The joys--and perils--of cross-cultural, comparative educational research : a case study from India /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2017.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526420794 1526420791 |