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Yallew, Addisalem Tebikew; Dipitso, Paul Othusitse – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This article is written with the recognition that, as higher education studies evolve as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, there is a need to reflect on the theoretical and practical concerns emerging from conducting higher education research. This is especially the case for early-career researchers who enter this relatively new field of study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Field Studies
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Golding, Clinton – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
In the field of higher education there are few places reserved for philosophical exploration, and this, this author argues, can limit and distort the cartography. Higher education research tends to be framed as the empirical process of collecting and analysing qualitative or quantitative data. But this conception of research leaves little space…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
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Saljo, Roger – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
Raises concerns about using interview data in phenomenological research, arguing such data are more related to discourse and the interviewee's perception of what is appropriate to say in the context than to "ways of experiencing," which is the object of study in phenomenography. Also argues that in important respects, discursive…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Epistemology, Interpersonal Communication