Finally Making Good on the Promise of Qualitative Research in Special Education? A Response to the Special Issue. (November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pugach, Marleen C.; Mukhopadhyay, Ananya; Gomez-Najarro, Joyce
• Other Names: Trainor Audrey A. guest-editor.; Leko Melinda guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Remedial and special education. Volume 35:Number 6(2014:Nov./Dec.)
• Page Start: 340
• Page End: 343
• Publication Date: 2014-11
• Subjects: research methodology -- qualitative -- special education; Special education -- Periodicals; Learning disabilities -- Periodicals; 371.905
• DOI: 10.1177/0741932514545790
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0741-9325

Abstract

In this response to the special issue, we would like to offer two additional considerations to the discourse on qualitative research and special education this issue is meant to catalyze. First, we would like to further problematize the question of why qualitative research continues to be so sparsely represented in most prominent publications of special education. Next, we look a little more deeply into the question of what constitutes methodological rigor, especially in a field that seems so resistant, at least from the perspective of its institutional structures, to embracing qualitative research as a worthy, serious enterprise.