The Paradigm Dialog Book

Foreword - Egon G Guba
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE
The Alternative Paradigm Dialog
PART TWO: POINTS OF VIEW
Postpositivistic Science - Denis C Phillips
Myths and Realities
Whose Future? Whose Past? Notes on Critical Theory and Methodology - Thomas S Popkewitz
The Making of a Constructivist - Yvonna S Lincoln
A Remembrance of Transformations Past
The Meaning of Alternative Paradigms for Practice - Elliot W Eisner
PART THREE: THE NEED FOR DIALOG: ISSUES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Introduction - Egon G Guba
Accomodation
Accommodation - William A Firestone
Toward a Paradigm-Praxis Dialectic
Social Accomodation - Thomas M Skrtic
Toward a Dialogical Discourse in Educational Inquiry
Discussion on Accommodation - Ann Austin
Ethics
Ethics, Field Studies and the Paradigm Crisis - Louis M Smith
An Ethics of Qualitative Field Studies - Ernest R House
Discussion on Ethics - Thomas Gregory
Goodness Criteria
Alternative Research Paradigms and the Problem of Criteria - John K Smith
Goodness Criteria - Catherine Marshall
Are They Objective Realities or Judgment Calls?
Discussion on Criteria - Lois Heshusius
Implementation
Toward a Dialog about Implementation Within a Conceptual Cycle of Inquiry - Judith L Green and Susanne Chandler
Peering at Paradigms Through the Prism of Practice Improvement - David P Crandall
Discussion on Implementation - Corinne Glesne
Knowledge Accumulation
Three Views on the Nature and Role of Knowledge in Social Science - Jennifer C Greene
Emergent Paradigms. How New? How Necessary? - Margaret D LeCompte
Discussion on Knowledge Accumulation - Judith PreissleGoetz
Methodology
Paths to Inquiry in the Social Disciplines - Thomas R Schwandt
Scientific, Constructivist and Critical Theory Methodologies
Ruminations on Methodology - Gail McCutcheon
Of Truth and Significance
Discussion on Methodology - Marion Lundy Dobbert
Training
So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm - Shulamit Reinharz
A Response to So-Called Training in the So-Called Alternative Paradigm - Jeri R Nowakowski
Reactions to the Dark Half
Discussion on Training - Judy Barford
Values
Reinscribing Otherwise - Patti A Lather
The Play of Values in the Practices of the Human Sciences
Show and Tell - Madeleine Grumet
A Response to the Value Issue in Alternative Paradigms for Inquiry
Discussion on Values - John P Beck
PART FOUR: SUMMATION AND PROJECTION
Introduction - Egon G Guba
A Postnote - Alan Peshkin
Tales from the Rear
Next Steps - Harbans S Bhola
The Auditors' Report
Carrying on the Dialog - Egon G Guba