sísifo / educational sciences journal · no. 1 · sep/dec 06 issn 1646‑6500 Comparative Studies in the History of Colonial Education: Considerations on comparison in the Lusophone space Ana Isabel Madeira Faculty of Psichology and Educational Sciences of the University of Lisbon aicm@fpce.ul.pt Abstract: This paper relects on the theoretical and methodological issues involved in research into colonial education, within the twofold prism of the history of education and comparative education, in a single linguistic space. It extracts from the work agenda of both discipli‑ nary ields the contributions that allow the conversion of the Eurocentric and self‑refer‑ enced view of comparative research in education into a set of proposals able to integrate the experiences, meanings and sensibilities of the other in the same plane of analysis. The relection has the purpose of suggesting paths to identify new research problems inte‑ grating comparative methodologies in the analysis of colonialism, according to a cultural perspective. It also suggests themes of discourses on education — pedagogical models, mechanisms of socialisation, construction of the pupil, formation of identities, subjects and the curriculum, school temporalities, etc. — all around the same empirical question, i.e. the School in the colonial context. Keywords: Comparative Education, History of Colonial Education, Lusophony, Theory and Method in Colonial Education. Madeira, Ana Isabel. (2006). Comparative Studies in the History of Colonial Education: Considerations on comparison in the Lusophone space. Sísifo. Educational Sciences Journal, 1, pp. 37‑56. Retrieved [month, year] from http://sisifo.fpce.ul.pt 37