Educational Researcher, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 14–25   “Quantitative and qualitative inquiry are sometimes portrayed as distinct and incompatible paradigms for research in education. Approaches to combining qualitative and quantitative research typically “integrate” the two methods by letting them co-exist independently within a single research study.” (p. 14)”Such […]

  Educational Researcher, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 3–12   “In this sense, it is important to recognize that the adoption of a method will implicitly commit researchers who use it to certain kinds of assumption-based outcomes that both reveal and conceal (or obscure) phenomena in particular ways and that […]

      Introduction “Qualitative research involves the studied use and collection of a variety of empirical materials–case study; personal experience; introspection; life story; inerview; atifacts; cultural texts and productions; observational, historical, interactional, and visual texts–that describe routine and problematic moments and meanings in individual’s lives.” (p. 3) “Every researcher […]