Podcasting comparative and international education: reflecting, reframing, or reorienting the field?

Podcasts have increased in popularity in recent years as a form of knowledge production and dissemination, but scant research has examined how academic podcasts relate to their cognate fields. This study analysed in detail one academic podcast–FreshEd–to examine its content and how it may reflect, reframe, and/or reorient the field of comparative and international education (CIE). Data were collected on 294 podcast episodes, first analysed descriptively by mapping key information about the researchers featured on each, then thematically by inductively coding their focal content. The study is significant because it (1) examines how an academic podcast reflects or reframes a field (i.e. CIE); (2) explores the possibilities for academic podcasting to reorient the types of knowledge produced, and our relationships to them; and (3) exemplifies innovative methodological avenues for analysing new forms of knowledge dissemination beyond traditional scholarly boundaries.