Gundarina, O orcid.org/0000-0003-1548-4565 (2021) Interviews with creative techniques: research with Russian-speaking migrant pupils. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 44 (4). pp. 414-432. ISSN 1743-727X
Abstract
This paper explores the use of creative techniques in a study of the experiences of Russian-speaking linguistic-minority migrant children in English state-funded primary schools at Key Stage Two (7-11 years old). The methodology is based on an interpretative paradigm using a qualitative research approach: a longitudinal multiple-case study with four embedded cases (each case representing one pupil). Focusing on specific examples from the research, the paper considers the benefits of using creative techniques within interviews to generate unique data with linguistic-minority pupils, the constraints of the techniques, and possible solutions for these. The cyclic (i.e. rounds of repeated interviews) research design, which focused on the processes of change, called for systematic alternation of the techniques. I demonstrate the unique integration of board games (the ‘interview-through-game’) and the ‘filling-in exercise’ in the interviews. This enabled a continuous adjustment of the techniques by me and by the children, retaining both the systematicity and flexibility (or constraint and emergence) of the creative techniques’ development and application. This design helped to reveal the experiences/issues of the participating children, which would otherwise be challenging to explore using other methods.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in International Journal of Research & Method in Education. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Creative techniques; interviews in research with children; linguistic minority pupils; migrant Russian-speaking pupils |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2020 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 15:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1804543 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162491 |