Do we need comparative education in a globalised world?
Do we need comparative education in a globalised world?

Summary/Abstract: Globalization, and presently predominant educational governance and research strategies, certainly pose a new challenge on the theoretical and methodical background of comparative education as an academic field. Large scale research on education systems conducted all over the world uses uniform methodologies facing allegedly a more only preliminary not yet completely uniform “world education system”. However, in this global research, uniform items are “compared” only in respect to scales, and not as substantially different entities embedded in different contexts of complexity. Using a critical view on these tendencies and strategies, we find strong arguments for the necessity to reconsider why we still need a more complex understanding of comparison and the continuation and even further advancement of a comparative education field which is apt to take into account the complexity of a non-uniform education world.

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