Overview

In Foundations of Inquiry, Guoping Zhao and Lucy E. Bailey consider paradigms and how they connect to methodologies. The authors explore a rich body of paradigms (historical and contemporary) and how they form, support, and justify different methodologies and connect to designing and carrying out research.

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This book dives into the importance of understanding your paradigm and approach to research before starting a project, thus providing students with a good foundation to conduct high quality research. -- Gudrun Nyunt

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Guoping Zhao is a Professor at Oklahoma State University, USA. She works in the fields of continental philosophy, comparative philosophy, philosophy of education, and theoretical foundations of inquiry. She is the author of Subjectivity and Infinity: Time and Existence (2020, Palgrave MacMillan), the editor of Levinas and the Philosophy of Education (2018, Routledge), and the co-editor of Re-Envisioning Chinese Education: The Meaning of Person-Making in a New Age (2015, Routledge). Lucy E. Bailey is professor at Oklahoma State University and Director of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. She conducts research and teaches in the fields of qualitative methodologies, feminist and diversity studies, and foundations of education. She is co-editor of the Research in Life Writing and Education book series (Emerald Press) and has published co-edited books on race and life writing, educational embodiment, and women’s civil war letter writing.

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