Getting to the "Truth": Issues in Contemporary Qualitative Research.

Cousins, Carolyn

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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

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