Inter Views

Steinar Kvale is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Centre of Qualitative Research at the University of Aarhus, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Institute, San Fransisco. He was born in Norway and and graduated from the University of Oslo. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg with an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, and has been a visiting professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and West Georgia University, Carrolton, and the University of Bergen. His long-term concern has been with the implications of such continental philosophies as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectics for psychology and education. He has studied examinations and grading, and is the author of Prufung und Herrschaft (1972). He has edited Issues of Validity in Qualitative Research (1989) and Psychology and Postmodernism (1992). Together with Klaus Nielsen he has edited Mesterlare - Laring som social praksis (Apprenticeship -- Learning as Social Practice, 1999) and Praktikkens laringslandskab -- At lare gennem arbejde (The learning landscape of practice -- Learning through work, 2003) Svend Brinkmann is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he is a member of the Centre of Qualitative Research. He has studied psychology and philosophy at Aarhus and Oxford universities and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Aarhus University for a study of the moral presuppositions and implications of psychology, entitled Psychology as a Moral Science. His research interests include qualitative methods, moral inquiry, the philosophy of psychology, and approaches to human science such as pragmatism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism. He is author of John Dewey -- En introduktion (John Dewey -- An Introduction, 2006), and has co-edited with Cecilie Eriksen Selvrealisering -- Kritiske diskussioner af en granselA s udviklingskultur (Self-realization -- Critical discussions of a boundless culture of development, 2005), and with Lene Tanggaard Psykologi: Forskning og profession (Psychology: Research and Profession, 2007).