Robert Donmoyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 657682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Donmoyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Donmoyer |
| SIGNATURE | DONMOYER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Features Editor |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6956-4881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mixing Research and Religion: Methodological Insights From a Participatory Mixed Methods Study
This paper focuses on a study that exemplifies two types of mixed methods research that have received limited attention in the empirically based mixed methods literature: (a) mixed methods studies that mix research with religion and (b) participatory mixed methods studies in which the line between researchers and the researched is intentionally at least somewhat blurred. The study used a combination of exploratory sequential and participatory mix…
Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do
Policymakers tend to be suspicious of qualitative research. Distrust of qualitative work is especially acute when a researcher openly embraces critical perspectives and is oriented toward critiquing privilege and providing the sort of knowledge that helps set the stage for challenging the status quo and creating more just and equitable social contexts. The first part of this article uses an adaptation of autoethnographic methodology and the perso…
Elliot Eisner’s Lost Legacy
Because of Elliot Eisner’s recent passing, it seems appropriate to note that he actually began his signature work on arts-based research by writing about program evaluation. This article revisits Eisner’s evaluation ideas and briefly considers why Eisner’s thinking about evaluation has had a relatively limited long-term impact on the evaluation field. The article also demonstrates that at least some of Eisner’s arts-based strategies can be effect…
Attributing Causality in Qualitative Research: Viable Option or Inappropriate Aspiration? An Introduction to a Collection of Papers
This brief article sets the stage for the three articles about causality and qualitative research by Maxwell, Donmoyer, and Anderson & Scott (as well as Erickson's critique of these articles) that follow by placing the debate about causality in qualitative research in an historical context. This article notes that the use of qualitative methods historically often was justified by claims that qualitative methods represented a new and radically dif…
Can Qualitative Researchers Answer Policymakers' What-Works Question
The article asks whether constructivist qualitative researchers have anything to offer policymakers who expect researchers to tell them what works. The first part of the article addresses philosophical objections to characterizing the social world in cause/effect terms. Specifically, it considers whether it is legitimate for qualitative researchers who claim to be employing a constructivist research paradigm to even attempt to provide the sort of…
Two (Very) Different Worlds: The Cultures of Policymaking and Qualitative Research
This article brackets assumptions embedded in the framing of this special issue on "problematizing methodological simplicity in qualitative research" in a effort to understand why policymakers put pressure on all types of researchers, including those who use qualitative methods, to provide relatively simple, even somewhat mechanistic portrayals of social life. The article employs an auto-ethnographic approach to demonstrate that simplified thinki…
Take my paradigm … please! The legacy of Kuhn’s construct in educational research
Thomas Kuhn developed the construct of research paradigms to make sense of the history of conceptual change in the physical sciences. The construct has since been appropriated by a number of academic fields and by non‐academics as well. This paper traces the use of the construct in the educational research field. The bulk of the paper is organized around two questions: (a) Was it ever appropriate to characterize the educational research field’s a…
Providing Technical Assistance to Improve Student Performance: Insights From the Collaborative Inquiry Project
This article focuses on the concept of external technical assistance and the practices associated with the concept. More specifically, the focus is on how those who do not work in a school on a regular basis might help the school's staff improve student performance and eliminate the achievement gap. The first part of this article challenges traditional thinking about-and traditional ways of doing-technical assistance. The second part describes th…
Reader's theater and educational research- give me a for instance: A commentary on Womentalkin
This Issue: Educational Standards: Moving beyond the Rhetoric
This Issue: "Talking Power to "Truth
This Issue: Talking Power to “Truth”
This Issue: Educational Standards —Moving Beyond the Rhetoric
This Issue: Paradigm Differences in Historical Research
Introduction: This Issue: Heroes and Sacred Texts
