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Metatheory in Comparative, International, and Development Education

Dialectics Between the East and West and Other Perspectives

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Changes in travel, communication, and technology have continuously brought our world closer together. These changes have escalated in recent centuries and especially in the latter-part of the twentieth century and continue at a rapid pace at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Communicable diseases that were at one time contained within geographic regions are now able to travel at the speed of a single passenger to almost any place on the earth within a 24-hour time period.

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Cheng, S.Y., Jacob, W.J., Chen, P. (2011). Metatheory in Comparative, International, and Development Education. In: Weidman, J.C., Jacob, W.J. (eds) Beyond the Comparative. Pittsburgh Studies In Comparative and International Education, vol 1. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-722-6_16

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