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The Inevitable Pull of the River's Current

Interpretations Derived From a Single Text Using Multiple Research Traditions

Susan Slaughter

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Yasmin Dean

Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Holly Knight

Professional Practice & Development (Allied Health), Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brigette Krieg

First Nations University of Canada, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Pnina Mor

Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Violet Nour

Ellen Polegato

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Cydnee Seneviratne

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Darcy G. Shenfield

Hinton, Alberta, Canada

Elena Sherwood

Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre, Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada

The purpose of this article is to make visible the multiple ways in which doctoral students from various qualitative research traditions learned to think, read, and write interpretively as they completed an assignment requiring the interpretive analysis of a common interview transcript. Students were asked to offer a convincing account of the text and to demonstrate an understanding of what it means to interpret within their selected research tradition. Shared and disputed meanings arising from the interpretive process are presented and discussed. This description of their collective experience might be useful to novice researchers and their mentors.

Key Words: interpretation • grounded theory • ethnography • narrative inquiry • participatory action research

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, 548-561 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306298812
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