What is it about?
The current editors, Fetters and Francisco-Molina, as a special feature for the first decade of publishing of JMMR, invited the past editors to discuss JMMR's past, present and future. These esteemed mixed methods giants address their perspectives about 1) the most important developments in mixed methods over the past decade, 2) the most important current controversies in mixed methods research, 3) advice for someone new to learning mixed methods research, 4) the greatest challenges to the field of mixed methods research, and 5) the most important role for JMMR over the course of the next decade.
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Why is it important?
This compact editorial provides a good overview of happenings in the field and JMMR. It is useful in particular because it is unusual to have the views of such esteemed mixed methods pioneers concentrated in a single package!
Perspectives
I think this editorial is important because it has allowed us to take stock, take inventory, of where the field has been, the challenges mixed methods methodologists are encountering, and the future directions for the field. It lays out for aspiring mixed methods the advice for how to be successful in the field. Further, it lays the challenges, areas ripe for inquiry and exploration. These are the kinds of questions we seek answer for at JMMR!
Michael Fetters
University of Michigan
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This page is a summary of: The Journal of Mixed Methods Research Starts a New Decade: Perspectives of Past Editors on the Current State of the Field and Future Directions, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1558689817729476.
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