Education - Theories and methods Flashcards
Willis - Lads
Methods - qualitative observations and group interviews
Strengths - high validity
Weaknesses - small, all-male sample, researcher not a full participant.
Ball et al - Education market
Methods - observations of meetings, LEA documents, interviews
Strengths - triangulation of data, large scale
Weaknesses - no interviewing students, didn’t directly observe effects of marketisation
Gillborn and Youdell - intelligence and ability
Methods - Qualitative research using interviews and observation
Strengths - detailed picture, high validity
Weaknesses - small, unrepresentative. hard to generalise findings.
Douglas - home influence
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Bernstein - speech patterns
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Reay et al - higher education
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Rosenthal and Jacobs - self fulfilling prophecy
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