A Future-Oriented Comment on the State of the Profession

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Project MUSE in The Review of Higher Education

Vol. 10 (2) , 135-142
https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.1986.0002

Abstract

New perspectives on social science research suggest five propositions: studies in higher education must not be value-singular; higher-education researchers must not ignore “harbingers of the paradigm revolution”; researchers must take into account new interpretations of how knowledge is acquired; researchers must not depend on prescriptive models; and, researchers must learn a new language of discourse.

Keywords

PROFESSION
IGNORE
PROPOSITIONS
ORIENTED
TAKE
SINGULAR
SCIENCE
PARADIGM
LANGUAGE
REVOLUTION

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