Institutional and contextual factors of quality in civic and citizenship education: Exploring possibilities of qualitative comparative analysis

Toots, Anu; Lauri, Triin

doi:10.1080/03050068.2014.985926

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“…For example, Glaesser and Cooper (2012a, 2012b) used QCA to tackle core questions in the sociology of education by investigating how combinations of factors such as students’ gender, class, ability, and type of schooling can shed new light on their educational achievement. To give another example, Toots and Lauri (2015) tackled a cross-national comparative education question by studying how countries’ institutional environments shape the quality of citizenship education.…”

Section: Qca Research In Educationmentioning

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Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research: Its Current Status and Future Potential

Cilesiz

Greckhamer

2020

Review of Research in Education

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Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic configurational approach that uses the logic of Boolean algebra to conceptualize and empirically examine potentially complex causal relations. The potential of this methodological innovation to draw innovative insights toward answering enduring questions and to foster novel research has increasingly been realized in several social science disciplines. However, to date, limited education research has taken advantage of this potential. The purpose of this review is to facilitate an education research agenda that capitalizes on the strengths of QCA and its set-theoretic approach. We introduce the foundations of QCA, outline the promise it holds for education research, systematically review and appraise empirical education research that has applied QCA, and complement this review with a review of research from outside the field that may serve as inspiration for education researchers. In doing so, we highlight areas of improved research designs in education research practice and point education researchers to promising research directions. We conclude with suggestions for researchers to weigh QCA’s strengths and limitations in comparison with other methods.

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Section: Qca Research In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research: Its Current Status and Future Potential

Cilesiz

Greckhamer

2020

Review of Research in Education

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“…These surveys are designed to provide insights to teachers, researchers and educational policy experts, and they are important sources for future policy-making. The second issue covered in this subtopic is devoted to institutional and contextual factors of quality in civic and citizenship education (Toots & Lauri, 2015). With elaborating on the quality assurance in civic and citizenship education, we show that the quality is affected by the so-called remote social factors, such as level of economic and social human development, public investment in education and type of civic culture, as well as more proximate factors, such as national approaches to civic and citizenship curriculum and teaching, civic activation initiatives at schools and assessment practices.…”

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Educational Policy and Leadership to Improve Democratic Citizenship Education

Eisenschmidt¹,

Lauri²,

Sillavee³

2019

Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship

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“…One of the strengths of QCA in this research project is the focus on uniformities and near-uniformities Considering several combined properties of the 'cases' as mutually dependent enables us to identify regularities that can be expressed with the fewest possible conditions. In other words, it enables us to better determine key drivers of welfare state change [97,98]. Although fuzzy set analysis mainly operates with qualitative data, it also uses statistical data that allows us to overcome the limitations of previous comparative welfare model studies.…”

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“…Although fuzzy set analysis mainly operates with qualitative data, it also uses statistical data that allows us to overcome the limitations of previous comparative welfare model studies. Most welfare model analyses require high-quality data for cross-national and historical perspectives [47,97,98]. However, such analyses are frequently hampered by the different availability of quantitative and qualitative data.…”

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Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states

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The key research question is to discuss and elaborate the potential value added that futures studies could provide for European citizens and political, social and economic institutions. In the article the problems of European welfare policy issues are theoretically described and analysed. In the article broader framework to understand key policy issues of European welfare policy challenges are defined. A general analysis and generic model for European welfare policy is presented. The Authors also present futures oriented methodological approach to analyse and solve new challenges of European welfare policy problems. Key contributions of this article are: (1) Analysis of theoretical basis for construction of welfare models in future environments, (2) the relationship between research questions and topics in welfare policy planning and management, (3) the analysis of the relationship between futures oriented research questions, methodological stages and outcomes in the field of European welfare policy and (4) the concrete methodological proposal how futures research methodology can help to solve future puzzles of European welfare policy.

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Institutional and contextual factors of quality in civic and citizenship education: Exploring possibilities of qualitative comparative analysis

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research: Its Current Status and Future Potential

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research: Its Current Status and Future Potential

Educational Policy and Leadership to Improve Democratic Citizenship Education

Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states

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