| Patricia Lather - Education - 1991 - 236 pages
...formation" (Benson, 1983:338). Praxis is, of course, a word with a history. I use the term to mean the dialectical tension, the interactive, reciprocal shaping...see at the center of an emancipatory social science. The essence of my argument, then, is that we who do empirical research in the name of emancipatory... | |
| Alison Lewis - Business & Economics - 2014 - 157 pages
...understanding" (Giroux, 2003, p. 38). Lather (1986), in calling for a praxis-oriented form of research, defines praxis as a "dialectical tension, the interactive, reciprocal shaping of theory and practice" (p. 258). As one reviews library literature and theory, one finds little in the way of critical reflection... | |
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