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In the present chapter, I attempt to present a global and comparative history and current state of comparative education as institutionalised in universities, specialist books and journals, and professional societies from 1900 to 2008. I review earlier surveys of the contours of the field as a critical tool to evaluate the institutional infrastructure of academic comparative education. I also comment on the work of national and international organisations in the field to complete the picture on the empirical mass and substance of comparative education. Finally, I propose three typologies to tease out the processes involved in the institutional construction of the field.
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Manzon, M. (2011). The Empirical Substance and Mass that Constitute the Field of Comparative Education. In: Comparative Education. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1930-9_3
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