Comparative & International Education as a Field

FreshEd is, in part, a long-running conversation about the field of comparative and international education itself — its history, its theoretical commitments, and its ongoing struggles over who gets heard and whose knowledge counts. These episodes dig into the field’s origins and key debates, the theories and methods that shape how comparativists think, the persistent hierarchies between knowledge produced in different parts of the world, and questions about where the field is headed next — including how podcasting itself is reshaping scholarly conversation.