This rigorous volume focuses on the underlying perspectives justifying the major approaches currently being used in educational research.Introductory chapters lay the foundation for exploring varying research perspectives. Nine specific perspectives on researchapost positivism, pragmatism, constructivism, ethics and deliberate democracy, criticism, interpretivism, race/ethnicity/gender, arts-based research, and post structuralismaare examined, through discussions written by senior scholars known for their expertise in the perspective. And, a aguided toura of criticism is given, in which these same scholars demonstrate the use of the acritical methoda by critiquing six studies selected as exemplars of different research approaches.For education students who aspire to become researchers, and for those who simply need to read and understand research literature.Writing about the ethnographic interview, Spradley says that aquot;[t] he essential core of this activity aims to understand ... It moves towards the justification of autobiography as scholarship.3 In Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in ... You were always aware of power, beauty, pain, language, race, and yourself .
Title | : | Introduction to the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in Education and the Social Sciences |
Author | : | James L. Paul |
Publisher | : | Prentice Hall - 2005 |
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