{"title":"Comparative education and intercultural education: relations and revisions","authors":"R. Cowen, Terri Kim","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2234690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2234690","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In comparative education, words like ‘culture’ and ‘foreign’ are used often early on to determine issues, but they soon become subjected to individual national contexts. The world is then professionally sliced into bits of ‘area expertise’. Wonderment at the multiple cultures of the world diminishes. In the post-war reconstruction period especially after 1950, theoretical work in comparative education did not retain the potentials of ‘multiculturality’ and ‘interculturality’ as crucial concerns. Thus, the strategic theme of this article is an analysis of what we lost and why and what is being overlooked in the dominant agenda of attention in comparative education such as majority-minority power relations in the politics of representation, transnational space for diasporas, competing worldviews, and epistemological hegemony. Overall, we need to assess what it is we are not-seeing. We also need to reflect on the ethics of comparative education, lest we become satisfied with being routinely relevant for practical policy and delivering ‘robust and relevant research’. We should ask, relevant for whom and relevant to what?; and what might a closer relationship between comparative education and intercultural education imply for some ‘futures’ of ‘comparative education’?","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83701308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law","authors":"E. Vickers","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2212351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2212351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78373745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities","authors":"Fei Yan, E. Vickers","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2213139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2213139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86995061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative education concepts, methods and practices in the emerging anthropocene educational space: from ‘measuring the other’ to ‘supporting the other’?","authors":"Terri Seddon","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2215643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2215643","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change threatens human well-being and planetary health but is hardly addressed in education. Comparative education research has advised governments about education reforms since the nineteenth century, so what must change to sustain a liveable earth? I use the concept of ‘educational space’ to understand how comparative knowledge building has steered education. Then I re-read three volumes of the World Yearbook of Education (WYB) to show how comparative education has embedded knowledges that have steered governing, neglected experiences that complicate powerlessness, and constrained learning through measurement. I argue current education compromises humans facing challenging climate futures but could provide knowledges to support ‘the other’.","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87580186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative education and international relations","authors":"E. Klerides","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2216045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2216045","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article offers an interpretation of comparative education as an episteme that is entangled with international relations. It does so by seeking to extract past and present forms and patterns of comparative educational thought and action from the three main traditions of international relations, namely: realism, rationalism and revolutionism. It is specifically argued that each of these three traditions offers different understandings of the nature of international society and how its main actors conduct themselves in it. These different understandings of the nature of international politics enable different ways of thinking about, and acting upon, the educational world comparatively. The implications of this interpretation of comparative education for the future are highlighted in the conclusion.","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90499524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education","authors":"Sicong Chen","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2209396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2209396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74756784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan: competencies, subjects, and the ambiguities of PISA","authors":"P. Cave","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2208455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2208455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84916316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach","authors":"I. Hardy, L. Phillips, V. Reyes, M. Obaidul Hamid","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2189677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2189677","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In this article, we contest globalised notions of data as ‘universally’ beneficial, necessary and ‘evidence-based’. We do so by drawing upon narrative accounts of the problematic ways data impact educators researching and working in university and schooling settings over time and in varied national contexts. We reveal how data are transient and often erroneous, even as data appear omnipresent and omnipotent. Employing an auto-ethnographic storytelling approach, we draw upon our diverse experiences as educators working within and across multiple national and subnational contexts – in England, Singapore, Bangladesh and Australia – to reflect on how data have reconstituted and recalibrated our experiences in school and university settings. We seek to break the ‘myth’ of data – that we cannot live without the supposedly complete construction of work and life that dominant, reductive assemblages of data provide. In doing so, we argue for the reimagination and demystification of broader data regimes.","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90692203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education","authors":"E. Unterhalter","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2202374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2202374","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Girls’ education has been widely promoted as the answer to a wide range of problems. This article maps four key ideas that have framed this formulation. These are firstly, a techno-rationalist approach linked to narrowly defined interventions, termed here ‘what works’. Secondly, a more normative engagement is outlined, termed ‘what matters’ which explores how girls’ education is part of processes to extend and defend rights, support feminism or decoloniality. Thirdly, an approach termed ‘what disorganises’ looks at the ways in which girls’ education has been used deceitfully and hypocritically to mask the perpetuation of unjust power. Lastly, an approach termed ‘what connects’ maps processes associated with building connections and epistemologies of co-ordination The implications of these four framings are considered for the development of discussions on girls’ education and gender equality and methods in comparative education.","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72619961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative education as a political project","authors":"W. Brehm","doi":"10.1080/03050068.2023.2193807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2193807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that since World War II, comparative education has worked in the service of two historic blocs: one focused on creating institutions and ideologies in support of internationalism and a second focused on containing the threat of communism. Both versions have supported and justified foreign intervention into domestic education systems, mirroring colonial practices and logics. Once the United States of America became politically and economically hegemonic, the field helped develop mental models and best-practices of ‘efficient’ education systems, justifying international development efforts of Washington and the interests of capital. As the global political economy shifts so too will the political project of comparative education. The article posits future directions for the field on the assumption that a new economic bloc will emerge as East Asia plays a larger role in the global economy.","PeriodicalId":47655,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87182564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}