Tra spazi di parola e forzature dell'identità. Il posto dei soggetti nella ricerca basata su interviste.

The article discusses emerging epistemological tensions regarding the status and position of participants in the design, implementation and analysis of interviews in educational research. As the interview is a method aimed at grasping and making sense of the subjects’ experience of the world, it emerges how different conceptions of subjectivity and experience shape enquiry practices and the ways in which participants are inserted, since the construction of the research design, into spaces of narration of their personal sphere. Interview practice is thus configured as a place where contradictory elements coexist, not always peace- fully