Closing Methodological Divides Toward Democratic Educational Research /

• Main Author: Howe, Kenneth R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Philosophy and Education, 11
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy of Education.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

The issues I treat in this bookỚ qualitative versus quantitative methods, facts versus values, science versus politics, subjectivity versus objectivity, postm- ernism versus pragmatism, to name a fewỚ are at the core of a lively, sometimes divisive, conversation that has been unfolding in the th...

Table of Contents:

• and Overview
• Positivism and the Old Divides
• Two Dogmas of Educational Research
• The Quantitative Qualitative Dogma, the Incompatibility Thesis, and the Pragmatic Alternative
• The Persistence of the Fact/Value Dogma: A Characterization and Critique of the ỚSReceived ViewỚ<U+00fd>
• Interpretivism and the New Divides
• The Interpretive Turn
• The Constructivist Turn
• On the Threat of Epistemological Bias
• Ethical and Political Frameworks
• The Interpretive Turn and Research Ethics
• Toward Democratic Educational Research.