Born in 1950 in the Canary Islands, Miguel A. Pereyra is chair («catedrático») of Comparative Education at the University of Granada and the President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) since 2008. His interests are in the fields of comparative education and cultural and social historical theory applied to education, which are reflected in his writings. He has been published both in Spanish and English. His more recent publications include:
— the Volume Changing Knowledge and Education. Communities, Mobilities and New Policies in Global Societies (Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 2008);
— “Social Change and Configurations of Rhetoric: Schooling and Social Exclusion-Inclusion in Educational Reform in Contemporary Spain” (with Juan Carlos Gonzalez Faraco, Antonio Luzón & Mónica Torres), in International Handbook of Comparative Education (London: Springer, 2009);
— the Monograph on the German debate about PISA (with Hans-Georg Kotthoff): La experiencia del PISA en Alemania published in the electronic journal Profesorado. Revista de currículum y formación del profesorado (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2009, http://www.ugr.es/~recfpro/?p=435);
— the Volume Pisa under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools, (with H.-G. Kotthoff & R. Cowen) (Sense Publishers in association with CESE).
