The fourth annual meeting of Qualitative Psychology on
"Areas of Qualitative Psychology - Special Focus on Design"
took place in Blaubeuren (near Ulm, Germany) Oct., 22-24, 2003
and was organized by the Center for Qualitative Psychology (Tübingen,
Germany).
The question of Research Design was chosen as the
central topic of the conference. Researchers from different professions
took part. The range of experience of the participants
was very heterogeneous: Beginning with young researchers, different
levels of expertise were represented (up to and including very
experienced scholars and researchers). Participants also came
from different countries. The main work was done in small
working groups. In these groups each study and its outcome(s)
was critically discussed and remarked upon. Plenum lectures were
also held, in which selected experts presented their thoughts on
the central topic - research design.
To demonstrate design structures, three plenum presentations and
discussions were held at the beginning, in the middle and at the
end of the conference. These sessions were organized by experts
in order to foster an understanding of professional decision
making in the process of designing qualitative psychological research.
The experts were in charge were: (a) Jarg Bergold, (b)
Günter L. Huber and Mechthild Kiegelmann, and (c) Thomas
Burkart, Gerhard Kleining, and Harald Witt.
Jarg Bergold opened with fundamental
thoughts about professional decision making, supported by a
review of the literature. Kiegelmann and Huber concentrated
mainly on promoting discussion between the conference members
and emphasized the need to use a circular approach to optimize
the research. Kleining, Burkart and Witt focused attention on a
theory of feeling (Burkart) - including criticism of the development
and basic assumptions of that theory (Witt). Finally, Kleining
explored and illustrated his method of a qualitative-heuristic
approach to theory building.
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Contributions to the Meeting |
Introduction and Overview
Leo Gürtler and Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner
Design in Qualitative Psychology
Mechthild Kiegelmann and Günter L. Huber
Designing the Move from Data to a Theory of Feeling
(1) The Qualitative-Heuristic Approach to Theory
Gerhard Kleining
(2) Some Questions and Answers about the
Qualitative-Heuristic Approach to Theory
Leo Gürtler and Gerhard Kleining
(3) Towards a Dialectic Theory of Feeling
Thomas Burkart
(4) Questioning Burkart's Theory of Feeling
Harald Witt
(5) Some Conclusions
Thomas Burkart
The Application of a Grounded Theory-Based
Research Design for Analyzing Caregiver Burden.
How to Increase the Specificity of Concepts
Jeannette Bischkopf, Anna Auckenthaler, and
Christian Stiglmayr
Qualitative Research in Intercultural Processes in the
Fields of Geography and History in Secondary Education
Ma. Concepción Domínguez Garrido and
Antonio Medina Rivilla
Step by Step: The Significance of the Open Qualitative
Research Process for Gender Research
Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner
The Axiologial Bases of a New Curricum Design
Samuel Gento Palacios, M Concepción a Domínguez Garrido,
and Antonio Medina Rivilla
How Do Students Feel in Open and Direct
Instruction? A Study with Mixed Methods
Michaela Gläser-Zikuda and Hanne Schuster
Qualitative Video Analysis: Design of a Study on
the Function of Humor in Teaching Discourses on
Mindfulness
Leo Gürtler
Qualitative Analysis "cis transcriptionae":
Direct Processing of Sound and Video Data
Günter L. Huber
Qualitative Methods in Evaluation Studies
Günter L. Huber
Contribution of a Modified Global Analysis
to a Qualitative Heuristic Analysis
Karin Jeschke
Living with Persons with Disabilities:
Perspectives of L’Arche Assistants
Levan Lim and Annette Ullrich
Collaboration in Computer Assisted Qualitative
Research
Gunârs Strods, Liesma Ose, Tamâra Skoromka,
and Irîna Maslo
The Importance of Emotion and Rhythm for Learning
Hannu Soini and Mark Flynn
Online Survey + Qualitative Analysis +
Quantitative Results = Possible & Reasonable?
Meike Watzlawik
The contributions to this meeting are available for download here:
> Contributions to the
meeting 2003 (pdf) / Qualitative Psychology Nexus Vol. 04
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