Whether a researcher wishes to achieve an objective or subjective understanding on the issue under study or otherwise, the truth is that it should be about the things that exist and how they exist. The objectivity or subjectivity of knowledge is based on reality. Ontology is the reality of what exists. It involves questioning what constitutes reality and how individuals might understand its existence. In other words, Foerster (1996) defines ontology as the study, or investigation, of “what it is” and “how it is”. It must be said that ontology concerns the world around us. Mainly, it concerns the part of reality that the researcher chooses to face. It involves the question of how society or the world is constructed: “is there a real world out there, of which we are not aware, which is independent of our knowledge?” (Marsh and Furlong 2002, p. 18). Placed in the educational perspective, the question might be: “What is the nature of the social and educational challenge that we can gain understanding of?” (Hay 2002, p. 61). Two vital observations could be made here: The first observation could be that there is a real world that is independent of our understanding and on this basis communities are built. Secondly, there is no real world, but the world is socially and expansively constructed and therefore dependent