The project Peer think has chosen semi-structured interview as one qualitative technique/method of evaluation in order to provide additional data related to the intersection of categories like Gender, Migration social Class in peer Violence prevention
What qualitative research can offer is an understanding of peoples ‘lifeworlds’, trying to understand the situation from the perspective of those being researched. While there are important differences in the conceptual derivations and background, all methods of qualitative research share the view that it is the task of research to uncover the nature of the social world through an interpretative and empathetic understanding of how people act and give meaning to their own life. Using this perspective it therefore becomes essential to gather statements made by participants with a view to examining the various dimensions of the situation that they construct. It is also important to focus upon ongoing patterns of interaction.

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