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Peer reviewedOldfather, Penny; West, Jane – Educational Researcher, 1994
Develops a metaphor of qualitative research as jazz to illuminate qualities that are embedded in the processes of qualitative inquiry. The jazz metaphor is said to create a pathway for making explicit the tacit understandings that permit qualitative research to flow and to be guided by the new findings and emerging understandings it uncovers. (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criticism, Improvisation, Jazz
