The Paradigm Wars and Their Aftermath A “Historical” Sketch of Research on Teaching Since 1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9734650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N L Gage (0000-0003-2837-3653, American Educational Research Association, corresponding author), NL Gage (Emeritus, Stanford University, School of Education, Stanford, CA 94305. He specializes in educational psychology and research on teaching. This article is based on the author's address at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March 29, 1989, as the recipient of the 1988 AERA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 4-10 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x018007004 |
| OpenAlex | W2131421192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 12 |
Raging during the 1980s, the Paradigm Wars resulted in the demise of objectivity-seeking quantitative research on teaching—a victim of putatively devastating attacks from anti-naturalists, interpretivists, and critical theorists. Subsequently, the interpretivists' ethnographic studies flourished, enhancing the cultural appropriateness of schooling, and critical theorists' analyses fostered the struggles for power for the poor, non-Whites, and women. Two alternative versions of the aftermath are also conceivable. Pragmatism and Popper's piecemeal social engineering offer paths toward a productive rapprochement of the paradigms, one guided by the moral obligations of educational research
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| Unique citing works | 109 |
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| Citations per year | 2,87 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |