Title: On the Question of Method in Philosophical Research
Abstract: Introduction Deemed within the vanguard of music education research today are those programs that offer students opportunities to pursue philosophical research. Educators are providing course work in their curricula that addresses philosophical research and are encouraging, or at least tolerating, philosophical theses and dissertations. Not only is this beneficial for the advancement of philosophical research itself, clarifying issues and breaking new ground in the field, but also for quantitative research. Investigators in the latter field have for some time acknowledged the need for a theoretical synthesis of the myriad, individual studies in specific areas.1 Who better to participate in these undertakings than those researchers expert at analysis and theory construction, the philosophers of music education. But the current growing strength of philosophical research in the curriculum is really not so novel. Historically philosophy was king and the sciences fought for their release from it. With the growth of psychology as a field, music education embraced psychological research and the scientific model as the method of choice. As
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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