It is argued that research into self‐direction has been dominated by the positivist/empiricist paradigm and that, because of a fundamental incompatibility between the assumptions underlying positivism and those underlying 'self‐direction,' research into self‐direction has been 'blocked.' It is ...
Kuhn was “reticent to assume a unified science” (Wray2021, p. 38). However, it is no coincidence thatStructurewas initially published as a volume (about the history of science) in theEncyclopedia of Unified Science, a series that originated with the Vienna Circle (positivism): with its in...
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Aims to address a gap in the literature about quality criteria for validity and reliability in qualitative research within the realism scientific paradigm. Six comprehensive and explicit criteria for judging realism research are developed, drawing on the three elements of a scien...