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Whilst the investigation will concentrate on the reasons why pupils become disaffected at school, it is important to fully understand the interrelationship between this area and other aspects of their lives. Academic research must have a specific problem to explore and must aim to establish a base of greater understanding and knowledge. With the long-term view of providing educational practitioners with strategies that will reduce the numbers of young people who become disaffected with school.
Stakeholders
To be effective academic research must influence practice. That is, it must initiate substantive change and in the longer term generate benefits. For this to happen it is important to recognise the influence and role of all the stakeholders in the research process. If we are talking about disaffected school pupils then obviously, as they will the focus of our investigation, they are the most important group of stakeholders. Other groupings are as follows: parents, legal guardians and teachers. Other groupings may also be involved. For example, social services, the police, local education authorities and the probation services.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Published Research Equals Improved Practice?
In an article that was published in the Guardian newspaper in September 2003, it was highlighted that too much educational research was being wasted. There was growing concern that the politicians and the policy makers were simply ignoring the conclusions and recommendations of academic research covering a wide range of educational issues. In the business world, it would be a commercial disaster for a major company to launch a new product or service, which had been inadequately researched and tested.
No Room For Failure In The Business World
However, the history of education is littered with policy failures, re-thinks and a never ending list of initiatives based on a lack of analysis and a knee-jerk reaction. How often for example, has the Ford Motor Company re-called a recently launched new car? The answer is hardly ever. This is because the company may start with over 1,000 new product ideas and gradually filter the weaker ideas out, until they have one prototype design. Over the course of time this design will be modified and re-worked.
Customer reaction to the new car will be collected through extensive consumer research and focus groups. At each stage of its development, feedback from consumer research will be analysed to ensure that every aspect of the new design meets with the approval of customers from its target market. Thus it could take between three and five years for a new design to reach the car showrooms. Clearly this extensive filtering and evaluation of new design ideas, does not happen with a fair proportion of educational policies that have to be implemented in the classroom.

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