List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Abbreviations.- Foreword, Anne HICKLING-HUDSON.- Introduction, Mark BRAY, Bob ADAMSON & Mark MASON.- I: DIRECTIONS.- 1. Actors and Purposes in Comparative Education, Mark BRAY.- 2. Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Comparative Education, Gregory P. FAIRBROTHER.- 3. The Place of Experience in Comparative Education Research, Patricia POTTS.- II: UNITS OF COMPARISON.- 4. Comparing Places, Maria MANZON.- 5. Comparing Systems, Mark BRAY & JIANG Kai.- 6. Comparing Times, Anthony SWEETING.- 7. Comparing Cultures, Mark MASON.- 8. Comparing Values, LEE Wing-On.- 9. Comparing Educational Achievements, T. Neville POSTLETHWAITE & Frederick LEUNG.- 10. Comparing Policies, YANG Rui.- 11. Comparing Curricula, Bob ADAMSON & Paul MORRIS.- 12. Comparing Educational Organisations, Clive DIMMOCK.- 13. Comparing Ways of Learning, David A. WATKINS.- 14. Comparing Pedagogical Innovations, Nancy LAW.- III: CONCLUSIONS.- 15. Scholarly Enquiry and the Field of Comparative Education, Mark BRAY.- 16. Different Models, Different Emphases, Different Insights, Mark BRAY, Bob ADAMSON & Mark MASON.- Contributors.- Bibliography.- Index.

Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention. This book contributes new insights within the longstanding traditions of the field. A particular feature is the focus on different units of analysis. Individual chapters compare places, systems, times, cultures, values, policies, curricula and other units.