Research context & Charecteristics

Question 1

Researching schools charecteristics

Answer 1

Schools own data, the law, gatekeepers, school organisation.

Question 2

Gatekeepers

Answer 2

Beynon & Atkinson (1984) note that gatekeepers such as heads often steer the researcher away from sensitive situations, such as classes where the teacher has poor classroom control.

Question 3

Researching Classrooms Charecteristics

Answer 3

Gatekeepers, peer group.

Question 4

Researching pupils charecteristics

Answer 4

Power and status, ability and understanding, vulnerability and ethical issues, laws and guidelines, impression management.

Question 5

Researching pupils

Answer 5

Hill (2005) suggests three major differences between studying young people & adults which include: power & status, ability and understanding and vulnerability.

Question 6

researching pupils : laws and guidelines

Answer 6

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 is a child protection law which requires researchers to have DBS check.

Question 6

Impression management

Answer 6

Goffman (1969) calls impression management manipulating the impression that other people may have of us.

Question 7

Researcher’s experience of education

Answer 7

Researchers can draw on their own experience of education, for example when formulating their hypotheses or interpreting data.

Question 7

Researching parents characteristics

Answer 7

access to parents