Notes Denzin and Lincoln

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Is it possible to blnd element of one paradigm into another so that one is engaging in research that represents the best of both worldviews? the answer form our perspectiv has to be a cautious yes 

elements of postmodern thory and participative enquiry fit comfortably together

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for newparadigm researchers control is ameans of fostering emancipation democracy and community empowerment and of redressing power imbalances such as those who were previously marginalized now achieve voice (Mertens 1998)

or "human flourishing"  (Heron and Reason (1997))

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Critical research can be best understood in the context of empowering individuals

Inquiry that aspires to the name riitical must be connected  to an attempt to confront the injustice if a particualer society or public shere within the society

they see research as steps towards political action( see Agger 1998 Girouzx 1997Villaverde & Kinceloe 1998)

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Postmodrn theoretical trajectories take as their entry point a rejection of the deeply ingrained assumptions of the enlightenment rationality., traditional western epistemology or any supposedly 'secure' representation of reality that exists outside of discoure itself. Doubt is cast n the existence of an autonomous trancendental subject and the concept of praxis is marginalized in favour of rhetorical undecidability and textual analysis of social practices. It rejects Hegel absolute ahistorical state of absolute knowledge>  socially constructed reality

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Wolcott (1990a 1995) presents provocative disciussions about seeking and rejecting validity. He argues for understanding  the absurdity of validity by developing a case of  for no single "correct" INTERPRETATION

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..interviewees speech is closer t poetry than it is to sociological rse (Tedlock 1983)

Writing up interviews as poem honouring the speakers pauses, repetitions, alliterations n narrative stratagies and rhythms etc and son may actually better represents the speaker than the practise of quoting prose snippets.

Settling wordds together in new configurations lts us hear, see , and feel the world in new dimensions . Poetry is thus a practical and powerful method for analysing social worlds

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Self-reflexivity brings to conciousness some of th complex poliiticl/ideological agendas hidden in our writing

Truth claims are less easily valid