ABSTRACT
Academic journals and both popular and academic presses have acknowledged the value of the alternate paradigm and qualitative research by publishing considerably more qualitative research over the past two decades. Many scholars have called for the use of qualitative research to help us increase our understanding of human experience that heretofore has been limited by an adherence to the dominant paradigm and traditional methods of inquiry (Blieszner and Adams, 1992; Dornbusch, Petersen and Hetherington, 1991). Increasingly, intellectual space is being made available for communicating the outcomes of qualitative inquiry.
