ABSTRACT
This article, following receipt of an invitation from the Co-editors of the millennial special number of Comparative Education (Crossley & Jarvis, 2000a), is a response to some of the themes in that special issue and a presentation of perspectives from a particular part of the world. We begin by applauding the Co-editors for assembling a very valuable and insightful collection of articles. The Co-editors indicated (Crossley & Jarvis, 2000b, p. 262) that the special issue was conceived as a set of presentations, by the journal’s Editorial Board, on the way that the Board Members viewed the field at this point in history. Because the Board Members are all based in the UK – although all have great international experience and expertise – the millennial special issue may be described as a set of perspectives from one particular part of the world. It therefore seems entirely appropriate that this set of responses should have been commissioned from people in other parts of the world, so that this follow-up special number may be seen as complementing the first.
