SOCIOLOGY RESEARCHING ED TOPIC 6

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5 issues interviews are used to study?
1.Pupil subcultures 2.Pupil experience of sex/health ed 3.Class, ethnicity & language 4.Gender identity & the male gaze 5.Class & parental choice of schools
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5 practical issues of interviewing young people?
1.May be more inarticulate/reluctant to talk 2.May not understand long, complex sentences 3.Have more limited vocab 4.Have shorter attention span 5.May read body language differently
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Further practical issues of interviews to investigate education?
Misunderstandings=create invalid data. Unstructured more suitable than structures as allow interviewer scope to explain. Children have difficulty in keeping to point=training needed=cost. Schools active informal communication channels=reduce validity
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Reliability with interviews to investigate education?
Structures=Reliable as theyre standardised. May not be valid as young unlikely to respond favourably to formal style. Informal/relxed approach needed -Di Bentley. Different interviewers likely to obtain diff results=reduce reliability
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Access & response rate with interviews to investigate education?
Powney & Watts, lower down the hierarchy the interviewee is, more approvals have to be obtained. To interview teacher, might need permission of local education authority/head. Schools reluctant to conducts in lesson time. Issues doing it after school
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Permission for interviews on young children?
Fields' study of pupils' experience of sex & health education in schools had high refusal rate of 29% as parents witheld consent. If given official support, hierarchical nature of school may favour them=higher response rate
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Interviewer as 'teacher in diguise'?
Interviewees have les power so may exaggerate, lie in own interests. May be less confident & responses less articulate=reduce validity. Bell=Pupils may see interviewer as teacher in disguise=reducing validity. Pupils may give socially accepted answer
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5 things Greene & Hogan argue interviewers should do to improve validity?
1.Use o/e questions 2.Not interpret childrens answeres 3.Tolerate long pauses to allow children to think 4.Recognise children more suggestable=dont ask leading questions 5.Avoid repeating questions=may change answer
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Weakness of group interviews?
Pupils/young people strongly influenced by peer pressure=reduce validity as individuals may conform to expectations. Hard to know if Willis' boys genuinely share same views or product of egging each other on. Free flowing nature=Cant standardise
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Strengths of group interviews?
Greene & Hogan= Suitable for pupils. Safer peer environment & reproduce small group settings that children are familiar with in classroom work. Reduces powere imbalance
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