Introduction

A.D.C. Peterson wrote in the editorial of the first issue of Comparative Education in 1964:

We hope to serve the cause and attract the attention not only of comparative education and comparativists, but of education as a whole and its administrators and practitioners. (Peterson 1964, 3)

Fifty years later, these aims remain current and laudable, and the combination of theory, methodology, and policy and practical applications advocated in Peterson’s inaugural editorial resonate with the concerns of the field and the journal in 2014. All of these aspirations continue to be reflected in our aims and scope, and in our review processes.