| Title | Chapter 1: Comparative and international education |
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| Subtitle | History, challenges and future |
| Contributor | Charl C Wolhuter(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK434.01 |
| Landing page | https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/434 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Charl C Wolhuter 2024. Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. The moral right of the author has been asserted. |
| Publisher | AOSIS |
| Long abstract | This is the introductory and orientation chapter to the volume. The historical trajectory of the evolution of the field of comparative and international education is reconstructed. This historical survey culminates by the identification of five lacunae in the field at this point in time. The most pressing challenge in the field is that of Northern hegemony. Indeed, this chapter suggests the construct of criticism against Northern hegemony in comparative and international education and in education in the contemporary world as the defining feature of the current era in the field. This criticism against Northern hegemony is evident in the following strands, detectable in the scholarly discussion in the field: criticism of the imposition of one model of development; criticism of foreign aid and of international agencies; anti-globalisation; criticism of neoliberal economics and its impact on education; calls for the decolonisation of education and of comparative and international education; criticism of racism in education and in comparative and international education; an appreciation ofindigenous knowledge systems (IKSs); and allegations that scholars of the Global South find themselves on an unequal playing field. The author pits the rise of the Global South in the contemporary world and the global education project against this Northern hegemony. The thesis of this book is to argue for the affirmation of the Global South as the next logical and required phase in the evolution of comparative and international education. |
| Print length | 30 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Charl C Wolhuter studied at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in comparative education at Stellenbosch University. He was a junior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Pretoria and a senior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Zululand. Currently, he is a comparative and international education professor at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has held visiting professorships at, among others, Brock University, Canada; Driestar Pedagogical University, the Netherlands; the University of Crete, Greece; Canterbury Christ University, United Kingdom; the University of Joensuu, Finland; the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Mataj Bel University, Slovakia; Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine; University of Zhengzhou, China; the University of Namibia, Namibia; the University of the Western Cape, SouthAfrica; the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Latvia, Latvia; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; the University of Tarapaca, Chile; and San Martín University, Argentina. He is the author of various books and articles on the history of education and comparative education. He is also the assistant editor of the journal Comparative Education Review.