Childhood Interview & Reflection

STE 425 Spring 2024: Family and Community Programs

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DUE: Submit a (6) double-spaced written reflection in .pdf named:

Assignment #1:(3) Childhood Interviews with Reflection (Possible 15 pts on February 1, 2024 in class)

Submit as a .pdf to your Laulima DropBox before midnight Wed., March 31, 2004. (day before class)

Use the STE425 syllabus style requirements. Interview (3) members or more of your genealogical, adoptive, or adapted family on a selection

of questions to use. The goal is to remember and/or discover the environment in which you were raised, family values on education, and educational intentions. Please analyze your learning into statements made in the paper. Students will present in class and be responsible for sharing their

screen on Zoom and uploading the final Presentation to your Laulima Drobox by the due date and time.

ASSIGNMENT #1: Interview a minimum of (3) members of your genealogical, adoptive, or adapted family on the questions below. Your assignment is to feel and reflect heavily on what you know and might learn and to write about those reflections in your paper. Make your writing meaningful in each section-: (6) pages, (5) sections to answer the assignment. No one will ever see this except you and your instructor, but you can share it with whomever you want. Make this meaningful for you and understandable for your instructor. This assignment will be utilized in future Assignments and discussions

1. What did you think of what you learned? How did you react? 2. How do their answers match with what you know about Family and Community? 3. How does your family historically and currently feel about their education and schools? 4. Does your education and work match your family’s values? 5. How do your interviews inform you of your family’s feelings on disadvantaged, cultural or

race groups or generational poverty families and their children in education? Every family is different and no answer is ever wrong. Sometimes the answers can bring joy, satisfaction, shock, or concern, and it is up to us to place the knowledge in context for our work with all families and communities.

STE 425 Spring 2024: Family and Community Programs

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Other QUESTIONS you might want to ASK if the interview is not progressing: • How would you describe our family? • What are or are our family’s big goals? • Is your glass half full or half empty? • What is our biggest fear? • What is our proudest accomplishment? What is our proudest accomplishment? • What did you want me to be when I grew up? • How does our family pass on information from elders? • How do we pass on life lessons? • Does our family have a “motto” – spoken or unspoken? • What would you change about our family if you could? • How does our family feel about schools? Education? • How do we handle family joy, happiness, humor, important discussions, hardship,

anger and other emotions? • How does our family participate in the neighborhood? In our community? In our

culture? • What would you change about our family if you could?