Erwin H. Epstein

Erwin H. Epstein is Professor emeritus, Department of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago. This article is an extended, modified version of a paper prepared for the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 2025.

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July 3, 2025

Toppling Statues and the Defenestration of Comparative Education

Erwin H. Epstein

The concept of “decoloniality”—i.e. defying Western customs and standards of knowledge acquisition—has captured the field of Comparative Education. This is bad for learning and......

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