The Paradigm Wars and Their Aftermath A “Historical” Sketch of Research on Teaching Since 1989

Resource type
Journal Article
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Title
The Paradigm Wars and Their Aftermath A “Historical” Sketch of Research on Teaching Since 1989
Abstract
Raging during the 1980s, the Paradigm Wars resulted in the demise of objectivity-seeking quantitative research on teaching—a victim of putatively devastating attacks from anti-naturalists, interpretivists, and critical theorists. Subsequently, the interpretivists' ethnographic studies flourished, enhancing the cultural appropriateness of schooling, and critical theorists' analyses fostered the struggles for power for the poor, non-Whites, and women. Two alternative versions of the aftermath are also conceivable. Pragmatism and Popper's piecemeal social engineering offer paths toward a productive rapprochement of the paradigms, one guided by the moral obligations of educational research.
Publication
Educational Researcher
Volume
18
Issue
7
Pages
4-10
Date
10/1989
Journal Abbr
Educational Researcher
Language
en
ISSN
0013-189X, 1935-102X
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DOI.org (Crossref)
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Citation
Gage, N. (1989). The Paradigm Wars and Their Aftermath A “Historical” Sketch of Research on Teaching Since 1989. Educational Researcher, 18(7), 4–10. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X018007004