Comparative Education, Theology, and Postmodern Relativism: Overcoming the Serious Absence of Teleology in 21 st Century European and North American Education

Globalization and postmodernism have determined the need to realign the epistemological corpus of the comparative discipline of Education to integrate the gnoseological requirements of these discourses into our knowledge. Additionally, resolving the scientific vulnerabilities of Comparative Education and achieving a post-relativist phase in the construction of the discourse of our science is necessary to combat the serious absence of Teleology in Western education. It requires the collaboration of interdisciplinary work within the teleological sciences of education, particularly with philosophy and theology to create a firm foundation. By establishing robust foundations between the sciences that transcend the evolving theoretical paradigms imposed by successive historical cycles, the development and consolidation of the comparative education discipline can achieve greater stability, coherence and intellectual rigor.