Wolfe and Qualitative Research

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

There are methods of qualitative research, of which ethnography is only one 
example, which do not rely on quantitaive, numbers crunching techniques. 
These are valid and important methods of research. Most school-based and 
classroom-based action research in education, for example, rely on 
qualitative research techniques. There are journals and listservs dedicated 
entirely to the subject of qualitative research. But what distinguishes 
qualitative research from journalism is that it has its own methods and 
protocols, and it is not clear to me that Wolfe followed these protocols and 
methods. It is important to distinguish between the two issues.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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