A Response to Lawrence Ferrara's Chapter Four in R. Phelps, R. Sadoff, E. Warburton, and L. Ferrara, "A Guide to Research in Music Education," 5th Edition (Lanham, Maryland, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005)

Autor/in	Heller, Jack
Titel	A Response to Lawrence Ferrara's Chapter Four in R. Phelps, R. Sadoff, E. Warburton, and L. Ferrara, "A Guide to Research in Music Education," 5th Edition (Lanham, Maryland, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005)
Quelle	In: Philosophy of Music Education Review, 14 (2006) 1, S.89-92 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1063-5734
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Opinion Papers; Music Education; Educational Researchers; Research Design; Educational Philosophy; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Inquiry; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Forschungsdesign; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	A reply to Lawrence Ferrara's Chapter 4 in R. Phelps, R. Sadoff, E. Warburton, and L. Ferrara, "A Guide to Research in Music Education," 5th Edition is presented. It it curious that Ferrara disagrees with Jack Heller and Edward J. P. O'Connor's view that "philosophy" is not "research," yet in the chapter headings in the book A Guide to Research in Music Education, 5th Edition, Chapter 4 is labeled "Philosophical Inquiry," while other chapters are labeled "Qualitative Research," "Nonexperimental Research," "Quantitative Research," and "Historical Research." Why not "Philosophical Research?" Maybe he, too, believes that philosophy is not research. In Heller and O'Connor's Handbook Chapter 2 they pointed out that research should try to provide "unbiased evidence." Ferrara ascribes to them a positivistic view that they did not make nor believe. That view, according to Ferrara is that the key reason for their dismissal of philosophical inquiry (notice inquiry not research) as a bona fide research design is the invariable criterion that they assign to all research if it is indeed research: to present "unbiased evidence." They still believe that research should try to be as objective as possible while realizing that all observations are researcher dependent and have error. Research should strive error as much as possible. They did not claim that data are unbiased but rather that research should try to limit bias and try to interpret observations that can be supported by specific behavior. Philosophy, or more properly model building, should lead research. Assumptions that appear in a model are just that. They are assumptions. Not fact; not unbiased opinion. But these assumptions or philosophical conclusions should not be called research in music education because they do not provide any behavioral evidence as support. (Contains 7 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10