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Publication Date: 1969-Feb
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History and Social Science: Complementary Approaches to Adult Education Research.
Carlson, Robert A.
The author expresses the view that historical and social science research in adult education should be complementary but separate. He asserts that interpretive, humanistic adult education history should be oriented toward "the unique, the particular, and the individual," with statistical analysis and other scientific methodology preferably confined to social science studies. (ly)
Descriptors: Adult Education, History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Methodology, Social Sciences
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Note: Paper presented at the National Seminar on Adult Education Research (Toronto, February 9-11, 1969)