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Mixed Methods Research Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale MIXED METHODS RESEARCH Exploring the Interactive Continuum Carolyn S. Ridenour Isadore Newman Copyright © 2008 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benz, Carolyn R., 1942– Mixed methods research : exploring the interactive continuum / Carolyn S. Ridenour and Isadore Newman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13:978-0-8093-2779-9 (pbk.:alk.paper) ISBN-10: 0-8093-2779-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Research—Methodology. I. Newman, Isadore. II. Title. Q180.55.M4B414 2008 001.4'2—dc22 2007031727 Printed on recycled paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences —Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992. ∞ The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of Nicole Cleland, Samantha Posey, and Kaori Takano, graduate students at the University of Akron and the University of Dayton for their thoughtful input, feedback, and review in helping complete this book. Their gratitude extends to freelance copy editor Mary Lou Kowaleski, Barbara Martin, and project editor Wayne Larsen at Southern Illinois University Press for their expertise, thoughtfulness, and generosity in preparing this book for publication. Dichotomies have their manifest utility, as well as their latent traps. They offer us an heuristic, an analytical scalpel, if you will, by which we can cut phenomena into slices thin enough for us to examine. This, of course, is a useful function, as long as we agree that analyzing the links, the many subtle membranes between the dichotomous end points, is a critical legitimate task for any serious analysis. In fact, if dichotomies are at all still useful in a modern world of concatenated complexities it is because the tension between the antithetically conceived end points represents the important possibilities for creativity, ambiguity, paradox, uncertainty, ambivalence, imagination , synthesis, and vision. —Jean Lipman-Blumen, “The Creative Tension between Liberal Arts and Specialization” ...

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