For our final project for SEDU 271: Multiculturism in Education, we were assigned an interview assignment. We selected three different people, all who come from different background, race, culture, ect. and ask them how they felt about their educational background. All three interviews were wonderful to work with and all gave different perspectives and described education in their own way. The three we interviewed were. Amber, a graduate from A.W. Beattie Career Center, a vocational school. She was also the only girl we interviewed. The second was Chris Barmore, a graduate from Cassadaga Valley High school, a public school in NY. Our final interview was Steve Harrignton who is about to complete his doctorate. It is clear that all three are extremely different. This essay we will give a summary of each interview, then proceed to discuss the…show more content… Academics were very important to his and his parents pushed him to do well. He did not talk much about how this has shaped him as a person and says that he wished he had learned more than just the small town he was exposed to. When it came to Amber she was surrounded by a community that placed value on education. This community also was very independent which is a quality she says she learned very young. In her community, she was surround by poverty and wealth as well as many cultures she wished she knew more about. Her community shaped her identity in ways of struggles that made her want to be better than the situations that surrounded her. The person most influenced by his community was Steve. In his case his educational identity was largely shaped by his community and what surrounded him. His community did not place a high value on education and saw that the only way to be out of the situation you were in was sports or hustling. Through his community he gained his identity of a leader which largely shaped his future as an educator.
