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Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview process, incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview based research and the different approaches to reading the data. Consideration is also given to the crucial issue of how to ensure scientific rigour.
Epistemological Issues of Interviewing
Epistemological Issues of Interviewing
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be familiar with
- epistemological conceptions of the kind of knowledge produced when interview conversations are applied for research purposes referring to the philosophy of knowledge;
- the mode of understanding of a qualitative research interview and the power dynamics of the interview situation;
- seeing research interviews in relation to other forms of conversation, such as the philosophical dialogue and a therapeutic conversation;
- the miner and the traveller metaphors of interviewing as a way to contrast different epistemological conceptions of the knowledge produced ...
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