1. DiagnosticInterpretiveRelational Constructionist ProveUnderstandContinuous Change ObserveDescribe/InterpretCo-Create Researcher/SubjectResearcher/ParticipantCo-Researchers True or FalseIn-Depth Descriptions/ Situated Meanings Generate New Meaning Discoverable Truth and Cause/Effect Mechanisms Contextualized Knowledge/ Multiple Realities Generate New Realities Statistically ValidAuthentic to ParticipantsLocally Useful Generalizable and Repeatable Possibly TransferableLocal & Historical/Co-Evolving Discover TruthExpand InsightGenerate Possibilities Understanding Consistency and Inconsistency Across Research Worlds

2. A research world holds core beliefs about the nature of reality, ways of knowing, and ways of conducting research based on these understandings. Each research world is an interdependent system, coherent across a comprehensive context. What is acceptable in each world is agreed upon and held in place by many stakeholders. Research World as Comprehensive Context

3. Abbreviated Principles of Relational Constructionist Research People act from what is meaningful to them Meaning emerges in unfolding inter-actions Unfolding interactions draw from and reshape social, local, historical environments Collective action (rather than individual behavior) continuously (re)constructs realities We can change our patterns of interactions and become something we were not before and open possibilities for the communities with which we engage.