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2021‐02‐19 1 The blurred lines of research paradigms: Where are you? Larkin Lamarche (they/them) Learning objectives 1. Understand what a paradigm is and the components that make them up 2. Increase your awareness of the various paradigms that anchor research 3. Find out where you might operate 4. Find some importance in why being aware of this stuff matters in your work 5. Leave more confused than when you arrived 1 2

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The blurred lines of research paradigms: Where are you?

Larkin Lamarche (they/them)

Learning objectives

1. Understand what a paradigm is and the components that make them up

2. Increase your awareness of the various paradigms that anchor research

3. Find out where you might operate

4. Find some importance in why being aware of this stuff matters in your work

5. Leave more confused than when you arrived

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What is a paradigm?

• A set of interconnected or related assumptions or beliefs

• Some components:1. Ontology

2. Epistemology

3. Methodology

What are some questions to work through?

1. What is the nature of reality?

2. What is the purpose of research?

3. What is the nature of truth and knowledge?

4. What is the role of objectivity?

5. What is the role of values?

6. What is the role of the researcher?

7. How is knowledge created?

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Where do you operate?

Common paradigms

• Participatory

• Critical

• Interpretivism

• Post‐positivism

• …others

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Discuss with others or reflect with yourself• Which paradigm or paradigms did your answers cluster?

• What surprised you?

• What confused you?

• What did you learn about your paradigm?

How is mixed‐methods anchored?!

But wait! 

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Mix conflicting components

Qualitative• Multiple realities exist

• Researcher as instrument/interact with topic

• Researcher acts in a value‐laden way

Quantitative• Single reality exists

• Researcher independent from topic, objective

• Researchers act in a value‐free way

Critical, participatory…

Post‐positivism

Dialectical Pluralism: A metaparadigm

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How might understanding paradigms help you in your work?

Learning objectives1. Understand what a paradigm is 

and the components that make them up

2. Increase your awareness of the various paradigms that anchor research

3. Find out where you might operate

4. Find some importance in why being aware of this stuff matters in your work

5. Leave more confused than when you arrived

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