Educational Research: A Personal and Social Process

Abstract

Sources for thinking about and doing new paradigm research are reviewed. The discussion includes a large variety of nontraditional approaches that directly address the role of subjectivity and consensus in research. Sources include literature on traditional research methods, qualitative methods, humanistic psychology, and action research. The review is organized in terms of the personal and social processes that affect an investigator, including a consideration of how our construction of reality depends on the methods of study we choose.