ASPECTS OF EDUCATIONAL TRANSFER

摘要: There has always been much agonising and disagreement about the defi nition, purpose, methods of comparative education. But there might be general agreement on one thing, namely, that among aims inquiry in education should intention to learn from foreign experience, identify aspects educational provision ‘elsewhere’ serve as lessons for ‘home’ situation, ‘borrowed’ or ‘copied’, ‘emulated’, ‘imported’, ‘appropriated’ – vocabulary is both diverse various ways problematic result, Michael Sadler’s words, ‘in our being better fi tted understand own [system]’ (Sadler, 1900, Higginson, 1979). The idea policy practice ‘transferred’ other locations has, then, a continuing theme enthusiastically embraced dismissed simplistic notion since early days In this chapter I shall concerned with which notions transfer have developed turn analysed over past 200 years so. refer ‘policy borrowing’ meaning ‘conscious adoption context observed another’ (Phillips & Ochs, 2004a, p. 774). ‘Borrowing’ therefore seen deliberate, purposive phenomenon development. Borrowing sense part ‘educational transfer’, can cover range possibilities movement ideas practices (see Figure 2). First, consider place borrowing work some key gures development beginning nineteenth century. Then describe examples long historical period contexts. Next, sketch most important recent research into eld Finally look at present future developments.