You Are Going to Conduct Research on Various Topics by Interviewing Grandparents and Parents

Project 3generations2017-2018

This project is about comparing different aspects of daily life of three generations and will cover a period of about 50 years.

You are going to conduct research on various topics by interviewing grandparents and parents.

You will find out about different aspects of daily life in the period (1950-1960) that your grandparents (or people of the age of your grandparents) - were about 14 years old and in the period (1980) that your parents or people of the age of your parents were about 14 years old

You will compare the differences/similarities between aspects of daily life of three generations and to learn about the situation in India and in Europe

Worksheets Phase 1

Worksheet Phase 1. Action plan

Roles of group members
Some tasks should be carried out by more group members and should be distributed equally
1. Group leaders (chairing meetings group memebers , monitoring own group activities and deadlines, reading all articles on the eJournal and informing group members about articles other students ..)
2. Editor eJournals: uploading pictures, lay-out articles
3. Interviewing. Investigating which persons can be interviewed, asking permission, recording answers, analyzing )
4. Photographer. Scanning pictures, making pictures
5. Video-editor. Videos of group introduction, of interviews
6. Analysing outcomes of the interviews
7. Comparing the own outcomes with Indian/European counterparts
8. Writing text articles, checking English
Role / Who / Remarks/ task description
Group leader
Student editor Weebly
Main photographer
Main video-editor
Interviewing / all
reporting on the outcomes of the interviews
Comparing / all
Writing text articles
Other??

Worksheet Phase 1. People to be interviewed

If the group consists of five group members, than four grandparents (or people of the same age of your grandparents) and four parents(or people of the same age of your parents) will be interviewed.

If the group consists of four or three group members, than three grandparents (or people of the same age of your grandparents) and three parents(or people of the same age of your parents) will be interviewed.

Important note: don’t include in your research two members of the same family (e.g. not your grandmother AND your father)

List of people to be interviewed
Name /age//MF / Interviewer (s) / Pictures, video, making notes / When (deadlines)
Grandparent 1
Grandparent 2
Grandparent 3
Grandparent 4
Parent 1
Parent 2
Parent 3
Parent 4

Worksheet phase 2. Format Interviews.

Topic: Gender related roles
Main question. . Have the relations between men and women changed with reference to education, roles and opportunities ?
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?

Was the relationship of boys and girls equal in your family? yes\no
If not which were the differences?

2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?

Were there differences in the kind of high school that boys and girls choose? yes\no Which are the differences?
Were girls considered in a different way from boys at school? Y/N

3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?

Were there jobs for women and jobs for men? Yes /no
Did women and men have the same opportunities in reference to work? Y/N Why?
What kind of jobs did men usually have and were typically for men, and which one more for women? or didn’t it matter very much

4.. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
5. How was household work divided among men and women?

Did men help women in the household work? Y/N
If yes, which were/are the main household chores the man did

Opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2016.

Do you consider women to be completely emancipated in 2046? Why (not)?

Opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2016. Has the position of woman in the society changed with the help of the government? Y/N If yes, how was/is changed?

8. Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates. Are there differences between boys and girls with reference to choice of schools and education and tasks in the household. Please explain.
Topic: Mass media
Main question. To what extent has the role of mass media and books changed ?
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
1. Types of mass media available/popular

What kind of mass media (Newspapers, magazines, radio, TV ) were available in your family?.
Was internet available? Explain with examples.
What kind of mass media were most popular in your family when you were a teenager?
Was reading popular?
Was internet popular? Explain.

2. How expensive was it to purchase a radio, a television, newspapers, magazines, books, a computer
Was a well equipped library available?
3. How much time of your daily live did you spend on mass media when you were a teenager. Explain.

How much time of your daily live did you spend on reading books when you were a teenager. Explain.
How much time of your daily live did you spend on computer when you were a teenager. Explain.

4. Favourites

What was the favourite magazine/programme in your family?
What was your favourite magazine/programme ? Explain
What were your favourite books? Explain
Were favourite magazines/programmes discussed in your family?

5. Can you explain what the positive and negative aspects of the mass media were in your country when you were a teenager. Have mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) caused bad effects on people when you were a teenager? Examples?
6. Can you describe shortly how the presence of different types of mass media in your household (in 2016) has changed since you were a teenager?
7. Can you describe shortly how the presence of the computer and internet in your household ( in 2016) has changed life since you were a teenager?
8. What are the positive aspects of these changes? Explain Are there any negative aspects of these changes? Explain
Subquestion 9 is about the use of mass media and internet by teenagers in 2016. Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates.
9. Do teenagers spend more time on mass media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines) than on reading books or on internet/social media? Please explain.
Topic: School life
Main question. Do students have to work harder to be successful at school in 2014 than at the time your grandparents/parents were teenagers?
General questions
Name age M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
Main question. Subquestions 1-5 are related to the time the people interviewed were about 14 years old.
1. Types of schools

What type of school (for students 12-18 years old) did you go to as a teenager?
Why did your parents choose this school?
Were there schools for boys and separate schools for girls?
Did your sister(s)/brother(s) – if you had any – go to the same school? Why, why not?
Was your school a religious school (hindu, moslim, catholic, protestant ..) ?
Was there a difference between religious schools and not religious schools?
Was religion a compulsory subject?

