This book demonstrates how essential components of educational inquiry such as ideas, theories, ideologies, epistemologies, value statements, methodologies, and methods can be applied to conducting and implementing robust research projects.
What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what is the value of research? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century explores multiple questions relating to the nature and process of educational research. The book offers an insightful and detailed account of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions and perspectives on reality, knowledge, and values. These accounts form a paradigm
a system of inquiry, a model, a way of knowing. Empirical, analytic, pragmatic, interpretive, critical, poststructuralist, and transcendental paradigms are distinguished as alternatives to a quantitative-qualitative typology of paradigms in educational research. This book is suitable for graduate courses in the theoretical foundations of research and research methodology. It features new chapters which include examples of doctoral students research projects illustrating various systems of inquiry.
Introduction
Antonina Lukenchuk
Part One: Paradigms of Research: Multiple Ways of Knowing
1. Presaging Educational Inquiry: Historical Development of Philosophical
Ideas, Traditions, and Perspectives
Baudelaire K. Ulysse and Antonina Lukenchuk
2. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Traditions, Perspectives, and
Controversies
Antonina Lukenchuk and Baudelaire K. Ulysse
3. Paradigms and Educational Research: Weaving the Tapestry
Antonina Lukenchuk and Eileen Kolich
Part Two: Paradigms as Educational Research Exemplars
4. Narratives of Black Female Elementary School Teachers: Navigating the
Normative Discourse of Whiteness
Thera Tilmon
5. Sociocultural Perspectives of First Generation Asian Indian Leaders in
U.S. Higher Education: An Ethnographic Study
Matthew Woolsey
6. Toward the Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Students of Color: A Case Study of Public
High Schools in the Midwest
Joanne Yonan
7. Navigating Adverse Childhood Experiences for More Effective Learning and
Student Well-Being
Amy Kendryna
8. Is There a Model for Success? Exploring Sustainable Professional
Employment among Clinical Exercise Physiology Programs Graduates
Regina Schurman
9. Civically Engaged Curriculum: A Call for Action to Elementary Public
School Teachers
Cheryl Jean DeRoo
10. Greek Parents Perspectives and Experiences Regarding their Childrens
Learning and Social-Emotional Difficulties
Eirini Adamopoulou
11. Speech-Language Pathologists Barriers to Providing Services to the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Children Ages Two to Nine
Irene S. Garcia-Benavides
12. A Paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis on Neoliberalism: The Case of
Haiti as a Neophyte
Baudelaire K. Ulysse
13. Narratives of Grit by African American Women: Standing Tall Against
Racial Microaggressions While Advancing to Community College Senior
Leadership Positions
Toya Michelle Webb
14. Locked Gates and Chain-link Fences: A Generational Phenomenological Story
of Disability
Sharon Duncan
Postscript - Once upon a Time, a Message of Love was Born
Antonina Lukenchuk
About the Contributors
Antonina Lukenchuk (EdD, Northern Illinois University) is Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at National Louis University, IL, where she teaches graduate courses in foundations of research and methodology. Her recent publications include several articles and the book, Outliving Your Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty.
