MPL Philosophical Worldview Indah Lestari Worldview Ontology is

MPL: Philosophical Worldview Indah Lestari

Worldview • Ontology is related to how we view the nature of the external world. • Epistimology is our beliefs about the nature of knowledge and our relationship to the ‘real world’. • Worldview is a basic set of beliefs that guide action.

Worldview in research • The worldview that is brought by the researcher becomes the nature of the research. • Worldview arise based on the dicipline orientation, the advisor/mentor inclinations, and past research experience. • Worldview will often lead to embracing a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approach in research.

Philosophical worldviews • Four philosophical worldviews that are widely used in research 1. Postpositivism 2. Constructivism 3. Transformative 4. Pragmatism

Postpositivism • Knowledge is conjectural – absolute truth can never be found • Research is the process of making warranted claims. • Data, evidence, and rational considerations shape knowledge. • Research seeks everything that can explain the situation of concern and the causal relationship. • Objectivity.

Constructivist • Human beings construct the meanings. • Human beings make sense of the world based on their historical and social perspective. • The basic generation of meaning is always social, interaction with human community.

Transformative • It focuses on the study of groups of society which have been marginalized. • It focuses on inequities based on gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class.

Pragmatism • Pragmatism is not committed to any one system pf philosophy and reality. • Individual researchers have a freedom of choice. • It does not see the world as an absolute unity. • Truth is what works at the time. • It agree that research always occurs in every context.