En las últimas tres décadas, los procesos de globalización y las fuerzas de alcance mundial que poseen las organizaciones gubernamentales internacionales y/o regionales, las organizaciones no gubernamentales y las redes mundiales de educación han socabado los enfoques comparativos tradicionales; lo cual nos ha impulsado a repensar las estrategias y unidades de comparación. El estudio de las relaciones entre lo global y lo local, el desarrollo de perspectivas como la transitología, o la teoría de la cultura mundial, la conceptualización de los procesos de borrowing/lending o la díada internacionalización/externalización son ejemplos de los cambios aludidos. Incluimos en esta obra estudios recientes y reflexiones teóricas desarrolladas en ese marco de renovación metodológica y conceptual, con trabajos que tienen como objetivo analizar los temas y los enfoques que se han desarrollado en el campo de la educación comparada durante la última década en diferentes ámbitos académicos de América del Norte, Europa, Australia y Asia. Asumimos también el desafío de poner en circulación en el ámbito hispanoparlante algunos de los aportes más recientes en los estudios comparados con el fin de promover y fortalecer el intercambio teórico entre diferentes tradiciones académicas.

This book emanated from presentations at the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2013. The Congress theme of “New Times, New Voices” provided the broad frame of the post-Buenos Aires series of volumes including this one containing research contributions focusing on the situation of public education systems. The chapters in this volume are selected for quality of research and relevance to the theme, and for representation across global regions. They examine the new and renovated challenges faced by public education systems at present for which different paths are suggested. In particular, this book puts together studies from authors from Latin American countries, especially from the Southern Cone, as a way of giving voice to particular educational problems and perspectives in a globalized world. Getting into educational systems in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and analysing some of its current particularities through the lenses of regional and international comparison, contributes to a better understanding of the processes of circulation, reception, appropriation and translation that historically characterizes educational systems development. This is why the volume also includes studies regarding the impact on contemporary educational reforms in the public sector, their links to past reforms and their cumulative impact on educational systems.

This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in the field. It aims to raise awareness on the positionality of historical narratives about this field of inquiry and offers a re-think of its histories. Since comparative education has always been embedded within a global field of power, what would the changing world order’s implications be for the institutional and intellectual histories of the field? This book offers diverse perspectives for re-theorising the histories of comparative education. It suggests casting a far-sighted and panoramic look at the field’s origins. The volume concludes with a puzzle for future work on a global history of comparative education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.

TheAnnual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021, Part A begins with a collection of discussion essays about comparative and international education trends and directions, followed by studies that focus on new developments in comparative and international education by regional area.