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ERIC Number: ED629635
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
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EISSN: EISSN-2279-7505
Post-Qualitative Inquiry and CHAT's Formative Interventions: Epistemological Legitimacy beyond Methodological Concerns
Marcelli, Andrea Mattia; Morselli, Daniele
Online Submission, Formazione & Insegnamento v20 n2 p211-226 2022
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) appears to match the tenets of post-qualitative inquiry. However, post-qualitative inquiry is credited with being averse to method and to adopt post-modernist stances that are not consistent with CHAT's structured reading of social reality. Notwithstanding this, it is possible to propose an interpretation of post-qualitative inquiry that overcomes such conceptual challenges. This article tackles the issue both theoretically and with reference to the way current CHAT research is undertaken. First, we propose post-qualitative research should be understood as compliant with post-Gettier epistemological standpoints. Second, we show that CHAT-inspired formative interventions are both educational in nature and, given their approach to learning processes, display the core features of post-qualitative research. Given CHAT's distinction between immanent aspects of social reality and methods tailored to tackle local issues, post-qualitative inquiry is justified in retaining its flexible--almost anarchic--methodology while, at the same time, enjoying epistemological soundness.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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