Research #3 - Student Interview No. 1

I interviewed a number of students to see their attitudes toward subject choice and what they deemed real subjects, soft subjects and academic as to check the beliefs of students one-to-one.

As to remain integral to the study and not ruin the ethics of the study the participant's name has been changed to John, no information other than the fact he attends the school and is in year 13, plus subject choice for analysis, shall be given away as to keep the study ethical.

John, a year 13 student here at Tupton Hall Sixth Form, who I interviewed, claimed that subjects such as psychology, sociology, media studies, law, health and social care, Religious Studies, Music, art, drama, photography, dance, hospitality and catering are not real subjects, they are not academic and the arts are not as important as science and maths.

John studied Computer Science, Business Studies (this was ironic as he made a remark that if it has studies in the name it isn't a real subject) and also Economics. He believed that computer science was useful as the world was becoming increasingly influenced by the media, he also believed that business and economics were easy subjects and so he would get easy grades in them.

In conclusion, John was your typical student taking on views that maths and science were superior subjects and claiming that the expressive arts and anything that could be deemed as remotely as a soft subject were not useful and were poor subject choices.