Science teachers’ decision-making in Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage (AOUM) classrooms: taboo subjects and discourses of sex and sexuality in classroom settings

Interrogating paradigmatic commitments of focus group methodology: An invitation to context-sensitive qualitative research methods.

“…In terms of the issues of privacy and onlookers that we discussed in this article, certain research questions will create a context that mandates rigid commitments to methodological norms to ensure the welfare of the participants. For example, when interviewing on themes of genocide and incest (Mahr & Campbell, 2016; Varallo et al, 1998) or on the topic of sex and sexuality (Gill, 2015), the context created by the research questions will impose a very high normative demand for privacy during interviews. At the other extreme, the people involved in the research also shape the immediate context of the research exercise but depending on their life histories and agenda, their influence on the context can be extremely fluid.…”