FROM INVESTIGATED OBJECT TO CO-RESEARCHER - WAY-OF-LIFE-INTERVIEW WITH 4 TO 5 YEAR-OLD CHILDREN

Until now children have not been looked upon as sufficiently reliable to be included in interview research in social science. This article focuses on the construction and working-out of a way-of-life-interview with small children. The presentation focuses on efforts made to maintain joint attention to the child's representations of own interactions, and to facilitate the relevant report to the researcher. The conclusion is, however, that age doesn't change the procedures in any essential way, rather pinpoints the challenges met when doing qualitative interviews.