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You will interview another person at least 20 years older or younger than you to gain insight into that person’s educational experiences and then compare and contrast their experiences to your own.
This assignment fulfills:
- Module Outcome 3: You will have compared and contrasted personal, generational differences in educational experiences.
- Student Learning Outcome 2: You will have begun to build your personal philosophy of education based on historical and philosophical foundations of education.
The Assignment
For this assignment, you will interview a person with at least a 20-year difference in age from yourself about their education experience. You will be given an interview guide that provides the first 10 questions for the interview. You will create and ask an additional five questions related to the person’s educational experiences.
Upon completion of the interview, you will compare and contrast your educational experiences to those of the person you interviewed. The questions can serve as an organizational guide.
For this assignment, you will:
- Submit a document that includes all 15 interview questions and answers.
- Include either a table or narrative that details the comparison and contrast between the interviewee’s educational experience and your own.
- Conclude your report with a summary paragraph.
To complete this assignment, click this link to access: EDU 216 Module One Interview Questions and Guidelines (MS Word) (opens in a new download window)
Acceptable Length
There is no set length for this assignment. All 15 interview questions should be answered completely and a thorough comparison and contrast should be made. Finally, write an appropriate summary (paragraph format) that will provide a conclusion to the report.
EDU 216 Foundations of Education
Module 1: History of the American Education System
Interview Assignment Questions and Guidelines
Record the following information about your interview participant:
Name:
Their Age:
Your Age:
How you know this person:
Record the interview participant’s response to the following ten interview questions. You will add five additional questions before concluding the interview. The additional questions may be follow-up questions to answers you received or they can be entirely new topics. The choice is yours.
1. Where and when did you graduate from high school? Was that a public school? If you did not graduate, tell me about when you last attended school.
2. What do you remember most about the curriculum or focus of study when you were in school? What materials were commonly used?
3. Tell me about your teachers. Did they seem highly qualified and well trained? Were they well respected?
4. What do you recall about laws and legislation regarding education when you were in school? What was most memorable?
5. How, if at all, did you feel politics played a role in education?
6. What kind of role did freedom of speech have in education?
7. Were materials such as library books or videos censored? If yes, who censored them? Do you know why the material was censored?
8. How diverse were your classmates? Did you attend school with people of all races and ability levels? If no, why not?
9. What kind of extra-curricular activities were available to students?
10. What do you think was the biggest challenge of the school at the time you were attending school? Why that?
Your additional five questions will go here.
You will then need to answer these questions for yourself to be able to compare and contrast your experience to the person you interviewed. You can compile your information in a chart like the one below, or write a narrative.
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Topic (Interview Questions) |
Interviewee’s Response |
My Response |
Similarities |
Differences |
You will also need to write a concluding paragraph summarizing your findings.