ABSTRACT
Quotations and definitions may not solve our research problems but they might provide spectacles for viewing them. Stenhouse (1981) argued that research is inquiry that is at once systematic, self-critical and open to public scrutiny; moreover it utilizes empirical tests where these are appropriate. Research can assist one in reasonably assessing local events accurately, thus improving our action and control, and it can help us to use our heads by throwing up explanatory concepts in which to ground our theories.
