Reusing Qualitative Data for Teaching Purposes

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Reusing Qualitative Data for Teaching Purposes
ESDS Qualidata Teaching Pack
Bethany Morgan Dimitris Vonofakos
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ESDS Qualidata Teaching Pack

• On-line teaching resource
• Focuses on distinguishing different types of
  interviewing styles
• Highlights some of the most interesting and
  important collections from the Archive
• Designed to assist in qualitative methods
  teaching and research

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ESDS Qualidata Teaching Pack An Overview of the
Resource

• Seven Interview Types
• Structured
• Unstructured
• Semi-structured
• Feminist
• Psycho-social
• Oral history
• Life story interviews
• Summaries
• Selected extracts
• Teaching activities

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ESDS Qualidata Teaching PackTeaching activities
a demonstration

• Task identify interviewing style
• Example a feminist interview transcript
• Feminist Interviews
• Womens experiences
• Openness of the projects aims and objectives
• Assimilation
• Building a Friendship
• Reciprocation of Experiences
• Identification and Sharing Beliefs
• Helping out/offering advice

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1. Womens experiences

• Example 1 (p.1)
• Contextual information usually provided at the
  beginning of an interview pays particular
  attention to womens division of labour in the
  context given before the interview.
• There seems to be a clear division of labour at
  home. Husband just concentrates on his study and
  the wife is responsible for everything related to
  the whole family.

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2. Openness of the projects aims and objectives

• Example 2 (p.8)
• On project aim and focus
• Int This is one of the reasons of this project.
  Most of the foreigners think we Chinese, most of
  us, will go to see Chinese doctors when we fall
  ill and don't go to see the GPs. That is why the
  usage of the NHS -- the statistics are so low.
  That is why we want to find out the reasons. They
  wonder whether most of the Chinese people prefer
  to see Chinese doctors.

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3. Assimilation
Example 3 (p.1) In the first moments of the
interview

• Int Respondent started to laugh relax, it is
  alright laughs

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4. Building a Friendship

• Example 4 (p.13)
• Resp Laughter Yes, but I did not talk a lot.
  You might not think that as I talk a lot with you
  (laugh).
• Int Yes, yes, I don't think you can't talk a
  lot.
• Resp (laugh)

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5. Reciprocation of Experiences
Example 5 (p.4) Commenting on everyday domestic
routine Int Yes. My sister told me that being a
housewife is very demanding, very hard. Example
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the weather is not good ... Int I have that
too. Resp You have that too. Ice-cold food is
not good for asthma. But children can't resist
ice-cold food. They need exercise in that kind of
weather. Recently he hasn't taken the medicine.
Do you use an inhaler? Int I did.
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6. Identification and Sharing Beliefs
Example 7 (p.14) On husbands ability to chat to
different people Resp I don't know how to chat
with people like this. Int Neither do I. (p14)
Example 8 (p.10) On first few months in the
UK Int How did you cope with it? Resp I
cried. After I cried for a few times, I felt
better. If I did not feel good, I cried and then
I felt alright. Int Crying can help? Not for
me. After crying, I still need a friend to talk
with.
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7. Helping out/offering advice
Example 9 (p.14) On husbands ability to connect
with people Resp He is capable of doing that.
So he has a lot of friends. He has a lot of
friends. Int But I think you can do the same
because you are also willing to chat with people.
Example 10 (p.4) On job-hunting Int But my
previous flatmates from Taiwan, they were able to
get some part time jobs. Have you tried?
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Reusing Qualitative Data for Teaching Purposes
ESDS Qualidata Teaching Pack
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