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Main Approaches to Educational Research

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• Volume 2,Issue 5, Sept. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Critical Theory, Interpretivism, Paradigm, Positivism

Authors:

• Riyami, Thuraya Al

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

2

Number:

5

Pages:

412-416

Month:

September

BibTex:

@article{361, author = "Thuraya Al Riyami", abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to discuss three approaches to educational research. First, I will start with a discussion of the research paradigm, providing its definition and its role in conducting research. Then I will discuss positivism, interpretivism and the critical theory approach to research in terms of their underpinning assumptions, quality standards and limitations. I will follow that with my own position regarding research. ", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Critical Theory, Interpretivism, Paradigm, Positivism", month = "September", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "5", pages = "412-416", title = "{M}ain {A}pproaches to {E}ducational {R}esearch", volume = "2", year = "2015", }

Note:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to discuss three approaches to educational research. First, I will start with a discussion of the research paradigm, providing its definition and its role in conducting research. Then I will discuss positivism, interpretivism and the critical theory approach to research in terms of their underpinning assumptions, quality standards and limitations. I will follow that with my own position regarding research.

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