Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation

Autor: Sarah J. Tracy, Robin Kanak Zwier, Amy K. Way
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Qualitative Inquiry. 21:720-731
ISSN: 1552-7565
1077-8004
DOI: 10.1177/1077800414566686
Popis: This article identifies practices in qualitative interviews that evoke research participant reflexivity and change. By engaging interviews in a dialogic manner, researchers can encourage participant perspective-taking and non-judgmental involvement that can lead to flickers of transformation. The study draws on empirical material from three different projects to locate critical incidents of dialogic interviewing. We propose a typology of dialogic interviewing strategies that accompany reflexivity—namely, (a) probing questions, (b) member reflections, and (c) counterfactual prompting. These strategies illustrate the transformative power of dialogic interviewing and serve as a guide for researchers who desire their interviews to not only be methods for gathering knowledge but also methods for intervention and critical reflection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE