Gaps to Address in Future Research Design Practices

Abstract

In keeping with the unique visual exciting style of the handbook, we wanted to finish with a thinking-outside-the-box implication for future research design practices to question the status quo rather than summarize what is already articulated in the preface and introductory chapters. Four contributing authors volunteered to collaborate on this final concluding chapter. Each author brings a distinct sociocultural and ideological perspective to the table based on his or her contribution being in different sections of this book and his or her research experience being grounded in diverse epistemological disciplinary roots. In other words, each of us works in a different discipline, and we have different dominant research ideologies and ontological approaches to research.