ABSTRACT
Critical enquiry is a term for a school of somewhat controversial research methods.
Although very rarely used in the computer science (CS) field, it is a rather more
common research approach in other disciplines, especially in education and various
fields of social science research. Yet in the computer science discipline, the core
methods of research offer a rather limited repertoire for the inherently
transdisciplinary endeavour of CS education research. To support this different
range of research topics and goals it is necessary to extend the traditional repertoire
by borrowing methods from other disciplines. Critical enquiry represents one
alternative family of methods, which can be used to support different forms of
enquiry in CS education research.
