Chapter 1 Interrogating and Innovating CIE Research
Setting the Stage
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Abstract
The purpose of this introductory chapter is to identify and situate the key questions and issues taken up in the volume and its constitutive essays, as well as presenting an overview of the main lines of theoretical debate and development reflected in the contributions: coloniality/decolonization; power; voice and re-presentation; and intersectionality. The authors highlight the volume’s central premise: that radical, inclusive and decolonizing change is imperative for the field of comparative and international education (CIE) research and practice. After first framing the volume as part of a continuing conversation begun at the 2017 CIES Symposium of the same name (“Interrogating and Innovating CIE Research”), the authors then identify and discuss some of the key theoretical debates and questions emergent from the Symposium activities and conversations and extended by the volume contributors, including issues related to identifying and understanding the problem(s), ideas for change, as well as assessing the opportunities and challenges for affecting meaningful and sustained changes in the way CIE researchers think about and do their work. Following this, the chapter presents the organization of the book and shares highlights from each of the contributing chapters, showing how the different pieces respond to, build on and extend the Symposium dialogue and calls to action.