[AAACE-NLA] A Brief Critique: The Foundations of ResearchCatherine B. King

[Andrea Wilder]

George,

It would b helpful if you could define these terms and give examples to 
clarify what you mean.  the vocabulary is pretty opaque!

Thanks.

Andrea

On Jun 24, 2006, at 5:05 PM, <gdemetrion at msn.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Catherine, for this thorough explorations.
>  
> A point of clarification in terms of terminology, perhaps the phrase 
> neopositivism rather than postpositivism would be the clearer term to 
> draw on to distingiush research traditions based on the positivist 
> paradigm from other research traditions.  The problem stems from Donna 
> Mertens' usage of the term postpositivismat least in the 1998 version 
> of her important text, Research Methods in Educational Psychology."  
> In that text, postpositivism is clearly an extension of positivism.  
> Others have used the same term, postpositivism in a more critical 
> vein, meaning beyond the positivistic tradition.  I draw on this 
> latter usage myself in my on-line essay, Postpositivist Scientific 
> Philosophy: Mediating Convergences: 
> http://www.the-rathouse.com/Postpositivism.htm in which the term is a 
> mediation between positivism and constructivism and postmodernism.
>  
> The broader point is that research traditions are human product and 
> constructed out of the human imagination in which, according to Karl 
> Popper, even science is a form of fiction--a highly salutary one, to 
> be sure.
>  
> Best
>  
> George Demetrion
>  
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