Postcolonial education and comparative education

Abstract

Postcolonial education gets theoretic benefit by holding a dialogue with comparative education, that can give it hints and suggestions of method and contents. Comparative education studied educative systems of ex-colonies, where it was quite normal to transfer school systems from motherland, without respect for uses, tradition and local context. Studies and researches about colonial past are very useful to realize present difficulties of multicultural community and, moreover, they offer new notions to postcolonial reflection.