ABSTRACT
I agree with Amos Hatch. At the end of the fi rst decade of the 21st century, let us re-engage the paradigm disputes of the 1980s (Gage 1989). But after Guba (1990a, b), I call for a paradigm dialog,2 not a new war. We must fi nd ways to cooperate, new ways to use our work for purposes of social justice. We are in a Third “Methodological Moment” (Teddlie and Tashakkori 2003a: ix). Mixed methodologies and calls for scientifi cally based research are in the ascendancy. It is time to think through how we got to this place, time to ask where we go next. Taking my lead from Hatch, I briefl y review the 1980s paradigm confl icts. I quickly shift from the 1980s to the present, taking up multiple forms of paradigm discourse in the Third Methodological Moment. I then
reengage Hatch and his critique of the SBR backlash against interpretive inquiry. I conclude by returning to Guba’s 1990 call for dialogue and collaboration across paradigms and interpretive communities.
