RT Article
T1 Paradigms, beliefs and values in scholarship: A conversation between two educationists
JF Koers
VO 76
IS 2
SP 221
OP 242
A1 Roux, C. D.
A1 Walt, J. L. van der
A2 Walt, J. L. van der
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1936628414
AB Scientific paradigms constantly play a role in scholarship, but researchers tend not to examine the roles of the belief and value systems associated with them. From time to time, however, a researcher may be confronted with a situation where such an analysis is unavoidable. This article takes the shape of a conversation between two researchers who have been working for several years in quite different research paradigms in the field of Religion Studies/Religion Education/Religion in Education. They investigate the possibility of collaboration as they were initially trained at the same university. After their graduate studies, their ways parted, and they developed quite different scholarly paradigms as well as belief and value systems. Their conversation not only highlights the differences in their respective current worldviews, belief systems, value systems, and academic approaches to Religious Studies, but also shows in practical terms how different scholarly paradigms (with their concomitant belief and value systems) can impact on researchers’ (views of) scholarship, science practice and research in Religion Education and Religion in Education.
K1 Values
K1 Scholarship
K1 Paradigms
K1 Education
K1 Beliefs
DO 10.4102/koers.v76i2.14