A Conversation About Rethinking Criteria for Qualitative and Interpretive Research : Quality as Trustworthiness

Melva R. Grant; Yvonna Lincoln

doi:10.21423/jume-v14i2a403

Authors

Melva R. Grant https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5396-0732
Yvonna Lincoln

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/jume-v14i2a403

Keywords:

Assessing Qualitative Research, Interpretive Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Quality, Trustworthiness

Abstract

This editorial shares a conversation about qualitative and interpretive research quality between friends. Dr. Yvonna Lincoln, University Distinguished Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, has been a pioneer in the field of qualitative and interpretive inquiry research. The purpose of this paper is to share Yvonna Lincoln’s contemporary thinking about quality criteria for qualitative and interpretive inquiry research and to make it available to mathematics educators who conduct qualitative research in urban settings.

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