Functions of digital learning within the international mobility programme – perspectives of university students and staff from Europe

Education and Information Technologies - This paper is based on research studies conducted in the academic community of students and staff members (teachers, researchers and administrative staff)...     

Typologies of Education and the Capitalist World System

Ideology is the central principle of classification in the dominant sociology of comparative education. It occupies an unchallenged a priori status in thought and research. This exaggerates the differences between capitalist and socialist education systems. The two systems do not exist and develop self‐referentially. The faults of analysis which treats the two education systems as polarised types are illustrated by juxtaposing it with a world system approach. This is used as the basis for proposing that advanced socialist societies are fully integrated into the capitalist core. Their education systems operate to both subvert and reproduce the characteristic division of power in the world system between core, periphery and semi‐periphery.