Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences

Informationen zum Autor Donald E. Polkinghorne is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Counseling Psychology at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry and Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations.Using literary criticism, philosophy, and history, as well as recent developments in the cognitive and social sciences, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences shows how to use research information organized by the narrative form-such information as clinical life histories, organizational case studies, biographic material, corporate cultural designs, and literary products. The relationship between the narrative format and classical and statistical and experimental designs is clarified and made explicit. Suggestions for doing research are given as well as criteria for judging the accuracy and quality of narrative research results.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Polkinghorne, Donald E Polkinghorne, Donald E. Polkinghorne
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1988
• EAN: 9780887066238
• ISBN: 978-0-88706-623-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 12 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)