Abstract
This article addresses the advent of this online only publication, the very context in which it is being made available. Central to the article is Delanty's work on communicative communities. It is argued that it is particularly appropriate to view comparative and international education in this manner. Online publication offers comparative and international education a new context of meaning. Seen in this context, comparative and international education can be reformulated as one of the communicative communities that are more about communication than place, more about belonging than boundaries, more about the production of meaning than about the reproduction of meaning.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which diverse human gifts will all find a fitting place. (Margaret Mead, 1935)
The world is not an unsolved puzzle waiting for the occasional genius to unlock its secrets. The world, or most of it, is an empty space waiting to be filled. Life, work and organization could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Charles Handy, 1996)[1]