Examines the postmodern challenge to the representation and practice of comparative and international education. Reviews the literature to identify major positions or arguments in the postmodern debate in comparative education. Maps these positions or knowledge communities as a discursive field of diverse perspectives and draws conclusions about…

Examines the changing ethnic context of educational programs for Swedish Same, or Lapps, and seeks to draw implications for theory and research on education and ethnic-revival processes. (Author/RK)

Attempts to answer what a review of international literature can tell us about the relationships between social change theories and assumptions concerning the feasibility, processes, and outcomes for educational change and how that review could be used to illustrate how conflicting theories of social and educational change can lead to quite…

Believes that comparative studies of ethno-educational phenomena promise to advance efforts to develop educational change and socialization theory, and to better inform teaching. Also states that the Comparative and International Education Society can gain greater coherence and perceived usefulness if its members make contributions to this problem…

Objective is to explain how the process of rapid and thorough-going educational change is intricately bound up in the process of radical social reconstruction. (Author)

Criticizes Psacharopoulos for distorting the legitimate scope of intellectual work in comparative education, reducing paradigm framing choices to functionalist/positivist orthodoxy, and unconvincingly presenting hypothesis testing as a means to solve educational problems. Suggests the benefits of multiple research perspectives on problems. (SV)

Structures of multiple education and knowledge systems can be recreated in maps, in a social cartography where the space of the social map reflects effects of social changes in real space. Such maps allow social research to escape from modernism's positivist restraints, improve comparative educators' understanding of the social milieu, and open…