Abstract:

The debate should, however, take place in the mind of the reader. Section 1, ‘The “New” Qualitative Research: The Reasons Why?’ presents detailed explanations of the ‘new’ qualitative research, including, in an edited form, three of the five ‘classic’ papers from the Rome Congress. It finishes with an edited version of a review of qualitative research from the 1985 Wiesbaden Congress. Whereas Section 1 takes a theoretical stance sympathetic to the ‘new’ qualitative research, Section 2, ‘The “New” Qualitative Research: The How?’ presents case history material to support that position. In Section 3, ‘An Alternative Viewpoint to the “New” Qualitative Research’, the de Groot paper stands alone, presenting a powerful set of arguments in favour of that particular thinking.