A Cross-Cultural Study on Teachers’ Use of Print and Digital Resources in Sweden, Finland, the USA, and Flanders : Some Methodological Challenges

Cross-cultural studies have inherent challenges as researchers from different cultural backgrounds attempt to make sense of similar-seeming material in unfamiliar contexts and communicate seemingly-obvious aspects of their own culture to outsiders (Clarke, 2013; Osborn, 2004). This contribution explores some of the methodological challenges in a cross-cultural study on teachers’ use of print and digital resources in four regions: Sweden, Finland, the USA, and Flanders (Belgium). All but one of the seven team members are insiders to one of the four contexts and to different extents outsiders to... Mehr ...