This Guide is intended as a starting point for your research and lists a selection of material. You will need to look beyond the resources listed here to identify further reading. Additional material (including more ebooks) can be found in the Education Ebooks Collection, or Sage Research Methods and in scholarly ejournal articles sourced using bibliographic databases.
See the Interviews section of the Education Ebooks Collection for additional reading
The following sections of the Library will contain material on this subject:
301/01 – Social science research methodology
370/78 – Educational research
Atkinson & Silverman (1997). Kundera's Immortality: the interview society and the invention of self. Qualitative Inquiry 3(3), 324-45.
Cameron, H. (2005). Asking the tough questions: A guide to ethical practices in interviewing young children. Early Child Development and Care, 175(6), 597-610.
Dilley, P. (2000). Conducting successful interviews: tips for intrepid research. Theory into Practice, 39(3), 131-137.
Hammersley, M. (2003). Recent radical criticisms of interview studies. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24(1), 119-126.
Opdenakker, R. (2006). Advantages and disadvantages of four interview techniques in qualitative research. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 7(4), Art. 11.
Potter, J. & Hepburn, A. (2005). Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities. Qualitative research in psychology 2: 281-307.