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A guide to research for educators and trainers of adults / by Sharan B. Merriam and Edwin L. Simpson.

Merriam, Sharan B. (Author). Simpson, Edwin L. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0894648497
  • ISBN: 9780894648496
  • ISBN: 0894644106
  • ISBN: 9780894644108
  • Physical Description: xiv, 235 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Nature of Research -- The Meaning of Research -- Purposes and Types of Research -- The Research Process -- Framing the Research Study -- What to Study? -- What Is the Problem? -- Setting Up the Problem -- Research Questions and Hypotheses -- Is the Problem Important? -- What Is a Theoretical/Conceptual Framework? -- Theory and the Research Process -- Reviewing the Literature -- Functions of a Literature Review -- The Search Process -- Finding the Literature -- Selecting the Sources for Review -- Writing the Literature Review -- Parts of the Literature Review -- Guidelines for Doing a Literature Review -- Experimental and Descriptive Designs -- Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs -- Designing Quasi-Experimental Research -- Descriptive Designs -- Approaches to Descriptive Data Gathering -- Futures Research -- Descriptive Data-Gathering Techniques -- Strengths and Limitations of Descriptive Research -- Historical Inquiry and Philosophical Inquiry -- Historical Inquiry -- Doing Historical Research -- Interpretation -- Philosophical Inquiry -- Methods of Philosophical Inquiry -- Linguistic Analysis -- Phenomenology -- Meaning and Interpretation: Qualitative Methods -- Common Characteristics -- The Design of a Qualitative Study -- Validity and Reliability -- Three Types of Qualitative Research -- Ethnography -- Grounded Theory -- Action, Participatory, Critical, and Feminist Research Designs -- Action Research -- Participatory Research -- Critical Research -- Feminist Research.

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