The Paradigm dialog / edited by Egon G. Guba.

"Sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International and the School of Education, Indiana University.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-400) and index.

Foreword / Egon G Guba -- Part One. Setting the Stage -- The Alternative Paradigm Dialog -- Part Two. Points of View -- Postpositivistic Science: Myths and Realities / Denis C Phillips -- Whose Future? Whose Past? Notes on Critical Theory and Methodology / Thomas S Popkewitz -- The Making of a Constructivist: A Remembrance of Transformations Past / Yvonna S Lincoln -- The Meaning of Alternative Paradigms for Practice / Elliot W Eisner -- Part Three. The Need for Dialog: Issues and Interpretations -- Introduction / Egon G Guba -- Accommodation -- Accommodation: Toward a Paradigm-Praxis Dialectic / William A Firestone -- Social Accommodation: Toward a Dialogical Discourse in Educational Inquiry / Thomas M Skrtic -- Discussion on Accommodation / Ann Austin -- Ethics -- Ethics, Field Studies and the Paradigm Crisis / Louis M Smith -- An Ethics of Qualitative Field Studies / Ernest R House -- Discussion on Ethics / Thomas Gregory -- Goodness Criteria -- Alternative Research Paradigms and the Problem of Criteria / John K Smith -- Goodness Criteria: Are They Objective Realities or Judgment Calls? / Catherine Marshall -- Discussion on Criteria / Lois Heshusius -- Implementation -- Toward a Dialog about Implementation Within a Conceptual Cycle of Inquiry / Judith L Green and Susanne Chandler -- Peering at Paradigms Through the Prism of Practice Improvement / David P Crandall -- Discussion on Implementation / Corinne Glesne -- Knowledge Accumulation -- Three Views on the Nature and Role of Knowledge in Social Science / Jennifer C Greene -- Emergent Paradigms. How New? How Necessary? / Margaret D Le Compte -- Discussion on Knowledge Accumulation / Judith Preissle Goetz -- Methodology -- Paths to Inquiry in the Social Disciplines: Scientific, Constructivist and Critical Theory Methodologies / Thomas R Schwandt -- Ruminations on Methodology: Of Truth and Significance / Gail McCutcheon -- Discussion on Methodology / Marion Lundy Dobbert -- Training -- So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm / Shulamit Reinharz -- A Response to So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm: Reactions to the Dark Half / Jeri R Nowakowski -- Discussion on Training / Judy Barford -- Values -- Reinscribing Otherwise: The Play of Values in the Practices of the Human Sciences / Patti A Lather -- Show and Tell: A Response to the Value Issue in Alternative Paradigms for Inquiry / Madeleine Grumet -- Discussion on Values / John P Beck -- Part Four. Summation and Projection -- Introduction / Egon G Guba -- A Postnote: Tales from the Rear / Alan Peshkin -- Next Steps: The Auditors' Report / Harbans S Bhola -- Carrying on the Dialog / Egon G Guba.

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