Disciplining qualitative research¹

La investigación éticamente reflexionada

“…Desde un punto de vista moral y político la investigación puede servir para ayudar a comprender el significado de una buena vida humana [31], y también puede tener como propósito explícito contribuir a resolver situaciones concretas de opresión e injusticia, por medio de la construcción de mejores condiciones para el desarrollo de las personas y de las comunidades [31,36,38,39]. Por esto dicen Denzin y Giardina que la investigación "requiere un marco ético basado en los derechos y la justicia social" [40].…”

Creative learning conversations: producing living dialogic spaces

“…Informed by these arguments and approaches from critical theory, our work has also been informed by critiques of scientific and 'evidence-based' approaches to educational research/practice both in the UK (Biesta, 2007) and the USA (Denzin, Lincoln and Giardina, 2006). Denzin et al argue global uncertainty has led governments to favour a kind of "methodological fundamentalism…in which only randomized experiments produce truth" (p770) but point out that what is needed rather is research which builds a collaborative, reciprocal, trusting and mutually accountable relationship with those studied, and where notions of truth are replaced by acceptance of meaning grounded in lived experiences.…”

The Deluge

“…The pastiche narrative in this paper weaves together three distinct storylines: 1) the first part of the grand deluge myth of Noah's Ark and Flood sent by God to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution (King James version, Genesis 6:1--22); 2) the dominating discourse of quality assurance (Dahlberg et al, 2007) and Accountability (Rasmussen, 2004(Rasmussen, , 2007 (capitalized throughout the paper to mark it as a protagonist) within contemporary policy (a grand narrative of optimization in its own right); and 3) critical perspectives on trends within the intersections of research, policy and practice (Biesta, 2007;Denzin et al, 2006). I weave in my personal experiences as an external expert on The Language Pack, which is a large--scale in--service training program that aims to bring evidence--based practices into the Danish day--care centers.…”

“…According to Denzin, Lincoln & Giardina (2006), a (post--) positivistic, evidence producing research paradigm connected to neo--liberal/conservative policy agenda within public management, has been growing in strength for two decades now. Questioning evidence--based research is easily framed as questioning TRUTH and REASON.…”