The
interview process that I have gone through for this assignment has been pretty
uneventful up until this point. Once I
read the assignment I began to think of who would be candidates for me to
interview that were knowledgeable about the topic of foster and adoptive
children and their experiences around stress, risk and trauma. I had a small point of confusion after doing
our organization assignment and wasn’t sure if my interviews would be the
people I had considered originally or if had to choose one from the
organizations I reviewed. Once I
clarified this with Professor Bossier, I was able to get back on track.
The
two individuals I have chosen to interview are both center directors that work
with the population I am studying. As I
came up with the questions I thought of things I have previously spoken with
them about and what new information I will want to get. Scheduling wasn’t much of a problem. However, I will have to understand that we
will meet while they are in their centers and there could be various
interruptions. Both of the interviews
are scheduled for this upcoming week.
My course project is on children from foster and adoptive homes. I have been doing research from different aspects of this topic, like how the community sees it and how they are affected by stress. One large challenge I have had while completing the research is that the term “adoption” and other versions of the term result in many forms of the word that have nothing to do with children once I search the word. I have had to be creative while doing my searches.
Tracy,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your challenge of multiple terms for a single idea such as adoption. One way I have overcome this is by putting the key word in the thesaurus of the search engine to identify the multiple terms.
Sharon Lloyd
Sharon, that is a good idea I had not thought of. I will try to use the thesaurus as I complete my last annotated bibliography.
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