Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Reframing comparative education : the dialectic of the global and the local / Robert F. Arnove -- Technocracy, uncertainty, and ethics : comparative education in an era of postmodernity and globalization / Anthony Welch -- Institutionalizing international influence / Joel Samoff -- The state, social movements, and educational reform / Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Culture and education / Vandra Lea Masemann -- The question of identity from a comparative education perspective / Christine Fox -- Equality of education : six decades of comparative evidence seen from a new millennium / Joseph P. Farrell -- Women's education in the twenty-first century / Nelly P. Stromquist -- Control of education : issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization / Mark Bray -- A theory of literacies for considering the role of adult and community education in postcolonial change / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States / Jack Keating, Rosemary Preston, Penny Jane Burke, Richard Van Heertum, and Robert F. Arnove -- Higher education in the era of globalization : toward a heteronomous model? / Daniel Schugurensky -- Education in Latin America : from dependency and neoliberalism to alternative paths to development / Robert F. Arnove, Stephen Franz, and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Education in the Asia-Pacific region : some enduring challenges / John N. Hawkins -- Higher education in the Middle East / Shabana Mir -- Education in Eastern and Central Europe : re-thinking post-socialism in the context of globalization / Iveta Silova and Ben Eklof -- Education for all in Africa : not catching up, but setting the pace / Joel Samoff and Bidemi Carrol -- The political construction of European education space / António Teodoro -- Comparative education : the dialectics of globalization and its discontents / Carlos Alberto Torres.