Fictive Text: A Narrative Source for Communicating Experience in Higher Education Research

It examines the evolution of the qualitative research paradigm in order to provide a theoretical framework for locating the new narrative forms in social science writing. Additionally, several key devices which influence current qualitative inquiry are also considered: ethnographic text, the hermeneutic perspective, and the use of analogy and metaphor. A special emphasis is placed on the college novel genre, and its efficacy as a narrative source for communicating lived experience in higher education settings. The historical timeline of the qualitative research paradigm, a survey of the above textual concepts and methods, as well as five original narrative works provide a foundation for fiction to be explored as a potential source of scholarship in higher education research.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Rybka, Kathryn M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• M. Christopher Brown, II

• Education, Higher

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3044213

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79676