Published in °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ Scholar
Volume 7 Issue 2, Page 15, Fall, 2024
Mark McCaslin, Ph.D., University Research Methodologist, College of Doctoral StudiesÂ
Transformative Inquiry is an approach toward understanding and fostering the full range of deep and meaningful relationships from the personal to the political and beyond. It is an integral model designed to support investigation into the essential and meaningful relationships that both transform and potentiate. Understanding the nature of human potential requires the adoption of an open perspective. Our highest aspirations demand care, consideration, and clarity of purpose. Equally important is the need for patience and understanding – from ourselves and others. Discussing Transformative inquiry reveals that the full actualization of human potential has fallen victim to the bifurcation of research methodologies. Transformative Inquiry is distinct from other approaches through its structure and content. It is a specific and unique combination of the axiological, ontological, epistemological, methodological, and rhetorical components upon which it is based.