From the Editor - International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives - Volume 9, Number 2, 2008

It may be argued that the Australia and New Zealand Comparative Education Society considers itself a fragmented community of scholars. This community utilises various research approaches to study educational phenomena that attempt to highlight patterns, trends, differences, or dissonance. A separation of 'cohorts' ensures both the viability of investigative research techniques and currency of key issues (e.g. globalisation, international education development, multiculturalism), and differing approaches add new dimensions to our fields of study. These are scholars who make their mark beyond the academy; those who actively find causes in the field or who become policy-making practitioners outside the walls of the university. In this issue, several academic scholars or practitioners are featured by papers that reflect their current research.