Clément Barniaudy, lecturer in geography at Montpellier University's Faculty of Education and member of LIRDEF.
Sylvain Connac, teacher-researcher in educational sciences at the Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier and at LIRDEF
Aurelie Zwang, Senior Lecturer in Education and Training at the Faculty of Science, University of Montpellier, and member of Lirdef.
Research interviews, regularly used in the humanities and social sciences, enable us to gather the opinions of the people being researched, with a view to understanding their lives, experiences and deep-rooted logic.
Experienced and novice researchers alike will find in this book a presentation of interview methodologies in all their diversity and richness. Each chapter includes concrete examples of the equipment used to collect interview data, but also situates the aims of the methodology, the posture and dispositions that are part of the researcher's necessary commitments, the modalities for entering into relationship and dialogue with the actor-subjects, and the analysis of the resulting data.
The undeniable strength of this book is that it provides rigorous tools for the researcher, while at the same time inviting him or her to problematize the limits of research, the knowledge, concepts and methodologies that underpin it, and the values that underpin it.
