Objectivity in educational science, from the perspective of rational reconstruction method

In recent decades interpretive approaches overcome the explanatory approaches in educational researches and this fact has led some experts to consider the achieve ment of objectivity in educational research impossible. The aim of this study is to investigate the possibility of achieving objectivity in empirical research in education and, subsequent to an investigation of the viewpoints of positivists, post positivists and the Reconstructionist approach, an attempt is made to answer this quetation from the perspective of the rational reconstruction of Habermas. The method of this research is deductive comparative. The findings suggest that consideration of the universal normative structures provides the educational researcher with a possibility of objectivity in interpretation. In this way, researchers can integrate approaches to interpretation with these of explanation. This secures an objectivity of reconstructive educational approach via internal impartiality; this distinguishes this approach from the positivist and post positivist approaches which invoke external impartiality research. At the end, the challenges and limitations of this type of objectivity in Educational Research have been examined and critically discussed.