After this phase of interviews, i plan to adapt the interview into questionnaire format and send to another 20 willing fellows. I was wondering whether to hide or make explicit my research framework (considering the elements of CoP, being purpose/domain, practice and community; plus reflections on CoP competence, phase of community, and institutional form). Having read Patton (2002) yesterday on interviewing, i feel like the right thing to do is make the framework explicit.
If you make the framework explicit you may be leading the fellows to see and think in a certain way
but
If you attempt to hide the framework it is like treating the respondents condescendingly, like they wouldn't get it.
From the few interviews i have done, i think the benefit of being straight, being co-researchers is greater than the risk of leading the responses.