Methods and Methodology

Abstract

Qualitative research examines local, contextualized settings in order to understand lager, macro social phenomenon (e.g., Neuman, 2006). No doubt critical educational studies, by employing qualitative, including ethnographic, methods and methodologies, have strived for gaining such understandings of micro-macro linkages and offered strong empirical and theoretical insights into social and cultural dynamics operating in and through everyday practices (e.g., Willis, 1981;Weis, 1990, 2004: McNeil, 1988, 2000; Pedroni, 2007). The tradition of critical educational studies, however, has seldom examined natural science knowledge, or views on such knowledge, taught and circulated in schools and communities.