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Download full textLincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
All social science serves some agenda: social science research is a value-bound, value-determined, context-situated, and ideologically loaded enterprise. Each researcher makes choices in the following areas, whether tacitly, implicitly, or deliberately: (1) a paradigm choice, either conventional (rationalistic) or emerging (naturalistic); (2) the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ideology, Models, Naturalistic Observation
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
The revolution in hard sciences is explored, from the Cartesian-Newtonian worldview to the Heisenbergian universe, and consideration is given to whether the conventional, Cartesian model is a serviceable one for research in the social/applied sciences. Five axioms comprising the existing paradigm of logical positivism are outlined (reality,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
