Difficulties in conducting comparative and international research in education

Throughout the history of the field that we have documented in Chapter 2, there has emerged a growing body of literature on the difficulties typically faced in conducting comparative and international research in education. See, for example, selected contributions in Noah and Eckstein’s (1998) retrospective account of Three Decades of Collaboration, and Watson’s (2001a) recent edited collection titled Doing Comparative Education Research: issues and problems.