Comparative Education

Comparative Education began with observation about foreign peoples and their education and developed into descriptions of foreign school systems, Inherent in this work was the practical aim of borrowing from abroad useful educational devices for the improvement of education at home. The descriptive phase gradually expanded to include examination of the social, political, and the historical context in which school systems develop. A further dimension was added to the description of these relationships as comparative educators and it societal setting. Most recently, comparative education has entered yet a new phase in which cross-national data are used to test propositions about the relationship of education to society.