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In 2016 and 1017 we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the beginnings of comparative education. Marc-Antoine Jullien, also known as Jullien de Paris, laid the foundation stone of comparative education as an academic discipline with the publication of a standardised questionnaire of 266 questions partly published in 1816 and 1817 in the ‘Journal d’éducation’. Furthermore, the ideas of Marc-Antoine Jullien not only stimulated and influenced the development of international comparative education, but also had an impact on comparative adult education studies. In fact, Charters and Siddiqui consider the “introduction of the Jullien Plan to the Anglophone world through its publication” in 1917 to be the first key event in the development of comparative adult education studies (Charters and Siddiqui 1989, p. 20).
This chapter is a revised version of an article on international and comparative adult education research (Field et al. 2016) part of volume 40 of the International Yearbook of Adult Education (Schemmann 2017).
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Field, J., Künzel, K., Schemmann, M. (2019). Revisiting the Debate on International Comparative Adult Education Research: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections. In: Fejes, A., Nylander, E. (eds) Mapping out the Research Field of Adult Education and Learning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10946-2_10
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