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LET'S CHOOSE EVERYTHING: A RESPONSE TO “THE THEORY PROBLEM”

HELEN M. SUNGAILA (Lecturer in the Centre for Administrative Studies, University of New England. She holds the degrees of B.Sc.(Melb.), M.Ed.Admin.(Hons.) and Ph.D.(U.N.E.). Dr. Sungaila is particularly interested in the development of phenomenological research.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 January 1979

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Abstract

This paper is a response to Riffel's “The Theory Problem in Educational Administration” published in the October 1978 issue of the Journal. The article seeks to establish that perhaps we really do not have to make “illumined choices” as Riffel insists, because neither the phenomenological style of inquiry nor theory generation nor hermeneutic and critical science exists well without the others. To pose their contradiction stylistically should not be construed as an imperative to choose among them, but rather to recognize and strengthen their dialectic.

Citation

SUNGAILA, H.M. (1979), "LET'S CHOOSE EVERYTHING: A RESPONSE TO “THE THEORY PROBLEM”", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009809

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