Slowing Down and Digging Deep: Teaching Students to Examine Interview Interaction in Depth

Teaching students to become critical consumers of interviews, which often serve as influential sources for learning and interpreting world events, is important in today’s information-rich world. This paper outlines an approach teaching in-depth interviewing examine excerpts from interviews (e.g., archival collections, oral histories, or media interviews) using the tools ethnomethodology conversation analysis “slow down” “dig deep” into social aspects interviews. Using two case examples undergraduate graduate classrooms, we illustrate how this helps notice question-answer sequences unfold encourages consumption participation