Doing interpretive research : learning and teaching imagination in social research /
The authors guide social researchers and instructors in better understanding and improving the experience of doing interpretive research. They demonstrate how emotions can be leveraged in the learning process to uncover surprising new insights about social reality and unlock researchers' imagin...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: An Experiential Approach to Learning and Teaching Interpretive Research
- Purpose of This Book: Experience, Emotion, and Imagination
- The Problem with Teaching and Learning Methods
- Who Is Afraid of Interpretive Social Science?
- Structure of the Book
- 2 The Vulnerability of Creativity: An Experiential Perspective on Emotions in Learning and Teaching
- Introduction
- Defence Mechanisms in Learning and Teaching Research
- Learning Involves the Whole Person
- Learning Involves Emotions
- Psychological Defence Mechanisms as Opportunities for Discovery
- The Importance of Working Through
- 3 Interpretive Unease: Overcoming Epistemic Doubt about Interpretive Research
- Introduction
- Gimme Shelter: Epistemic Confusion and Anxiety in a Naturalist World
- What Is Going on Here? The Real-World Implications of Research Philosophy
- Navigating the Methodological Universe
- Vulnerability, Experience, and Learning
- 4 'Back to the Rough Ground': Stimulating Curiosity and Discovery
- Introduction
- Using Heuristics to Stimulate Imagination
- What Is the Real-World Problem?
- Moving from a Topic to a Research Question
- Heuristics and Working through as Experiential Learning
- 5 Organizing for Surprise: Transforming Methods into Heuristics
- Introduction: Controlling the Research Situation
- Organizing for Surprise
- Cultivating an Interview Partnership
- The Interview as a Report of the Interviewee's Experiences
- Helping the Interviewee Develop the Interview Material: Markers and Flustering
- Transforming Methods into Heuristics
- 6 Learning to Theorize
- Introduction: The Challenges of Teaching Insight
- Avoiding Theorizing
- Deep Reading: Coding Open Interviews
- What Is Abduction?
- Heuristics for Learning to Theorize
- Learning to Doubt
- 7 Cultivating Imagination and Moral Judgement: Teaching and Learning Interpretive Research
- Introduction
- Teaching and Learning Imagination
- Methods Teaching as Moral Development
- Beyond Methods: Creating Conditions for Experience, Emotion, and Practice
- Teaching and Learning Interpretive Research in Different Pedagogical Settings
- Becoming an Interpretive Researcher
- Conclusion: Experiencing the Interpretive Logic of Social Research
- Appendix: Theories of Learning and Teaching
- References
- Index