摘要：Most qualitative studies in international education take place in a single site in a single nation. When studies are of more than one country, they most often use more quantitative than qualitative approaches. There was a time when studies conducted in mul tiple cultures were more common in anthropology. Margaret Mead (1935; 1960) and Ruth Benedict (1934) did comparative studies of two or more cultures. Beatrice and John Whiting conducted the most systematic of comparative cross - cultural studies of child rea ring in their Six Cultures (1975) study. One of the six ethnographies that served as the foundation of that study was conducted by Robert A. LeVine (1966), who was my doctoral mentor. I have attempted to carry this comparative project forward, and to do so in a way that systematically deals with variation within, as well as among cultures, while also taking into account how cultures stay the same and change over time.
