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Methodological borrowing

 

The borrowing of elements of one methodology to inform research conducted using another methodology. For methodological borrowing to be successful the borrowing should be done explicitly and intentionally. Ideally scholars are skilled with both methodologies i.e. the primary methodology being used, and the methodology being borrowed from.

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For methodological borrowing to be successful the borrowing should be done explicitly and intentionally.

Ideally scholars are skilled with both methodologies i.e. the primary methodology being used, and the methodology being borrowed
from.

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Research term

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Methodology

Foundational paper (s)

Varpio, Lara, Maria Athina Martimianakis, and Maria Mylopoulos. “Qualitative research methodologies: embracing methodological borrowing, shifting and importing.” Researching medical education (2015): 245-256.