Investigating Epistemological and Ontological Stance of an Educational Research Study
Investigating Epistemological and Ontological Stance of an Educational Research Study

Author(s): Meltem Baysal Çalışkan
Subject(s): Education, Epistemology, Ontology, Philosophy of Education
Published by: Özgür Yayın Dağıtım Ltd. Şti.
Keywords: Ontology; Epistemology; education;
Summary/Abstract: Educational research is a systematic inquiry directed at unraveling educational problems, generating new and distinct implications for educational knowledge, and improving the teaching and learning process in different contexts and settings. While researchers conduct thorough inquiries in education, they have a socio-political agenda including their perspectives for knowledge, reality, and worldview within the aim of rectifying, contributing, or reforming the education system. At this point, researchers adopt paradigmatic stances, ontologically and epistemologically, which are decisive in their methodological assumptions. Consistently, the ontological, epistemological assumptions are the backbones of a research design with some other underpinnings such as axiology and voice.

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