A Need for New Methodological Communication in Comparative Higher Education Research Projects?

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Author(s): Kristin Lofthus Hope (University of Bergen, Norway)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 15
Source title: New Voices in Higher Education Research and Scholarship
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Filipa M. Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal), Yurgos Politis (University College Dublin, Ireland)and Bojana Culum (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7244-4.ch004

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference

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Higher education is a versatile field where researchers from many different professions take part within a common interest. Usually higher education is seen as an interdisciplinary field, but is it rather a disciplinary field where different researchers discuss higher education development within an interdisciplinary context? What makes the field interdisciplinary? This chapter studies if and how interdisciplinarity is established and played out in international comparative higher education projects. A good way to study if and how interdisciplinarity is established in HE projects is to study their methodological approaches because researchers from different backgrounds who are trained in a range of methodological approaches work together to complete a specific project aim. The methodological approach in one single case is studied to look into how interdisciplinarity can develop within a higher education international research project.

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