Dialogue in Focus Groups - Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge - Ivana Markova
Focus groups as a dialogical method
Dialogue in Focus Groups - Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge - Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova [+]
University of Stirling
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I was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK in 1967 as a post-doctoral visitor to the Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge; then I was a research fellow at the Industrial Research Training Unit of the University of London. In 1970 I moved to the University of Stirling. I have been a visiting professor at various universities in the UK and abroad. Currently I am a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and an international fellow of the Open Society Institute at the University of Moldova.
Per Linell [+]
University of Gothenburg
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Per Linell participates in the LINT program (Learning, interactive technologies and the development of narrative knowing and remembering), integrated with the LinCS centre. More generally, he is engaged in international cooperations regarding the further development of dialogical theories of language and the mind.
Michele Grossen
Universite de Lausanne
Description
This chapter focuses on two issues: the general question of a research method and its implications for focus groups, and, the study of content in focus groups, using dialogical concepts introduced in Chapter 1 (dialogue, interaction and socially shared knowledge). Finally, the authors question if these two issues are useful for understanding research methods based on dialogism.