Teaching the Oxford Studies book series on notable scholars of comparative education

• In Event: Poster Group 3
  In Poster Session: Teaching the Oxford Studies book series on notable scholars of comparative education

Proposal

Learning about the accomplishments, struggles, and challenges of notable comparativists of education, especially those who have formed the foundations of the field, is vital to an understanding of how comparative and international education evolved and has been sustained over many years and in many countries. Several books in the Oxford Studies Series in Comparative Education, published by Routledge under the editorship of David Phillips, are devoted to analyzing the lives and works of notable comparativists of past centuries. Two of these books have already been published, another will soon be in press, and two more are being written. This poster presentation will provide a platform for discussing how knowing the works of these notables can uniquely inform our grasp of the field and the role they can play in teaching about comparative and international education. The books to be discussed – referred to here as the “notable comparativists” portion of the Oxford series – will include North American Scholars of Comparative Education, edited by Erwin H. Epstein; British Scholars of Comparative Education, edited by David Phillips; and Latin American Scholars of Comparative Education, edited by Cristina Alarcón López and Jason Beech. Each book identifies key figures, categorized by the region in which they worked, who have shaped comparative education. They are historical figures, no longer living, whose scholarship was produced in the seminal years of the 19th and 20th centuries. Their academic institutions, courses they imparted, their mentors and students they mentored, the theories and methods they introduced and expanded, and regional influences will set the contexts of their work.

Author

• Erwin H. Epstein, Loyola University Chicago