Documents in Education
- Created by: India Evans
- Created on: 22-01-13 14:11
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- Documents in Education
- Practical issues
- public documents on education are easily accessible for the researcher, because of goverment policies etc.
- they are also very time effective as *** would take the researcher a lot of time to gather this large amount of info themself
- Public documents are very difficult to access. PERSONAL!
- public documents on education are easily accessible for the researcher, because of goverment policies etc.
- Ethical issues
- very few ethical issues concerned with public documents produced by schools
- however, having being placed in the public domain, permission is required to use them
- more ethical problems with personal documents - informed consent will be needed, but this is difficult regarding the content of the document, the writer might feel embarrased to hand them over
- very few ethical issues concerned with public documents produced by schools
- Representativeness
- Some official documents are legally required of all sxhools/ colleges etc - such as records of racist incidents.
- This makes it more likely that we can form a true representative picture of racism in schools for example
- Personal documents are less representative, as the way they could of been wrote may of been unsytematic so therefore the sample would be unrepresntative
- Some official documents are legally required of all sxhools/ colleges etc - such as records of racist incidents.
- Validity
- high validity in schools - gain insgiht into the meanings held by pupils etc.
- Practical issues
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