Description
Learners will find a family member, member of the community, mentor, potential employer, or someone else in middle adulthood and conduct an interview. The goal is to explore development as seen through the eyes of the participant (i.e. the person you are interviewing). Interviews should be structured and questions developed for this assignment should focus on a number of things. If you are not yet in this life stage, think about your major, and the career you are aspiring towards. Ask your selected individual about their priorities, how they got to where they are, and other questions regarding their occupation or lifestyle choice.
Maybe you want to be a lawyer, or a composter, or a professional athlete, whatever it is, do your research. You’d be amazed at the response an email can get when you ask a couple of well worded questions. It’s your future, think about what you would want to know.
In paragraph form, discuss the findings of who you selected and connected with, what they do, how you know them, and anything else that would be helpful for the reader to know. Be as creative as you’d like here, and make it interesting! Remember to ask questions that include “how they got there” or “why it intrigued you in the first place” “or why you hope to land there” but also include things like culture, ses, family life, etc. Make it interesting and dynamic, and be creative! Often times professors will spoon feed you things, but I want YOU to be creative in the questions you curate here.
Your Paper
Findings will be written up in a 3-5 page paper and will learners must discuss what developmental themes were observed in the interview. Please note you can choose to incorporate the interview but it should read more as a narrative. You should aim to weave in major themes, do not copy and paste it Q&A style into your 3-5 pages to take up space.
You should have:
1 page for the title page
1 page for the reference page
3-5 pages of text that make up the body of the paper.
This paper should be conducted in APA format and submissions must be made as a Word document. Size 12, Times New Roman, double spaced, appropriate subject headers, no websites as sources that are not peer reviewed. Utilize your online library database, online books and more!
