Features of this title include:

• Emphasizes a cultural perspective with readings that represent a divers vision of theory and methodology in comparative education
• Engages readers in the pragmatic debate between modernist and postmodernist perspectives and between structuralist and poststructuralist models
• Presents a "world systems analysis" that explores the dependent relationships among nations in economics, politics, and education in the creation and exchange of knowledge
• Organized in five sections: Introduction, Faculty Work and the Production of Knowledge, Organizational Contexts, The State, and The Social Context of Higher Education