What is the relationship between the world of work and education? An answer from a Dane might be that he had worked hard to merit his place in the shield wall; an answer from a samurai that, because of the understandings he had acquired from his new sensei, his opponents now came easily onto his sword.
Irritation at such apparently flippant answers to such a sensible question is a mark of how modern our ‘comparative education’ is.
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Cowen, R. (2009). Editorial Introduction: Industrialisation, Knowledge Societies and Education. In: Cowen, R., Kazamias, A.M. (eds) International Handbook of Comparative Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6403-6_31
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