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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 6:2 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Empirical Articles

Interviewing Deaf Adults in Postsecondary Educational Settings: Stories, Cultures, and Life Histories

Peter Freebody and Des Power

Centre for Literacy and Language Education Research, Griffith University
Centre for Deafness Studies and Research, Griffith University

This article provides a brief examination of how Deaf adults describe their life histories as learners and as workers in the workforce. We show how these histories are intricately tied to the movements in and around the participants’ social positions as Deaf persons in a hearing world. Three discursive positions are evident in the talk of these interviewees in relation to Deafness: as disability, as logistic complexity, and as community/culture. We also show how the life stories produced in the interviews entail variations on the theme of fragmentation: the losing, missing, and finding of viable life circumstances. In addition, we discuss how the interviewer-interviewee relationship comes to embody a hearing community's interests, recasting a Deaf interviewee's everyday life into a series of curiosities.

The research reported in this article was conducted with the support of a grant from the Australian Research Council, File Number A79532440.

Correspondence should be sent to Peter Freebody, Centre for Literacy Education Research, Faculty of Education, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia (e-mail: P.Freebody{at}mailbox.gu.edu.au).

Received April 23, 1999; revised August 15, 2000; accepted September 25, 2000


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