Michael Crossley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Crossley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Crossley |
| SIGNATURE | CROSSLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7281-0390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 371 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Reconceptualising and sustaining international partnerships
This paper interrogates the multidisciplinary literature promoting and challenging international research partnerships for education in the light of postcolonial theorising, the contemporary decolonial critique and related policy transfer work within CIE. We move beyond the rhetoric of inclusion to examine the deep-seated knowledge hierarchies that continue to shape education. This is informed by critical reflections upon the origins, experiences…
Professor John Keith Philip Watson (1939–2024)
Relationality and learning in Oceania
The decolonisation of knowledge is an increasingly important and challenging focus for comparative and international research in education. Less well acknowledged, is that work engaging with such c
Possibilities and priorities for Ijed in times of uncertainty
Changing modalities in international development and research in education
Policy transfer, sustainable development and the context s of education
As comparative and international researchers in education we are especially well placed to contribute to the analysis and understanding of global trends in both education and international development. In times of ever increasing complexity and uncertainty it can also be argued that we have a responsibility to do so, and to do so in rigorous but accessible ways. In this Presidential Address I: (1) consider how we might do this in the light of the…
Commonwealth Small States, Education and Environmental Uncertainty
This paper examines the Commonwealth’s inclusive role in engaging with the distinctive challenges of education provision in small states, an agenda that is often neglected elsewhere. We examine the origins of Commonwealth work on education in small states, the nature of its comparative advantage, its role in facilitating small states’ engagement with international education dialogue and regional co-operation, and the demand and potential for ongo…
Celebration, reflection and challenge
This Forum feature is one of a series of initiatives designed to recognise and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). It is an honour for both of us to represent the association in this anniversary year and we are pleased to help mark this important milestone with this special edition of the Compare Forum. The anniversary initiatives include a well-attended and well-received …
Peter Jarvis
Comparative Education has lost a distinguished board member, friend and scholar. Peter Jarvis passed away at his home in Thatcham, near Reading, UK, in November 2018. Peter joined the Editorial Boa
Dr Colin Brock
Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji
This article reports on the findings of original field research carried out in the small island developing state of Fiji, in the South Pacific. A North-South research partnership was built upon previous collaboration between team members and, in so doing, pioneered the blending of Pacific and Western research approaches sensitive to a postcolonial positioning. The study interrogates practitioner perspectives on: the nature and quality of teachers…
Wide horizons and blurred boundaries
This paper reflects upon Peter Jarvis’s contribution to comparative scholarship and the linked fields of comparative education and comparative adult education. Both have their own historical developments, literatures, issues and concerns; both have been influenced by Peter’s substantial works for close to fifty years – a period in time when the increasing demands of the global market economy have changed adult education beyond all recognition. Hi…
The power and politics of international comparisons
The power and influence of international comparisons of educational achievement, most especially the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Stud
International education policy transfer – borrowing both ways
This paper analyses how the impact of international student achievement studies and the recent economic crisis in Europe are influencing the development of educational policy transfer and borrowing, from East to West. This is contrasted with education reform movements in East Asia, which have long legacies of borrowing from so-called ‘progressive’ discourses in the West. England and Hong Kong are used as case studies. Since 2010, England’s coalit…
Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities
The international transfer of educational policy and practice has long been a key theme in comparative research and scholarship. Recent years have seen renewed attention to the processes of international policy transfer, with new understandings emerging from innovative theorising and analysis. This article examines the nature and implications of such work, explores the potential for further theoretical and methodological advances, and considers w…
The rise of data in education systems
The rise of data in education systems: collection, visualisation and use." Comparative Education, 50(2), pp. 249–250
Education for sustainable development
Ethnographic dazzle’ and the construction of the ‘Other’
This paper presents some initial ideas on how the theoretical concepts of the 'insider' and the 'outsider' might be re-examined in an era where advances in comparative, qualitative research methodologies seek to be more inclusive, collaborative, participatory, reflexive and nuanced. Earlier essentialist definitions of the outsider as detached and objective, and the insider as culturally embedded and subjective, are re-examined and set within an i…
Revisiting scale, comparative research and education in small states
Comparative research on education in small states has attracted international attention since the mid-1980s when the Commonwealth sponsored a number of seminal meetings and publications, and became a key advocate for the advancement of such work. This article considers the place of different dimensions of scale in comparative research; re-examines the potential of small states as a framework for comparative analysis; and explores the ways in whic…
International collaboration and research capacity building
Research capacity building and impact on policy and practice are increasingly highlighted in literature on international research partnerships. In the field of education and development, it is recognised that, in the past, international research collaborations have tended to be dominated by the agenda of Northern partners. Partly in response, new modalities are developing and, in the UK, funding has recently been channeled through large consortia…
Documenting the history of Baice and Compare
Writing in 2007, in collaboration with Margaret Sutherland, we published a paper on the history and development of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) for th
What lies beneath
