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Download full textLincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
All social science serves some agenda: social science research is a value-bound, value-determined, context-situated, and ideologically loaded enterprise. Each researcher makes choices in the following areas, whether tacitly, implicitly, or deliberately: (1) a paradigm choice, either conventional (rationalistic) or emerging (naturalistic); (2) the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ideology, Models, Naturalistic Observation
Peer reviewedLincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 1986
New perspectives on social science research suggest five propositions: studies in higher education must not be value-singular; higher education researchers must not ignore "harbingers of the paradigm revolution"; they must take into account new interpretations of knowledge acquisition; they must not depend on prescriptive models; and they must…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Research, Higher Education, Models
