparative Education: What Can We Learn from East Asia?". Click here for the lecture; it begins with an introduction to the Monolith Lecture Series. The lecture was followed by a question and answer session.
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Chapter One: Introduction to Comparative and International Education: Why Study Comparative Education?
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Chapter Two: Philosophy and Comparative Education: What Can We Learn from East Asia? With Ruth Hayhoe |
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Chapter Three: Education for All and the Comparative Sociology of Schooling
With Karen Mundy
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Chapter Four: Comparative Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning
With Katherine Madjidi and Jean-Paul Restoule
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Chapter Five: Teaching and Learning to Teach: Successful Radical Alternatives from the Developing World
With Joseph Farrell
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Chapter Six: Understanding Teaching/Pedagogy: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Insights from Central Asia and the Developing World
With Sarfaroz Niyozov
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Chapter Seven: School Improvement in Comparative Perspective
With Stephen Anderson
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Chapter Eight: International Educational Indicators and Assessments: Issues for Teachers
With Karen Mundy and Joseph Farrell (Coming Soon)
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Chapter Nine: Gender and Education
With Kara Janigan and Vandra Masemann
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Chapter Ten: Education for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Plural Societies: Approaches from Around the World
With Kathy Bickmore
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Chapter Eleven: Educating for "Global Citizenship": Contrasting Perspectives and Practices
With Mark Evans
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