Comparative and International Education Society | 65th Annual Conference

Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts
April 25 – May 2, 2021

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we are experiencing rapid changes in political, economic, environmental, cultural, and social spaces, including an expansion of non-state actors in the field and new social movements. With changing contexts, how are our visions and agendas changing? How does this influence our actions in policy, planning, and practice? How does social responsibility – of corporate entities, governments, development organizations, communities, and researchers – interact with these changing contexts, the growing variety of actors, and evolving visions and approaches to education globally and locally? Who benefits from the work we do, and how? How do we, collectively, benefit? How do power relations as related to gender, race, sexuality, culture, social hierarchies, and community relations, etc., shape our understandings and actions and change as a result of our work? What is the responsibility of our field to reimagine what our work looks like when we are all responsible to others for improving education, and by implication, people’s lives?