Education in Developing, Emerging, and Developed Countries: Different Worlds, Common Challenges. BCES Conference Books, Volume 22

Overview & Synopsis

This volume contains selected papers submitted to the 22nd Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in June 2024. The Conference theme was "Education in Developing, Emerging, and Developed Countries: Different Worlds, Common Challenges." The theme focuses how scholars of Comparative and International Education embraced the developed-developing countries dichotomy since the middle of the twentieth century. It is argued that this conceptualisation of the world has become increasingly anachronistic and also problematic for a number of reasons. Other taxons that have been suggested among scholars in the field include emerging countries, BRICS, and the Global South. The book includes 25 papers and starts with an introductory piece authored by Charl Wolhuter. The other 24 papers are divided into 5 parts representing the BCES Conference thematic sections: (1) Comparative and International Education & History of Education; (2) International Education Issues; (3) School Education: Policies, Innovations, Practices & Entrepreneurship; (4) Higher Education & Teacher Education and Training; and (5) Law and Education. [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]