Ideas from postpositivist thinking have been particularly challenging for comparative education scholarship and its metanarratives. Analysis of articles in major comparative education journals in the 1990s examines the integration of ideas from 10 poststructuralist thinkers and explores in detail the appropriation of Foucault's ideas and methodologies. Two promising areas for comparative education research are issues of the self (or subject) and the problematization of ethics. (Contains 134 references.) (SV)