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| What forgiveness teaches us about research methods | | Author(s) | Helen K Black |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 23, no 4, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 3-16 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Qualitative Studies ; Methodology ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | This paper highlights the analytical and descriptive components of qualitative research. Narratives collected through ethnographic interviewing emphasize the unique meaning, to an elder, of a particular experience. The experience of forgiving someone or being forgiven was qualitatively researched through a project entitled "Forgiveness as concept and tool at the end of the lifespan". A sample of forty elders (20 men and 20 women), and varied by race and religious adherence, narrated their life stories and stories of forgiveness. This article uses a case study from the original "forgiveness" project, to report how one woman determined that an incident in her life required forgiveness. Analysis identifies the elder as the expert on her experiences of forgiveness, and the paper examines the interviewer's role in the process of the ethnographic interview. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040108203 A |
| Classmark | EX: DB: 3DP: 3D: 69P |
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