The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education

Group Submission Type: Book Launch

Description of Session

This book offers a practical and approachable overview of research concepts, methodologies, approaches, and methods, focusing specifically on how they inform and have been applied in the field of CIE (i.e., not just broadly in educational research).

The book is primarily geared toward students and early career researchers studying and conducting research in CIE as well as more established researchers eager to learn about new or different approaches to method in CIE – such as social network analysis or social media analysis – two of several chapters in the book with direct relevance to the conference theme. As an interdisciplinary field, CIE draws on various other fields, such as economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, philosophy, and more, and therefore involves a wide range of research approaches. Thus, we imagine the book will be valuable for readers seeking to find coherence within a heterogenous field or for curious researchers keen to dabble in new approaches.

The book is unique because there are few resources that consolidate frequently used research concepts, methodologies, approaches, and methods in the field of CIE. Moreover, many of the research modalities utilized in CIE and included in this volume have broad appeal beyond CIE. A further unique aspect is the book’s common research example in each chapter that helps readers see how a specific phenomenon in CIE (i.e., teaching quality in primary education) could be viewed, considered, and researched from a range of epistemological positions, research methodologies, and data collection methods and analyses. We want to emphasize, however, that this volume is not about teaching quality in primary education; this is merely used as a recurrent Sample Study throughout the volume. We hope that through this leitmotif readers will come to new understandings of both the multitude of ways in which a singular topic or issue can be studied, and the diversity of CIE as a field.

The book’s 39 chapters, written by approximately 70 authors, appear across four sections: (I) Core Concepts, (II) Methodology, (III) Approaches, and (IV) Methods and Analysis. Each chapter includes further reading resources that are ‘Foundational’ or ‘Key Applications in CIE’ (i.e., beyond a standard reference list) to provide additional guidance and serve as a reference point for readers. The chapters are short and generally written in an accessible style, easily digestible for non-experts. This book is a companion volume to the Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education.

We are proposing to conduct the book launch in an interactive and engaging manner, with support from the more than 20 authors expected to be in attendance. In sum, the launch will be a wonderful opportunity for attendees to liaise and engage with authors about areas of interest and expertise and learn more about how method has been – and could be – envisaged and approached in CIE research.

Sub Unit

• Book launches and Workshops / Book Launch

Organizer

• Matthew A.M. Thomas, The University of Glasgow

Chairs

• tavis d jules, Loyola University Chicago

• Michele Schweisfurth, University of Glasgow

Book Launch Presenters

• Marcelo Marques, University of Luxembourg

• Joan DeJaeghere, University of Minnesota

• Nozomi Sakata, Hiroshima University

• Emily Markovich Morris, The Brookings Institution

• Kathryn Kathryn Anderson-Levitt Anderson-Levitt, U Michigan–Dearborn

• Melissa Whatley, William and Mary

• InJung Cho, The George Washington University

• Laura C. Engel, The George Washington University

• Carrie Karsgaard, Cape Breton University

• Hannah K D'Apice, Stanford University

• Ren-Hao Xu, University of Western Australia

• Elizabeth Buckner, University of Toronto OISE

• Iveta Silova, Arizona State University

• Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Diana Rodríguez-Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Non Presenters

• Rhona Brown, University of Glasgow

• Zhijun Chen, University of Bath, Department of Education

• Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara, University of Bath

• Stephanie Zuilkowski, Florida State University

Discussants

• Susan Lee Robertson, The University of Cambridge

• Elisabeth E Lefebvre, Bethel University

• Antoni Verger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona