dc.contributor.author | Le Grange, Lesley | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-16T14:07:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-16T14:07:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Le Grange, L. 2007. (Re)imagining method in educational leadership and management research. South African Journal of Education, 27(3):421-429 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076-3433 (online) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0256-0100 (print) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103231 | |
dc.description | CITATION: Le Grange, L. 2007. (Re)imagining method in educational leadership and management research. South African Journal of Education, 27(3):421-429. | |
dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/ | |
dc.description.abstract | Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a proliferation of educational
methods/methodologies aimed at helping us to make sense of the world — to provide clarity about the meaning of social reality. However, although these methods/methodologies are useful frameworks, they do not capture fully the untidy realities of the real world. The discipline of Educational Leadership and
Management is embedded in a broader social world and therefore resonates with in fields of complexity, fluidity, heterogeneity, multiplicity, unpredictability, messiness, and so on. I suggest that conventional methods do not adequately capture social/educational reality fully, and argue that research should be less concerned about seeking clarity, but should rather — in Law’s terms — be concerned with seeking a “[d ]isciplined lack of clarity ”. Put simply, methods cannot give coherence to a world that is itself incoherent. The argument presented has applicability to social science research generally, but also to the field of Educational Leadership and Management more specifically. | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/article/view/110 | |
dc.format.extent | 9 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Education Association of South Africa | |
dc.subject | Educational leadership -- Research | en_ZA |
dc.subject | School management and organization -- Research | en_ZA |
dc.title | (Re)imagining method in educational leadership and management research | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |
dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
dc.rights.holder | Education Association of South Africa | |