Jullien’s 1817 Esquisse: Toward a “Science” of Comparative Higher Education?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
John C. Weidman ◽  
Aizat Nurshatayeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Comparative Education ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Comparative Higher Education ◽  
League Tables ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
Positivist Approach

This article links comparative and international higher education research to ideas put forward in the 1817 pamphlet by Marc-Antoine Jullien, Esquisse, that is widely recognized as a foundational work for the field of comparative education, including providing its name. The paper describes how Jullien’s ideas in Esquisse are reflected in the contemporary work of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) and the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), including examples of comparative higher education tables analogous to those first described in Esquisse. The positivist approach advocated by Jullien is linked to contemporary research such as international rankings of higher education institutions (league tables) and surveys of the professoriate. It concludes with implications for future directions of comparative education research that are more “scientific” because they embed the increasingly sophisticated capacity for measurement and data collection within systematic conceptual frameworks as well as ever more rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodological techniques.

scholarly journals Effective self-regulatory processes in higher education: research findings and future directions. A systematic review

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique de Bruijn-Smolders ◽  
Caroline F. Timmers ◽  
Jason C.L. Gawke ◽  
Wouter Schoonman ◽  
Marise Ph. Born
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Research Findings

Applying Critical Theories to Social Media Mining and Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Sacha Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Social Media Mining ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Media Mining

To add to the limited higher education research that seeks to explore the riches of social media as a space for data collection, this chapter provides an example for how to use social media mining in combination with critical theories as an exploratory tool. This study is designed to apply critical theories to social media mining techniques in order to examine how membership organizations have engaged in discourse around racial issues and social inequities in higher education. This chapter will examine how associations engage particular social media contexts for the purpose of influencing educational research and praxis and provide future directions for using social media to expose social injustices.

Comparative higher education research in times of globalisation of higher education: Theoretical and methodological insights

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412098793
Author(s):  
Maruša Hauptman Komotar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Institutional Isomorphism ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Comparative Higher Education ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Contextual Element ◽  
Pyramid Model ◽  
Complex Relationships

In times of globalisation of higher education, alternative theoretical and methodological approaches were introduced in the field of comparative higher education research. To stimulate the debate on this issue, this paper firstly addresses them theoretically by combining the concept of institutional isomorphism and the ‘glonacal’ analytical heuristic. On this basis, it discusses arguments in favour of convergence and diversity from the perspective of the internationalisation of higher education and also points to the limits of institutional isomorphism resulting from ‘glonacal’ influences of agencies and agency on the development of (internationalisation of) higher education. Secondly, the paper also draws attention to the influence of globalisation on the selection of methodology in comparative higher education research by exposing the limits of methodological nationalism. Along these lines, it portrays the reversed pyramid model of different horizontal and vertical levels of comparisons with which it establishes the (missing) link between the selected theoretical and methodological framework of comparative (higher education) research. In conclusion, it acknowledges the need to integrate the contextual element into the comparative framework which allows thorough analysis of complex relationships between globalisation and higher education both theoretically and methodologically.

scholarly journals International Higher Education Research and Comparative Analysis

2015 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Anna Kosmützky ◽  
Georg Krücken
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Comparative Higher Education ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Country Clusters ◽  
International Comparative

The article investigates whether international comparative higher education research has grown considerably during the past two decades. It reports the outcomes of a recent bibliometric study which found three key characteristics of international comparative higher education research: a relatively steady state, a larger share of international collaborative articles in international comparative research compared to non-comparative research, and a preference for small-scale country clusters for comparison.

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