Civilization as Historical Process: Meeting Ground for Comparative and International Education.

The article reports on the claim that comparative education and international education are undergoing an identity crisis in the United States. It considers the claim that there really is no such identifiable field of study as comparative education or international education. The author comments on the accelerated attention being given by social scientists to international studies. He also expresses his concern with the direction of social change that has been popular among empirical social scientists. The article explains why the civilization-building process is appropriate as a theme for the history of education and especially for international education.