论我国比较教育的科学化：必要性与可能性

Scientization is an unfinished business of comparative education. At present, whether to serve national educational policy-making or to consolidate the knowledge base of the discipline, China's comparative education needs to initiate a process of scientization to enhance the utility of the "comparative methods" for causal analysis and educational theory-building. The scientization of comparative education is more possible today than in the past, when it was constrained by methodological and technological conditions as post-positivism provides a philosophical foundation for the scientization of comparative education; the era of big data provides a huge amount of data for comparative education research; and breakthroughs in comparative methods provide methodological and technological support for the scientization of comparative education. In the future, comparative education needs to strengthen the training of researchers in social science research methods, emphasize follow-up research and innovative developmen