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Searching for the Soul: Athena’s Owl in the Comparative Education Cosmos

 

Professor Kazamias has argued that comparative education has lost its “soul,” by abandoning its historical and humanist episteme in the first half of the 20th century and turning to an ahistorical and nonhumanist social science today. This essay takes the readers on a journey across time and space in search of comparative education’s “soul,” briefly encountering a goddess in Greek mythology, a witch in medieval Europe, Alice in Wonderland, and Donna Haraway in the Chthulucene.

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Iveta Silova

Iveta Silova is a professor and director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the study of globalization, postsocialist transformations, and knowledge production and transfer in education.

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