Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that, in the last few decades, collaborative inquiry methods have evolved along a similar trajectory to dual lens research. Dual lens research, known in various contexts as both ways, two-eyed seeing Old Ways New Ways, and Koodjal Jinnung (looking both ways), is designed to generate new…

There is growing international concern about the extent to which teachers are prepared to work with an increasingly diverse student (and community) population. To date, research into the relationship between teacher preparation and preparedness to teach diverse learners has not focused on teacher educators' understandings about teaching to/about…

In research textbooks, and much of the research practice, they describe, qualitative processes and interpretivist epistemologies tend to dominate visual methodology. This article challenges the assumptions behind this dominance. Using exemplification from three existing visual data sets produced through one large education research project, this…

The case study is justified as a viable and valuable approach to educational research and program evaluation. Critiques of three common epistemological justifications of case study are provided, and four strategies for making the case for case study are discussed. (RM)

Critiquing Jean Hill's article in the same "Journal of Curriculum and Supervision" issue from an interpretivist viewpoint, this article uses generic hermeneutics to illuminate instructional supervision as a practice, theory, and field of study. Generic hermeneutics recognizes both dichotomies and complementarities. Hill's article…

Discusses paradigm pedagogy as incorporating the ontological, epistemological, and methodological structures of research paradigms into teaching and the classroom. States that this multifaceted approach relates the characteristics of the research paradigms of positivism, interpretivism, and critical theory to teacher pedagogy, initiating…

At this point, the most persistent question concerns the relationship of teacher research to knowledge for and about teaching. This article analyzes some epistemological and methodological issues being discussed in the literature. The movement's success depends on opening dominant research and knowledge development paradigms to new, provocative…

During the 1980s major changes occurred in the field of educational administration. Three antecedents for change were the restructuring of education administration by governments across the world as a function of the economic management of state, the general availability of powerful information technology to meet the processing and communication…

Jean Hill's article in the same "Journal of Curriculum and Supervision" issue critiques the interpretivists' alleged ambiguities, contradictions, and uncritically held assumptions, based on the a priori assumptions of his own positivist paradigm. Critical theorists would deplore the exclusion of Marxism, feminism, and race-specific…

Explores some features of controversies about the production of knowledge by considering assumptions that have guided social theory at least since the 19th century. When systems of reasoning in educational studies are examined as social practices, it becomes apparent that the stakes of educational research are social and political as well as…

A review of environmental education literature revealed a paucity of constructivist-based research. A review of science education research of this type situates different approaches to educational research in relation to different epistemologies. Reviews constructs used in constructivist science education research. Concludes with proposals for…

Since the 1960s, the epistemological-cum-methodological orientations of American and British comparative education changed from being historical to being social scientific. This metamorphosis has impoverished the field, and a return to a re-invented historical mode of comparative analysis would help to humanize comparative education in a cosmos of…

A critical and comprehensive review of a variety of research programs investigating students' thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing leads to the identification of nine theoretical and methodological issues that need to be resolved in future research on epistemological theories. (SLD)

Discusses epistemological issues involved in the use of qualitative methods to assess classroom-based microcomputer programs, specifically Apple Computer's "Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow." Six models of qualitative data design and use are examined: anecdotal, structured observations, case study, multisite case study, ethnography, and…

Describes G. Kelly's repertory grid and autobiography, their application in educational research, how they might be applied to research into teacher thinking and student thinking about the process of teaching and learning, and ways they can be combined to raise teachers' and students' constructs to focal awareness. (RLC)