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Peck, Charles A. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 2000
This commentary on the previous article on an interpretive research approach discusses the journey of a researcher from radical behaviorism, to interpretive social science, to an emerging viewpoint in which art more than science is used as a way of seeing issues related to disability, education, and change. (Contains 10 references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Interpretation, Disabilities
Ferguson, Dianne L.; Ferguson, Philip M. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 2000
This article discusses how interpretive research can challenge the special education field to think differently about what is already known and to factor in different ways of knowing and different meanings. Three dimensions of interpretive research are explored: "truth" value and accuracy, context and relations, and utility and relevance.…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Interpretation, Disabilities
