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Creativity in Freedom Research

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What does a research design hope to achieve? Does it seek to settle a question, resolve an issue, promote a course of action or map the terrain of an unknown territory (Schostak and Schostak 2008)? To understand the design ability, it is necessary, suggests Cross (2011), to approach it slightly obliquely.

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McArdle, K. (2018). Creativity in Freedom Research. In: Freedom Research in Education. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69650-8_5

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