Teachers Research Characteristics Flashcards
How may teachers feel?
Tired, less co-operative
How might teacher’s nature impact the data?
Interviews + questionnaires kept short
Restrict amount of collected data
How might teachers feel to researchers?
Sympathetic to educational research
Why do teachers have more power and status?
Age, responsibility, experience, duty of care
How do teachers dominate classrooms?
They see it as ‘their’ classrooms
Why are teachers not fully independent?
Heads, parents, governors all constrain what teachers may do
How will researches develop a cover?
A supply teacher or classroom assistant
Why might researchers covers be bad?
The covers have a lower status in schools and may not be treated as equals
Why is developing a cover needed for researchers?
To carry out covert research investigations
What is Erving Goffman’s term?
Impression Management
What is Impression Management?
To manipulate the impression other people have of us
What does Goffman also emphasise?
Front stage & Back stage
How may the researcher react to IM?
Have to find ways to get behind their faces
1 way in which the IM can be challenged?
Staff room
2 way in which the IM can be challenged?
Observational methods
Problem with the 1st way?
Newcomer will stand out, small area
Problem with the 2nd way?
Teachers have experience with OP because of Ofsted Inspections
How may Headteachers influence the research?
Selecting what staff to pick
What is the problem to the Headteachers influence?
It’s not fully representative of the school for the research
What are classrooms?
Classrooms are a highly controlled setting
How are classrooms controlled?
Via teachers and school
Examples of the controlled classrooms..
Layout, pupil’s noise levels, language, dress code
Impact of the controlled classrooms?
Not reflect what their true thoughts + feelings
What’s another example of impression management?
Teachers + pupils are skilled at concealing their real thoughts and feelings from each other
What may young people be insecure about?
Their identity and status
Often, how do pupil’s cope with their insecurities?
Peer pressure and the need to conform
What methods are more likely to have peer pressure?
Group interviews and questionnaires
How can the questionnaire methods be more valid?
Questionnaires are supervised
Why might group interviews be restrained?
The feelings of pupil can be hidden behind the dominant attitudes of the peer group
