Interviewing A Child, The Thought At Me Was Barbaric Essay

Interviewing a child, the thought to me was barbaric. To carry out a processional discussion with a young child was quite the experience and nothing short of extraordinary. I sat in the dining room of my home with my next door neighbor’s fourteen-year-old daughter Sally. She walked through the front door with noticeable hesitation as if she was walking into the principles office to be detained. I could sense a strong level of discomfort that she carried though the hallway into the dining room as she took a seat on the couch. The smell of pumpkin pie filled the air as my mother was baking in the next room, I offered Sally a slice in attempt to gain relief and comfort in her stance. She accepted and gradually I could see the tension release from her body as she sat down and bluntly asked me â€Å"okay, what do you want to know†? I had prepared my interview questions some time before and had read them over nervously as I questioned their clarity and worth. I was just as an xious to interview Sally as she was to be interviewed. I ensured I had developed questions that danced around the topics of education, future dreams, social life, and personal life ensuring that I could get Sally’s opinion on an array of different aspects of her learning life. As well, I took into consideration questions brought up in the novel Key Questions for Educators edited by William Hare and John P. Portelli to guide my questions for a deeper and more intense analysis and look into the minds of young