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Fitzgerald, Jill – Language Arts, 1993
Explicates two opposing conceptions of knowledge. Explores the views of knowledge embedded in three major models of writing and their associated implications for classroom instruction in relation to the two major epistemological positions. Discusses the significance of knowing about knowledge and knowing, particularly with regard to the teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Epistemology, Models, Theory Practice Relationship

Comber, Barbara – Language Arts, 1988
Argues that a democratic, emancipatory research model consisting of collaborative and explicit statements of purpose, design, data collection, analysis, publication, implications for practice and future research is possible and ideal for the educational community. Argues that this model has evolved to overcome the limitations of the rationalistic…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Models, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology