Reseña de Educación Superior y Reformas Comparadas, por Pedro Krotsch

Abstract

Pedro Krotsch's book represents a valuable introduction to the recent processes of transformation of the higher education systems of developed (USA, Canada, Japan and selected sample or European countries) and developing countries (group of Latin American countries) after the Second World War. Moreover, this work portrays the configuration of the field of comparative higher education (at university and non-university levels) in different spaces and times. Furthermore, this book also presents the most explored lines of inquiry within the field of comparative education. Krotsch emphasizes the necessity of undertaking comparative studies of educational models that should take into account their interconnections with their respective social, cultural, economic and political contexts. In this volume, the author also analyzes three sociological frameworks (Durkheim, Bourdieu and Clark) that have contributed to a better understanding of educational institutions. This work reveals the complexity of the institutions and systems of higher education as well as the necessity of undertaking socio-historic analysis that recognizes the commonalities of the processes of change and reform between countries or cases
(both at internal and external level of the national systems of higher education) and their particularities.