Hello all,
I ran across this quote the other day. As someone who is just beginning
to 'wrestle' with doing CHAT research, I found it comforting that such
views: 1) are so nicely elaborated and 2) exist in print. It's a good
reminder as I begin a new semester digging a little more deeply into my
research. Now if I can just figure out the nuts and bolts ;)
..."the view that what we call "truth" is always and only provisional,
that it is always fallible, that it is always shaped by particular views
and material-social-historical circumstances, and that it can be
approached only intersubjectively- through exploration of the extent to
which it seems accurate, morally right and appropriate, and authentic in
the light of our lived experience. From this view, it is the task of a
social or educational science to create the conditions under which the
provisional, fallible, intersubjectively based claims to truth can be
explored. In our view, this is the rich and complex work required in
theorizing practice."
Kemmis & mc Taggert in the Handbook of Qual Research 2nd ed
Cheers
jim
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