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Kathy Roulston - Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice - 9781412948579 - V9781412948579
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Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice

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Description for Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice Paperback. .
Qualitative researchers have long made use of many different interview forms. Yet, for novice researchers, making the connections between "theory" and "method" is not always easy. This book provides a theoretically-informed guide for researchers learning how to interview in the social sciences.

In order to undertake quality research using qualitative interviews, a researcher must be able to theorize the application of interviews to investigate research problems in social science research. As part of this process, researchers examine their subject positions in relation to participants, and examine their interview interactions systematically to inform research design. This book provides a ... Read more

The author takes the reader through the practicalities of designing and conducting an interview study, and relates various forms of interview to different underlying epistemological assumptions about how knowledge is produced. The book concludes with practical advice and perspectives from experienced researchers who use interviews as a method of data generation.

This book is written for a multidisciplinary audience of students of qualitative research methods.

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Product Details

Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781412948579
SKU
V9781412948579
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99-1

About Kathy Roulston
Kathryn Roulston is a Professor in the Qualitative Research Program in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where she teaches qualitative research methods. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, qualitative interviewing, and analyses of talk-in-interaction. She is editor of Interactional Studies of Qualitative Interviews (2019), and with Kathleen deMarrais, has ... Read more

Reviews for Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice
What [Roulston] provides is an excellent blend of the theory and practice of interviewing with a careful analysis of the literature on the theoretical aspects of qualitative research, much of which can be off-putting to a new researcher because of its density. This is carefully synthesized with the more practical aspects of interviewing where different scenarios are examined showing there ... Read more

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