From the Narrative Interview to the Mediated Narrative Interview: definitions, characterizations and uses in human development researches

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to define and characterize the narrative interview mediated from the experiences of research in human development, carried out by the research group in Thought and Culture, University of Brasilia. For that, twelve texts: four master's dissertations, five doctoral theses and three articles were analyzed. The mediated narrative interview is a research technique that favors the study of phenomena in human development by allowing the deepening of the narratives, with the inclusion of new characters and relationships among them; In addition to specific voices and positions, generated by the interaction context of the participant with the mediator artifact.