| Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local | 1 |
| 1 | Technocracy, Uncertainty, and Ethics: Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization | 24 |
| 2 | Institutionalizing International Influence | 52 |
| 3 | The State, Social Movements, and Educational Reform | 92 |
| 4 | Culture and Education | 115 |
| 5 | The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective | 133 |
| 6 | Equality of Education: A Half-Century of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millenium | 146 |
| 7 | Women's Education in the Twenty-First Century: Balance and Prospects | 176 |
| 8 | Control of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization | 204 |
| 9 | Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Postcolonial Societies | 229 |
| 10 | The Political Economy of Educational Reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States | 252 |
| 11 | Higher Education Restructuring in the Era of Globalization: Toward a Heteronomous Model? | 292 |
| 12 | Education in Latin America: Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Inequality | 313 |
| 13 | Asian Education | 338 |
| 14 | Education in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities | 357 |
| 15 | Russia and Eastern Europe | 384 |
| 16 | No Teacher Guide, No Textbooks, No Chairs: Contending with Crisis in African Education | 409 |
| 17 | Comparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents | 446 |
| Index | 463 |
| About the Contributors | 489 |