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Peer reviewedSalo, Matt T.; Campanelli, Pamela C. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Ethnographic methods were integrated with survey procedures in an experimental daytime count of homeless persons in a major city. Ethnographic data proved valuable for choosing sites, designing questionnaires, developing new interview approaches, and interpreting test results. Recommends a wider use of ethnographic insights in developing surveys,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Biographical Inventories, Census Figures, Data Collection
Download full textEgger, Rudolf – 2000
The applications of biographical concepts in educational settings were examined through a case study of one researcher's use of the biographical narrative interview to examine the connection between subjective and structural conditions and coping strategies in individual lives and to inform adult education practitioners. The biographical approach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Biographical Inventories, Case Studies
