ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to devote to an examination of some texts produced by the crosscultural, comparative, reflective interviews. The cross-cultural comparative reflective interview procedure furnishes clear evidence that the various audiences viewing the action all saw the same things in the films of classrooms. The children and teachers in Roseville saw the children in the Schoenhausen classrooms as noisy and enthusiastic. The Roseville children perceive the noise level and activity of the Schoenhausen children as greater than in their own classroom and most place a negative value on it. The chapter demonstrates one particular kind of research technique and the text that it produces — the crosscultural, comparative, reflective interview (CCCRI). The CCCRI are designed to stimulate dialogue about pivotal concerns on the part of natives in comparable cultural systems. The dialogue is bracketed and the conversation becomes reflective, but the reflectivity is not focused on the ethnographer, as it often is in the ‘new’ ethnography, but on the informant.
