Title:
Why we should care about comparative higher education?
Author:
Ariane de Gayardon
Published:
SRHE (The Society for Research into Higher Education) Blog, 4 February 2020
From the blog post:
"In contrast to comparative education, whose history dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, comparative higher education is a relatively recent construct of research originating in the 1970-1980s. This early period gave us the first comparative instruments, still widely used today, as lenses to analyse national higher education systems. These include Clark’s triangle of coordination (1983), Altbach’s use of the concept of centre and periphery (1981) and Trow’s definition of elite, mass and universal systems (1973). Therefore, early on, comparative higher education proved very successful in increasing our understanding of higher education globally. But, since then, what has it accomplished?"
To read this blog post:
https://srheblog.com/2020/02/04/why-we-should-care-about-comparative-higher-education/