By George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis, National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy
During this paintings, the authors give you the first systematic exploration of the philosophical foundations and the old improvement of qualitative inquiry for language and literacy researchers - newbies and specialists alike.
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Another group of neo-Marxist thinkers known as the Frankfurt School theorists concerned themselves with understanding what they believed to be a set of constitutive relations among capitalism, epistemology, and politics. , science). In the words of Horkheimer and Adorno (1988), “in the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their authority. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disastrous triumph” (p. 3). The radical skepticism of the Frankfurt School did not so much mark a break with the Enlightenment or modernist project as an extension of it, which included a radical critique of the technical-instrumental rationality that had become so central to the project.
Approach the enterprise with both wonder and skepticism. Appreciate the ways that others (including us) have attempted to understand and map the enterprise. Maintain a critical eye toward this work and a reflexive stance toward your own. Take a pragmatic stance toward inquiry, asking yourself not whether the epistemologies, theories, approaches, and strategies you read about are true but whether they might be useful for the kinds of research questions that interest you and the kind of work you want to do.
To complicate things even more, many studies have been designed using a combination of approaches. Finally, it is often difficult to separate the theoretical frameworks from the approaches used in particular studies because theories and approaches often develop historically in mutually constitutive ways. Nevertheless, most qualitative approaches share several common Into the Fray: A Practiced and Practical Set of Analytic Strata 23 characteristics. They include the use of nonquantifiable data; they are highly contextualized and provide richly textured accounts of complex social phenomena; they deploy narrative rhetorical techniques to make their arguments; and they are more interested in verisimilitude, trustworthiness, and praxis than validity and generalizability.
