InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing

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Although interviewing is an essential tool for the researcher, its effective and broad use is not always grasped by students and even professionals. Kvale (educational psychology, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) shares her experience as an interviewer from both a theoretical perspective and in a more practical seven stage outline of the process. Both neophytes and experts can benefit from her analysis which takes in both hermeneutics and how to avoid boring interview reports. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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"I think the book is a fine job, coming ''up close'' to issues that are often avoided or left tacit, and as a consequence have become terra incognita to many qualitative researchers. More precisely, they do not even know that they do not know."--Matthew B. Miles, Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research "The book will have an immediate and very wide audience. It is a marvelous statement, very synthetic, very accessible, and so nicely interpretive."--Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignInterviewing is an essential tool in the repertoire of the qualitative researcher, and yet the intricate relationship between the "hows" and the "whys" of the interview process is not always easily understood. Steinar Kvale’s InterViews provides both theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects of the interview process. After examining the role of the interview in the research process, Kvale considers some of the key philosophical issues relating to interviewing: the interview as conversation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, concerns about ethics as well as validity, and postmodernism. Having laid out the framework, the author takes the reader through the seven stages of the interviewing process, from designing a study to writing it up. Fundamental and essential, InterViews is written for students and professionals in qualitative and research methods, psychology, education research, nursing, social work, counseling, family studies, gerontology, evaluation, sociology, and anthropology.


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Although interviewing is an essential tool for the researcher, its effective and broad use is not always grasped by students and even professionals. Kvale (educational psychology, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) shares her experience as an interviewer from both a theoretical perspective and in a more practical seven stage outline of the process. Both neophytes and experts can benefit from her analysis which takes in both hermeneutics and how to avoid boring interview reports. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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