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Chapter 12: Promise of a new chapter for comparative and international education

  • Charl C Wolhuter(author)
Chapter of: The Global South and comparative and international education: A leitmotif
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TitleChapter 12: Promise of a new chapter for comparative and international education
ContributorCharl C Wolhuter(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK434.12
Landing pagehttps://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/434
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightCopyright © Charl C Wolhuter 2024. Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. The moral right of the author has been asserted.
PublisherAOSIS
Published on2024-04-30
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This chapter synthesises the findings of all the preceding chapters and offers a vision of an immanent Phase 9 in the historical evolution of the scholarly field of comparative and international education. The signature feature of this phase will be the affirmation of the Global South in the field and in education in the world. This chapter summarises criticism currently rife among scholars in the field, making a case for the next phase. It outlines the parameters of this envisioned new phase in the evolution of the field. The affirmation of the Global South should be in a way that is not a declaration of war against the Global North, but the affirmation should be done in such a way that the field in its entirety is enriched, so much so that it even opens new vistas also for the exploration of the Global North, to the benefit of education in the Global North as much as to the benefit of the Global South. The chapter also connects to the narrative of human capabilities theory, which is extant but grossly underdeveloped in the field. A new phase, Phase 9 in the evolution of the field in which the Global South is given its rightful space, should make generous space for the narrative of human capabilities to come to its right in the field. Phase 9 will continue the pattern of the preceding eight phases, putting in place a field of scholarship that is available as a valuable asset to humanity and to the global education expansion project.

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LanguageEnglish (Original)
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  • North-West University, Potchefstroom
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Charl C Wolhuter

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North-West University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-7113

Charl C Wolhuter studied at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in comparative education at Stellenbosch University. He was a junior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Pretoria and a senior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Zululand. Currently, he is a comparative and international education professor at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has held visiting professorships at, among others, Brock University, Canada; Driestar Pedagogical University, the Netherlands; the University of Crete, Greece; Canterbury Christ University, United Kingdom; the University of Joensuu, Finland; the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Mataj Bel University, Slovakia; Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine; University of Zhengzhou, China; the University of Namibia, Namibia; the University of the Western Cape, SouthAfrica; the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Latvia, Latvia; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; the University of Tarapaca, Chile; and San Martín University, Argentina. He is the author of various books and articles on the history of education and comparative education. He is also the assistant editor of the journal Comparative Education Review.

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