Coding Why: Exercise 2
One the second page of the assignment handout (linked to in the forum above and posted under Week 8), you will find responses to the question “What major factors led you into teaching?” which is part of a survey distributed to teachers. (Found on page 2 in the pdf titled qualitative research practice)
Begin to code the answers, identifying categories that would enable you to organize the data.
Report briefly on this practice: what categories did you generate? What difficulties did you encounter? You certainly need not be thorough in your coding for this exercise, but consider what it would mean to code these responses comprehensively, maybe even a couple more pages of them.
What questions or insights does this short exercise raise for you? What do you learn or what lessons-already-learned does it reiterate?