The joys--and perils--of cross-cultural, comparative educational research : a case study from India / Carol C. Mukhopadhyay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukhopadhyay, Carol Chapnick, author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods. Cases.

SAGE Research Methods. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research--India--Case studies.

Education.

Education--India--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

In the late 1980s, I embarked on a "small" project in India to obtain a "bit" of comparative data on Indian women in science and engineering. At that time, there was little cross-cultural research on the scientific gender gap outside of the United States or Europe. As a cultural anthropologist, I initially envisaged a short-term, small-scale, ethnographic study of college students and science-related academic decision-making on one Indian college campus. Yet as I got farther into the project, I realized I would have to drastically revise my original research plan. The result was a multi-phase, multi-method, long-term, and large-scale project involving two trips to India and expansion of the study to the pre-college level. This case study explores some problems that arose, the solutions and revised research plan I devised, and suggests some useful strategies for doing productive research in unfamiliar cultures, especially in less wealthier, developing countries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526420794 (ebook) :

9781526420794

OCLC:

984307868