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Essay Reviews: Methodology and Epistemology: A Dialogue

Joseph Maxwell and Yvonna Lincoln
Harvard Educational Review December 1990, 60 (4) 497-513; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.60.4.42mg5k33j45h0743
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