Trajektorie legitymizacji naukowej innowacyjnych metod pedagogicznych badań jakościowych: badanie w działaniu, badanie przez sztukę, autoetnografia

The main goal of the paper is the explanation and empowerment of understanding methodology as an emergent, dynamic field of scientific knowledge about current research methods applied, constructed and re-constructed, following global socio-cultural changes. The author emphasises dialectic relations between normativity and descriptivity in methodological research, using the figure of scientific legitimization and proposing its three types: “finish”, “ascend” and “departure”. Various arguments are presented on the basis of nature, history and current practice of three research traditions: action research, arts-based research, and autoethnography.