Culture and Comparative Education: Toward Decentering and Recentering the Discourse.

Comparative education lacks engagement with central theoretical debates about culture, current in anthropology. Recentered discourse on culture would recognize cultural inquiry's value, particularly for destabilizing taken-for-granted categories and truths. At the same time, comparative education might benefit from deeper critical engagement with culture, decentering it from positions of reification and determinism that limit human understanding and agency. (SV)