Class Comparative Education. Methodologies and Problems

The analysis of how the school model has been affirmed and consolidated has constituted the privileged field of study of Comparative Education. Anchored in the field of Education Sciences, Comparative Education began to gain greater expression and development after the Second World War, as a result of the strong impulse given to the internationalization of educational issues by large international intergovernmental agencies.  

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1.    Comparative Education. Journeys and the construction of an identity 2.    Methodologies of analysis in Comparative Education 3.    Globalization(s). A new world for Comparative Education 4.    International organizations of governmental nature as main globalizing agents 5.    PISA and other major instruments of international assessment. The construction of forms of world governance   

Utilization of interactive case studies from different global educational systems, accompanied by debates among students of various nationalities, thus promoting critical analysis and the exchange of cultural perspectives.

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