Product Description

The first edition of InterViews has provided students and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines with the whys and hows of research interviewing, preparing students for learning interviewing by doing interviews and by studying examples of best practice. The thoroughly revised Second Edition retains its original seven-stage structure, continuing to focus on the practical, epistemological, and ethical issues involved with interviewing. Authors Steinar Kvale and Svend Brinkmann also include coverage of newer developments in qualitative interviewing, discussion of interviewing as a craft, and a new chapter on linguistic modes of interview analysis. Practical and conceptual assignments, as well as new tool boxes, provide students with the means to dig deeper into the material presented and achieve a more meaningful level of understanding.

New to This Edition

· Includes new developments in qualitative interviewing: New materials cover narrative, discursive, and conversational analyses.

· Presents interviewing as a social practice: Knowledge produced by interviewing is discussed as linguistic, conversational, narrative, relational, situated, and pragmatic.

· Addresses a variety of interviews forms: In addition to harmonious, empathetic interviews, the authors also cover confrontational interviews.

This text is ideal for both novice and experienced interview researchers as well as graduate students taking courses in qualitative and research methods in the social sciences and health sciences, particularly departments of education, nursing, sociology, psychology, and the media sciences.

Praise for the previous edition:

I think this is one of the most in-depth treatments of the interview process that I have seen. The frank and realistic approach that the authors take to this topic is rather unique and will be very reassuring to researchers who are undertaking an interview study for the first time.

-Lisa M. Diamond, University of Utah

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60419 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

About the Author
Steinar Kvale is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Centre of Qualitative Research at the University of Aarhus, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Institute, San Fransisco. He was born in Norway and and graduated from the University of Oslo. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg with an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, and has been a visiting professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and West Georgia University, Carrolton, and the University of Bergen. His long-term concern has been with the implications of such continental philosophies as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectics for psychology and education. He has studied examinations and grading, and is the author of Prüfung und Herrschaft (1972). He has edited Issues of Validity in Qualitative Research (1989) and Psychology and Postmodernism (1992). Together with Klaus Nielsen he has edited Mesterlære - Læring som social praksis (Apprenticeship Learning as Social Practice, 1999) and Praktikkens læringslandskab At lære gennem arbejde (The learning landscape of practice Learning through work, 2003)

Svend Brinkmann is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he is a member of the Centre of Qualitative Research. He has studied psychology and philosophy at Aarhus and Oxford universities and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Aarhus University for a study of the moral presuppositions and implications of psychology, entitled Psychology as a Moral Science. His research interests include qualitative methods, moral inquiry, the philosophy of psychology, and approaches to human science such as pragmatism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism. He is author of John Dewey En introduktion (John Dewey An Introduction, 2006), and has co-edited with Cecilie Eriksen Selvrealisering Kritiske diskussioner af en grænseløs udviklingskultur (Self-realization Critical discussions of a boundless culture of development, 2005), and with Lene Tanggaard Psykologi: Forskning og profession (Psychology: Research and Profession, 2007).

Customer Reviews

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The best available book in the market for the subject. No doubt the book give very simple explanation for very complicated tasks. In my third year of My PhD with no previous experience doing interview research, the book is simply provide answers to my problem in hand. The language also easy to understand for non-English speaker like me studying in the UK. Really recommended for any researchers who intent to use interview technique.