The Paradigm dialog / edited by Egon G. Guba.

"Sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International and the School of Education, Indiana University."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-400) and indexes.

The alternative paradigm dialog / Egon G. Guba -- Postpositivistic science : myths and realities / Denis C. Phillips -- Whose future? whose past? : notes on critical theory and methodology / Thomas S. Popkewitz -- The making of a constructivist : a remembrance of transformations past / Yvonna S. Lincoln -- The meaning of alternative paradigms for practice / Elliot W. Eisner -- Accommodation : toward a paradigm-praxis dialectic / William A. Firestone -- Social accommodation : toward a dialogical discourse in educational inquiry / Thomas M. Skrtic -- Discussion on accommodation / Ann Austin -- Ethics, field studies, and the paradigm crisis / Louis M. Smith -- An ethics of qualitative field studies / Ernest R. House.

Discussion on ethics / Thomas B. Gregory -- Alternative research paradigms and the problem of criteria / John K. Smith -- Goodness criteria : are they objective or judgment calls? / Catherine Marshall -- Discussion on criteria / Louis Heshusius -- Toward a dialog about implementation within a conceptual cycle of inquiry / Judith L. Green and Susanne Chandler -- Peering at paradigms through the prism of practice improvement / David P. Crandall -- Discussion on implementation / Corrine Glesne -- Three views on the nature and role of knowledge in social science / Jennifer C. Greene -- Emergent paradigms : how new? how necessary? / Margaret D. LeCompte -- Discussion on knowledge accumulation / Judith Preissle Goetz.

Paths to inquiry in the social disciplines : scientific, constructivist, and critical theory methodologies / Thomas R. Schwandt -- Ruminations on methodology : of truth and significance / Gail McCutcheon -- Discussion on methodology / Marion Lundy Dobbert -- So-called training in the so-called alternative paradigm / Shulamit Reinharz -- A response to so-called training in the so-called alternative paradigm : reactions to the dark half / Jeri R. Nowakowski -- Discussion on training / Judy Barford -- Reinscribing otherwise : the play of values in the practices of the human sciences / Patti A. Lather -- Show-and-tell : a response to the value issue in alternative paradigms for inquiry / Madeleine Grumet.

Discussion on values / John P. Beck -- A postnote : tales from the rear / Alan Peshkin -- Next steps : the auditor's report / Harbans S. Bhola -- Carrying on the dialog / Egon G. Guba.