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Cherrstrom, Catherine A.; Robbins, Stacey E.; Bixby, John – Adult Learning, 2017
Academic publications provide insights into a discipline's history, knowledge base, and research norms, and thus analyzing publication activity provides learning about the field of study. To learn more about the field of adult and continuing education, this study used content analysis to examine 10 years of "Adult Learning" from 2006…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Journal Articles, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
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Lundgren, Solveig – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore home care nurses' experience of learning in a multicultural environment. Design/methodology/approach: The study was based on qualitative research design. Data were collected through repeated interviews with registered home care nurses working in a multicultural area. The data were analyzed through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Community Health Services, Home Programs
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Batagiannis, Stella C. – Qualitative Report, 2011
This case study explored the promise and possibility of doing action research both for aspiring principals engaged in such research and for professors using it as pedagogy for teaching educational leadership. The study of a class of graduate students aspiring to be principals had a constructivist theoretical framework. The research design…
Descriptors: Principals, Action Research, Case Studies, College Faculty
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Arditti, Joyce A.; Joest, Karen S.; Lambert-Shute, Jennifer; Walker, Latanya – Qualitative Report, 2010
In this study, we document a reflexive process via bracketing techniques and the development of a conceptual map in order to better understand how emotions that arise in the field can inform research design, implementation, and results. We conducted a content analysis of field notes written by a team of researchers who administered an interview to…
Descriptors: Research Design, Content Analysis, Psychological Patterns, Correctional Institutions
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Horning, Michael A. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2007
This study examines the role that community networks can take in fulfilling McQuail's call for a more democratic-participant form of mass media. Community networks, which are online grassroots organizations designed to promote local community initiatives, increased their Internet presence in the 1990s. However, their number has declined in recent…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Mass Media Use, Democratic Values, Content Analysis
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Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Bagno, Esther – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
How can one increase the awareness of teachers to the existence and importance of knowledge gained through physics education research (PER) and provide them with capabilities to use it? How can one enrich teachers' physics knowledge and the related pedagogical content knowledge of topics singled out by PER? In this paper we describe a professional…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Physics, Content Analysis, Professional Development