TY - UNPB
T1 - Giving adult learners a voice after the inquest: A review of a mixed method approach to educational research
AU - Conway, Ann
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper highlights the necessary application of mixed methods in educational research within the field of adult learners and lifelong learning in higher education to provide adult learners with a “voice”. The paper will introduce the reader to educational research through focusing on mixed methods and the theoretical frameworks within. Critical hermeneutic epistemology or transformative research (as espoused by Freire and Habermas in critical realism cited in Morrow and Torres, (2002)), social constructivism within phenomenology (see Vygotsky’s (1934) and Bruner (1996) work cited in Carlile and Jordan, 2005: 21-22) and pragmatism within the critical realism school (The Chicago School of biographical studies were grounded in pragmatism (West et al, 2007)) will be reviewed as examples of methodologies in the theoretical frameworks within mixed methods. This will then introduce the reader to some types of research methods used within mixed methods such as case study interviews, life histories and biographical studies. Finally the paper will propose that the purpose of using a mixed method approach using case studies and biographies is to provide the adult learner with a “voice”.
AB - This paper highlights the necessary application of mixed methods in educational research within the field of adult learners and lifelong learning in higher education to provide adult learners with a “voice”. The paper will introduce the reader to educational research through focusing on mixed methods and the theoretical frameworks within. Critical hermeneutic epistemology or transformative research (as espoused by Freire and Habermas in critical realism cited in Morrow and Torres, (2002)), social constructivism within phenomenology (see Vygotsky’s (1934) and Bruner (1996) work cited in Carlile and Jordan, 2005: 21-22) and pragmatism within the critical realism school (The Chicago School of biographical studies were grounded in pragmatism (West et al, 2007)) will be reviewed as examples of methodologies in the theoretical frameworks within mixed methods. This will then introduce the reader to some types of research methods used within mixed methods such as case study interviews, life histories and biographical studies. Finally the paper will propose that the purpose of using a mixed method approach using case studies and biographies is to provide the adult learner with a “voice”.
U2 - 10.21427/d70x9x
DO - 10.21427/d70x9x
M3 - Working paper
BT - Giving adult learners a voice after the inquest: A review of a mixed method approach to educational research
PB - Technological University Dublin
ER -