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ERIC Number: EJ500120
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0840-8114
Orienting Oneself to Research. Review of "Alternative Paradigms in Environmental Education Research," edited by Rick Mrazek; "The Paradigm Dialog," edited by Egon G. Guba; and "Experience, Research, Social Change: Methods from the Margins," by Sandra Kirby and Kate McKenna.
Henderson, Bob
Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, v7 n2 p27-31 Jan-Feb 1995
Reviews three books that encourage practioners to be researchers of their own practice. Discusses absolutist and relativist approaches to research by examining assumptions related to questions the research generates. Recommends unification of practitioner and researcher roles through a dialectic, critical, reflective orientation that strives for an "evolving" truth. (RAH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Environmental Education, Epistemology, Outdoor Education, Participatory Research, Research Methodology, Teacher Researchers, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Critical Inquiry; Dialectical Reasoning; Research Orientation