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The Fecundity of the Individual Case: considerations of the pedagogic heart of interpretive work
Author(s) -
JARDINE DAVID W.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1992.tb00264.x
Subject(s) - fecundity , work (physics) , sociology , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , engineering , demography , mechanical engineering , population
Using the example of a beginning teacher's account of the experience of entering her new school for the first time, this paper presents a consideration of the nature of interpetive inquiry in education and how such inquiry treats ‘the individual case’. This is compared with how more traditional, quantitative studies might treat such cases. The pedagogic character of interpretive inquiry is then discussed.