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When thinking about Values, it is important to remember that analysis and interpretation of data requires that the researcher keep in mind assumptions and is careful to be clear about his/her own Values. This is the time when Values play an important part in analysis and interpretation of data as the researcher is the instrument that is making the decisions and choices about what is chosen to be included in a write-up and how far the findings are going to be interpolated or extrapolated. The analysis of a qualitative interview contains the story told to the researcher and the story told by the researcher to those who will read it or hear it. Brinkmann and Kvale (2015) refer to the triple hermeneutics of the interview, for example, where the understanding of the interview by the interviewee is the first hermeneutic. The second is the interpretation of the meaning of this by the researcher. The third hermeneutic put simply is the change the meaning may have for people’s understandings of the everyday world when it is reported or the change it may make to the original interviewee’s understanding of their reality. Communication of our findings also requires choices and clarity of Values.
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McArdle, K. (2018). Creating Meaning and Communication. In: Freedom Research in Education. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69650-8_7
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