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Joan G. DeJaeghere – Comparative Education Review, 2024
Mixed methods research (MMR) has been increasingly used in comparative and international education (CIE), but there is less scholarship that discusses the philosophical and methodological bases for such research. This article argues that much research in CIE assumes an ontologically complex and contingent reality and an interdisciplinary and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Mixed Methods Research, Educational Philosophy
Lenhart, Volker – Comparative Education, 2018
From its very beginnings, we can discern two methodological approaches to comparative education; one broadly historical-philosophical-idiographic and another broadly empirical-positivist-nomothetic. Friedrich August Hecht's 1795-1798 "De re scholastica Anglica cum Germanica comparata" ("English and German school education…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Foreign Countries
Beryl Koteikor Neequaye – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The field of comparative and international education has followed methodological trends in social science research since the merging of the "twin" field after World War II. With increase in the use of mixed methods research about three decades ago, comparative and international education journals and scholars have worked rigorously to be…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Research, Comparative Education, International Education
Sims, Margaret; Alexander, Elise; Pedey, Karma; Tausere-Tiko, Lavinia – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
We explore the way dominant political discourses are perceived to influence developing professionalisation of early childhood in three contexts. The UK is strongly influenced by the neoliberal agenda which positions managerialism, bureaucracy, accountability and control as necessary to drive quality improvement. Bhutan has been exposed to western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Neoliberalism, Comparative Education
Choi, Jung Won – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Elementary school music experiences have been shown to be influential for lifelong music engagement, and sound music teacher education would be the most effective way to provide positive school music experiences to students in elementary schools. In spite of this importance, many countries have different elementary music education and music…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Music Education, Music
Dampson, Dandy George; Frempong, Evelyn Ama – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
Governments and other stakeholders in education are beginning to recognize the important roles school leaders can play in school development and efforts are being made to allow them to become more involved in managing schools. However, despite these efforts, head teachers are challenged with the perfect leadership style to improve schools. Many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles
Paras, Andrea; Carignan, Michael; Brenner, Ashley; Hardy, Jane; Malmgren, Jodi; Rathburn, Melanie – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2019
With the proliferation of short-term study abroad programs at institutions of higher education, there is a need for more rigorous assessment of how these programs contribute to intercultural learning. This article presents a multi-institutional comparative study of students' intercultural learning in six short-term study abroad programs in Canada…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Cultural Awareness
King, Jim; Aono, Atsuko – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
This paper discusses the issue of tolerance of silence within university tutorials from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective. A mixed methods, quasi-experimental approach was employed to measure the length of silence which individual students from samples in Japan and the UK tolerated during a one-to-one staged encounter with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutorial Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
Liu, Shujie; Liu, Caixiang; Stronge, James; Xu, Xianxuan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
Two research questions guided this study of teacher selection: (a) What characteristics do Chinese principals look for when hiring teachers? And (b) what is the effect of participants' gender, experience, or school location on perceived characteristics of effective teacher candidates in hiring? Both interviews and a questionnaire survey were used…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, School Location
Wilson, Lisa; Moffett, Ann-Thomas – Research in Dance Education, 2017
This paper considers arts-based research (ABR) as a useful resource for creating fluid and dialogic spaces between multiple domains of dance knowledge and practices. Through the lens of a multi-disciplinary, arts-based research project "Same Story, Different Countries" explored the socio-political phenomena of racism in the United States…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Dance Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Messing, Vera – European Education, 2017
This article examines how various forms of ethnic segregation in education affect everyday life and future aspirations of Roma youth in three Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It draws on a comparative European investigation about the diverging experiences and paths of ethnic minority youth in…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Racial Segregation
Lee, Jaekyung; Park, Daekwon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
This study examines key school reform policies and outcomes of the USA and Korea over the past three decades from comparative perspectives. Since the two nations' unique educational problems brought divergent educational reform paths--standardization versus differentiation, high-stakes testing versus individualized assessment, and centralization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Mathematics Achievement
Vaillant, Denise; Gonzalez-Vaillant, Gabriela – Teacher Development, 2017
This paper analyzes the relationship between teacher evaluation policies in Chile and Uruguay, teacher professional development, and teacher performance effectiveness. The analysis tries to understand the extent to which the existing processes for teacher evaluation stimulate an improvement in the quality of teaching. The comparison of two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Faculty Development
Kwiek, Marek – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
In a recently changing Polish academic environment--following the large-scale higher education reforms of 2009-2012--different academic generations have to cope with different challenges. Polish academics have been strongly divided generationally, not only in terms of what they think and how they work but also in terms of what is academically…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Fitzgerald, Saira – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This article presents the results of the first Canada-wide survey on how university admissions personnel view the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) in relation to other curricula. The purpose of this study was twofold: (i) to move beyond anecdote and discover how Canada compares with universities in the UK and Australia/NZ, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Universities, Admissions Officers