Worldview of Research

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Worldview of Research

According to Creswell (2007) in Quality Inquiry & Research Design, everybody sees the world of research from different perspectives. Therefore, the assumption of researchers who choose the qualitative methods approach reflects their own views on the subject matter at hand. Creswell suggest, “When researchers do this, their research becomes shaped by bringing it into the inquiry paradigms, views of the world. Creswell suggest when qualitative researcher views vary according to the beliefs they bring into their research, which represent paradigms” (pg. 19).

Paradigm types include social constructivism, advocacy/participatory, pragmatism, interpretive communities, postmodern perspectives, feminist theories, critical (race) theory, queer theory, and disability theories represents the methods; qualitative and the inductive logic as paradigm views (p.88). In this section, rather than explain all of them, I will concentrate on the worldviews that I expect to influence my own research, pragmatism and interpretive communities.

Researchers (Guba, 1990; Lincoln&Guba, 2000 & Mertens, 1998) note that beliefs/ paradigms represent philosophical dimensions such as epistemologies, axiology, and ontology. Other people’s point of view about the world is the way they define it according to their individual culture, experiences, political views and level of education. In Foundations of mixed methods research integrating qualitative approaches in the social and behavioral sciences, Teddlie and Tashakkori (2009) wrote “these assumptions have been said to be lens that are woven into their identify and beliefs (p.87).

Pragmatism

McCaslin (2008) wrote the first introduction of the pragmatist concept became first ac...

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