Insights from a Focused Autobiography.

Dickie, Virginia Allen

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ERIC Number: EJ542185

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Insights from a Focused Autobiography.

Dickie, Virginia Allen

Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, v17 n2 p99-104 Spr 1997

Use of a focused autobiography to illuminate researcher bias in qualitative study had the unintended effect of identifying additional research questions. Hermeneutic theory suggests that bias or "preunderstanding" is a necessary condition of interpretation. (SK)

Descriptors: Autobiographies, Bias, Hermeneutics, Qualitative Research

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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