Empowering interview
Maija Hirvonen, Hannele Torvinen
JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Empowering interview
Listening to people – participatory methods in special needs education.
Interview as an example
Goals:
• Qualitative research is an inquiry process, that aims at understanding a phenomenon (e.g. social and health problems)
from the point of view of people who are studied.
• The researcher attempt to build a complex, holistic picture of the phenomenon and conducts the study in an natural
setting. (Flick 2009)
• The main goal is to understand how we can support students with special educational needs in the participation of the
planning of their own life.
Content:
• Introduction of participants and course program.
• Qualitative Research Design – what does it mean?
• Interview: What is it?
• In what ways is it understood? What kind of needs do we have? Interview techniques
• 1 field work/exposure day according to the plans of the participants
• Findings of the field work at the end of the workshop
Listening to people – participatory methods in special needs education.
Interview as an example
• The essential features of qualitative research
• Enpowering participation-some examples
• Qualitative research design
• Defining research question(s)
• Interview methods
Timetable
5 October (Orientation to the theme,
background)
at 10-15 (incl. lunch)
6 October
at 10-15 (incl. lunch)
• 7 October (Planning the field work; Qualitative data analysis methods;
Conceptualizing the interview data and experiences )
at 13 – 18
• 8 October (Practicing interviews as pair work; field work; Collecting
qualitative data)
(out of the university)
• 9 October (Presentation of the findings in the workshop; Reflection of
learning outcomes)
at 10 – 15