As an ‘international’ student of comparative education, I entered the field of comparative international education, bringing with me a very different academic tradition and cultural history. There was a reason I had come into the fi eld with my own
This article assumes that desire, like fear, is an inescapable human condition; both are conditions that construct us as subjects of social relationships, and are capable of being embedded in discourse, episteme and institutions. This article is framed around three
Re-Imagining Comparative Education presents a re-imagining of the field of comparative education, and its responses to contemporary social theory. The essays included seek to substantively open up new avenues of theorizing and research by exploring the application of post-foundational theoretical
Detailed discourse analysis is presented for two articles that suggest that postmodernism has little to offer comparative education and should be resisted. The two texts, focusing on postmodernism as the antithesis of comparative education and on the “lost promise” of