- Title
- Rhizome connections...
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6097
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008620
- Description
- There are a number of papers in the journal that reflect a trend in environmental education towards deliberating recuperative, relational epistemologies. In their paper addressing the near-schism between those that appear to be antagonistic to post-structuralism and deconstruction, and those that find them generative in their inquiries, Noel Gough and Leigh Price go right to the heart of human inquiry by questioning the most commonly held assumption in the research enterprise – that the social sciences require a different methodology from the natural sciences.Through giving attention to relativist (constructionist) epistemology and a stratified, realist ontology – which assumes a relational account of ontology – they suggest the same basic methodology for both the social and natural sciences, arguing that ‘... society and humans mutually transform/reproduce each other, just as nature and humans mutually transform/reproduce each other’. In doing this, they address over-simplified dialectics between ‘constructionism’ and realism which has shaped much human inquiry (including environmental education research).
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2004) Rhizome connections... Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 21 . pp. 5-11. ISSN 0256-7504
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Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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