Introduction: positivistic standards and the bizarre educational world of the twenty-first century -- Teachers as researchers, good work, and troubled times -- Connecting knower and known: constructing and emancipating system of meaning -- Exploring assumptions behind educational research: defining positivism in a neo-positiist era -- What constitutes knowledge? -- Purposes of research: the concept of instrumental retionality -- The quest for certainty -- Verifiability and the concept of rigor in qualitative research -- The value of the qualitative dimension -- Values, objectivity, and ideology -- The foundations of teacher research: a sample syllabus

1. Qualitative research -- United States
2. Teachers -- United States
3. Education -- Research -- United States