TY - BOOK AU - Jürgen Schriewer AU - Jürgen K. Schriewer PY - 2000 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653011005 TI - Discourse Formation in Comparative Education DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-01100-5 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051862 N2 - New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education – just as into Comparative Social Science more generally – in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a range of these positions such as, inter alia, the theory of self-organizing social systems and the morphogenetic approach; the theory of long waves in economic development and world-systems analysis; historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge; as well as critical hermeneutics and post-modernist theorizing. With reference to such theories and approaches, the chapters – written by scholars from Europe, the USA and Australia – outline alternative research agendas for the comparative study of the social and educational fabric of the modern world. In so doing, they also expound frames of reference for re-considering the intellectual shaping, or Discourse Formation, of Comparative Education as a field of study. KW - sociology of knowledge, Pädagogik, Sozialwissenschaften, post-modernist theorizing, critical hermeneutics, self-organizing social systems, morphogenetic approach LA - English ER -