Course Description
Conceptual framework for interviewing, approaches associated with various disciplines and schools of inquiry, forms and structures interviewing takes, the criteria developed to assess interviews, and interviewing practice across a variety of situations. Recording, analyzing, and reporting interview data, ethical and relationship issues, and research on interviewing methods.
Athena Title
Interviewing Research
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every even-numbered year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
As a learner in this course you will investigate methodological possibilities and various ways of dealing with procedural, philosophical, analytical and ethical issues related to undertaking qualitative interview projects. Specifically, you will: 1. Reflect on your own presuppositions and subjectivities in regard to the educational research processes. 2. Design several interview projects that include individual qualitative interviews (phenomenological, feminist, in-depth), focus group interviews, and an oral history approach. 3. Articulate your own theoretical framework and explain how it is informing your research design. 4. Analyze ethical dilemmas in qualitative interview research. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of issues related to differing participant populations (race, social class, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation, etc.) 6. Recognize, develop and demonstrate high quality interview skills across a range of approaches. 7. Understand the transcription process as theory and be able construct transcriptions of two examples of interview data. 8. Understand data analysis/interpretation procedures for making meaning of interview data.
Topical Outline
1. Introduction to course and research interviewing 2. Analyzing interviews 3. Your theoretical framework and research design for interview study 4. Overview of research approaches 5. Subjectivities/Bracketing Interview 6. Considerations in research design for interview studies/ 7. Designing Your Individual Interview 8. Kinds of respondents (age, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, nativity, disability, etc.) and their skills and predispositions 9. Interview structures (sequencing, pacing, probing, interpreting) 10. Recording interview data: videotaping, audiotaping, fieldnotes, electronic records 11. In-depth Phenomenological Interviews/Individual Interview Practice 12. Feminist Interviewing 13. Considering transciption conventions 14. Ethnographic Interviews/Introduction to Focus Group Design 15. Focus Group Interview s/ Ethical Issues in Interview Research/Analysis of Interview Data 16. Ethical issues in interviewing 17. Analyzing interview data: emic and etic coding; taxonomies; domains and structures; meanings; componential analysis; themes and patterns 18. Oral History Interviewing 19. Oral History Interviewing/Oral History Interview Practice 20. Oral History Interviewing/Writing It Up 21. Styles of reporting interview research 22. Oral History Interviewing 23. Oral History Project Due (transcription required)
Syllabus
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