Critical Approaches to Comparative Education Vertical Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas

Frances Vavrus is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania and a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship for research in Tanzania. She is a member of the Board of the Comparative and International Education Society.

Lesley Bartlett is Associate Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil. She is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research in the Dominican Republic.