Opportunities and Problems of Comparative Higher Education Research: The Daily Life of Research

Autor/in	Teichler, Ulrich
Titel	Opportunities and Problems of Comparative Higher Education Research: The Daily Life of Research
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 67 (2014) 4, S.393-408 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-013-9682-0
Schlagwörter	Comparative Education; Higher Education; Educational Research; Barriers; Research Problems; Educational Opportunities; Performance Factors; Research Methodology; Research Needs; Theory Practice Relationship; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Global Approach; International Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Forschungskritik; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Leistungsindikator; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsbedarf; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Globales Denken; Internationaler Studiengang
Abstract	Higher education had a predominant national and institutional focus for a long time. In Europe, supra-national political activities played a major role for increasing the interest in comparative research. Comparative perspectives are important in order to deconstruct the often national perspective of causal reasoning, for proving benchmarks, for theory-testing, for opening up the horizon for potential reforms, and for the analysis of the growing internationality of higher education. However, many practical factors make comparative research on higher education vulnerable: decentralized funding, coincidental compositions of participating countries, difficulties of reaching a conceptual and methodological consensus in multicountry research teams. Often, comparative research projects take quite a long time, before the major findings are published eventually. Moreover, often data are presented across countries without sufficient explanations of the respective context. Comparative research on higher education, thus, often does not fulfil the initial hopes, but obviously is such an important approach that efforts are indispensible to cope with the challenging conditions. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10