this was sent to the interpretations and methods group, but I thought that several people here would find it useful. if you are interested in the interpretive paradigm of research, i've left the list information below too.
Colleagues, Yvonna Lincoln, one of the central figures in the qualitative methods ‘revival’ of the last 2 decades, has published a most interesting essay, “’What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been...’: Twenty-Five Years of Qualitative and New Paradigm Research” (Qualitative Inquiry 16/1, January 2010) --
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/1/3
For me, she nails several key issues in precisely the right way (centrally, the thorny matter of ‘mixed methods’ and whether the debate about paradigm incommensurability is a dead horse; but also the issue of ‘cumulative’ knowledge and the struggle to find an interpretivist metaphor to better express the idea).
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