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Direct linkScott, David – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article offers a defence of critical realism in the face of objections Nash (2005) makes to it in a recent edition of this journal. It is argued that critical and scientific realisms are closely related and that both are opposed to statistical positivism. However, the suggestion is made that scientific realism retains (from statistical…
Descriptors: Realism, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Social Theories
