Stretching and Bending the Field: Exercises in Comparative and International Education Epistemological Nimbleness

Abstract

In reflecting on the range of my own and others’ work (and how it is mis/understood), the state of the field, and this special issue, I argue that if one remains vigilant and does not assume or take for granted that the inherent risks of saturation and issues such as aesthetic failure, around, for example, ontologies, epistemologies, and geographic locations are resolved (they aren't), CIE is a field that can be widely expansive. Yet, in the spirit of my previous work around the interconnected dynamic of moving “from discoursal vigilance to concrete possibilities for inclusion” (Misiaszek, 2019), the field's expansiveness is only important if it results in new, concrete contributions to education as a project of social justice in this unprecedented historical moment.

Keywords

comparative and international education ontology epistemology interdisciplinary postfoundational aesthetics

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