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About Yvonna Sessions Lincoln
- Yvonna Sessions Lincoln (born May 25, 1944) is an American methodologist and higher education scholar.
- Currently a Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, Lincoln holds the Ruth Harrington Endowed Chair of Educational Leadership.
- As an author, she has been largely collected by libraries.Lincoln is best known in social science research for her contribution to qualitative methodology.
- With her late husband, Egon Guba (March 1, 1924 - March 26, 2008), Lincoln wrote Naturalistic Inquiry in 1985.
- The book offers a critique of positivism and suggests the ontology, epistemology, axiology, methodology, and methods that comprise a “naturalistic” paradigm for inquiry.
- Since its publication in 1985, Naturalistic Inquiry has been translated into 8 languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
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