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The Social Context of Research and Inquiry

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Freedom Research in Education

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This chapter seeks to empower the reader by considering social construction and its relationship to research and inquiry. It is not the intention to chart the history of research and inquiry, rather the intention is to alert the reader to some examples of the current ways in which the history of research and inquiry may limit the researcher’s choices. Freedom Research seeks to reinstate those choices.

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McArdle, K. (2018). The Social Context of Research and Inquiry. In: Freedom Research in Education. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69650-8_2

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