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Micro-ethnographic "Me-search" Part 2

Completion requirements

Part 2 of the Micro-ethnographic "Me-search" involves listening to the narrative and reflections of another person related to your own socialization. Start early to coordinate without imposing on others or yourself. The Reflection Memo in step 4 is the only deliverable submitted from this project, but it requires careful completion of all four steps.

Project Process

1. Prepare to Interview: Find an interviewee who is ideally a parent or other primary source of your own socialization. Prepare to ask questions guided by the ideas and questions on the  Narrative Me-Search Analysis Worksheet  to primarily listen to the interviewee’s narrative and observations.

2. Conduct the Interview: Meet in person or live on Zoom or similar and be sure to thank the interviewee for their time. You may record the interview if you get permission from the interviewee. Either way, take detailed notes and specifically endeavor to let the interviewee offer you a new perspective or way of seeing as they explore and relate their own narrative.

3. Interpret the Interview: Summarize the data you gathered from your interview experience, making connections among the following ideas and comparing/contrasting with your reflection in Part 1:

1. Where do you see the influence of socialization on the interviewee’s mindset, frame of reference, and identity?

2. Where does the influence of monoculture show up in the conversation?

3. What binaries and dualism inform the interviewee’s perspectives and identity?

4. How do you see tensions between being conformed to the mind of Christ or to the patterns of the world?

4. Reflection Memo: Then, reflect on the experience and write a 2- to 3-page memo making connections among the following ideas. This memo is the only submission for Part 2 of this project:

1. What did you learn and observe while interviewing to listen? How did your listening compare and contrast with your narrative self-analysis in Part 1?

2. How does your own mindset or sense of missional identity differ from before you started this course? In other words, how will you think and do ministry/missions differently now?

3. How do you understand your missional/ministry calling in a globalized world?

Micro-ethnographic "Me-search" Part 2

Completion requirements

Part 2 of the Micro-ethnographic "Me-search" involves listening to the narrative and reflections of another person related to your own socialization. Start early to coordinate without imposing on others or yourself. The Reflection Memo in step 4 is the only deliverable submitted from this project, but it requires careful completion of all four steps.

Project Process

1. Prepare to Interview: Find an interviewee who is ideally a parent or other primary source of your own socialization. Prepare to ask questions guided by the ideas and questions on the  Narrative Me-Search Analysis Worksheet  to primarily listen to the interviewee’s narrative and observations.

2. Conduct the Interview: Meet in person or live on Zoom or similar and be sure to thank the interviewee for their time. You may record the interview if you get permission from the interviewee. Either way, take detailed notes and specifically endeavor to let the interviewee offer you a new perspective or way of seeing as they explore and relate their own narrative.

3. Interpret the Interview: Summarize the data you gathered from your interview experience, making connections among the following ideas and comparing/contrasting with your reflection in Part 1:

1. Where do you see the influence of socialization on the interviewee’s mindset, frame of reference, and identity?

2. Where does the influence of monoculture show up in the conversation?

3. What binaries and dualism inform the interviewee’s perspectives and identity?

4. How do you see tensions between being conformed to the mind of Christ or to the patterns of the world?

4. Reflection Memo: Then, reflect on the experience and write a 2- to 3-page memo making connections among the following ideas. This memo is the only submission for Part 2 of this project:

1. What did you learn and observe while interviewing to listen? How did your listening compare and contrast with your narrative self-analysis in Part 1?

2. How does your own mindset or sense of missional identity differ from before you started this course? In other words, how will you think and do ministry/missions differently now?

3. How do you understand your missional/ministry calling in a globalized world?