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- Title
Pieces of a jigsaw: developing a theoretical framework for research in religious education.
- Authors
Cullen, Sandra
- Abstract
The researcher does not have to get rid of bias but must acknowledge that one's own bias is part of all understanding; the researcher is shaped by a tradition and cannot step outside of it. I would suggest that research concerned with understanding and communicating the nature of religious education within a specific context finds a sympathetic home within a contextual constructivist paradigm. For many doctoral students and researchers in religious education the major stumbling block they face is how to develop the theoretical framework which will allow them to articulate the underlying assumptions they bring to their analysis of context, identification of a research question, and the generation of the conceptual framework which will give shape to the design and process of the research project.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS education; NOMINALISM; CONSTRUCTIVISM (Psychology); CONSTRUCTIVISM (Education); EDUCATION research; PHENOMENOLOGICAL sociology; SOCIAL constructivism; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Journal of Religious Education, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
1442-018X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40839-022-00168-8