ABSTRACT
In order to obtain information about these lesbian physical educators and to understand the meaning they make of their experiences, a phenom enological interviewing technique was used. Taken from the work of Schuman (1982), the specific interviewing format employed was formally developed by Seidman, Sullivan, and Schatzkamer (1983) and consists of three, in-depth open-ended interviews. The goal in these interviews was to have the participants reconstruct their experience and reflect upon its meaning. An underlying assumption of this approach is that the meaning people make of their experience is “ crucial to the way they carry out their work” (Seidman et al., 1983, p. 638).
