A Sociological Experiment on Methodological Design—Strengths and Limits of a Pragmatist Approach to Research Methods in the TRUE Project

Lepori, Benedetto

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“…Methodological reflections on comparative higher education research can be found scattered here and there, for example, in books resulting from international comparative research projects (e.g., Bleiklie & Kogan, 2006; Hoffman & Horta, 2016; Lepori, 2017). A more noticeable yet still sporadic arena for debates on comparative higher education research has been offered by special issues.…”

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Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education

Kosmützky¹,

Nokkala

2020

Higher Education Quarterly

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Section: Introduction To the Special Issuementioning

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Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education

Kosmützky¹,

Nokkala

2020

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…Moreover, international collaborations have not only been praised but also questioned. Researchers who have been involved in collaborative and comparative Higher Education research have not only pointed out benefits, but also serious drawbacks, risks and complications (e.g., Brew, Boud, Lucas, & Crawford, ; Hoffman & Horta, ; Lepori, ). Comparative collaborative research takes more time than non‐comparative/non‐collaborative research and not every team is successful.…”

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A two‐sided medal: On the complexity of international comparative and collaborative team research

Kosmützky

2018

Higher Education Quarterly

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In recent years, more and more international comparative research has been conducted in internationally and geographically spread project teams and international research networks, and comparative research has become a fundamentally collaborative effort. Accordingly, research in such projects has to cope with a higher level of methodological complexity than non‐comparative research as well as with a particular sociocultural complexity. This complexity can have an influence on the research process and therefore on the quality and validity of the results, an issue that has so far not been discussed much, either in Higher Education research or beyond. Thus, this article refers to studies that provide empirical insights into comparative collaborative research teams and illuminates why international collaboration in comparative research projects is both a source of better solutions and of amplified complications and how they are interrelated. On this basis it provides a conceptual reflection and delineates dimensions of task‐related, methodological complexity and team diversity. While comparative research has specific methodological challenges that can be alleviated by international team collaboration, collaborative research has particular social challenges that can be aggravated in comparative research. The conclusion makes propositions for further analyses, discusses lessons for comparative Higher Education research and sets out implications for its institutional development.

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A Sociological Experiment on Methodological Design—Strengths and Limits of a Pragmatist Approach to Research Methods in the TRUE Project

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education

Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education

A two‐sided medal: On the complexity of international comparative and collaborative team research

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