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Qualitative Research and Case Study Applications in Education : Revised and Expanded from <I>Case Study Research in Education</I>

Published in Paperback by Jossey-Bass (1997)

Author: Sharan B. Merriam

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Case Study Researchers buy this book

I am a Ph.D. student working on my dissertation in case study research. This book is right on target for academic researchers using a case study approach. If you don't know anything about the process, you need this book. If you think you already know this process, you need this book.

Into case study research

I'm a nursing research teacher and this book really helps me and my students to understand what is a case study in research. This book has been very helpful in our college of nursing and it can helps all research in humanities field

Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education

Published in Hardcover by Krieger Publishing Company (1995)

Authors: John L. Elias, Sharan B. Merriam, and Sharon B. Merriam

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Classic

This book provides an excellent overview of the classic education philosphies in the context of adult education. It is very useful as a text book in graduate level courses, but would need to be supplimented with other resources providing information on emerging theories.

A comprehensive overview

"This book brings to life issues concerned with the philosophy of adult educators and relationships betweeen education and society. Due to it primary North American focus, the book will find its major audience there, but will appeal also to readers everywhere with an interest in the historical development of adult education. The strength of the work lies in the way it casts U.S. adult education in new roles: the facts come together in new ways to create new gestalts.... It is difficult to be objective about a book that reflects so accurately and faithfully the wide range of options that educational thought presents to us. Therefore, we confess to an overriding desire to induce as many readers as possible to beg, buy or borrow PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ADULT EDUCATION--not just to add to your personal library so much as to enjoy a reactivated search for your personal truth under the capable ministrations of Elias and Merriam." Dr. June Barth-Dow-Sheats and Dr. Paul H. Sheats, CONVERGENCE

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education : An Introduction

Published in Hardcover by Jossey-Bass (1996)

Authors: Sharan B. Merriam and Ralph G. Brockett

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Good for studying

I needed this book for an online course. It was interesting that this book could spur so many new ideas that I have now. I learned that many historical figures that I have admired as authors, performers, and scientists, could be adult educators because of the stances to think, to change, and to influence others in society.

Lifelines : Patterns of Work, Love, and Learning in Adulthood

Published in Hardcover by Jossey-Bass (1991)

Authors: Sharan B. Merriam and M. Carolyn Clark

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where is the personal touch?

The autor writes too much about the research subjects. She should place more attention on the conclusion and elaborate more about it with her personal experience. Certainly, her own experience also counts.

The book is like a research paper, a thesis. It is not easy to read.