22-24 July 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
GlobalCIE, in conjunction with Knowledge, Innovation, and Enterprise (KIE), is hosting the GlobalCIE Forum roundtable on 24 July 2025 at the VIP Executive Art’s Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisbon is an ideal setting for the GlobalCIE Forum, as is marked by a strong public education system, dynamic higher education institutions such as the University of Lisbon, NOVA University Lisbon, and University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE), and active engagement with global education networks such as EU’s Eurydice and Erasmus+, as well as student mobility schemes between Southern Europe and beyond.
GlobalCIE is proud to sponsor Professor Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amarol from the University of Münster as our keynote speaker for 2025.
Comparative knowledge production and the global business of education
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, University of Münster
Abstract
The presentation deliberates on the relationship(s) between comparative knowledge production and the global business of education. While the global dimension of education (research) has opened up many possibilities for the field of Comparative and International Education (CIE), it has also presented scholars in CIE with daunting challenges to ensure comparison is not reduced to a plain ‘mode of governance’ (Nóvoa/Yariv Mashal). With new developments in academic knowledge production such as the augmented role of digital technologies/AI, but most importantly the formidable growth of education as a global business, new and more pressing challenges arise. The presentation discusses some of the main issues impacting comparative scholarship that relates to how the CIE field succeeds in promoting/protecting cultural diversity and sustained inclusion.
Short Bio
Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is Full Professor of International and Comparative Education at the Institute of Education of the University of Münster, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE) at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include education policy studies, comparative higher education, lifelong learning and life course. He has collaborated in and coordinated several national and international research projects and published extensively.
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