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EDU 1102: Comparative Education

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Mode of Delivery:

  • Online
  • Blended mode: mixed online and face-to -face
  • Face-to-Face


1. Rationale

Educators improve their practice by adopting and adapting educational systems and practices that were developed elsewhere. Comparisons of educational systems also provide a basis for assessing the suitability of current practices. This module focuses on training students to compare and contrast educational systems and exposes students to the comparative approaches in education.

2. Prerequisite or knowledge

Students should be able to assess the impact of the past practices in education on the present. (Module on History of Education)

3. General objectives

The general objectives of this Module are:

  • To widen your understanding of international, regional and local educational systems so that you are able to identify similarities and differences between educational systems as well as strengths and weaknesses within each system;
  • To introduce you to educational comparative approaches to enable you;
  • To compare and contrast educational systems and enhance your capacity;
  • To draw some lessons from various systems of education for your use.


4. Time

To cover this module it will require 120 hours distributed as follows:
Unit 1: 8 hours
Unit 2: 30 hours
Unit 3: 30 hours
Unit 4: 22 hours
Unit 5: 30 hours

5. Materials

The following materials are necessary for this module:

  • CD-ROM with reference materials
  • Recommended textbooks and yearbooks such as UNECSO annual reports including web-based materials
  • Encyclopedias of Education (e.g. The International Encyclopedia of Education)