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Article: Moving Beyond a Deficit Perspective with Qualitative Research Methods.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The past decade has seen far-reaching changes throughout the educational research community. Among these changes has been the increasing acceptance of new research paradigms, methods, and genres for the presentation of data. To spotlight only one example, within the past few years, articles have appeared in Educational Researcher that survey the controversies undergirding research paradigms over basic assumptions about how knowledge is produced (Popkewitz, 1997); that discuss the promise and perils of alternative forms of data representation (Eisner, 1997); and that ask the very basic question, "Why do educational research?" (Peterson, 1998). Many of the current questions ...