Abstract:I came to know and admire Egon Guba when I had the good fortune to work with him over several years at the height of his thinking and scholarship on naturalistic inquiry. The time was the period between the publication of his 1978 UCLA monograph, Toward a Methodology of Naturalistic Inquiry in Educational Evaluation, and the 1985 publication of Naturalistic Inquiry, his and Yvonna Lincoln's definitive text on the method. The occasion was a federal research contract under which in the early 1980s we conducted a… Show more
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