Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 720-731 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 11 2015 |
Keywords
- dialogue
- interviewing
- qualitative methodology
- reflexivity
- transformation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)