Livshistorieinterview:om brugen af tidslinjer ; Life-history interviews:on using a time line.

Autor/Urheber	Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine
Titel	Livshistorieinterview:om brugen af tidslinjer ; Life-history interviews:on using a time line.
Quelle	Aus: Adriansen , H K 2010 , ' Life-history interviews : on using a time line ' . (2010) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	tidslinje; interview; livshistorie
Abstract	My first encounter with life history research was during my Ph.D. research. This concerned a multi-method study of nomadic mobility in Senegal. One method stood out as yielding the most interesting and in-depth data: life story interviews using a time line. I made interviews with the head of the nomadic households and during these I came to understand the use of mobility in a complex context of continuity and change, identity and belonging in the Fulani community. Time line interviews became one of my favourite tool in the years to follow, a tool used both for my research in various settings across cultures and disciplines and for my work as a management consultant. Naturally, I would include the tool for my students in educational psychology when I began teaching a course on qualitative interviews last semester. Large was my surprise when I failed to find any references to the specific time line tool. I wondered where I had first read about this type of interview and looked through my old books on development research. While I was sure the inspiration came from Britha Mikkelsen's Methods for Development Work and Research, I did not succeed in finding to find any instruction to the use of a time line for making life story interviews. I decided that the lack of authoritative literature should not omit me from teaching my students how to make a time line interview. After an introduction, they had to use the tool for making an interview each other concerning their learning journey to DPU. The results were quite powerful. They made really in-depth interviews with each other, experiencing how an interview can be a co-construction, as they had read in Steinar Kvale's InterViews. Afterwards, many chose to use the tool for their exam. This was a 'reflection essay' written after they had conducted an interview. Some of these essays held beautiful reflections over the analytical power at play in a time line interview. Unfortunately, the students could not refer to any literature related directly to the method. Reading these I decided it was about time I wrote a paper on the use of a time line in qualitative interviews. I first presented the paper on a conference on life history research at Karlstad University in November 2010. My main purpose was to establish whether a paper discussing the use of time line interviews should be placed in the context of a life history research. The valuable comments from the other participants convinced me that time line interviews can be a valuable tool for life history research. Moreover, the participants agreed that literature on how to conduct a time line interview was missing. Consequently, I finalised the paper seeing time line interviews as a tool for conducting life history research. While I also consider time line interviews useful for other types of research, that story will have to wait for another paper.
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