The Missing Link...

I think I found my missing link, but I'm not sure.  You are going to roll your eyes and me and think to yourself, 'Oh this poor girl!'  But, I think I found what I have been missing.  I think I finally figured out what I have been struggling with and why I have been having a hard time understanding the point of the stuff that we have been reading in DP and DA.  I told you weeks ago that I hoped that EDPY 640 was going to help me and I think that it finally did. I told you that I didn't understand what the heck people were talking about and I didn't understand how to go about figuring it out.  I mean there are a million different types of theories out there and so many paradigms.  I think that I have been struggling with the research paradigms for the studies that we have been reading.  I am not saying that I disagree with them, but I think I didn't understand where they were coming from.  Are most of the studies that we have been reading Poststructuralist?  "There is not 'Truth' to be known; Researchers examine the world through textual representations of it." (Hatch, Fig. 1.1, Research Paradigms, pg. 13)  Do you think this is the missing link?  I have been thinking of research as searching for 'The Truth' and with the things that we have been reading the researchers aren't searching for 'The Truth'.  They are seeking answers, they are seeking insight, and they are trying to get meaning.  But, they are not seeking one final, ultimate truth, because for them, at least, there is no one truth only what is made relevant.