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    This document discusses post-positivism as a worldview that challenges positivism. It provides three key aspects of post-positivism: 1) Knowledge is partial and conjectural rather than absolute; 2) Theories and facts are fallible and shaped by social construction; and 3) There are multiple external realities that can be understood through probabilistic and tentative speculation from multiple perspectives. The document uses an example of interpreting a student winking to illustrate how the same empirical evidence can support different theories. It concludes by inviting comments and feedback on post-positivism.

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    KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY

    School of Education
    EDUC 620 Research Methods

    Post Positivisim
    By

    Dammar Singh Saud


    Bibas Thapa
    Binod Chaudhary
    MPhil in ELE_2022 Batch_KUSOED
    11
    POST-POSITIVISM

    • Positivist world view: ordered, controllable, predictable,


    standardized, mechanistic, deterministic, stable,
    objective, rational, impersonal, largely inflexible etc.
    • Post-positivism challenges and supersedes positivism
    • Our knowledge of the world is not absolute but partial,
    conjectural, falsifiable, challengeable, provisional,
    probabilistic and changing. (Popper, 1968, 1980)
    22
    POST-POSITIVISM

    • Consider both quantitative and qualitative methods


    • Theories and facts are fallible (social construction)
    • Multiple external realities
    • Probabilistic Knowledge
    • Undermines the foundationalism of empiricism
    • Theory-laden / value-laden
    • Tentative speculation, multiple perspectives etc.
    33
    POST-POSITIVISM

    • Class observation- A student winking at the teacher


    (A sign of understanding - theory of cognition; a sign of
    physical problem- Tourette’s syndrome; a sign of friendliness
    (a theory of interpersonal non-verbal behavior)
    • The underdetermination of theory by empirical evidence
    • The community of scholars in validating warrants for
    knowledge
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    COMMENTS
    &
    FEEDBACK!
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    THANK YOU!!!

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