Historically, one particularly divisive debate within the field of comparative education has concerned its capacity to generate ‘law‐like generalisations’ which explain and ultimately predict the s
International collaboration and educational reform
This issue of Comparative Education has much to offer readers interested in the potential and impact of international collaboration, be it in research, performance assessment, policy formulation or
Education in the Small States of the Commonwealth
Among the 52 member states of the Commonwealth, 28 have populations below two million. Small states thus comprise over half of the total. Within the group, most are at the lower end of the population scale: 22 have populations below one million, and 13 have populations below 250,000. The Commonwealth gives special attention to small states, and the Commonwealth Secretariat has taken a leadership role in identifying their distinctive features. At …
Postscript
Comparative and international research in education has a well‐established history, and one that has seen the changing fortunes of a diversity of research approaches and paradigms. As Epstein (fort
Case‐Study Research Methods and Comparative Education
(1984). Case‐Study Research Methods and Comparative Education. Comparative Education: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-207
Bridging Cultures and Traditions in the Reconceptualisation of Comparative and International Education
If the field of comparative education is to be reconceptualised in ways that articulate and demonstrate its continued relevance for the 21st century, it is argued that its history and traditions deserve both celebration and challenge. The field's multi-disciplinary origins and nature, for example, position it well for further advancement in a future in which the socio-cultural analysis of global trends and developments will require concerted atte…
Postcolonial perspectives and comparative and international research in education
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael Crossley ** Corresponding author. Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK. Email: [email protected] * Corresponding author. Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK. Email: [email protected]
Comparative and International Research in Education
This article argues that as the significance of national boundaries increasingly gives way to larger-scale federations, so the potential salience of comparative and international research in education is dramatically increased. The relevance of such developments for researchers not familiar with the perspectives and literature of comparative and international education is explored in the light of the evolution of this specialist field. The discus…
International collaboration and research capacity building
Research capacity building and impact on policy and practice are increasingly highlighted in literature on international research partnerships. In the field of education and development, it is recognised that, in the past, international research collaborations have tended to be dominated by the agenda of Northern partners. Partly in response, new modalities are developing and, in the UK, funding has recently been channeled through large consortia…
Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities
The international transfer of educational policy and practice has long been a key theme in comparative research and scholarship. Recent years have seen renewed attention to the processes of international policy transfer, with new understandings emerging from innovative theorising and analysis. This article examines the nature and implications of such work, explores the potential for further theoretical and methodological advances, and considers w…
Ethnographic dazzle’ and the construction of the ‘Other’
This paper presents some initial ideas on how the theoretical concepts of the 'insider' and the 'outsider' might be re-examined in an era where advances in comparative, qualitative research methodologies seek to be more inclusive, collaborative, participatory, reflexive and nuanced. Earlier essentialist definitions of the outsider as detached and objective, and the insider as culturally embedded and subjective, are re-examined and set within an i…
Context Matters
Policy transfer, sustainable development and the context s of education
As comparative and international researchers in education we are especially well placed to contribute to the analysis and understanding of global trends in both education and international development. In times of ever increasing complexity and uncertainty it can also be argued that we have a responsibility to do so, and to do so in rigorous but accessible ways. In this Presidential Address I: (1) consider how we might do this in the light of the…
The advancement of educational research in small states
This paper critically examines the impact of global development agendas upon the nature and direction of educational development in small states. This generates a critique of the international transfer of western identifies the policy trajectories and related research modalities, strategic importance of small states, and explores possible ways forward for the future support and advancement of educational research in such contexts. In doing so, pr…
Reconceptualising Comparative and International Education
It is argued that the field of comparative and international education must be fundamentally reconceptualised and redeveloped in ways that better demonstrate its potential to contribute to: (I) the improvement of educational policy and practice world‐wide; and (2) advances in theoretical work relating specifically to education and to the social sciences more generally. Traditional strengths of the field upon which we can build are identified, but…
Bridging Cultures and Traditions for Educational and International Development
Introduction
The last Special Number of Comparative Education devoted to the field's 'present state and future prospects' was published in 1977, in what Nigel Grant, the then Editor, noted to be the 13th birthday and 'adolescence' of the journal. Now in its 36th year, and at the turn of the millennium, we devote a second issue to a reflective and forward-looking analysis-recognising the contemporary revitalisation of comparative and international research in …
International education policy transfer – borrowing both ways
This paper analyses how the impact of international student achievement studies and the recent economic crisis in Europe are influencing the development of educational policy transfer and borrowing, from East to West. This is contrasted with education reform movements in East Asia, which have long legacies of borrowing from so-called ‘progressive’ discourses in the West. England and Hong Kong are used as case studies. Since 2010, England’s coalit…
Education for sustainable development
Whose knowledge, whose values? the contribution of local knowledge to education policy processes
