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Applying material from Item A and your knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths
and limitations of non-participant observations for the study of the ways in which classroom
interactions reinforce traditional gender identities
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Gender identities is a person's perception of having a particular gender,
which may or may not correspond with their birth sex
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For example,
reinforcing traditional gender identities may involve the rapid exchange of looks and words,
something that cannot easily be captured after the event through interviews or questionnaires
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For the study of classroom interactions reinforcing traditional gender identities,
non-participant observations would allow the researcher to look at the different identities each
pupil represent
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However, the researcher may find it difficult to stay uninvolved
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This may
be because the researcher may see this happening and would want to get involved to prevent
this from happening but would be unable to due to their role and finding out what they want to
find out
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In
the context of education, the ‘male gaze’ is the way male pupils and teachers look girls up and
down, seeing them as sexual objects and making judgements about their appearance
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This is called the
Hawthorne effect
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This could make the
researcher’s findings invalid because the results they would obtain is not truthful and would also
be difficult for them to draw conclusions about their research
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This makes the data collected less representative, as it may
only represent the schools in which there is already more gender equality
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To conclude, non-participant observations may be a useful method for investigating the ways in
which classroom interactions reinforce traditional gender identities because the researcher

would be getting a first-hand insight on what behaviours are expressed
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