This work emerged as a secondary focus in an initial research about child-child interaction. It proposes a look at the research process analyzing the "collecting the data" itself, bearing in mind that the data are not given, but constructed in the interaction between the researcher's network of meanings and the events observed in the here-and-now situation. Therefore, from the premise of human structural limitation to the access of an independent external reality (Maturana & Varela), this second focus of research proposes three different perspectives about the "collected data" to be equally considered: 1) the researcher's perspective; 2) the perspective of the caregiver responsible for the children; 3) the children's themselves. These perspectives are often divergent from each other. The analysis of some episodes shows that some interpretations and actions may lead to mis-encounters or interruptions in the interpretations and flow of actions.
Researcher's perspective; Divergent perspectives; Babies at day care; Interactive episodes
