model of inquiry

This note last modified April 4, 2022

  • there are multiple perspectives
  • knowledge is constructed
  • medium of communication affects the message
  • intelligence is required for communication???
  • medium of communication affects what we can even say in the message
  • use multiple methods of research
  • research communities choose forms of communication for political reasons just as much as epistemological reasons.

Inquiry is:

  • field focused
  • the researcher matters
  • interpretive
  • the researcher’s voice is present. No passive voice.
  • attend to particulars, not generalizations
  • a transaction of knowledge that is a product of interaction