RSE4801 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 7 August 2025

,RSE4801 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 7
August 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. POSITIVISM
2.1 Ontological Assumptions
2.2 Epistemological Assumptions
2.3 Methodological Implications
2.4 Relevance to Education
3. INTERPRETIVISM
3.1 Ontological Assumptions
3.2 Epistemological Assumptions
3.3 Methodological Implications
3.4 Relevance to Education
4. CRITICAL THEORY
4.1 Ontological Assumptions
4.2 Epistemological Assumptions
4.3 Methodological Implications
4.4 Relevance to Education
5. POSTMODERNISM
5.1 Ontological Assumptions
5.2 Epistemological Assumptions
5.3 Methodological Implications

, 5.4 Relevance to Education
6: CRITICAL REALISM
6.1 Ontological Assumptions
6.2 Epistemological Assumptions
6.3 Methodological Implications
6.4 Relevance to Education
7. DECOLONIALITY
7.1 Ontological Assumptions
7.2 Epistemological Assumptions
7.3 Methodological Implications
7.4 Relevance to education
8 conclusion and paradigm evaluation
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Research Paradigms in Education
1. INTRODUCTION
A research paradigm refers to a worldview or a set of beliefs
that guide researchers in their inquiries. In education,
paradigms provide a framework for understanding how
knowledge is constructed, how reality is perceived, and how
research should be conducted. These paradigms differ in their
ontological (nature of reality), epistemological (nature of
knowledge), and methodological (research approach)