Bridging Cultures and Traditions in Comparative and International Education

This cross-cutting and insightful volume reflects on more than four decades of continuity and change in comparative and international education (CIE) through selected publications by Michael Crossley.

Inspired by early work in Papua New Guinea, the volume highlights Crossley’s seminal contributions to qualitative research and case study in CIE; shifting priorities in the interrogation of international policy transfer in education, research methodologies, epistemological positioning and decolonial theory; the potential and challenges of collaborative, international research partnerships; and the dilemmas of educational and environmental development in small states at the ‘sharp end’ of climate change. Together with new sections of critical reflection and analysis, the collection engages with contemporary global challenges and presents a coherent and flexible framework for multiple forms of innovative bridge-building across and beyond traditional academic boundaries.

Reflecting upon and across this body of work within a single volume, enables a wide range of readers, including researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners, to understand and follow how the selected papers and related arguments have contributed to the development of CIE over time.