TQR16: What It Is and What it Can Be

Authors

James A. Bernauer, Robert Morris UniversityFollow

Abstract

This article was written in response to the Call for the TQR16 Conference in 2025. I was compelled to write this article because of the poignancy of the theme. The questions posed were first whether we care whether our work makes an impact outside of academia and second whether this work would have a greater impact if we involved participants as true co-researchers from the very beginning of our inquiries. I explored these two questions by sharing my thoughts about the citations, the qualitative/quantitative divide, our natural need to discover, barriers to achieving the satisfactory answers to the two questions, and the tentative conclusions. There are also some ideas and recommendations peppered throughout, and more questions. This article is basically an elaboration of the paradigm-changing theme proposed for the TQR16 conference. As such, the hope is that it spurs scholarly inquiry that moves us closer to realizing this new paradigm.

Keywords

paradigm, qualitative/quantitative divide, co-creating, citations

Author Bio(s)

James A. Bernauer is a University Professor Emeritus at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA (USA). His major areas of interest are teaching, learning, and methodology. Please direct correspondence to bernauer@rmu.edu

Acknowledgements

TQR and its staff are both inviting and provocative and I hope they continue to be so indefinitely!

Publication Date

10-7-2024

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7361

Recommended APA Citation

Bernauer, J. A. (2024). TQR16: What it is and what it can be. The Qualitative Report, 29(8), 2387-2399. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7361