Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Directions in Comparative and International Education, tavis jules SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES * Section Introduction 1. Structural-functionalism in Comparative and International Education: Antecedents, developments, and applications - Marcelo Marques 2. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Coloniality in Comparative and International Education: Conquest, Slavery, and Prejudice - Tavis Jules, Syed Amir Shah, and Pravindharan Balakrishnan 3. Marxism in Comparative and International Education: Foundational Political Economy Perspectives on Education - Robin Shields and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara 4. Human Capital Theory in Comparative and International Education: Development, Application, and Problematics - Donna C. Tonini 5. Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Critical Accounts of Education and Development - Tom G. Griffiths SECTION 2: POST-FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES * Section Introduction 6. Post-colonialism in Comparative and International Education: Interrogating power, epistemologies, and educational practice - Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, Arzhia Habibi, and Olga Mun 7. Post-modernism and Post-structuralism in Comparative and International Education: Examining background context, application, and prospective - Edith Mukudi Omwami 8. Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparative and International Education: Monuments, Movements, and Metamorphoses - Iveta Silova, Zsuzsa Millei, Ketevan Chachkhiani, Garine Palandjian, and Mariia Vitrukh 9. Gender in Comparative and International Education: Gender as noun, adjective, and verb - Laura Wangsness Willemsen and Payal Shah 10. Post-Foundational Approaches in Comparative and International Education: Uncertain Moves toward Unknown Horizons - Jordan Corson and Susanne Ress SECTION 3: THEORETICAL ADAPTION AND REVISION * Section Introduction 11. Neo-liberalism in Comparative and International Education: Theory, Practice, Paradox - Anthony Welch 12. Framing Comparative and International Education Through a Neo-Institutional Lens: The Discourse on Global Patterns and Shared Expectations - Alexander W. Wiseman 13. Neo-realism in Comparative and International Education: Power, Influence, and Priorities - Tavis D. Jules, Syed Amir Shah, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Serene Ismail 14. Neo-Gramscian Theory in Comparative and International Education: Power, ideas, and institutions - Tavis D. Jules, Richard Arnol, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Victoria Desimoni 15. Regimes and Regionalism in Comparative and International Education: Cooperation and Competition - Marcelo Parreira do Amaral 16. Cultural Political Economy (CPE) in Comparative and International Education: Putting CPE to Work in Studying Globalisation - Susan L. Robertson and Roger Dale SECTION 4: THEORIES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE * Section Introduction 17. Constructivism and Learner-Centeredness in Comparative and International Education: Where Theories Meet Practice - Matthew A.M. Thomas and Michele Schweisfurth 18. Differentiation Theory and Externalization in Comparative and International Education: Understanding the Intersections of the global and the local - Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and Marvin Erfurth 19. Policy Borrowing and Lending in Comparative and International Education: A Key Area of Research - Gita Steiner-Khamsi 20. Situating Peace Education Theories, Scholarship, and Practice in Comparative and International Education - Maria Hantzopoulos, Zeena Zakharia, and Brooke Harris Garad 21. Theories of Human Rights Education in Comparative and International Education: From Declarations to New Directions - Monisha Bajaj and Nomsa Mabona SECTION 5: INTERDISCIPLINARY AND EMERGING APPROACHES * Section Introduction 22. Theorizing race and racism in Comparative and International Education - Sharon Walker, Arathi Sriprakash, and Leon Tikly 23. Queer Theory in Comparative and International Education: How Queer is CIE - Christian A. Bracho 24. Transitologies in Comparative and International Education: Transformation and Metamorphisms - Tavis D. Jules 25. Actor-Network-Theory and Comparative and International Education: Addressing the complexity of socio material foundations of power in education - Jason Beech and Alejandro Artopoulos 26. Social Network Theory and Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Connecting the Dots for Better Understanding of Education - Oren Pizmony-Levy 27. The Capabilities Approach in Comparative and International Education: A Justice-Enhancing Framework - Joan DeJaeghere and Melanie J. Walker Index