When I wrote my dissertation about eight individuals, I did a chapter on
each. That chapter was returned to the person in question, who was
invited to annotate and correct it. This is a trick I learned from
Steinar Kvale's book, InterViews.
Although this is not paricipatory research as usually defined, I found
that it involved the participants on a very high level -- as writing
colleagues or even as members of my committee. Their corrections are in
the final draft, italicized and credited.
It was tremendously freeing to me, as I could speculate with the
certainty that they could correct any errors. We also could disagree
explicitly. Thank you, Kvale!
Birrell Walsh
MicroTimes
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