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ERIC Number: EJ651623
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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Getting to the "Truth": Issues in Contemporary Qualitative Research.
Cousins, Carolyn
Australian Journal of Adult Learning, v42 n2 p192-204 Jul 2002
Summarizes key issues in qualitative research: definitional debates, conceptions of truth and validity, selection of methods, recognition that research is not value free, and criteria for judging legitimacy. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Postmodernism, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Postpositivism