Presidential Address: Rethinking the Comparative and the International

"It is both a great honor and a great responsibility to address the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. A great honor, of course, because of the symbolism associated with such an event. The great responsibility comes from the richness and depth of past presidential addresses and the weight of living up to their standards. The theme of our meeting this year in Hawaii is ""Rethinking the Comparative."" It might well have been ""Rethinking the Comparative and the International,"" for both elements of our name bear reexamination in a world and in national societies that are changing rapidly and profoundly. We need to ask ourselves, after 50 years, what it is that makes comparative and international education unique and what the CIES, as an intellectual community, contributes to understanding how the world works and to human progress.
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