Comparative Case Studies

Authors

  • Lesley Bartlett University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
  • Frances Vavrus University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Keywords:

Case Study. Research Methods. Comparison. Context.

Abstract

What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we review dominant approaches to case study research and point out their limitations. Next, we propose a new approach – the comparative case study approach – that attends simultaneously to global, national, and local dimensions of case-based research. We contend that new approaches are necessitated by conceptual shifts in the social sciences, specifically in relation to culture, context, space, place, and comparison itself.

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Author Biographies

Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

Lesley Bartlett is a Professor in Educational Policy Studies and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology. An anthropologist by training who works in the field of International and Comparative Education, Professor Bartlett does research in literacy studies (including multilingual literacies), migration, and educator professional development.

Frances Vavrus, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Frances Vavrus is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, where she also holds the title of McKnight Presidential Fellow.

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Published

2017-06-16

How to Cite

Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2017). Comparative Case Studies. Educação & Realidade [Education & Reality], 42(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/68636

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Methods of Comparative Education

License

This journal uses Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).