Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled

Florin D. Salajan is Professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.tavis d. jules is Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago, USA. He is co-editor, with Robin Shields and Matthew A.M. Thomas, of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education (2021).

This collection is an admirable display of the richness of assemblage thinking and assemblage theory for research in education. It uses assemblage theory to both reconceptualize the field of comparative international education research and advance its agenda across new terrains.

• Part I: Introduction1. (Re)Assembling Comparative and International Education: New Frontiers and Directions in an Interdisciplinary Field, Florin D. Salajan (North Dakota State University, USA) and Tavis D. Jules (Loyola University Chicago, USA)Part II: Engaging with Assemblage in Emerging Comparative Conceptualizations2. Assemblage, Affect, and COVID-19: Implications for Comparative and International Education, Irving Epstein (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)3. Fathoming the Unexplored Education in Comparative and International Education, Charl C. Wolhuter (North West University, South Africa)4. An Actor-Network Theory Approach to Comparative and International Education: The Politics of a Flat Ontology, Paolo Landri (Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council, Italy) and Radhika Gorur (Deakin University, Australia)5. Melding Assemblage Theory and Critical Realism to Research Comparative and International Education: Towards an Interrogative Framework, David Martyn and Conor Galvin (University College Dublin, Ireland)6. The Identity of Comparative and International Education (CIE): Perspectives from CIE Theories across Times and Contexts, Linli Zhou, Crystal Greene and Andrew Swindell (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Part III: Redrawing Spaces, Geographies and Regions of Comparison via Assemblage Paradigms7. (Re)territorialising the field of Comparative and International Education in Malaysia: Adventures in cartography through the fisher, the weaver and the shadow-puppeteer, Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar (University of Oxford, UK) and Pravindharan Balakrishnan (Padang Midin National Secondary School, Malaysia)8. The European Area of Higher Education as a Complex Educational Assemblage: Prospects for Comparative Approaches, Florin D. Salajan (North Dakota State University, USA)9. The vibrating plateau of Caribbean historiographies: Assembling, reassembling, disassembling regional educational assemblage, Tavis D. Jules (Loyola University Chicago, USA)Part IV: Assembling Practice and Profession in CIE10. Educational Leaders Becoming: A virtual community of practice as assemblage(s), Cathryn Magno and Anna Becker (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)11. Assembled teaching: A sensitized conceptualization of didactics, Elin Sundström Sjödin (Mälardalen University, Sweden) and Ninni Wahlström (Linnaeus University, Sweden)Part V: Epilogue12. Quo Vadis CIE? Imagining the (Re)Assembled Contours of a Metamorphosing Field, Tavis D. Jules (Loyola University Chicago, USA) and Florin D. Salajan (North Dakota State University, USA)ReferencesIndex