Chapter 7: The Visual Turn in Comparative and International Education Research

W. J. T. Mitchell, (2011), Bruno Latour, (2002) and Jon Prosser (2007) are just a few of the many scholars pointing out that the growing interest to research the visual dimensions of contemporary societies, coupled with a substantial body of interdisciplinary studies incorporating image-based techniques, are manifestations of the influence of the “pictorial or visual turn” in the social sciences. This chapter discusses to what extent this visual turn has indeed influenced the field of comparative and international education as judged by a content analysis of the five major journals in the field, Comparative Education, Compare, Comparative Education Review, International Journal of Educational Development and Current Issues in Comparative Education.