For my WA #4 I conducted an interview with an honors college student, Laurencio Tamayo. I knew that he was a member of the cross country team and therefore might have something to say about using body literacy to relieve stress. I met Laurencio at orientation for the honors college and knew that he was a very talented and intelligent individual, knowing this made him an easy choice as an interview for this project. This interview will be one of 5 in depth interviews that will be conducted and compiled into a sort of documentary type multimedia project. I plan to have an intro that describes my personal connection to the study and then further express the meaning and findings of the study through images of artifacts as well as dialogue from the interviews. Video clips will be spliced throughout the presentation giving a more vivid image to what the project is meant to express the findings of.
I am currently using four main codes:
STR-OTH-stress caused by others or outside effects
STR-YOU-stress caused by pressure put on oneself
RL-literacy used as a reminder to reduce stress
ORG-organization methods used to relieve stress
I plan to expand codes for the project as I continue to review my research journals as well as compile my research portfolio. These codes help to coin common ideas that are expressed and reoccuring throughout my project as a whole. These codes will definitely help me to identify and analyze the findings of the study as they will relate the separate interviews on common ideas and themes that run between them. Thus far my data is definitely in support of the fact that honors students feel like they are expected to attain higher levels of success and therefore experience stress from both themselves as well as outside sources. These outside sources mostly include family and professors. Trying to please these people is where their selective types of literacy come into play. Thus far I have only interviewed one participant, his main use of literacy was body literacy, the use of athletics or body movement to relieve stress.
The East Caney community as it was resided in several decades ago is obviously very different economically and socially than it is today. The speakers spoke about societal expectations of them to be farmers, how the areas in east caney were kept and how this affected those who lived there. The main difference and most intriguing part of the interviews, I believe, was the difference in education. The availability of education is so much more prominent today than it was during this time. One phrase that sticks out is how they describe their limited amount of school supplies. This is very different from the times of today, education has become more of a norm and is often taken for granted in modern times.
