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Can the Mothers of Invention Make Virtue out of Necessity? An optimistic deconstruction of research compromises in contract research and evaluation
Author(s) -
Stronach Ian,
Allan Julie,
Morris Brian
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192960220408
Subject(s) - deconstruction (building) , negotiation , hybridity , sociology , epistemology , virtue , research methodology , transgressive , educational research , engineering ethics , social science , philosophy , engineering , sedimentary depositional environment , paleontology , population , demography , structural basin , anthropology , biology , waste management
This article offers a retrospective deconstruction of research compromises undertaken during ‘quick and dirty’ contract evaluation. The deconstruction identifies constraining changes in the nature of research contexts, but develops a positive view of methodological developments which might be regarded as creating ‘transgressive validity’. Notions of ‘hybridity’ in research methodology, and of ‘negotiation’ in research procedures are considered.