Knowing their beliefs is important. . That you have been asked to interview adolescents and adults in your neighbourhood rather than interview people by visiting a centre or institution for people with disabilities. This means that persons with disabilities are a part of the society and we expect that most people would have some experience of interacting with people with disabilities.
Therefore, we are asking you to interview people in the neighbourhood — we are not asking you to go to special places to look for people who would have interacted with people with disabilities. . You have to find out perceptions by interviewing the people — not simply by talking to them. What is the difference between an interview and a talk?
Interview is a major method of collecting information or ‘data’ and doing this Project provides you exposure in this. Talking is an informal interaction between people. An interview is a conversation which is planned to some extent by the person who conducts the interview. The person doing the interview follows some rules in directing the talk.
There is a certain way in which the interview should be conducted as well as there are ethics of an interview. We shall discuss these aspects in detail a little later. . To conduct a good interview so that you get all the information that you want, you need to have some advance preparation.
You need to think of the questions that you will ask. These are written out in the form of an interview schedule. While for now we are providing you the schedule that you will use to conduct the interview, in another section, we will talk about the guidelines for developing interview schedules. This will help you to understand why we have constructed the interview schedule the way we have.
Preliminary Activities for the Project Read the relevant section in the textbook of Class XII. You should be familiar with the persons with special needs. Locate one adolescent and one adult. It would be good if you can identify one male and one female.
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