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 the other contexts. In order to benefit from insider-outsider perspectives, we designed five tools to develop alignment of insider and outsider lenses. We describe these tools in this contribution.Peer reviewe
