Researching Education
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- Created on: 19-03-14 11:30
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- Researching Education
- Pupils
- Power and status
- Children have less power and status than adults
- More difficult to state their views
- Schools have heirarchy which gives students less power.
- Researchers need to make an equal environment
- Children have less power and status than adults
- Ability
- Pupils are more limited at expressing themselves
- Parts of sociology will be limited due to ability
- Informed consent will be harder to get
- Vulnerability and Ethical Issues
- They are seen as more vulnerable and need to know the reason of the research
- Researcher must make sure the child/ren isnt stressed
- UNICEF question whetehr children should be researched
- Practical concerns need to be taken into account - Time
- Researcher needs to gain trust
- Power and status
- Teachers
- Power relationships arent equal - teachers have more power due to age etc
- They have a legal duty of care to the people they teach
- The classroom reinforces the unequal power
- Clasrooms
- Is a clear closed setting whihc has boundries and restrictions
- The teacher controls it
- young people dont usually experience this level of control
- Teacher and students are good at hiding feelings -could effect research
- peer pressure- could effect research
- Clasrooms
- Teachers are not completely independent e.g. headteacher
- Teachers are often overworked and wont be as cooperative
- Interviews and questionnaires need to be kept short
- May restrict amount of info gained
- Interviews and questionnaires need to be kept short
- they can put on a 'show' for example when they are inspected
- Parents
- Parents influence education due to the bringing up of the student
- Parents are normally outside of school
- hard to research them
- social class and ethnicity play an important role
- middle class parents are more likely to take part
- Clasrooms
- Is a clear closed setting whihc has boundries and restrictions
- The teacher controls it
- young people dont usually experience this level of control
- Teacher and students are good at hiding feelings -could effect research
- peer pressure- could effect research
- Schools
- Roland Meighan (1981)
- found headteachersmay view researchers negatively
- conducted research to see headteachers reactions about teachers and pupils
- The research included:
- It's dangerous to invlove students in commenting on teachers
- Discipline would be adversly effected
- It would be bad for classroom relationships
- children are not competent to judge teachers
- Roland Meighan (1981)
- Pupils
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