Conceptualising an Educational Research:An Understanding from a Philosophical View

In the paper’ Development and social competence after two years for students enrolled in inclusive and self-contained educational programs’, forty students in two groups are assessed across two years of inclusive and self-contained educational programming respectively in order to compare the outcomes on measures of child development and social competence. In this paper, the educational research mentioned above will be conceptualised from three aspects. Firstly, the foundations of the research will be identified from an epistemological and ontological perspective. Secondly, a critical appraisal will be given regarding the relationships between research,theory and practice in the paper. Finally, ethical challenges and issues in the paper will be pointed out and possible solutions proposed.