Applied To Education Flashcards
When working with participants who may not understand/be trusting the intention of the researcher’s questionnaire/interview, it may be advised to ask
Clarification questions
What is impression management?
A sort of social desirability bias. It refers to an attempt to control of the way people perceive you, preserve your image, status, respectability and or authority.
We are according to Goffman, ‘social actors’, our participation in rituals and research is an opportunity to reinforce to ourselves and others the concept of who we are.
In the case of teachers, they might act to maintain this more than children might.
A classroom would be classed as what kind of environment?
A controlled one.
Vulnerable groups act of 200_ does what?
2006.
Puts in safeguarding for vulnerable groups when interacting with researchers.
Permissions have ‘red tape’ around them, researchers can be denied access.
Vulnerable groups have people looking after them.
The correct term for these people is…
Gatekeepers.
Goffman and the theory of …
Impression management.
Teachers have a ‘front stage’ and ‘backstage’ behaviour, an act they feel they must sustain when researched.
Bell noted that a problem with being overt in any methodology involving a school is that children may view the researcher as a…
‘Teacher in disguise’
Children are very ‘lit…
‘literal minded’
and may take notice of details you do not expect, especially young children.
What is ‘red tape’
anything technical or bureaucratic that hinders research
