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The first headline in the Comparative Education Review (CER), “A new journal in comparative education,” appeared just four months ahead of the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. The quasi-simultaneous takeoff of the Sputnik and the CER was coincidental, but the impact of the former would be conspicuous in the latter for over 15 years to come. The post-World War II rise of the Soviet Union stirred U.S. worries of being "left behind" in the sciences and mathematics, and led to increased interest in comparative education as a field of research and as a perceived necessary part of educators’ training.
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Nordtveit, B.H., Epstein, E.H. (2016). The Comparative Education Review. In: Epstein, E. (eds) Crafting a Global Field. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33186-7_8
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