Qualitative research resolves issues using numeric valuations, and it has acquired prominence with time due to its simplicity to embrace standard ways to conduct research. Constructivists’ way of solving problems has dominated qualitative research because paradigms pursue to comprehend a phenomenon from the participants’ understanding using different information collecting agents. Constructivists also think that there is a significant difference between qualitative and quantitative studies. Like qualitative researchers, constructivists affirm that reality is precise since it is from one’s perspectives of participants included in the investigation (Mwaka et al., 2021). Examination techniques for constructivists comprise expressive, grounded, and phenomenological studies. Moreover, the time spent in comprehending the occurrence under investigation is a common and unique feature among these methods. Before each research, constructivists engage instructional policies that guide their teaching and learning process. A constructivist instructor plays various roles such as coaching and being a consultant so that the most crucial objective of helping a learner as an influential thinker is achieved.
Positivists on their part argue that the sole purpose of research is the explanation, details, or the outcomes. According to them, social reality suggests that practical realities occur relative to personal ideas or views, and they are directed by rules of basis and effects. Positivists’ position upholds that scientific understanding comprises of facts while its ontology reflects reality as free of social construction (Bertea, 2020). They also claim that observation and reason are the best ways of comprehending human behavior. Additionally, true information is built on familiarity of senses and can be acquired by scrutiny and testing.
As a result, I have to say that my worldview is more similar to the constructivist paradigm, because constructivism, as a framework, holds that learning is a lifelong developmental procedure, and the learner is a creator of information. Therefore, as a professional, creating or generating qualitative understandings of objective reality is of great importance to one’s occupation. Moreover, any career critical theory is all about importance, or to be more specific, power and policy-making (Bertea, 2020). Hence, to complete the task of improving professional nursing exercise, a fundamental, integrated comprehension of the paradigms being used for clinical inquiry is required.
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