My first impression of this text is to compare it to a poem that I find useful in conveying messages to students about triangulation, mixed methods, and a multi-disciplinary approach to building knowledge: It was six men of Indostan To...
moreMy first impression of this text is to compare it to a poem that I find useful in conveying messages to students about triangulation, mixed methods, and a multi-disciplinary approach to building knowledge: It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see an Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me!-but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried: "Ho!--what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 't is mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!" The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt above the knee. &...
