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The paper concerns George Bereday’s (Zygmunt Fijałkowski - 1920-1983) scientific activities and his contribution to the development of comparative education as a scientific discipline. Bereday was a researcher of Polish origin and a professor of Columbia University. His works concern methodological aspects of comparative research in education, and his key study is entitled Comparative Method in Education. The main assumption of this method is to analyze educational facts in a broad social and political context. Bereday also examined the education system and policy in the Soviet Union, as well as in the United States and Japan. An important issue of his interest was mass education, including that on a university level, from the point of view of American and European experiences.
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The paper concerns George Bereday’s (Zygmunt Fijałkowski 1920-1983) scientific activities and his contribution to the development of comparative education as a scientific discipline
George Bereday (Zygmunt Fijałkowski - 1920-1983) was a researcher of Polish origin and a professor of Columbia University. Despite his unquestionable contribution to the development of comparative education as a scientific discipline, both Bereday himself and his achievements remain insufficiently recognized in science of education worldwide
His expertise in the field of education was of great value for some international organizations - between 1970-1971, Bereday served as a consultant for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and in 1971, in Paris, he held a function of a principal consultant and an editor of the United Nations Feasibility Study for UNESCO
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George Bereday (Zygmunt Fijałkowski - 1920-1983) was a researcher of Polish origin and a professor of Columbia University. He cooperated with Moscow University (1961), Tokyo University (1962), or University of Hawaii (1969-1970), and many others as Warsaw, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Barcelona, Paris, Stockholm, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, playing a role of an exchange or visiting professor Besides his scientific and didactic activities, Bereday was involved in political and diplomatic work in the field of culture education. In 1969, he was appointed by the US Department of State as a member of delegation to the US-Japan Cultural Conference, and in 1970 he was nominated a chief of the US Department of State Short Term American Grantee Mission to Western Europe His expertise in the field of education was of great value for some international organizations - between 1970-1971, Bereday served as a consultant for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and in 1971, in Paris, he held a function of a principal consultant and an editor of the United Nations Feasibility Study for UNESCO. Bereday specialized in studies of the Soviet Union education policy, as well as American, Japanese and Western Europe education systems and their social and political context [4]
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