Doing Interviews

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 Prfung 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 Mesterlre - Lring som social praksis (Apprenticeship Learning as Social Practice, 1999) and Praktikkens lringslandskab At lre gennem arbejde (The learning landscape of practice Learning through work, 2003)

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Introduction to Interview Research Epistemological Issues of Interviewing Ethical Issues of Interviewing Planning an Interview Study Conducting an Interview Interview Variations Interview Quality Transcribing Interviews Analysing Interviews Validation and Generalisation of Interview Knowledge Reporting Interview Knowledge Enhancing Interview Quality

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