Quantentative and Squalortative
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This note joins warnings from Shakespeare and wordplay from James Joyce to critique the division of educational researchers into quantitative and qualitative camps. Beware the dichotomies we frame for each other, said Shakespeare. Break them down with humor, added Joyce. Unhelpful choices, falsely pitted against each other in a specific cultural context, are strengthened by participants picking sides or, sometimes worse, collapsing opposing sides into a compromised middle. Only a confrontation, in this case, humorous, with the conditions maintaining the opposition promises relief. Not this, not that, but "one aneither," said Joyce. Even the terms, quantitative or qualitative, must be discarded. Their mutual antagonism can grow better terms: quantentative and squalortative
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2009 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | McDermott, Ray |
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| Author | McDermott, Meghan |
Subjects
| Subject | quantitative |
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| Subject | qualitative |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | McDermott, Ray and McDermott, Meghan. (2009). Quantentative and Squalortative. Mind, Culture and Activity 16(3): 203-208. DOI: 10.1080/10749030802295248 |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qk842bn7845 |
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