Integrated Mixed-Methods Design-Based Research: A Critical Dialectical Pluralistic Approach

• In Event: Social Justice Implications in Mixed-Methods Research

Abstract

Design-based research (DBR) is an educational research methodology in which researchers work with practitioners (e.g., teachers) and stakeholders (e.g., parents) to develop and to implement multiple iterations of an intervention in an authentic educational context. Although DBR lends itself to mixed methods research, it has been largely ignored by the mixed methods research community. In this paper, we apply critical dialectical pluralism (i.e., CDP; Author, 2013), a research philosophy, or meta-paradigm, focused on privileging the voices of marginalized people, to DBR as one way to think about how the mixed methods research community might utilize DBR in ways that provide full(er) integration and, at the same time, promote equity—yielding what we call integrated mixed methods design-based research studies.

Authors

• Elena Forzani, Boston University
  Presenting Author

• Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, University of Cambridge
  Presenting Author

• Julie Corrigan, Concordia University - Montreal
  Presenting Author