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    Sensitive Educational Research

    Sensitive research is which potentially poses a substansial threat to those who are involved
    or have been involved in it. (Lee 1999 :4) or when those studied view the researchas
    somehow undesirable (Van Meter 2000).
    Sources of sensitvity :

    Consequences for participants


    Consequences for other people
    Contents, e.g taboo or emotionally charged areas of the study (Farberow 193), e.g
    criminality, deviance, sex, race, violence, politics, )
    Contextual and situational circumstance
    Intrusion into private spheres and deep personal experience. E.g sexual behaviour,
    religious practices, death, even income and age
    Potential sanction
    Impingement on political alignments
    Cultural and cross cultural factors and inhibitions
    Fear of scrutiny and exposure
    Threat to the researcher and to the family and members and associates of those studies
    Methodologies and conduct e.g how junior reserchers conduct research on powerful
    people, when men interview women.

    Strategies of sampling and access :

    List sampling
    Multi-purposing
    Screening
    Outcropping
    Servicing
    Professional informants
    Advertising
    Networking

    Four step gainning access (Walford, 2001: 347 )


    Approach e.g gainning entry, perhaps through a mutual friend or colleague a link
    person
    Interest e.g using a telephone call to arrange an initial interview/ participants interest
    Desire e.g overcoming objections and stressing the benefit of the research.
    Sale e.g where the participants agree to the research.
    Gatekeepers

    Gatekeepers play a signicant role in research, particularly in ethnographic research.


    Gatekeepers control access and re-access
    Gatekeepers may wish to avoid, contain, spread or control risk and therefore may bar
    access or make access conditional.

    Problems of sensitive educational research:


    gaining access to schools and teachers
    gaining permission to conduct the research
    resentment by principals
    people vetting which data could be used
    nding enough willing participants for the sample.
    Ethical Issues in Sensitive Research

    A set of prescriptive moral rules and behavioural codes relating to what is right or
    wrong, or appropriate and inappropriate.
    Research Ethics: moral principles guiding research;
    Ethical Principles: concerned with rights, dignity & safety of researched;
    Ethical issue are thrown into sharp relief in sensitive education research.
    (Lee, 1993) overcome problems of reactivity, research influences behavior of the
    participant.

    Protection of individuals versus the publics right to know.


    Covert or overt research, deception and betrayal.
    Breaching informed consent.

    Researching powerful people

    Powerful people, those in key positions, or elite institutions.


    Headteacher
    Senior teacher
    Politicians
    Senior civil servant
    Decision makers
    School governor
    Who should conduct interview with powerful people ?

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