This Issue: Heroes and Sacred Texts
This Issue: Revisiting the “Talking ‘Truth’ to Power” Problem
Introduction: This Issue: Refocusing on Learning… and on How a Research Community Might Learn in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation
Robert Donmoyer, Introduction: This Issue: Refocusing on Learning... and on How a Research Community Might Learn in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation, Educational Researcher, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1997), pp. 4+34
This Issue: Visions of Educational Research's Past and Future
This Issue: Visions of Educational Research’s Past and Future
Introduction: This Issue: Revisiting the "Talking 'Truth' to Power" Problem
This Issue: Refocusing on Learning . . . and on How a Research Community Might Learn in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation
This Issue: Research as Advocacy and Storytelling
Educational Research in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation: What's a Journal Editor to Do
This editorial/essay functions on at least two levels. At the most obvious level, it is an attempt by theEducational Researcher's new Features Editor to figure out how to play the gatekeeper role at a time when there is little consensus in the field about what research is and what scholarly discourse should look like. Specific policies, procedures, and decision rules are articulated to guide the manuscript review process. The problems and issues …
This Issue: Talking “Truth” to Power
Data as Drama: Reflections on the Use of Readers Theater as a Mode of Qualitative Data Display
This article focuses on using readers theater for the purpose of qualitative data display. The article describes what readers theater is and differentiates this approach from more conventional forms of theater. The article also uses a recent attempt to present data in a readers theater context to ground discussions of (a) the procedures used to convert qualitative data into a readers theater display format and (b) the advantages and disadvantages…
Can Qualitative Researchers Answer Policymakers' What-Works Question
The article asks whether constructivist qualitative researchers have anything to offer policymakers who expect researchers to tell them what works. The first part of the article addresses philosophical objections to characterizing the social world in cause/effect terms. Specifically, it considers whether it is legitimate for qualitative researchers who claim to be employing a constructivist research paradigm to even attempt to provide the sort of…
The Rescue From Relativism: Two Failed Attempts and an Alternative Strategy
Widespread acceptance of the notion of relativism has been prompted by post-positivist philosophers’ discussions of the role that paradigms play in empirical inquiry and their claims that empirical evidence is inadequate for settling paradigm disputes. Problems with relativism, in turn, have encouraged certain epistemologists and methodologists to resurrect aspects of local positivism. In this article, the author critiques attempts to resurrect a…
American Educational Research Association: 1993 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals Atlanta, GA, April 12–16
Educational Research in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation: What's a Journal Editor to Do
This editorial/essay functions on at least two levels. At the most obvious level, it is an attempt by theEducational Researcher's new Features Editor to figure out how to play the gatekeeper role at a time when there is little consensus in the field about what research is and what scholarly discourse should look like. Specific policies, procedures, and decision rules are articulated to guide the manuscript review process. The problems and issues …
Two (Very) Different Worlds: The Cultures of Policymaking and Qualitative Research
This article brackets assumptions embedded in the framing of this special issue on "problematizing methodological simplicity in qualitative research" in a effort to understand why policymakers put pressure on all types of researchers, including those who use qualitative methods, to provide relatively simple, even somewhat mechanistic portrayals of social life. The article employs an auto-ethnographic approach to demonstrate that simplified thinki…
This Issue: Research as Advocacy and Storytelling
This Issue: Refocusing on Learning . . . and on How a Research Community Might Learn in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation
This Issue: Visions of Educational Research’s Past and Future
Introduction: Talking "Truth" to Power: The Conversation Continues
The rhetoric and reality of systemic reform: A critique of the proposed national science education standards
Art criticism as a guide to student evaluation
1993). Art criticism as a guide to student evaluation. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 32, Using the Arts to Inform Teaching, pp. 252-259
Why Case Studies? Reflections on Hord and Hall's Three Images
