Reconstruction of Educational Reseearch in Developing countries: Integrated approach of area studies and development studies

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This research project had mainly two components: one is to review and map out diverse research paradigms and practices which co-exist in the field of comparative education. The second is to conduct fieldwork by grouping researchers with different research paradigms together. For the first component, a questionnaire survey and classification of published articles were conducted. As the second component, annual fieldwork in the Maldives and Ghana were conducted with participation of 8 scholars altogether.An edited volume by Shoko Yamada and Minoru Morishita was published in 2003, with the title "Extending the Horizon of Comparative Education: Diverse Perspectives and Intellectual Collaboration"(Tokyo: Toshindo).The outcomes of the fieldwork in Maldives and Ghana were published by respective scholars as academic papers and a workshop was co-hosted with the Ministry of Education, Republic of Maldives, in 2013, to discuss about the findings from the research.