Constas, Mark A., The Changing Nature of Educational Research and a Critique of Postmodernism, Educational Researcher, 27(March, 1998), 26-33.*

Abstract

Explains postmodernism and its influence on educational research; discusses three problems it poses--distinction, expistemological genre, and procedural infomality; critiques its reluctance to arrive at conclusions, to suggest practical implications, and to fall victim to its own desire to free inquiry from oppressive conditions