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There is a vital question that many researchers face; should we choose a single methodology and develop it so that it fits our research or, through an eclectic approach, construct our own methodology from several existing methodologies? No single methodology is perfect and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Eclectic approaches have many advantages if a researcher is fairly certain that various “borrowed” parts fit together and enrich the new construct. I draw on several methodologies to construct what is proper for this research project, starting from the most general and progressing to the more specific. I draw on two pragmatists methodologies to pinpoint some principles for knowledge construction. Then, I draw on design experiments in educational research to identify and select some of their principles. With inspiration from Blumer (Sociological methods. Butterworth, London, pp. 84–95, 1970), I construct the (neuropsychosocial) methodology of designing a series of experiments in the classroom.
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Moula, A. (2017). The Methodology. In: Brain, School, and Society. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55170-8_4
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