Barzun's unsettling depiction of history is a fitting beginning to
The Qualitative Report in that a narrative of qualitative and critical
inquiry also rejects absolute, finality, and authority and embraces
ambiguities, uncertainties, and diversities of human experience. Just as
talk of qualitative and critical reflection is a multiversed experience,
so too is talk about that talk: What are possible and impossible shapes
and forms of a twelve or so page publication dedicated to re- presenting a
phenomenon which seems to resist and to tease con-formity? To that
question there is no answer; and thus begins a journal.
In the search for form--when sincere and honest--the action is twofold:
to
create form; and to diagnose the created form. Accordingly, as the
artist
proceeds with his[/her] creation, there simultaneously develops a
rationalizing yet unwritten analysis of the work.
Eliel Saarinen (1948/1985, p. v)
One certainty, at least so far, for The......
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