Tendencias Pedagógicas (Oct 2015)

Compared Education Revisited: Review of epistemological evolution and thematic in the erapostcomparada

  • María Jesús Martínez Usarralde

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 0
pp. 77 – 102

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The article tends to walk by a synchronic as well as diachronic track. Doing this, it tries to justify the pertinence ofComparative Education through its 'past, its 'present and finally the 'future is going to continue too The 'past isjustified through revision to theories more significant whose presence have been legitimizes from the point ofview of epistemologies. In order to understand the 'present, an analysis is made about topics published by two specialized reviews during 2005. The 'future identifies, in this paragraph, the emergence of sorne new challenges that need to be being reinterpreted in comparative clue in actual educational scenery, and invite to debate and to set ofintrinsic role that continues having Comparative Education. At the same time, it calls, in its conclusions, to a reformulation and renovation ofsorne oftheir paradigms in order to have stronger heuristic tools to interpret theoretically these educational realities.

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