Advanced Listening Guide Method of Psychological Inquiry

PSYC

70322

Advanced Listening Guide Method of Psychological Inquiry

This course is the second in a two-course sequence in the Listening Guide method of qualitative inquiry. It is a narrative method of an alternative tothematic analysis and other methods, listening for and attending to different voices, including voices held in silence and particularly of those whospeak from the margins. This method is used in research that requires understanding participants’ interior worlds and thus facilitates psychologicaldiscovery. The second semester is designed for students who have taken The Listening Guide Method of Psychological Inquiry. The first courseintroduces the method, its roots, emphasis on radical listening, methodology, and initial exposure to the five steps of the method and how to write acomposition/analysis. The goal of the LG method for students to learn how to identify the “psychological logic” through which marginalized, andsilences people navigate hegemonies that surveil their lives and the process by which people manage the contradictory forces in their inner worlds.The LG reveals how people shape their coping strategies and engagement with the environments, institutional barriers, processes of oppressionthat occur at the psychological level, often not recognized and often at great material, social and relational sacrifice, and psychological cost. To doso, the course focuses on deepening students’ skills in performing each of the steps, including developing more sophisticated voices, identifyingadditional voices, and building skills for doing a more complex voice analysis to excavate psychological logic. The first goal of the course is toexpand and deepen students’ interpretive and writing skills required to perform and present a LG analysis. The second goal of the course is toconduct and transcribe a second interview on the same research question for further experience in LG analysis. This approach provides the newtext for skill development, in particular to locate new voices and learn to do a cross-case analysis that includes a reworking of relevant voices andanalysis. This course continues in a workshop format to create a learning community that facilitates the LG method. Students who did not take thefirst course may be admitted to the second one, pending the professor’s approval.

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