Journal: Human Development
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Human Development invites all manner of conceptual articles — both theoretical and metatheoretical — related to the qualitative-quantitative debate in the context of understanding human development. Although the use of quantitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research is well established, the theoretical challenges and opportunities that arise when combining these approaches in studies of human development are insufficiently explored. We enthusiastically invite manuscripts that explore this topic. We would especially like to encourage conceptual analysis and advancements that explore 1) theoretical implications of combining qualitative and quantitative research in the study of human development, 2) philosophy of science perspectives on divergent ontological or epistemological assumptions held in qualitative and quantitative approaches to human development, 3) opportunities or challenges for theory development provided by the combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, 4) meta-theories as theoretical grounding for qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research on human development.
Please select the option “Call for Papers: Revisiting the Qualitative-Quantitative Debate in the Context of Understanding Human Development” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.
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