Multiple Paradigms for International Research in Education: Experience, Theory, and Practice (Paperback)

Contents: Earl D. Kellogg: Foreword ? Liora Bresler/Alexander Ardichvili: Acknowledgments ? Liora Bresler/Alexander Ardichvili: Introduction: Personal and Institutional Contexts for International Education Research ? Alexander Ardichvili: Dealing with Theoretical and Methodological Paradoxes in International and Comparative Education Research: What Can We Learn from Related Disciplines? ? Liora Bresler: The Interpretive Zone in International Qualitative Research ? Alma Gottlieb: Deconstructing the Notion of Education: A View from West Africa ? K. Peter Kuchinke: Assessing Culture: Prospects and Limitations of Quantitative Cross-National Research ? Anne McKee/Robert E. Stake: Making Evaluation Democratic in a Climate of Control ? Alison Mathie/Jennifer C. Greene: Honoring Difference and Dialogue in International Education and Development: Mixed-Method Frameworks for Research ? Nicholas C. Burbules: The Global Context of Educational Research ? Bertram C. Bruce: New Technologies and Social Change: Learning in the Global Cyber Age ? Gary N. McLean: Human Resource Development as a Factor in the Inevitable Move to Globalization ? Daniel J. Walsh: The Development of Self in Japanese Preschools: Negotiating Space ? Michalinos Zembylas: Struggles Between Global and Local Influences: Changing Patterns of the Cypriot Elementary School Science Curriculum Development ? Betty Merchant: Cross-National Transitions and Schooling: Experiences of Limited- and Non-English-Speaking Teenagers.