ABSTRACT

It is always a risk to transform research begun several years earlier into a publication. In a sense, however, the risk is already implied in the nature of dialogue itself, which does not allow a drawing to a close but maintains an opening for new expectations. Herein lies the weakness yet also the strength of dialogue. This is even more the case when the process of research has required giving proof and evidence, in the form of gathered data, as much as learning from people and their experiences, so that they do not become a mere ‘experiment’ for the researcher.