In-Depth, Phenomenological Interviewing

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The author performed two separate interviews face-to-face, selecting two individuals with different backgrounds in order to obtain unique perspectives. The first interviewee, named Jennifer Hodge, works for Allen ISD as a special education teacher for a self-contained DEAR (Developing Early Academics Readiness) class for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. In addition, her experience includes teaching for 22 years, with seven of those years teaching students with disabilities in both self-contained classrooms along with resource and inclusion environments. The meeting to discuss psychoeducational testing occurred in Jennifer’s work place during her conference period over a 45 minute period on Friday, August 28, 2015. The second

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To better understand your condition, can you kindly provide brief descriptions of the various symptoms that you are experiencing?

The method I chose for this analysis is in-depth interview. This ethnographic method will be best because it allows me to understand an

In this qualitative phenomenological research, the researcher went to the building that the participants’ schools were located for participants’ convenience. The researcher followed a protocol of first conducting individual interviews with each of the ten participants. A semi-structured, conversational style of individual interviewing was adopted in order to explore the respondents’ stories which made interviewing multiple subjects more methodical (See Appendix A for Interview Protocol). According to Meehan, 20014),

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Don Quijote de La Mancha: Idealism in Real Life Alonso Quijana is an average man whose idealist delusions transform him into a knight, Don Quijote, combating fictional danger with fictional power in a much more realist world than he realizes. There are many idealists in this world and in history. One man with idealist views in history was Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. During World War 1, his idealist views became prevalent in his attempts to regain world peace.

Shepard (2013) completed an ethnography qualitative study on the impacts of stress within those individuals who work in health care, harm reduction, and the human services field. The type of data collected within this study was primarily focused obtaining narratives from the participants. Shepard (2013) wanted to obtain the felt experiences of those who worked within the field of helping take care of others and seeing them through difficult times of their life. The data was mainly collected through interviews of friends and colleagues, as well as direct observation of those individual’s that were greatly impacted by stress to the point of self-destruction and premature

Being able to pick the right family was more difficult to do than I had originally thought it would be. I reflected on the readings from Leigh and one important thing that is said reminded me that during the interview, I needed to make sure that I was going to be able to not only understand what they are saying, but really hear their points of view without losing a sense of who I am as well as the beliefs that I have. In being able to hear and understand what is being said, I also needed to make sure that I was not passing judgement or categorizing them while they spoke. (Leigh, chapter 3, pgs 17-18). I feel that emotions can be raw without even starting the interview. I had no idea what their situation consists of, what some hidden struggles were, and to be

The reading by Atkinson provides information on using life stories approach in various disciplines. By using life stories the researcher noted that we gain context and recognize meaning about individuals experiences. There are four classic functions of stories including psychological, social, mystical-religious and cosmological. The reading also highlighted some benefits of telling one’s life story. For instance, sharing one’s story is a way of releasing certain burden and gives us a better sense of how we want our story to end. The last part of the reading explained guidelines that will prepare or get one ready to do an interview. The guidelines includes finding out who you want to interview and learn more about. The last step is encouraging the individual to share their story by being a good listener and asking open ended questions. The reading by Silverman discussed in-depth information about open-ended interviews. There are several problems the interviewer must resolve when doing open-ended questions such as deciding how to present yourself, gaining and maintaining trust to ask sensitive question and establishing rapport with the respondents. The reading also expressed many interactional practices when conducting qualitative interviewing. These practices involves trying to interact with the person by understanding their experience and that interviewers are active participants.

Propaganda is a method of correspondence used to control or impact the feeling of groups to support a specific reason or conviction. Throughout the hundreds of years, purposeful propaganda has taken the type of craftsmanship, movies, discourses, and music, however it's not restricted to these types of correspondence. In spite of the fact that its utilization is not only negative propaganda all the time includes a substantial accentuation on the advantages and excellences of one thought or gathering, while all the while mutilating reality or stifling the counter-contention ( “What is Propaganda”).

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The proposed methodology is a primary qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews. This method has been chosen as the focus of this

Phenomenological interview limitations may appear due to the researcher’s lack of experience in conducting interviews (Downey, 2015); which may interfere with the researcher’s focus and intentionality (Ashworth, 2017). Limitations may occur with the relationship between the researcher and the interviewee, including power struggles which might affect trust and honest participant reflections (Boucher, 2017). Further, time limitations could impede upon a participants deliberation process during the interview process (Downey, 2015). If a researcher is to understand the essence of a phenomenon; a suspension of judgment is required during participant interviews (Ashworth, 2017). Additionally, the researcher will need to be extremely attentive to experience the study through the participants’ eyes (Kelley, 2016). Individuals may choose not to answer every question, which is acceptable; yet, missing data can also become a limitation to the study. However, if enough participants do not answer the same question, the question might need to be reframed or removed; additionally, secondary data, such as technical reports, white papers or additional publications might be necessary to validate the research question (Johnston, 2014).