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Joanna Neil – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2017
This experimental paper, 'Interview with Self', is not so much the findings of a research project, but rather the continuing process of it. It is part of an auto-ethnographic study of the creative making process, presented here in its unedited form as an example of a methodology and as an artefact of practice. The use of digital technologies and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Metacognition, Creativity
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
This article reports on methodological issues in the study of autobiographical narratives about transition to school within a life course approach. The data consist of 89 Australian participants' recollections of starting school between 1928 and 1995. These narratives are considered as life reviews and part of the story of "continuing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
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Stack, Sue – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
This paper is written in response to Nancy Davis's article "Integral Methodological Pluralism in Science Education Research: Valuing Multiple Perspectives." I use Integral Theory as a framing for this response to explore how it might offer different perspectives and ways of inquiring into Nancy's paper. This process highlights…
Descriptors: Theories, Science Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Pamela J. Bretschneider – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study is in process, begun in 2008, in which I am currently collecting data for an authorized biography. It outlines what has recently been a shift in the role of researchers, especially during interviews, from one of structured questioner to a more collaborative role, that of conversational partner. Data collection methods are varied…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Biographies, Researchers, Role
Patel, Neelam – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The field of teacher education has long sought to examine the impact of coursework on teacher practice and student learning. Despite the promise of many forms of educational pedagogy and curricula utilized in teacher education programs, many novice teachers continue to feel unprepared and insecure about their teaching. Pre-service teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Case Studies
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Ezzy, Douglas – Qualitative Inquiry, 2010
The article argues that the emotional framing of interviews plays a major role in shaping the content of interviews. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Jessica Benjamin and Luce Irigaray, the article describes how interviews can be experienced as either conquest or communion. Qualitative researchers typically focus on the cognitively…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interviews, Theories, Psychology
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DeMarie, Darlene – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
Although "top-down" indicators, such as the ratio of adults to children in classrooms and program rankings based on standardized test scores, can predict some of the future impact of children's education, "bottom-up" factors, such as whether children feel welcome and whether they find the learning activities to be meaningful…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Standardized Tests, Elementary Schools, Autobiographies
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Morin, Francoise – International Journal of Oral History, 1982
Outlines the ways that the life history method (a research technique based on autobiographical interviews) has been used in anthropology. Debates among French anthropologists on the method's validity are discussed. A study using life histories to examine the social functions of an Occitan language revival among French peasants is described. (AM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Autobiographies, Interviews, Research Methodology
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Kaplan, Charles D. – International Journal of Oral History, 1982
Explores the use of sociological life histories to study social problems such as drug addiction. The factors influencing the fluctuating popularity of this research technique within the social sciences are examined. The impact of the researcher's direct exposure to the interviewee's problems on research results is discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Drug Addiction, Interviews, Research Methodology
Warren, Catharine E. – Adult Education, 1982
Examines these questions: What are life histories? What problems and people are best suited for them? What motivates people to write them? Does the collection procedure affect the content? and How should the material be analyzed? (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Autobiographies, Community Study, Data Collection
Page, Miriam Dempsey – 1997
In "The Uses of Diversity," the interpretive anthropologist, Clifford Geertz, says that it is impossible to completely get inside the point of view of another culture. Geertz contends, however, that despite multiple voices in the growing body of reflexive ethnographies there is still an author composing the work. Besides Geertz,…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Cultural Context, Essays, Ethnography
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Yoshihama, Mieko; Gillespie, Brenda; Hammock, Amy C.; Belli, Robert F.; Tolman, Richard M. – Social Work Research, 2005
Violence perpetrated by intimate partners (intimate partner violence, IPV hereinafter) is prevalent, and often recurrent, in women's lives (Straus & Gelles, 1990; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Gaining information about lifetime IPV is crucial to assess the cumulative effects of IPV on women's well-being over the life course. This study compared two…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Family Violence, Females, Validity