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Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay

  • Regina Egetenmeyer

This paper provides a guide for developing a research design for comparative studies in adult and continuing education. To that end, a research methodology will be presented that was developed at the COMPALL and INTALL Winter Schools on Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. Central elements for systematic comparisons in adult and continuing education are (1) the object of comparison, (2) research fields for comparison, and (3) inductive comparative categories. These elements form the reference points for the development of a comparative research question in adult and continuing education. The comparative analysis proposes a three-step approach from juxtaposition to interpretation: step 1 – descriptive juxtaposition; step 2 – analytical juxtaposition; and step 3 – analytical interpretation.

  • Keywords:
  • comparative studies,
  • comparison,
  • adult education,
  • continuing education,
  • international,
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Regina Egetenmeyer

University of Würzburg Julius Maximilian, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0001-8907-5583

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Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay

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Regina Egetenmeyer

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English

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-155-6.02

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Anno di pubblicazione

2020

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© 2020 Author(s)

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Titolo del libro

International and Comparative Studies in Adult and Continuing Education

Curatori

Regina Egetenmeyer, Vanna Boffo, Stefanie Kröner

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238

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2020

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© 2020 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-5518-154-9

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Studies on Adult Learning and Education

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