Introduction
The world is much smaller than it used to be in many different ways. Comparative education is a process that looks at the different educational traditions in one country or culture and then compares those traditions to the educational traditions in other cultures—this is a way of developing educational theory, and a method for utilising the vast amounts of data now available to glean new insights (Bignold and Gayton, 2009). These processes look at the many issues associated with education and try to draw parallels and examine differences between different cultures and the educational experiences offered by each culture (Bignold and ...
