List of Illustrations

Foreword

Earl D. Kellogg

Acknowledgments

Liora Bresler

Alexander Ardichvili

Introduction: Personal and Institutional Contexts for International Education Research

Liora Bresler

Alexander Ardichvili

Part One: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in International Education Research

Dealing with Theoretical and Methodological Paradoxes in International and Comparative Education Research: What Can We Learn from Related Disciplines?

Alexander Ardichvili

The Interpretive Zone in International Qualitative Research

Liora Bresler

Deconstructing the Notion of Education: A View from West Africa

Alma Gottlieb

Assessing Culture: Prospects and Limitations of Quantitative Cross-National Research

K. Peter Kuchinke

Making Evaluation Democratic in a Climate of Control

Anne McKee

Robert E. Stake

Honoring Difference and Dialogue in International Education and Development: Mixed-Method Frameworks for Research

Alison Mathie

Jennifer C. Greene

Part Two: Contexts for Research in International Education

The Global Context of Educational Research

Nicholas C. Burbules

New Technologies and Social Change: Learning in the Global Cyber Age

Bertram C. Bruce

Human Resource Development as a Factor in the Inevitable Move to Globalization

Gary N. McLean

The Development of Self in Japanese Preschools: Negotiating Space

Daniel J. Walsh

Struggles Between Global and Local Influences: Changing Patterns of the Cypriot Elementary School Science Curriculum Development

Michalinos Zembylas

Cross-National Transitions and Schooling: Experiences of Limited- and Non-English-Speaking Teenagers

Betty Merchant

Afterword: International Educational Research: Content, Context, and Methods

Ivor F. Goodson

List of Contributors

Index