This book demonstrates how essential components of educational inquiry such as ideas, theories, ideologies, epistemologies, value statements, methodologies, and methods can be applied to conducting and implementing robust research projects.

Introduction Antonina Lukenchuk Part One: Paradigms of Research: Multiple Ways of Knowing 1. Presaging Educational Inquiry: Historical Development of Philosophical Ideas, Traditions, and Perspectives Baudelaire K. Ulysse and Antonina Lukenchuk 2. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Traditions, Perspectives, and Controversies Antonina Lukenchuk and Baudelaire K. Ulysse 3. Paradigms and Educational Research: Weaving the Tapestry Antonina Lukenchuk and Eileen Kolich Part Two: Paradigms as Educational Research Exemplars 4. Narratives of Black Female Elementary School Teachers: Navigating the Normative Discourse of Whiteness Thera Tilmon 5. Sociocultural Perspectives of First Generation Asian Indian Leaders in U.S. Higher Education: An Ethnographic Study Matthew Woolsey 6. Toward the Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Students of Color: A Case Study of Public High Schools in the Midwest Joanne Yonan 7. Navigating Adverse Childhood Experiences for More Effective Learning and Student Well-Being Amy Kendryna 8. Is There a Model for Success? Exploring Sustainable Professional Employment among Clinical Exercise Physiology Program’s Graduates Regina Schurman 9. Civically Engaged Curriculum: A Call for Action to Elementary Public School Teachers Cheryl Jean DeRoo 10. Greek Parents’ Perspectives and Experiences Regarding their Children’s Learning and Social-Emotional Difficulties Eirini Adamopoulou 11. Speech-Language Pathologists’ Barriers to Providing Services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Ages Two to Nine Irene S. Garcia-Benavides 12. A Paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis on Neoliberalism: The Case of Haiti as a Neophyte Baudelaire K. Ulysse 13. Narratives of Grit by African American Women: Standing Tall Against Racial Microaggressions While Advancing to Community College Senior Leadership Positions Toya Michelle Webb 14. Locked Gates and Chain-link Fences: A Generational Phenomenological Story of Disability Sharon Duncan 　 Postscript - Once upon a Time, a Message of Love was Born Antonina Lukenchuk About the Contributors