Monday, August 20, 2012

Research Plan

Topic:
What are the students and teachers understanding of and reaction to the terms 'good boy' and ‘good girl' in a school space?

Big Research Question:
What ideals about goodness are formed, kept, and taught to students to strive towards?

Secondary Questions:
How do these get formed?
Who influences them?
Where is it kept explicit and implicit?
How do students relate and react to it?

Number of Interviews
  • With teachers
5 Subject teachers and 1 P.T./Sports teacher

  • With students
12 (6 boys, 6 girls) from 8th and 9th standard

  • Others
Principal, Co-ordinator (Ashrita), SkyLight faculties and volunteers

Number of Observations
  • Where
In the classrooms
In the playground
In Skylight
In School building


Number of Focus Groups
1 Male group (3-6 boys)
1 Female group (3-6 girls)
1 Mixed group (3 boys and 3 girls)
1 Adult group (2-4 teachers) (if possible)

  • Age group
Entering Teenage (13 15)

Other research methods that will be used
  • Questionnaire
  • Semi-structured Interviews
Individual
Group (Focus group)

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