Semi-Structured Interviewing

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The first question asked of the participant is: Can you please describe, as detailed as possible, a situation in which, during instruction, you experienced a student's need for social-emotional support? The psychological phenomenon of emotional memory then prompts the question: Can you describe a situation in which you remember something emotional about that experience? The remaining questions follow, with a focus on the teacher's experiences with meeting the perceived social-emotional needs of the students. Semi-structured interviewing, from a phenomenological perspective, requires the ability to shift perspectives within the interviewee's recall of events; that shift is between the objective recall of an event, and the interviewee's subjective

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