Methods in Context: Researching teachers
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- Created on: 21-03-14 08:59
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- Researching teachers
- Power relationships in schools
- Teachers have more power and status because of their age, experience and responsibility within the school
- Teachers have legal responsibilities and a duty of care towards their students
- The nature of the classroom and research
- Classrooms reinforce teachers' power.
- Teachers often see it as 'my classroom' and the researcher could be viewed as a 'trespasser'.
- Teachers are not fully indepdent in their classrooms
- Teachers' behaviour in the classroom is constrained by heads, governors, parents and pupils.
- Teachers' attitudes toward potential research
- Teachers are often over-worked and can be less than cooperative
- Due to long working hours, interviews and questionaires with teachers may have to be short
- this restricts the amount of data that can be gathered
- Teachers are used to being inspected.
- Know how to 'put on a show'
- Issues with researching teachers
- Limited by schools' hierarchy systems
- Can conceal emotions/aspects of lessons easily from researchers
- Validity of data is questionable
- Classroom observations may be hard to extract valid data from as they are highly controlled settings
- Would be expensive to organise research with teachers in different areas, so research might be specific to one area.
- Power relationships in schools
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