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Mary Abegunde Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography summarizes five sources that discuss pragmatism as a philosophical paradigm for social research. The sources explore how pragmatism can serve as a foundation for mixed methods research by moving beyond dichotomies of post-positivism and constructivism. One article argues pragmatism demonstrates the practicality of research design regardless of methodology. Another source notes that within pragmatism, qualitative and quantitative methods are connected to different paradigms but no method is forced to a particular paradigm. A final text discusses how all researchers are guided by abstract principles that shape their worldview and methodology.

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Mary Abegunde Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography summarizes five sources that discuss pragmatism as a philosophical paradigm for social research. The sources explore how pragmatism can serve as a foundation for mixed methods research by moving beyond dichotomies of post-positivism and constructivism. One article argues pragmatism demonstrates the practicality of research design regardless of methodology. Another source notes that within pragmatism, qualitative and quantitative methods are connected to different paradigms but no method is forced to a particular paradigm. A final text discusses how all researchers are guided by abstract principles that shape their worldview and methodology.

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Mary Abegunde

Annotated Bibliography

Guba, E. (1990), The Paradigm Dialogue. Newbury Park, C. A. SAGE

The argument in this article is that pragmatism can serve as a philosophical program for social

research regardless of whether the research uses qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods.

Pragmatism as a new paradigm, replaces the older philosophy of knowledge approach in terms

of Ontology, epistemology and methodology. Pragmatism as a paradigm demonstrates a

broader value of pragmatism as a philosophical system with its practicality for research design.

This article makes for a stronger connection of mixed method research and pragmatism as a

philosophy by moving beyond approaches which reduce pragmatism to practicality.

Dewey, J. (2008). Human Nature and Conduct. Carbondale Southern Illinois University

Press (Original work published 1922)

In this article, Dewey's philosophical agenda is made relevant for social research. Positivism

and constructivism paradigms have been a central feature in applying philosophy of knowledge.

In this philosophical system, post-positivists claim that the world exists apart from the

understanding of it, while constructivists insist that the world is created by our conceptions of it.

These two assertions are equally important claims. about the nature of human experiences. On

one hand, our experiences in the world are constrained by the nature of that world. On the other

hand, our understanding of the world is limited to our interpretation of our experiences. We do

not freely believe anything we want in the world if we care about the consequences of our

actions on those beliefs. Within Dewey's pragmatism and its emphasis on experience,

ontological arguments about either the nature of the outside world or the world of our
conceptions are just discussions about two sides of the same coin. Dewey's rejection of

arguments about the nature of reality is not the same as denying the difference between post-

positivism and constructivism approaches to research. Researchers from these traditions have

different experiences in the world of research and their experiences lead to different beliefs and

actions.

Biesta, G. (2010). Pragmatism and the Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods

Research. A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Ed's.). Handbook of Mixed Methods Research for

the Social and Behavioral Science. (2nd Ed. pp. 95 - 115). Thousand Oaks CA. SAGE.

This article is about the extent in which mixed method research has used the intellectual

foundation of pragmatism as a philosophy. Mixed method research has emphasized the

practical aspect of research methods in ways that introduced pragmatism as a paradigm for

social research avoiding contact with the philosophical foundations of pragmatism. Application

of pragmatism requires the classification of its relationship to mixed method research.

Pragmatism claims that qualitative methods must be connected to constructivism and

quantitative methods must be connected to post-positivism. It is made known that within these

cases, there is an affinity between paradigms and methods but with no particular link forcing the

use of a particular paradigm with a particular set of methods. Recent interest in pragmatism

made an attempt to resolve issues within mixed method research about the historical context

rather than intimate connection between mixed method as an approach to research and

pragmatic as a paradigm. Pragmatism can serve as a philosophy regardless of whether the

research uses qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods.

Howe, K R, (2004). A critique of Experimentalism. Qualitative Inquiry. 10(1) 42 - 61


Kenneth Howe, (2004) observes that NRC finds a place for qualitative methods in mixed

methods experimental designs. In such designs, qualitative methods may be employed either

singly or in combination with quantitative methods including the use of randomized experimental

designs. Mixed method research is a design for your collecting, analyzing and mixing both

qualitative and quantitative data in a study in order to understand a research problem.

According to Howe, there is a methodological hierarchy which places quantitative on top of

Qualitative methods, qualitative acting as an auxiliary In pursuit of the aim of accumulating

knowledge of "what works."

Bates on, G. (1972), Steps to an ecology of mind. New York. Ballantine.

On Interpretative paradigm Bates on views all qualitative researchers are philosophers in the

sense that all hi. And beings are guided by highly abstract principles. These principles combine

beliefs about: a) Ontology (What kind of being is the human being? What is the nature of

reality?). b) Epistemology (What is the relationship between the inquirer and the known?). c)

Methodology (How do we know the world or gain knowledge of it?). These beliefs shape how

the researcher's see the world and act in it. The researchers are bound within an

epistemological and ontological premise which regardless of truth or false becomes validated.

The researcher’s principles of ontological, epistemological and methodological premise is

termed paradigm.

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