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Research method in the postmodern /

By: Series: Qualitative studies series ; 3.Publication details: London ; Washington, DC : Falmer Press, 1997.Description: vii, 189 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0750707097
  • 9780750707091
  • 0750706457
  • 9780750706452
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB1028 .S242 1997
Contents:
Educational reforms can reproduce societal inequalities: a case study / (with Michael Imber) -- Social relativism: (not quite) a postmodernist epistemology -- A postmodernist critique of research interviewing -- The masks of validity: a deconstructive investigation -- Policy archaeology: a new policy studies methodology -- Toward a white discourse on white racism (an early attempt at an archaeological approach) -- Coloring epistemologies: are our research epistemologies racially biased? (An example of an archaeological approach) / (with Michelle D. Young) -- An archaeological approach to research, or it is turtles all the way down.
Summary: Social science research was dominated by the qualitative versus quantitative methods debate. Then a new theory challenged our preconceptions. Scheurich examines the practical consequences of postmodernist theory for the social science researcher.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General LB 1028 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0007587

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educational reforms can reproduce societal inequalities: a case study / (with Michael Imber) -- Social relativism: (not quite) a postmodernist epistemology -- A postmodernist critique of research interviewing -- The masks of validity: a deconstructive investigation -- Policy archaeology: a new policy studies methodology -- Toward a white discourse on white racism (an early attempt at an archaeological approach) -- Coloring epistemologies: are our research epistemologies racially biased? (An example of an archaeological approach) / (with Michelle D. Young) -- An archaeological approach to research, or it is turtles all the way down.

Social science research was dominated by the qualitative versus quantitative methods debate. Then a new theory challenged our preconceptions. Scheurich examines the practical consequences of postmodernist theory for the social science researcher.

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