Bilingual Education in Community Contexts: A Two-Site Comparative Research Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 83-130
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Community Contexts

scholarly journals Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Fliess
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
Migrant Associations

AbstractEmigrant voting rights have opened new electoral arenas, and many political parties increasingly campaign across borders. Yet relatively little is known about the challenges parties confront when campaigning transnationally and the strategies they have developed in response to these challenges. This paper addresses these shortcomings. First, I investigate the hurdles Latin American parties face in linking up with organized migrant collectives in residency countries for campaigning purposes. Second, I probe into the transnational linkage strategies these parties deploy to tap into migrant associations’ resources and mobilization capacities. This study builds on a comparative research design and draws on almost 40 semi-structured interviews with Bolivian and Ecuadorian party activists as well as association leaders in Barcelona, Spain. Departing from the party interest group literature, I identify three transnational linkage strategies Bolivian and Ecuadorian parties implement: 1) Infiltration, 2) Co-optation, and 3) Cooperation. All parties execute these tactics informally in order to comply with local norms that require associations to remain apolitical. The analysis further demonstrates that differences between home-country electoral systems shape the types of linkage strategies Bolivian and Ecuadorian parties use. This article contributes to the study of migrant politics and political parties in important ways. This study highlights how political parties actively negotiate their entry into the transnational electoral arena, and sheds light on how migrants remain politically connected to their home countries.

Rethinking Comparison

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

Qualitative comparative methods – and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons – are central to the study of politics. They are not the only kind of comparison, though, that can help us better understand political processes and outcomes. Yet there are few guides for how to conduct non-controlled comparative research. This volume brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars from across the discipline of political science, including positivist and interpretivist scholars, qualitative methodologists, mixed-methods researchers, ethnographers, historians, and statisticians. Their work revolutionizes qualitative research design by diversifying the repertoire of comparative methods available to students of politics, offering readers clear suggestions for what kinds of comparisons might be possible, why they are useful, and how to execute them. By systematically thinking through how we engage in qualitative comparisons and the kinds of insights those comparisons produce, these collected essays create new possibilities to advance what we know about politics.

Educational Equity of Married or Engaged Partners

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Advanced Degree ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Associate's Degree ◽  
Causal Comparative

A causal-comparative research design was employed to analyze the number of years of formal education completed by individuals publicly announcing their marriage or engagement to marry. For the majority of couples, men and women had equivalent years of formal education completed. Among the remainder of couples, women more often than men had completed more years of formal education. Over-all, more men than women had completed no postsecondary education, but more men than women had completed an associate's degree and more men than women had completed an advanced degree. Far more women than men had completed a bachelor's degree.

Doing qualitative comparative research on teaching: Challenges and benefits of working with grounded theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-433
Author(s):  
Claudia Rupp
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research On Teaching ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Teaching Challenges

The last decades have seen the completion of an increasing number of qualitative comparative research projects on teaching. Challenges and benefits which might arise from a qualitative international comparative research design have been considered. However, very little has been published on challenges and benefits which may arise from using grounded theory in international comparative research projects. This article explores some of these challenges and benefits, focusing on two methodological aspects: the emergent process of developing a grounded theory and analysing data in a foreign language. In order to illustrate the argument, an international comparative PhD project is used. The project is centred on how teachers see themselves with regards to accountability reforms in England and Germany.

scholarly journals An American Solution to an Irish Problem: A Consideration of the Material Conditions that Shape the Architecture of Union Organizing

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Geary ◽  
Sophie Gamwell
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Meat Processing ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
New Models ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Material Conditions

New models of union organizing have become an important instrument of union growth and renewal. We examine the transfer of US-developed organizing practices to Ireland. We enquire whether the practical experiences of SIPTU can be considered successful. In particular, we focus on the question: in what way is the architecture of union organizing shaped by the material conditions that affect workers’ power? We look at three campaigns across three low-wage sectors (hotels, red meat processing and contract cleaning). The campaigns share a number of common properties, but differ in respect of the power resources available to employees and the shape of their outcomes. Using a most similar systems comparative research design, we identify a variety of causes which help explain the success and shape of the different organizing campaigns. Finally, we make a number of arguments in respect of how our findings link to debates about the future of trade unionism.

Comparative Research Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Sandra L. Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research

scholarly journals An Investigation On Pre-Service Elementary School Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Lina Puspitaning Rahayu ◽  
Ali Mustadi ◽  
Petrus Sarjiman
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
One Way Anova

The aims of this study are to (1) determine the level of mathematics anxiety (MA) of pre-service elementary school teachers, (2) compare the MA among pre-service elementary school teachers in terms of gender, and (3) compare the MA among pre-service elementary school teachers in terms of the semester. This research employed a quantitative approach with comparative research design. In addition, the samples were 498 pre-service elementary school teachers. The instrument used is the Revised-Mathematics Anxiety Survey (R-MANX) developed by Bursal and Paznokas (2006). R-MANX consists of 30 statement of a 5-point Likert scale. The data analysis was processed using one-way ANOVA assisted by SPSS version 23. The findings reveal that the MA of pre-service elementary school teachers is high. Further, it is revealed that there is no significant MA difference between male and female pre-service elementary school teachers. Also, there is no significance of MA difference among pre-service elementary school teachers who are in 2nd semester, 4th semester, and 6th semester. Therefore, the results of this research imply that MA can affect pedagogical competence of a teacher and it could have an impact on the way the teacher manages the class.

scholarly journals Determining Specialties of the Jordanian Court of Cassation in Its Civil Capacity (According to Reality and the Law)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Jalal Aead Shwarah
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Specific Standard ◽  
The Law ◽  
Civil Trials

The main objective of this research is to address the issue determining specialties of the Jordanian court of cassation according to reality and the law. To achieve this objective, the analytical comparative research design method is used depending on the legal legislations and the diligence of the Judiciary to remove ambiguity form them because of their importance and direct effect in determining specialty of court of cassation and to distinguish it from court of subject. This research is divided into two subjects: The essence of reality and essence of the law. The second topic has addressed specialty of court of cassation according to reality and the law, divided into two requirements: considering court of cassation as the upper Judicial body, and the second requirement about considering court of subject third degree of the Jurisdiction degrees. The research reached the presence of contradictions making it difficult to determine and to set a specific standard and the decisive line between what is reality and what is law. Based on the results, it is recommended the necessity for in-depth review and amendment of these two laws, setting independent legal texts for the civil trials principal law, organizing the Judges' authority technically to separate between reality and the law.

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