Apples inside orange peels: Exploring the use of functional equivalents for comparing curriculum processes across contexts.

ABSTRACT: Comparative education research is complicated by the difficulty of identifying comparable units across contexts. This paper considers the advantages and limitations of a functional equivalence approach to comparative education. The functional equivalence approach allows us to meaningfully compare the operations that serve each function in the full curriculum value chain of design, application, and updating. We use a theory-based list of common processes in each phase to develop a survey for experts from nine countries, then code their responses to derive ten key common functions. The functional equivalence approach allows us to aggregate some operations that serve the same functions, so our set of functional equivalents is slightly shorter than the theory-based list of processes. In compar

SUBMITTER: Caves KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11387131 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature