Is There a Philosophical Research Method in Education

Abstract

This work argued for the justification on the existence of philosophical research method in education. Research as the investigative study of materials and sources to find facts as solution to a particular problem for which it is done can only be valid when it is an activity, intellectual, tools-involved, purposeful and has findings. Philosophers like Akinpelu, Dewey and Ross tilted towards the fact that philosophical research method is in existence though not universal, that is why they even formulated steps as the method. By philosophical method we simply mean way of doing things of philosophy, which research has one; and reasons like scrutiny, peculiarity, Socratic method, Descartes' skepticism, logic, correspondence and philosophers' ways of research justify the existence of philosophical research method, only that it is not defined and imposed in a rigid manner because philosophy promotes individual critical thinking and autonomy, and frowns at conformity and indoctrination.