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Humanising Learning Interviewing is a great technique with many possibilities. Your students can interview objects, characters in a play, or even concepts – "We are now interviewing fear to see how important it is in our novel." " We are now interviewing iron." " Welcome to the press conference of our important guest the personal computer." Explore the human motivations behind the area that you are studying. I can remember how within a class of tertiary students studying Industrial Relations we took transcripts of industrial relations issues – Internet details on unfair dismissal cases – and turned them into interviews: www.airc.gov.au. This brought the scenario to life – almost as if humanising words that were once dryly on the page. We could see the persons involved. They were in front of us. What other forms of information can be brought to life in this way? |
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The act of transferring information into an interview, regardless of the area of study, requires considerable skill. Students must learn the details of the scenario and this learning can be further explored through the improvisational nature of interviews. Let your students answer ‘no comment’ if questions are too hard or intrusive. This lets the interviewer, or even the audience, consider the nature of questions. Adopt the format of an interview show for the radio or television. Involve the audience. Why not construct another format: a press conference with journalists, opening of a workplace, fellow workers at a meeting, customers, a group of inspectors, interviewing tools stored in a cupboard. Possibilities are only limited by the collective imagination of yourself and your students. The more obscure, and the more challenging, the better the result. Back to Staff Development – Full Day Workshops |
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