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Managing The Documents Of Adult Education– Historical Perspective, Bo Chang

Adult Education Research Conference

In this paper, the author discussed how to collect and analyze data in historical perspective. In historical inquiry, researchers identify the research questions, specify the domain which relates to the research questions, and familiarize themselves with how the documents are structured and managed in the host library. In collecting data, researchers do not need to limit themselves to how the documents are labeled by the archivists. They can break the boundaries of the labeled documents and find out how seemingly unrelated documents are actually interrelated. Positivists and constructionists view history differently, which results in different approaches in how historical data …