Yvonna Sessions Lincoln

Yvonna Sessions Lincoln (born May 25, 1944) is an American methodologist and higher-education scholar. Currently a Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, Lincoln holds the Ruth Harrington Endowed Chair of Educational Leadership. As an author, she has been largely collected by libraries.

Lincoln is best known in social-science research for her contribution to qualitative methodology. With her late husband, Egon Guba (March 1, 1924–March 26, 2008), Lincoln wrote ''Naturalistic Inquiry'' in 1985. The book offers a critique of positivism and suggests the ontology, epistemology, axiology, methodology, and methods that comprise a "naturalistic" paradigm for inquiry. Since its publication in 1985, ''Naturalistic Inquiry'' has been translated into 8 languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Provided by Wikipedia