Hord and Hall's Three Images: What Principals Do in Curriculum Implementation (see previous article) is praiseworthy for at least two reasons. First, the study reported in this article emerged out of an extended line of inquiry: While a cohesive research program in which each new study builds incrementally upon prior ones is commonplace in most academic fields, such programs are not always easy to find in the field of education. Second, the study…
Attributing Causality in Qualitative Research: Viable Option or Inappropriate Aspiration? An Introduction to a Collection of Papers
This brief article sets the stage for the three articles about causality and qualitative research by Maxwell, Donmoyer, and Anderson & Scott (as well as Erickson's critique of these articles) that follow by placing the debate about causality in qualitative research in an historical context. This article notes that the use of qualitative methods historically often was justified by claims that qualitative methods represented a new and radically dif…
This Issue: Educational Standards —Moving Beyond the Rhetoric
This Issue: Talking “Truth” to Power
This Issue: A Focus on Learning
Juxtaposing Articles/Posing Questions: An Introduction and an Invitation
Navigating change in high school science and mathematics: Lessons teachers taught us
This Issue: Reforming science education
A Rejoinder to Phillips
The Rescue From Relativism: Two Failed Attempts and an Alternative Strategy
Widespread acceptance of the notion of relativism has been prompted by post-positivist philosophers’ discussions of the role that paradigms play in empirical inquiry and their claims that empirical evidence is inadequate for settling paradigm disputes. Problems with relativism, in turn, have encouraged certain epistemologists and methodologists to resurrect aspects of local positivism. In this article, the author critiques attempts to resurrect a…
The Problem of Language in Empirical Research: A Rejoinder to Miles and Huberman
A Rejoinder to Phillips
Beyond Thorndike/Beyond Melodrama
Why Case Studies? Reflections on Hord and Hall's Three Images
Hord and Hall's Three Images: What Principals Do in Curriculum Implementation (see previous article) is praiseworthy for at least two reasons. First, the study reported in this article emerged out of an extended line of inquiry: While a cohesive research program in which each new study builds incrementally upon prior ones is commonplace in most academic fields, such programs are not always easy to find in the field of education. Second, the study…
American Educational Research Association: 1993 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals Atlanta, GA, April 12–16
Art criticism as a guide to student evaluation
1993). Art criticism as a guide to student evaluation. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 32, Using the Arts to Inform Teaching, pp. 252-259
Navigating change in high school science and mathematics: Lessons teachers taught us
The rhetoric and reality of systemic reform: A critique of the proposed national science education standards
This Issue: Reforming science education
Data as Drama: Reflections on the Use of Readers Theater as a Mode of Qualitative Data Display
This article focuses on using readers theater for the purpose of qualitative data display. The article describes what readers theater is and differentiates this approach from more conventional forms of theater. The article also uses a recent attempt to present data in a readers theater context to ground discussions of (a) the procedures used to convert qualitative data into a readers theater display format and (b) the advantages and disadvantages…
Educational Research in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation: What's a Journal Editor to Do
This editorial/essay functions on at least two levels. At the most obvious level, it is an attempt by theEducational Researcher's new Features Editor to figure out how to play the gatekeeper role at a time when there is little consensus in the field about what research is and what scholarly discourse should look like. Specific policies, procedures, and decision rules are articulated to guide the manuscript review process. The problems and issues …
This Issue: Talking “Truth” to Power
Introduction: Juxtaposing Articles/Posing Questions: An Introduction and an Invitation
This Issue: A Focus on Educational Reform and the Role of Research in the Reform Process
Introduction: Talking "Truth" to Power: The Conversation Continues
This Issue: A Focus on Learning
This Issue: Talking "Truth" to Power
Juxtaposing Articles/Posing Questions: An Introduction and an Invitation
Introduction: This Issue: A Focus on Educational Reform and the Role of Research in the Reform Process
Introduction: This Issue: A Focus on Learning
This Issue: Paradigm Differences in Historical Research
Introduction: This Issue: Heroes and Sacred Texts
This Issue: Heroes and Sacred Texts
This Issue: Revisiting the “Talking ‘Truth’ to Power” Problem
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