Source：
International and Comparative Education No.2. 2023
Author:
KONG Lingshuai， WANG Chao
Abstract： The digital turn offers a possibility for comparative education research in the digital age, but it is not the whole story of the future development of comparative education. The prevalence of the performance-based educational accountability system worldwide, the pursuit of science in comparative education, and the innovation and progress of digital technology have provided the reality and possibility for the digital turn of comparative education research. The dimensions of the digital turn of comparative education research are mainly reflected in: the research subject changes from the author of comparative education knowledge to the collaborator; the research object changes from document to data; the research purpose changes from the pursuit of causal inevitability of educational knowledge to the focus on correlation; research methods from analysis to synthesis. However, the digital turn of comparative education research also has limitations: it is easy to fall into the sole dataism at the ontological level; it is easy to lack the spirit of humanism at the axiological level; at the relational level；it is easy to promote the formation of data colonialism in international education.
