Re-Imagining Comparative Education

The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative education concerns.

Peter Ninnes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of New England, Armidale, Australia and the President of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society. Sonia Mehta is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Education, Educational Leadership and Policy, SUNY Buffalo, New York.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Re-Imagining Comparative Education, Peter Ninnes and Sonia Mehta Chapter 1: A Meander through the Maze: Comparative Education and Post-Foundational Studies, Peter Ninnes and Sonia Mehta Chapter 2: 'Post' Cards from a Pedagogical Edge, Sonia Mehta Chapter 3: Critical Discourse Analysis and Comparative Education, Peter Ninnes Chapter 4: Deconstructing Educational Discourse in Kiribati: Postcolonial Encounters, Greg Burnett Chapter 5: State, Education, and Citizenship Discourses and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Pakistan, Muhammad Ayaz Naseem Chapter 6: Native Speaker Discourses: Power and Resistance in Postcolonial Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Nuzhat Amin and Ryuko Kubota Chapter 7: Making the Twenty-First Century Quality Teacher: A Post-Foundational Comparative Approach, Marianne Larsen Chapter 8: Power and Knowledge in Comparative Perspective: The Lysenko Affair, William Dejong Lambert Chapter 9: School Photographs as Tension: Reflections about Using Photographs in Comparative Educational Research, Gustavo E. Fischman and Gabriela Cruder Chapter 10: Postcolonial Theory in and for Comparative Education, Peter Ninnes and Gregory Burnett Chapter 11: A Postcolonial Rereading of the Contemporary Internationalization Movement of Japanese Education: The Construction of 'Japaneseness' in a Globalized World, Yuko Mochizuki Chapter 12: Third-Space/Identity Montage and International Adult Educators, Leona M. English Chapter 13: Post-Development Theory and Comparative Education, Jonathan Makuwira and Peter Ninnes Chapter 14: Mapping Diverse Perspectives on School Decentralization: The Global Debate and the Case of Argentina, Jorge M. Gorostiaga and Rolland G. Paulston Index