Does qualitative research play a role in making educational research more scientific?
Yes, without doubt. Qualitative research has provided: • careful description of how the most expert primary school teachers teach (for example, how they teach fractions or beginning reading); • how children of varied cultural backgrounds experience the transition from home to school; • how differences between “school language” and “home language” shape children’s participation in classroom discourse; • vivid descriptions of how individual children learn. There are many more examples. These studies give us new ideas about teaching, new insights about why programs work when they do work. Qualitative research can spur creativity in educational research by giving us compelling “up-close” descriptions of how teaching and learn work or don’t work. • How does one combine insights from various kinds of inquiry? Another analogy to medicine is perhaps instructive. I mentioned earlier that public health scientists became convinced that smoking causes lung cancer even though it was impossible to t
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