A Study On The World System Theory Analytical Framework In Comparative Education

The theory analytical framework is the core point of view of discipline-specific theory, and the scholars also adjust themselves to build a new theory analytical framework absorb nutrients from other theory perspectives in order to make the comparative education out of the plight of the crisis of education. Therefore, this article make the world system analytical framework as the research object which prevalent in the Western comparative education 1970s, and also the theory analytical framework deeply analyzes the basic features and the influences of this theory in the history of the comparative education development by revealing the background and the development process, in order to explore the significance of the theory analytical framework in comparative education, and enrich the theory system of comparative education .This article is divided into four parts. Prefaces puts forward the central theme and the core concept of this thesis .It clarifies the specific contexts and the categories of the related topics, and also analyzes and comments the relevant literatures. On the basis, it overviews the purpose, content, method and the meaning of this study.The first part analyzes the background of the world system theory analytical framework, and demonstrates the four main factors of the theory analytical framework, which are the challenges of comparative education, the plight of the dependency theory analytical framework in comparative education, the impact of the world system theory, and the debates in the field of comparative education. It is these factors that promote the rise and the development of comparative education theory analytical framework.The second part discusses the applications of the world system theory analytical framework. By the three responses of the field in the world system theory, which are ignorance, criticism and adopt, to track the history of the world system theory analytical framework, and select several the world system theorists as a case study in the adoption, introduce and comment the research and the view briefly. At the same time, this part discusses the angle and the theory core of comparative education study that researchers used, and studies the world system theory analytical framework in comparative education comprehensively and deeply.The third part analyzes the contributions and the shortcomings of the world system theory analytical framework. Its contribution provides a new analytical framework,and integrates the academic development and enhances the vitality of comparative analysis that mainly reflect in the development of comparative education research .The shortcomings are mainly from two aspects which are the world system theory and the application in the field of comparative education.The fourth part analyzes the challenges of the globalization theory in comparative education, providing some vision for the construction of the comparative education's development.