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Individual interviews (designed to disclose the individual experiences of coaching
PA):
Domains
A. Coach
B. Self (development)
C. Doing politics / being political
Questions:
1. What best describes what you do when you are coaching?
a. What are the most important skills for you as a coach?
b. Have you noticed that you have developed any coaching skills over the
course of the year? Which do you need improvement on?
c. What kind of knowledge is important for you as a coach? Is there
anything you know now that you didn’t know before (coaching/class)?
2. In what ways is coaching meaningful or important for you?
3. Since you began coaching, what reflections, if any, have you make about your
own education or educational biography? (you can also substitute political
biography)
4. Coaching is a role; throughout this year you have learned to take on this role and
master it to some degree. You take on other roles in life: student, employee,
friend, sibling, etc. Have you tried out anything you have learned in PA in other
roles or domains of your life since you have coached? Which? How have you
done them differently? What did you learn by trying this new way of being?
5. Are you in any way different since you began coaching? How do you see
yourself now?
a. Are you politically or civically involved in any new or different ways
since you began coaching? In what ways?
b. Since you began coaching, what reflections, if any, have you make about
your own political biography?
c. Do you see yourself differently as a civic or political actor? In what ways?
6. What other political, community, or service activities or organizations are you
involved in? In what ways are they similar or different than PA?
Convention