The use of illustrations in narrative interviews--understanding the experiences of students with dyslexia in higher education in England and Germany /
This case provides insight into the use of illustrations in narrative interviews that were conducted with students in higher education in England and Germany who described themselves as dyslexic. The case illustrates how the use of illustrations can help researchers to conduct participant-led interv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2018.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case provides insight into the use of illustrations in narrative interviews that were conducted with students in higher education in England and Germany who described themselves as dyslexic. The case illustrates how the use of illustrations can help researchers to conduct participant-led interviews, thereby defusing an over-reliance on topic guides. Allowing interview participants to draw a picture or map, including the important people and places (positive as well as negative) that had influenced their lives, allowed me as a researcher to step back and to observe where the interview participants were going to take me. This method is particularly amiable to researching sensitive topics, such as the emotionally difficult memories of school failure and strategies of hiding what participants described as deviant behavior in settings such as school and university that appeared to be defined by written language. The case considers how I came to use this largely unused method and some of the difficulties that arose in the course of the research project. Moreover, I consider the challenges of balancing theoretical knowledge that shaped my thinking at the time of conducting the interviews (e.g., the medicalization of dyslexia and disability rights discourses) and the inductive approach to data collection and analysis. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526428622 1526428628 |