Critical Reflective Analysis of Parse's and Newman's Research Methodologies

Abstract

Can knowledge generated through research data and in practice test the efficacy of research methods and, ultimately, expand theories? This question will be explored in the following presentation by a critical reflective analysis of the papers of Parse, Smith, and Mitchell represent ing the man-living-health research method developed by Parse (1987); and the process-as-content praxis methodology to study health as ex panded consciousness set forth by Newman (1986). Parse's ideas will be illuminated first, followed by Newman's, concluding with an interpretive synthesis of the issues associated with testing research methods and expanding theory in the post-positivist scientific era.