Volume 8 of the Qualitative Psychology Nexus on
"Epistemologies for Qualitative Research"
comprises contributions of the 9th international meeting of the Center for Qualitative Psychology. It was held in
Northern Finland, near to the city of Oulu.
The seminar was started with two
crucial questions leading the participants to the theme of the conference. The
orientation followed the line of the former meetings of the Center for
Qualitative Research in Psychology helping participants to reflect own ways of
doing psychological research.
In the beginning of the conference we asked the
conference participants a very simple question or a question which sounds
simple: What do you want to know about epistemology? In small groups the
participants expressed they wanted to find answers to questions like
- What is epistemology?
- Are there many epistemologies?
- What do we mean by epistemology?
- What epistemological approaches do we have in psychology?
During the two conference days these questions we reformulated and new themes were
elaborated by the participants. At the end of the seminar the participants were
finally asked "In what questions did you find answers?"
This volume presents contributions on four topics
of qualitative research in psychology and education.
It tries to highlight and illustrate the variety of epistemologies and the personal stance every researcher
has to take to these questions.
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Contributions to the Meeting |
Introduction
Epistemology - A Tool or a Stance?
Hannu Soini & Eeva-Liisa Kronqvist
Chapter I
Epistemological Heuristics for Qualitative Research.
Joseph Maxwell
Chapter II
The World According to Players of "Killer Games" -
a Constructivist Approach to Player Thinking.
Günter L. Huber
Designing Research on the Popular Practice of Baby Signing.
Mechthild Kiegelmann
Chapter III
Qualitative Analysis of Possibilities and Difficulties of Inclusion
of Quality.
Samuel Gento, Antonio Medina & Jorge Pina
Formation of Teachers Using their Self-experience:
Emergence of Constructional Models of Professional
and Intercultural Knowledge.
María Concepción Domínguez, Antonio Medina & Jorge Pina.
Qualitative Methods in Vocational Education and Work
Psychology Research: Results from Expert Interviews in
High Technology Vocational Training.
Karin Schweizer & Petra Korte
Chapter IV
Bridging the Gap Between Personal and Social Construction:
Discourse Analysis and PCP Techniques.
Jelena Pavlovic
From Empathy to its Finnish Equivalent – How Should
We Understand Experiences?
Teemu Suorsa
Interview as Procedure in the Practice of Architects.
Sálvora Feliz, Tiberio Feliz & María Carmen Ricoy
Diaries and Self-Reflection in the Practical Training.
Maria Carmen Ricoy, Sálvora Feliz & Tiberio Feliz
The contributions to this meeting are available for download here:
> Contributions to the
meeting 2008 (pdf) /
Qualitative Psychology Nexus Vol. 08
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