CES4E4-Comparative, International, Development Education and Research

Dr. Ruth Hayhoe provides a brief history and background of the concepts of comparative, international and development research and education through a critical lens. She posits that these concepts are more complex than we think, borrowing from dependency theory, she posits that CIDE’s main goal should be about learning from others on equal terms. This way the paradigm that the south must learn from the north can be challenged. She also discusses how imperialism is about structures in the economy and the political arena in culture, in communications and has caused the so-called developing world to be subordinated to the developed world. She proposes that each country has to choose its own political systems based on international cooperation rather than domination from developed countries.

*Biography:
Dr. Ruth Hayhoe is a professor in the Department of Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Toronto (OISE). Dr. Hayhoe's research has mainly related to Chinese higher education and educational relations between East Asia and the West. She has been interested in the ways in which cultural values and epistemologies from Eastern civilizations may provide a resource for new thinking in global higher education development. She is also interested in the intersection between Asian ways of knowing and women's ways of knowing, and questions of gender in cross-cultural leadership, topics stimulated by her personal experience of institutional leadership in an Asian context

*Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2020, November 5). CES4E4 – Comparative, International, Development Education and Research. https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/ces4e4-comparative-international-development-education-and-research

*Sources:

Hayhoe, R. (2014). China through the Lens of Comparative Education: The selected works of Ruth Hayhoe. Routledge.

Sivasubramaniam, M., & Hayhoe, R. (2018). Religion and Education: Comparative and international perspectives. Symposium Books Ltd.