Comparative Education in an Age of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Italy

Abstract

In this chapter, I will first describe the field of comparative education in Italy, especially in terms of teaching. I will then describe the topics of interest for comparative education research in 2015. In Italy, not all comparative education studies are singled out as such (Palomba, 2011): some of them formally belong to other areas of educational research. Because of this, it is difficult to draw a topography of what is being done in comparative education. I will rather point at transversal and relevant topics concerning education and Italian society and policy, which are potential subjects for comparative research, today and in the near future. I will close the chapter by describing the activities of the Italian Comparative Education Society (SICESE) and the initiatives they have undertaken to gather in a more cohesive, homogeneous academic space, the researchers who, under heterogeneous labels, de facto, are doing comparative education research in Italy.

Citation

Paolone, A.R. (2016), "Comparative Education in an Age of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Italy", Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2015 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 28), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920150000028011