Educational management

1. COMPARATIVE
EDUCATION AND ITS
SCOPE
DSE 1.2. MODULE 1

2. Comparative Education- meaning
 Comparative Education is a discipline in the social
sciences which entails the scrutiny and evaluation of
different educational systems, such as those in
various countries. Professionals in this area of
endeavour are absorbed in advancing evocative
terminologies and guidelines for education
worldwide, enhancing educational structures and
producing a context to which the success and
effectively of education programs and initiatives can
be assessed.

3. Adeyinka (1994) gives the following definitions
of the concept:
 A study of two or more education system.
 A study of how the philosophy, aim, objectives, culture
and educational system of one country develop and its
impact on that particular country.
 A study of how the development of education in the past
times happened across the different regions and its impact
on these particular countries in the context of
development of education.
 A study of different schools to assess their administrative
process in order to control or implementing government
policies at different levels of education system.

4. The Scope of Comparative Education:
 There are five perspectives which clarifies the scope of
comparative education, these are:
1. The subject matter and content: this consist of important
contents of educational system such as structure, aim / goals,
curriculum, policies etc.
2. Geographical units of study: it encompasses intra,
international and national aspects and its impact on educational
development.
3. Ideological scope:It’s a detail comparison of different
educational systems on the basis of social, economic and
political ideologies. For example communism, capitalism, free
economy or capitalist economy etc.

5. The Scope of Comparative Education
4. Thematic scope; this scope focuses on educational
themes of various systems and compare them more
than one geographical unit. Free education at primary
and secondary level, universal primary education,
education for all theme of UNESCO.
5. The historical or spatial scope; this deals with the
study of the historical development of the discipline
from the earliest (pre-historic) phase known as the
period of Travelers’ Tales to the modern phase known
as the period of social science perspectives

6. http://camponotes.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-scope-
of-comparative-education.html.
https://hec.gov.pk/english/services/universities/Revis
edCurricula/Documents/2011-
2012/Education/CompEdu_Sept13.pdf
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