CHE Principles: facilitating authentic and dialogical semi-structured interviews in educational research |
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| Authors: | Alice Brown Patrick A Danaher |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Australia;2. School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the values of the CHE principles of Connectivity, Humanness and Empathy as a guiding framework for maximizing the ethical and methodological advantages of semi-structured interview research practices. The authors draw from two separate educational studies and apply the CHE principles to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of decision-making in facilitating sustainable relationships with the participants in each study. Findings highlight that dialogical relations with participants were evident in both studies, and identify significant junctures where decision-making and actions influenced effective rapport-building and respectful and reciprocal relationships with participants in the research. The CHE principles emerge as providing a robust framework for educational researchers to employ when auditing their decision-making prior to and during their engagement in qualitative interviews. |
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| Keywords: | Educational research qualitative methods rapport-building semi-structured interviews relationships |
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