This review evaluates the contribution of Comparative and International Research in Education: globalisation, context and difference by Michael Crossley & Keith Watson (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003) to current efforts at exploring ways forward for comparative education, suggesting alternative ways in which central questions could be approached. It focuses on the notion of balance in policy-theory, insider-outsider, developed-developing world terms, and explores a number of actual and potential approaches towards achieving the kinds of integration that the book recommends. Finally, it argues that it is in this intersection (or balance) that the relevance of such disciplinary reconceptualisation lies for the discussion about ‘European educational research spaces’.
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