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Richard Pring, The ‘False Dualism’ of Educational Research, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 34, Issue 2, May 2000, Pages 247–260, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00171
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Abstract
Educational research is being subject to damaging criticism from both outside and within the research community. The external critics are impatient of research which does not give evidence-based answers to the questions they ask. The internal critics condemn the very research which seeks to provide those answers. These differences are reflected in the rigid distinction between quantitative and qualitative research. This paper questions the philosophical positions on which such a distinction relies.
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