This paper draws upon a case study of education in the small Caribbean state of Saint Lucia (population 154,000) to examine how local knowledge and values can influence the education policy process. It is argued that recent research development initiatives have strengthened the ability of Saint Lucia to mediate international education agendas to suit its distinctive ‘social ecology’ and circumstances as a small state. Saint Lucians, it is argued,…
Collaborative research, ethnography and comparative and international education in the South Pacific
Education in the Small States of the Commonwealth
Among the 52 member states of the Commonwealth, 28 have populations below two million. Small states thus comprise over half of the total. Within the group, most are at the lower end of the population scale: 22 have populations below one million, and 13 have populations below 250,000. The Commonwealth gives special attention to small states, and the Commonwealth Secretariat has taken a leadership role in identifying their distinctive features. At …
Curriculum Policy and Practice in Papua New Guinea
(1990). Curriculum Policy and Practice in Papua New Guinea. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 141-154
Evaluating Educational Reform in a Small State
Drawing on their experience of managing and evaluating a major international education project in Belize, Central America (as well as other international projects) the authors seek to draw attention to potential conflicts that arise when western assumptions are presumed in evaluating major educational reform programs in small states. In particular, they draw attention to the political dimensions that underlie such projects; to the issues of State…
Textbook Provision and the Quality of the School Curriculum in Developing Countries
Changing modalities in international development and research in education
Commonwealth Small States, Education and Environmental Uncertainty
This paper examines the Commonwealth’s inclusive role in engaging with the distinctive challenges of education provision in small states, an agenda that is often neglected elsewhere. We examine the origins of Commonwealth work on education in small states, the nature of its comparative advantage, its role in facilitating small states’ engagement with international education dialogue and regional co-operation, and the demand and potential for ongo…
Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji
This article reports on the findings of original field research carried out in the small island developing state of Fiji, in the South Pacific. A North-South research partnership was built upon previous collaboration between team members and, in so doing, pioneered the blending of Pacific and Western research approaches sensitive to a postcolonial positioning. The study interrogates practitioner perspectives on: the nature and quality of teachers…
The organisation and management of curriculum development in Papua New Guinea
Relevance education, strategies for curriculum change and pilot projects
Case‐Study Research Methods and Comparative Education
(1984). Case‐Study Research Methods and Comparative Education. Comparative Education: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-207
Doing research
Current research in developing countries
New resources for education
Education in Fiji since independence
Pacific universities
Collaborative research, ethnography and comparative and international education in the South Pacific
Curriculum Policy and Practice in Papua New Guinea
(1990). Curriculum Policy and Practice in Papua New Guinea. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 141-154
Research report series, division of education
Questions of quality
Dependence and interdependence in higher education
Utilisation, misuse and development of human resources in the early West Indian colonies
Comparative and International Research in Education
This article argues that as the significance of national boundaries increasingly gives way to larger-scale federations, so the potential salience of comparative and international research in education is dramatically increased. The relevance of such developments for researchers not familiar with the perspectives and literature of comparative and international education is explored in the light of the evolution of this specialist field. The discus…
Introduction
(1993). Introduction: comparative and international studies and education in the South Pacific. Comparative Education: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 227-232
The Changing Role of the Small State in Higher Education
(1994). The Changing Role of the Small State in Higher Education: a comparison of national and regional initiatives in the Caribbean and the South Pacific. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 109-125
Textbook Provision and the Quality of the School Curriculum in Developing Countries
The organisation and management of curriculum development in Papua New Guinea
Evaluating Educational Reform in a Small State
Drawing on their experience of managing and evaluating a major international education project in Belize, Central America (as well as other international projects) the authors seek to draw attention to potential conflicts that arise when western assumptions are presumed in evaluating major educational reform programs in small states. In particular, they draw attention to the political dimensions that underlie such projects; to the issues of State…
Issues and trends in qualitative research
The Epsilon index
Reconceptualising Comparative and International Education
It is argued that the field of comparative and international education must be fundamentally reconceptualised and redeveloped in ways that better demonstrate its potential to contribute to: (I) the improvement of educational policy and practice world‐wide; and (2) advances in theoretical work relating specifically to education and to the social sciences more generally. Traditional strengths of the field upon which we can build are identified, but…
Postscript
(2000). Postscript: Challenge and debate. Comparative Education: Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 373-373
Introduction
The last Special Number of Comparative Education devoted to the field's 'present state and future prospects' was published in 1977, in what Nigel Grant, the then Editor, noted to be the 13th birthday and 'adolescence' of the journal. Now in its 36th year, and at the turn of the millennium, we devote a second issue to a reflective and forward-looking analysis-recognising the contemporary revitalisation of comparative and international research in …
Bridging Cultures and Traditions in the Reconceptualisation of Comparative and International Education
If the field of comparative education is to be reconceptualised in ways that articulate and demonstrate its continued relevance for the 21st century, it is argued that its history and traditions deserve both celebration and challenge. The field's multi-disciplinary origins and nature, for example, position it well for further advancement in a future in which the socio-cultural analysis of global trends and developments will require concerted atte…
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