Paradigm Dialog

Name: Paradigm Dialog
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ISBN: 9780803938236

ISBN-10: 0803938233

ISBN-13: 9780803938236

Edition: 1990

Authors: Egon Guba

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"The contributors and editor of this work are to be commended for their successful efforts in delineating many of the concerns current within education and in calling for frank debate on these issues by all interested parties. Furthermore, they have stimulated good scholarship by readily admitting to the current state of affairs being one of more questions than answers and more confusion than clarity. They thus remind us that the search for knowledge is one fraught with conflict in a public arena. "The appropriate audience for this volume is assessed to be the reader who derives satisfaction from critical thinking. It would be appropriate for graduate students in education, human services,…

Book details

List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.52" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

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Foreword




Setting The Stage


The Alternative Paradigm Dialog



Points of View


Postpositivistic Science



Myths and Realities


Whose Future? Whose Past? Notes on Critical Theory and Methodology



The Making of a Constructivist



A Remembrance of Transformations Past


The Meaning of Alternative Paradigms for Practice




The Need for Dialog: Issues and Interpretations


Introduction



Accomodation


Accommodation



Toward a Paradigm-Praxis Dialectic


Social Accomodation



Toward a Dialogical Discourse in Educational Inquiry


Discussion on Accommodation



Ethics


Ethics, Field Studies and the Paradigm Crisis



An Ethics of Qualitative Field Studies



Discussion on Ethics



Goodness Criteria


Alternative Research Paradigms and the Problem of Criteria



Goodness Criteria



Are They Objective Realities or Judgment Calls?


Discussion on Criteria



Implementation


Toward a Dialog about Implementation Within a Conceptual Cycle of Inquiry



Peering at Paradigms Through the Prism of Practice Improvement



Discussion on Implementation



Knowledge Accumulation


Three Views on the Nature and Role of Knowledge in Social Science



Emergent Paradigms. How New? How Necessary?



Discussion on Knowledge Accumulation



Methodology


Paths to Inquiry in the Social Disciplines



Scientific, Constructivist and Critical Theory Methodologies


Ruminations on Methodology



Of Truth and Significance


Discussion on Methodology



Training


So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm



A Response to So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm



Reactions to the Dark Half


Discussion on Training



Values


Reinscribing Otherwise



The Play of Values in the Practices of the Human Sciences


Show and Tell



A Response to the Value Issue in Alternative Paradigms for Inquiry


Discussion on Values




Summation and Projection


Introduction



A Postnote



Tales from the Rear


Next Steps



The Auditors' Report


Carrying on the Dialog