Title
Constas, Mark A., "The Changing Nature of Educational Research and a Critique of Postmodernism," Educational Researcher, 27(March, 1998), 26-33.*
Annotation
Explains postmodernism and its influence on educational research; discusses three problems it poses--distinction, expistemological genre, and procedural infomality; critiques its reluctance to arrive at conclusions, to suggest practical implications, and to fall victim to its own desire to free inquiry from oppressive conditions.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline
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
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