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Qualitative Inquiry in an Age of Educationalese
In this introduction we reflect on two key questions that initiated this special issue on qualitative inquiry: What can qualitative researchers do to regain their post-paradigm-wars cache? How do we avoid distracting âscience warsâ in the future? We suggest that the strong tendency to narrow the research methods accepted as âscientificâ â because they adopt quantitative perspectives and are presumed a priori to be more rigorous â has created an educationalese, a narrative of rigid categories that has not necessarily contributed to more effective or persuasive educational research. The article ends by suggesting that the use of âknowledge mobilizationâ strategies would help to strengthen qualitative research and educational research in general
Redalyc.Policymaking in Education: Understanding Influences on the Reading Excellence Act
Abstract Educators and researchers are being called to participate in language and literacy policy makin