Fictive Text: A Narrative Source for Communicating Experience in Higher Education Research
Rybka, Kathryn M.
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Description
Title
Fictive Text: A Narrative Source for Communicating Experience in Higher Education Research
Author(s)
Rybka, Kathryn M.
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
M. Christopher Brown, II
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Higher
Language
eng
Abstract
It examines the evolution of the qualitative research paradigm in order to provide a theoretical framework for locating the new narrative forms in social science writing. Additionally, several key devices which influence current qualitative inquiry are also considered: ethnographic text, the hermeneutic perspective, and the use of analogy and metaphor. A special emphasis is placed on the college novel genre, and its efficacy as a narrative source for communicating lived experience in higher education settings. The historical timeline of the qualitative research paradigm, a survey of the above textual concepts and methods, as well as five original narrative works provide a foundation for fiction to be explored as a potential source of scholarship in higher education research.
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