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Why Educational Research Has Been So Uneducational: The Case for a New Model of Social Science Based on Collaborative Inquiry.

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Torbert, William R. – 1981

Educational research has thus far failed to greatly improve education because it is based on a model of reality that emphasizes unilateral control in both research and practice. Efforts to gain unilateral control presume that researchers or practitioners know what is significant from the outset, that they are essentially outside the situation they…

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