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Direct linkMcKnight, Lucinda; Whitburn, Ben – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
The scientific metaphor of the lens remains widely used in qualitative education research, despite critiques of positivism. Informed by two recently completed empirical doctoral studies relying on "Metaphors We Live By," we propose that the attachment to the lens is a fetish. We argue that this fetish, evident even in purportedly…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Social Bias
