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TECINS. COMPARATIVE DIMENSION IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS HOW TO ANALYSE AND UNDERSTAND. Josep Gómez & M. Cristina Pujol. Comparative Education. Comparison contributes to develop a global intellectual capacity and generate new ideas. Can contribute to development of own educational system.
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TECINS COMPARATIVE DIMENSION IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS HOW TO ANALYSE AND UNDERSTAND Josep Gómez & M. Cristina Pujol
Comparative Education • Comparison contributes to develop a global intellectual capacity and generate new ideas. • Can contribute to development of own educational system. • Can offer a deep knowledge not only from other system but from our educational system and society.
Aspects to consider in comparison processes • Valid, persuasive, useful and serving to clarify. (Harold, J. Noah.1990). • Social and cultural understanding. • Equivalence or correspondence (Nowak. 1976).
Aspects to consider in comparison processes Cultural Contextual Functional Equivalence Genetic Correlative
Aspects to consider in comparison processes • Tertium Comparationis • Seeming terms, indicators or measurers • Ethnocentrism perspective
Aspects to consider in comparison processes • Personal competences of the researcher: • Creativity and flexibility • Open mind • Curios to know • Knowing own educational system • Empathy • Escaping from cultural prejudgement • ...
To facilitate a high quality comparison process • a) To acquire inductive knowledge from the human being and his environment • b) To figure ourselves in the same situation we are analyzing • c) To try to discover, under the external properties of the systems to be analyzed, the subjective meaning they are conferred by its users. • d) To apply the theoretical framework as objectively as possible to the collected data. Hamlyn
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