ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a rationale for using reflexive mixed methods research (MMR) in comparative and international education (CIE). It argues that the field needs MMR to address complexity in educational problems and to draw on the possibilities that transdisciplinary perspectives offer to knowledge production. The chapter describes what reflexivity means for a field informed by multiple disciplines, located in different contexts, and contending with different knowledge hierarchies. A reflexive mixed methods approach contributes to decolonizing research in CIE by considering how knowledge is produced. Finally, it discusses how the book might be used by readers, and how the subsequent chapters expand upon the different reflexive processes of MMR.
