ABSTRACT
At this point in the ARC, the main questions for the inquiry have been established and there has been some exploration of what others have written on the subject. It is now time to consider how the inquiry should be framed. There are a variety of approaches to inquiry that frame a project and each has implications for the project. Making an informed decision about an approach that supports meaningful responses to the questions of inquiry is clearly important. All research and the resulting information it produces rest on three questions: (1) what is the nature of reality that underpins the research?; (2) what are the basic assumptions about the knowledge of reality that are being made?; and (3) how can the researcher find out about an area of inquiry? (Denzin and Lincoln, 2003). This chapter will focus on finding out about knowledge and framing in the context of an inquiry project.
