ABSTRACT
Colin Brock was one of the most prolific British writers in the field of comparative and international education, both as an editor and as an author, in the latter part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century. Indeed, at the broadest level, Brock’s work always exhibited concern for the marginalised, the disadvantaged, and the excluded in society. He also saw education as much more than ‘schooling’. Colin Brock’s contribution to the field of comparative and international education can be seen as wide ranging, disparate, and varied in nature, but on closer examination his collective works have a deceptive coherence and embody the spirit and purpose of the public intellectual. His work has had a seminal influence in all three of his areas of special interest: education in small states; education as a humanitarian response; and the geography of education.
