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My question is: is educational research concerned in some sense with the truth in relation to the matter(s) which are the focus of its enquiry or is it not, as Guba and Lincoln among many others seem to imply? My answer is that either it is so concerned or it probably collapses into incoherence.
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(2003). Educational research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy?. In: Fiction written under Oath?. Philosophy and Education, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48043-3_6
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