The Role of Comparative Pedagogy in Comparative Educational Research
Comparative Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 978-1-78350-455-8, eISBN: 978-1-78350-456-5
Publication date: 7 May 2015
Abstract
The main aim of this chapter is to discuss the conceptualization of comparative pedagogies within Continental European and Anglophone traditions, and to discuss the importance of comparative pedagogy within the contemporary comparative educational research as such. The chapter opens with the issue of naming and translation of the key terminology, notably pedagogy, comparative pedagogy, and vzgoja (Erziehung in German and vospitanie in Russian) – a concept which implies the teacher’s intentional guidance of children in their moral, personal, social, aesthetical, physical, and spiritual advancement. The chapter presents a brief history of the development of pedagogy as a distinctive science, and proceeds with the discussion on pedagogy’s identity. Due to multifaceted understanding of pedagogy in Continental Europe, the chapter focuses on the academic tradition in Slovenia and wider area of former Yugoslavia. Further, the role of comparison in different contemporary historical periods of pedagogy’s development is explained. The chapter shows that comparative pedagogy has different meanings in different academic traditions. The main difference between that Continental Europe and the Anglophone world is in the knowledge base they built on (pedagogy vs. other social sciences), and the focus they place on endogenous and exogenous factors influencing the nature of education systems and pedagogical processes. The author finally proposes a new definition of comparative pedagogy; a definition which takes pedagogy as its knowledge base, but is also informed with a long tradition of comparative education research based on other social sciences.
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Acknowledgments
I would like to express my very great appreciation to Dr. Alexander W. Wiseman for his valuable suggestions and constructive critiques during the development of this chapter. His willingness to give his time so generously has been very much appreciated.
Citation
Ermenc, K.S. (2015), "The Role of Comparative Pedagogy in Comparative Educational Research", Comparative Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920140000026008
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