2. Subjects

How many lessons did you have per day?
Were most subjects compulsory?
Did most of students prefer sciences or languages or history/geography/ biology?
How did you appreciate the quality of the teaching?
What kinds of extra-curricular activities were organised at your school?
Did you do any extra-curricular activities?

3. Timeschedule

When did you start and finish school every day? When did you get home?
Did you have a lot of home work to make?
How did you go to school (bus, walking).

4. Teachers

Were teachers esteemed by parents and students? Explain
Were you allowed to ask about everything you wanted to know?
What was the relationship between teachers and students?
What about disciplin at school? What types of punishment were there?
Was there any kind of coaching for students with problems?

5. Did you like going to school? Explain.
In subquestion 6 you ask the opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2016.
6. Do you think that most teenagers study harder nowadays than when you were young?
Subquestion 7 is about the school life of teenagers in 2016Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates.
7. How many lessons do you have at school per week?

Count the number of hours each of the group members are working at home for school during a period of two normal school weeks (no holidays are exam periods included). Include also the time spent at home work in the weekend.
What is the average of your group for a normal school week (weekend included)

Topic: Spare time
Main question. How has the way that teenagers spend their spare time changed?
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
Subquestions 1-5 are related to the time the people interviewed were about 14 years old.
1. Spending spare time

How much spare time did you have when you were a teenager? During the school week, during the weekends?
What did you do in your free time? During the school week? During the weekend?
What were your favourite hobbies ? Did you spend most of your spare time at home or outside?
Did you have a lot of spare time or did you have to help your parents a lot?

2. Do you think that you spent your free time in a good way when you were a teenager?
3. Did your parents live in a city/on the countryside and how has that influenced they way you spent your spare time as a teenager? Explain
4. Pocket money. How did you get your pocket money?? Could you spend your pocket money yourself? How did you spend it?
5. Groups and spare time.

When you were young, did you spend your free time with the children who belonged to your religious and/or social background?
Were there special clubs for children of religious goups or of social groups/castes?
Did your parents have influence on your spare time?

6. How much spare time did your parents (parents of the persons interviewed) have when you were a teenager? Daily after work, during the weekend?
What did they do in their free time? What were their favourite hobbies when you were young?
In subquestion 7 you ask the opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2014.
7. Do you think that teenagers nowadays spend their spare time in a better way that when you were teenagers?
Subquestion 8 is about spare time of teenagers in 2014. Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates.
8. How do teenagers spend their spare time on mass media, books, social media. (holidays excluded)
Topic: Family life
Main question. Has the role of the family changed?
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
Subquestions 1-5 are related to the time the people interviewed were about 14 years old.

Which family matters did your parents discuss with the children when you were a teenager?: free time, studies, holidays, purchases, renovation of the house?

What main values were taught by your parents when you were a teenager?

Was there any hierarchy in the family (father-mother-boys-girls)? Explain.

What did you like most in your family? Explain.

Can you remember one very special event/occasion that you really felt the importance of being member of a family?

In subquestion 6 you ask the opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2014.

Do you think that the role of a family has changed ?

Subquestion 7 is about family life in 2014. Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates.

What are the three most important characteristics of a family?

Topic: Healthy life
Main question
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family
How many people lived in the same house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents (please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
Specific questions
Main question. Has the lifestyle of the families become more or less healthy?
Subquestions 1-5 are related to the time the people interviewed were about 14 years old.

Was the food served at the family– according to the standards of the time you were a teenager - healthy? Explain.

Where did the family buy the food (market, local shops, supermarkets, farms?). Did your family produce some food itself?

Did the family members practice some sports/exercise to stay fit? What kind of sport/exercise did you do?

Where there sufficient facilities to practice sport/exercises? (gymnasiums, yoga, aerobics centres, walking tracks etc…) Photograph exercise

What did the school do to make children to stay fit?

In subquestion 6 you ask the opinion of the people interviewed about the situation in 2016.
Do you think that the children in 2014 have a healthier life than in your time?
Subquestion 7 is about spare of teenagers in 2016. Discuss this question with the group members and ask the opinion of the class mates.
7. What could you do to have an healthier life?

Worksheet phase 2. Format similarities/differences & conclusion

1. Answers of grandparents
Similarities
1
2
3 / Differences
1
2
3
Conclusion answers grandparents
2. Answers of parents
Similarities
1
2
3 / Differences
1
2
3
Conclusion answers parents
3. Compare the answers of the grandaprents and the parents
Similarities
1
2
3 / Differences
1
2
3
Conclusion answers grandparents - parents
4. Your opinion on the situation of teenagers nowadays related to your topic?
5. Conclusion. Answers to main question

Worksheets Phase three. Comparison & reflection

a. Comparison

You are going to read two articles of Indian / EU counterparts