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experiencing, this might have been a very different thesis. It might have been possible toconvert such data into an empirical study with quantifiable outcomes or a series of impactassessments. In keeping however, with Foucault's hypothesis (1972), Papert's analysis (1993)and Waldrop's prognosis (1993), I decided that it was in the heuristic, exploratory, open-ended,post-structuralist modus operandi that I unknowingly adopted back in 1989 that I might be ableto identify some meaningfulness for myself and perhaps, then, for other sense-makingpractitioners (see West, 2004).In short, using a traditional research methodology was never going to be appropriate for thisstudy, which is why I have developed one that seems to be a better fit with the overarchingintentions. It requires some detailed explanation. This is akin to the rationale for their workarticulated by Dadds and Hart (2001 p. 6)"This, then, is the way we invented our methodological way through the project, designingthe route to suit what we wanted to do and the ways in which we wanted to foreground theperspectives of the practitioner researchers in our analysis and theorising." (Dadds andHart, ibid)It is the deployment of a relativistic epistemological method such as this that sponsors thespecific research methodology for this study.141Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)