What Good Is Polarizing Research Into Qualitative and Quantitative?

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Investigating Finnish teacher educators’ views on research‐based teacher education (2011, background): “As Ercikan and Roth ( 2006 ) state, the world needs different kinds of research for different purposes.”
Research on Motivation in Collaborative Learning: Moving Beyond the Cognitive–Situative Divide and Combining Individual and Social Processes (2010, methodology): “Combining data sources and methods of analysis is expected not only to provide a more comprehensive understanding of such psychosocial phenomena but also to unveil possible contradictions, ambiguities, and paradoxes, which a single approach would not reveal ( Ercikan & Roth, 2006 ).”
Qualitative research in finance (2014, background): “Researchers commonly recognize that there is a philosophical divide between quantitative and qualitative inquiry (Bredo, 2009; Ercikan and Roth, 2006).”
Understanding the dynamics of motivation in socially shared learning (2008, methodology): “The combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, as suggested by Ercikan and Roth (2006), as well as individual and group level measurements, seemed to be a proper way to capture the dynamics of motivation in a socially shared learning situation.”
Toward a Unified Validation Framework in Mixed Methods Research (2007, background): “In tying quantitative and qualitative research processes together, Ercikan and Roth (2006) stated,”