Sipe, Lawrence, and Susan Constable, "A Chart of Four Contemporary Research Paradigms: Metaphors for the Modes of Inquiry," TABOO: The Journal of Culture and Education, 1(1996), 153-163.*
Annotation
Provides a series of metaphors that represent distinctions among positivist, interpretivist, critical theory, and deconstructivist research paradigms.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline
Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
