I was taught to record and transcribe interviews. All the interpretative power was put in my hands. I decided what words mattered out of the deluge of words I heard and read. I was often explicitly guided by theory and too often unconsciously by what I already knew and how I made sense of the world.
What if we co-construct - mid interview - an agreed set of notes and text fragments, that represents what matters from our conversation?
The data are suddenly not ‘rich’ but they are deep. Most importantly, my power to interpret is reduced and my interviewee’s power increased.
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