However,
Google Scholar Search on The role Ethnology plays in DBR....
and then get
Issues of Validity in Openly Ideological
Research: Between a Rock and a Soft Place
that opens with
The attempt to produce value-neutral social science is increasingly being aban-doned as at best unrealizable, and at worst self-deceptive, and is being replaced by social sciences based on explicit ideologies. Mary Hesse (1980)
Now that warms my cockles, that entices me. Can I make something of it tomorrow??
Coupled with Barab maybe?
Another one that doesn't put me to sleep is
Collins, Allan , Joseph, Diana and Bielaczyc, Katerine(2004) 'Design Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues', Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13: 1, 15 — 42
Tomorrow the birds will wake me at the crack of dawn again and hopefully I will be able to formulate it.....
I agree that the idea of a 'value-neutral' social science is rather absurd. Acknowledging our own preconceptions and biases is part of explaining the research: what we bring to the research is important alongside what the 'subjects' or 'co-researchers' as some name them, do. I do have a problem with the use of the word ideology, as I think that learning theories are more unsure, malleable and less prescriptive than ideologies.
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