In the past 15 years we adopted a methodology of authentic inquiry.
At the opposite pole of philosophical methodology, the focus of inquiry was not upon contemporaneous historical phenomena but upon the analysis of language, particularly the constructed languages of logic and mathematics and upon the paradigm of knowledge as delineated in empirical discourse and the languages of the empirical sciences.
Using a hermeneutic, phenomenological methodology, the focus of inquiry was placed on the patients' lived experience with chronic Lyme disease [ 14].
Here however, we look at how two different fields, those of evolutionary microbiology and microbial ecology, interpret these discoveries, and assess how they have affected their methodology and subjects of inquiry.
The previous section shows that scholars like Bacon and Newton aimed to develop methodologies of scientific inquiry.
Now that the curriculum field is coming of age in its development of methodologies of critical inquiry, it is unfortunate that political machinations dominate resolution of the macro issues, limiting specialists largely to fine-grained micro matters.
Ginette Delandshere is a professor of Inquiry Methodology and Chair of the Counseling and Educational Psychology Department in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington.
We propose that scenarios methodology as a scholarly form of inquiry is one way in which we can generate "interesting research".
A qualitative methodology based on different models of inquiry enabled the project coordinator to gain entry into the health services in order to investigate, in collaboration with the local staff, the possibility of implementing a centralised infection control communication model.
For the proportion of qualitative research to continue to increase in the medical literature, more journals would need to clearly indicate that this methodology is an acceptable mode of inquiry, by providing specific reference and guidelines to authors pertaining to qualitative research.
Mixed or multi-methods research, which integrates quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis in a single study or a program of inquiry, provides methodologies for measuring the effects of an intervention within complex, growing and evolving contexts while also exploring the context of the intervention itself [ 32, 33].
