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Comparative Education. Methodology Contexts - ebook
Comparative Education. Methodology Contexts - ebook
The book is an extended methodological essay on comparative education, exploring its scientific identity, disciplinary boundaries, and research foundations rather than serving as a traditional textbook. It critically examines the challenges facing comparative pedagogy — such as underfunding, superficial use of data, and the risk of ideologization — arguing for rigorous, theory-based and methodologically sound research in education science.
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Preface
Chapter I
Comparative education versus education science, its subdisciplines and other disciplines of social sciences
1. Knowledge versus opinions – what shall we call scientific?
2. Ideology and normativity as threats to social sciences
3. Truth and simplicity in science
4. Imagination in science – how far can we creatively describe the reality
5. Historical and cultural context in comparative education
6. Cross-cultural research versus comparative education
Chapter II
Paradigms of social sciences versus paradigms of comparative education
Chapter III
How is the research area chosen in comparative education?
1. The similarity theory by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman versus the anchoring heuristic
2. The availability heuristic and the false consensus effect
Chapter IV
How should comparative research be conducted and what purpose does it serve?
1. Comparison as anticipation of social change
2. Comparative research methods
3. Data collection and qualitative research in comparativism
4. More on description, explanation and prediction
5. Selected historically established but rarely used comparison methods
The Ogden-Richards triangle
Porphyrian Tree
Classification strategies – Mill’s Canons
The chaos of the world – the order of science. Weber’s ideal types
Raymond Boudon’s formula
Möbius strip in comparativism
Chapter V
Development or stagnation? Problems with modern comparative education
Conclusions
References
Abstract
Index of persons
| Kategoria: | Scholarly |
| Język: | Angielski |
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| ISBN: | 978-83-8294-354-2 |
| Rozmiar pliku: | 9,3 MB |