Pragmatism and Dewey book quotes

 Book:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fwc0EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA95&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

When adopting a pragmatic approach, rather than starting from a particular philosophical position, the choice of using a mixed methods approach and the mixture of methods and procedures used is seen as being driven by works best for answering the research question (Taskakkori and Teddie, 2021; Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004). 

Taskakkori and Teddie, 1998) further argue that pragmatism itself can instead be employed as the philosophical underpinning for using mixed methods, similarly echoed by others (Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004; Morgan, 2007

The ambitions of interpretive research is to generate understanding through an articulation of the intentions and reasons for action (p.104)

Research provides practitioners with different ways of seeing and understanding their practice, referred to as the cultural role of research (p.104)

p.108

For Dewey, the only way to solve a problem in an intelligent manner and not by simple trial and error is by a means of systematic inspection of the situation. On one hand, we need to identify and state the problem, on the other we need to develop suggestions for addressing the problem, for finding a way to act and hence find out what the meaning of the situation really is. Although thought or reflection must play an important part in this process, they will, in themselves, not result in knowledge. Only when action follows can the value of both the analysis of the problem and the suggested solution be established. we need overt action to determine the worth and validity of our reflective considerations. Otherwise we have, at most, a hypothesis about the problem and a hypothesis about its possible solution. This means that to get knowledge, we need action.

The combination of reflection and action leads to knowledge.

p.112

Pragmatism offers a very specific view of knowledge, one claiming that the only way we can acquire knowledge id through the combination of action and reflection. These implications lie at the heart of Dewey's transactional constructivism, which holds that there is no structural gap between human beings and their environments because we are participants in an ever evolving universe. At the level of design, Dewey's transactional approach seems to connect most closely with what is referred to as interventionalist designs. 

p.113 human beings are a creative factor and in which new things can emerge.

Human action is meaningful and that meaning-guided action, with regard to our transactions both with the natural and with the social world, plays an absolutely central role in Dewey's thinking (Biesta, 2006).

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