ABSTRACT
The interactive autoethnographic process consists of reflexive interviewing where the researcher conducts multiple one-on-one interviews, includes her story, and gives the research participant an opportunity to read and respond to transcripts from previous interviews. A second variation is interactive interviews in which authors act as researchers and participants in a collaborative, small-group setting. A third variation is coconstructed narrative in which two people record and then share their stories on a topic, attempting to write a story that brings together their separate versions. Interactive forms of research also can be used in larger groups and communities, giving members the opportunity to reflect upon their practices and processes. Community members read and responded to stories written about them, and their responses then helped the researchers better understand emergent meanings of interpersonal and group dynamics.
