Methodological considerations for comparing literary, historical, and living adults as data sources

Educational Gerontology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 567-583

  Rocco, Tonette S ^a   Spangler, Sondra ^a   Boggs, David L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244451650     PISSN: 03601277     EISSN: 15210472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0360127980240604     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Boggs, D., Rocco, T., & Spangler, S. (1995). A framework for understanding older adults' civic behavior. Educational Gerontology, 21, 449-465.
2. Brieschke, P. (1990). The administrator in fiction: Using the novel to teach educational administration. Educational Administration Quarterly, 26, 376-393.
3. Carini, P. (1975). Observation and description: An alternative methodology for the investigation of human phenomenon (North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation Monograph). Grand Forks: University of North Dakota Press.
4. Clifford, J. (1988). The predicament of culture. Boston: Harvard University Press.
5. Cox, H. G. (1988). Later life: The realities of aging (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
6. Denzin, N. K. (1978). The research act: A theoretical introduction to sociological methods (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
7. Easton, D. (1965). A systems analysis of political life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
8. Gibbons, K. (1993). Charms for the easy life. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
9. Glaser, B., & Strauss, A. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.
10. Haber, C., & Gratton, B. (1992). Aging in America: The perspective of history. In T. Cole, D. Van Tassel, & R. Kastenbaum (Eds.), Handbook of the humanities and aging (pp. 352-370). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
11. Huberman, A. M., & Miles, M. B. (1994). Data management and analysis methods. In N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 428-444) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
12. McKenzie, L. (1975). Analysis of bildungsroman as a research modality in adult education: An inquiry. Adult Education, 25, 209-216.
13. McKenzie, L. (1976, April). Literary life-cycle research as an atypical research modality for adult education. Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference, Toronto, CA.
14. Merriam, S. B. (1978, April). Coping with male mid-life: A systematic analysis using literature as a data source. Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference, San Antonio, TX.
15. Merriam, S. B., & Jones, E. V. (1982, April). The use of "soft" data in adult learning and development research. Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference, Lincoln, NE.
16. Merriam, S. B., & Jones, E. V. (1983, Fall). The use of documentary sources in adult learning and development research. Adult Education Quarterly, 34, 54-59.
17. Moustakas, C. (1990). Heuristic research: Design, methodology, and applications. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
18. Nash, R. (1989). The rights of nature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
19. Ohliger, J. (1987). Really creative conferences. Media/Adult Learning, 9, 3-18.
20. Patton, M. Q. (1990). Qualitative evaluation and research methods. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
21. Pinkett, H. (1970). Gifford Pinchot: Private and public forester. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
22. Pittman, V. V., & Ohliger, J. (1989). Adult education and works of the imagination: A new direction in research. Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference, Madison, WI.
23. Pittman, V. V., & Theilmann, J. M. (1986, Summer). The administrator in fiction: Portrayals of Higher Education. The Educational Forum, 50, 405-418.
24. Quigley, B. A., & Merriam, S. B. (1989, October). Conducting literary research. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education, Atlantic City, NJ.
25. Rocco, T. S., Spangler, S., & Boggs, D. L. (1996, January). A comparison: Fictional, nonfictional and living adults. Presented at 9th Annual International Qualitative Research in Education Conference, Athens, GA.
26. Rosenblatt, L. (1978). The Reader the text the poem: The transactional theory of the literary work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
27. Sarton, M. (1984). The education of Harriet Hatfield. New York: W. W. Norton.
28. Silverman, D. (1985). Qualitative methodology and sociology: Describing the social world. Brookfield, VT: Gower.
29. Smith, L. (1994). Biographical method. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 286-305). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
30. Smith, R. (1977). Sadie Shapiro in Miami. New York: Simon & Schuster.
31. van Manen, M. (1990). Researching lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. Ontario: State University of New York Press.
32. Yaakov, J., Greenfieldt, J. (Eds.) (1991). Fiction catalog (12th ed.). New York: H. W. Wilson.