Talk:Semi-structured_interviews
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suggested addition
in the 'doing and being interviewed' section - perhaps a reflection box on 'space, place and participants' that reflects on the limits of one-to-one interviews in some situations, and also how researchers must be adaptable - sitting on the ground for interviews, adapting to interruptions/intrigue from others, respecting interviewees time.
--Arathi 17:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
ALSO: Something that i remember from my fieldwork: my participants (teachers) took so much pleasure in listening to the recorded interview afterwards. I would always bring headphones because so often they would ask to listen to their voices...and show their colleagues, with much laughter and enjoyment. This was a small way of reciprocation i guess, that we could reflect on. in some cases i burned a CD for them to take of the interview. A friend had a similar experience during her fieldwork in india -- after the interview, villagers would ask to sing into the recorder, and listen to their songs afterwards, calling others over to sing and listen...
Reflecting on this, I guess we might have a section on how 'interviewing' is not a clinical practice: it is about sharing, community, social understanding.... which requires researchers to give time to their participants and step away from their interview schedules to enjoy the wider social interaction an interview can offer.
--Arathi 08:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
