Educational Research
Pursuit of truth or flight into fancy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11159644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Bridges (0000-0003-3013-8628, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 597-616 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-1926 • E-ISSN: 1469-3518 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0141192990250503 |
| OpenAlex | W2078812951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article observes the apparent determination of some educational researchers to distance themselves from any claim to the truth of their published work and poses the question: is educational research concerned in some sense with the truth in relation to the matter which is the focus of its enquiry or is it not? It argues that either it is so concerned or it probably collapses into incoherence. It explores, first the relationship between propositions (of the kind found abundantly in educational research reports) and truth claims, before exploring five classical theories of truth. Truth, it is pointed out is itself not a monolithic concept and it is possible to deny some notions of truth without necessarily denying all. It goes on to illustrate the way in which different theories of truth are associated with different paradigms of educational research and finally explores in more detail the senses in which truth claims persist in two influential pieces of writing (Guba & Lincoln's Fourth Generation Evaluation and Stronach & MacLure's expressly postmodernist approach to educational research in Educational Research Undone) even as their authors wrestle to deny it
Educational research · Epistemology · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.84 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2022 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |