Boundary Critique -Ulrich

Furthermore, comprehensively reflective practice needs researchers to address a number of issues that form part of what I have very briefly introduced above (in Section 4) under the label, boundary critique. Examples of boundary issues to be examined are: Whose concerns are to be considered and whose not? What “facts” are relevant and what others may not be so relevant? How is “improvement” to be defined and to be measured? What stakeholders are to be involved? What is the appropriate time horizon to be considered for identifying potential side-effects and long-term consequences? and so on. Since today the concept of boundary critique is not yet an integral part of research training, contemporary research practice tends to neglect these issues. Even though some of the earlier-mentioned frameworks for methodology choice do give a place to boundary critique, the rising popularity of systematic methodology choice, as was to be expected, has done little to change the situation. The reason is simple: not even the most systematic framework of methodology choice can make sure that such issues are properly addressed in practice.