In this powerful exploration of worldviews in transition, Mark Woodhouse examines current controversies in the quest for an integrative vision of reality. These include alternative medicine, holistic education, spiritual healing, and ecofeminism, as well as reincarnation, the New Physics, extraterrestrial visitations, and personal growth. In the Appendix, Fred Mills contributes a pioneering study of sacred geometry.
The following essay acknowledges the diverging assumptions underlying the different paradigms associated with quantitative and qualitative research.
Introduction The pursuit of scientific research is characterized by different paradigms, meaning “the entire ... Did the two quality indicators thus become victims of what Gage dubbed the “paradigm wars” (Gage 1989)? This essay argues ...
Paradigm wars have been discussed as holding a set of beliefs concerning how to research scientifically.
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Researchers wanting to learn how to think about and utilize mixed methods in their studies will find this an indispensable guide for their work.
Thus , the increased legitimacy of qualitative research methods , the increase in the number of paradigms that could be associated with qualitative research methods , and the unpopularity of the paradigm wars all were factors that led ...
This volume aims to operationalize General John R. Galvin's call for a new paradigm to fight the most prevalent form of conflict in the world today-insurgency.
Offering a unique glimpse into the rich primary sources of such interdisciplinary historical dialogue and musical works, Paradigm War: Lessons Learned from 19th Century Piano Pedagogy presents this story from a synoptic multidimensional ...
An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses William F. Pinar, William M. Reynolds, ... In . D. Elliott & A. Woodward ( Eds . ) , Textbooks and schooling in the United States : The Eighty - Ninth ...
The second paradigm debate period ran from the 1970s to the 1980s and centred on whether or not quantitative and qualitative methods could be combined. ... A common theme to arise out of the paradigm wars is that as paradigms ...