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Download full textLincoln, Yvonna S.; Guba, Egon G. – 1987
The central failure of conventional, or positivistic inquiry has been the inability to handle deception in research and the violation of societal ethics, moral and legal caused by such deception. Moral dimensions include tests for whether the research would be approved by reasonable persons, whether it might pass the test of publicity, and whether…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Inquiry, Legal Problems
Peer reviewedLincoln, Yvonna S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1998
Calls for social science researchers to make the leap from understanding to action. Explains action and why it must replace classical disinterestedness and objectivity. Discusses the new criteria for educational research and the new methods for interpretive researchers. Addresses the implications for higher education. (CMK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Theory, Educational Change
