ABSTRACT
Wellington, drawing on Nesbit, argues that their work around transitions in research provides a valuable overview of key research themes that run through the 20th century, “including the ‘scientific’ approach, the qualitative paradigm, the teacher as researcher, and more recently the political pressures on research to provide answers to problems, i.e., the demand for ‘what works’?”. In the move from positivistic, post-positivist research paradigms towards critical and interpretivist paradigms, multiple epistemological, ontological and axiological questions have emerged. During the design odyssey towards innovation of the CREATE Principles for Research Design, the authors often found questioning a role as the researcher and how they should and should not be situated within own research. Unfortunately, for those researchers who like to use tools like the CREATE Principles for Research Design, there is no easy explanation as to how they might negate the tensions or shortfalls that will continue to arise.
