InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing - Softcover

Kvale, Steinar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080395820X ISBN 13: 9780803958203

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Interviewing is an essential tool in qualitative research and this introduction to interviewing outlines both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical aspects of the process.

After examining the role of the interview in the research process, Steinar 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 established this framework, the author then analyzes the seven stages of the interview process - from designing a study to writing it up.

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About the Author

Steinar Kvale (1938-2008) was professor of educational psychology and director of the Centre of Qualitative Research at the University of Aarhus, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. He was born in Norway and graduated from the University of Oslo. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg with an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship and was a visiting professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and West Georgia University, Carrolton, and the University of Bergen. His long-term concern was with the implications of such continental philosophies as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectics for psychology and education.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080395820X
• ISBN 13: 9780803958203
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344