Ways of knowing and caring for older adults: a qualitative study of baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions

Abstract

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Discourse of construction: A look at how secondary reading preservice teachers conceptualize their teaching

“…Constant comparative methodology has played a role in several local dissertation studies, spanning a number of qualitative inquiries in a number of fields. Franzen (1998), for example, conducted analysis of the classroom documents of nursing students in gerontology coursework to support her primary interview analysis. Her "constant analysis of the documents proceeded in a manner similar to the analysis of the in-depth interviews" (p. 13); it was also supplemented by focus group data from an earlier pilot study on the same topic.…”