International Comparative Research: Theory, Methods and Practice

This book is designed as a training and reference tool for students, researchers and practitioners wanting to conduct and commission effective, reliable international comparative research. Using a topic-based approach, it draws on many small and large-scale studies in the social sciences and humanities to analyse the research process.

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An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice provides a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the evolving field of comparative and international education This book will also be highly useful in providing a global framework for education students and early-stage scholars new to this field.

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Phillips and Schweisfurth build a strong foundation of theory for the practice needed for learning and teaching in a dynamic educational future. In providing this concise, balanced and highly readable overview the authors have made a valuable contribution to an increasingly important area of study.

It leaves the reader with a thorough insight into what comparative education is all about It is a pleasure also to recommend the book as a course book for comparative education courses outside the English-speaking world. It is an in-depth and specialised text suitable for education professionals.

In line with how a lot of theorizing has gone in the last century, comparative research does not tend to investigate "grand theories," such as Marxism. It instead occupies itself with middle-range theories that do not purport to describe our social system in its entirety, but a subset of it. He noticed there was a difference in types of social welfare systems, and compared them based on their level of decommodification of social welfare goods.

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He found that he was able to class welfare states into three types, based on their level of decommodification. He further theorized from this that decommodification was based on a combination of class coalitions and mobilization, and regime legacy. Comparative research can take many forms.

Two key factors are space and time.

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Spatially, cross-national comparisons are by far the most common, although comparisons within countries, contrasting different areas, cultures or governments also subsist and are very constructive, especially in a country like New Zealand, where policy often changes depending on which race it pertains to. The historical comparative research involves comparing different time-frames. The two main choices within this model are comparing two stages in time either snapshots or time-series , or just comparing the same thing over time, to see if a policy's effects differ over a stretch of time.

When it comes to subject matter of comparative inquiries, many contend there is none unique to it. This may indeed be true, but a brief perusal of comparative endeavours reveals there are some topics more recurrent than others. Determining whether socioeconomic or political factors are more important in explaining government action is a familiar theme. In general, however, the only thing that is certain in comparative research issues is the existence of differences to be analysed.

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