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Mashhadi, Azam – 1996
R. Zubir and M. Pope (1984) and K. Howe (1985, 1988) have argued against the "tyranny of methodological dogma" and that the division between quantitative psychometric and qualitative phenomenological and anthropological traditions is unnecessary. The postmodern self-consciousness of educational research has resulted in the realization that there…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Educational Research, Phenomenology, Psychometrics

Husband, Robert; Foster, William – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1987
Discusses the basic character of qualitative, humanistic research, identifying its philosophical and theoretical commitments. Provides a taxonomy of investigative strategies employed, including naturalistic inquiry, contextualization, maximized comparisons, sensitizing concepts, and analytic induction. Classifies methods employed as participant…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Classification, Induction, Interviews