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Annex 3: Adviser Interviews
Peer Education in RSE: Questions for Advisers or Equivalent
East House Research, a small independent research company, is currently carrying out research into the possibility of introducing a peer education scheme in road safety. This is being carried out on behalf of Road Safety Scotland, a body funded by the Scottish Executive. The scheme being explored would, if implemented, apply to secondary school pupils and, through interviews with a sample of Education Advisers (Guidance, Citizenship and Enterprise, or equivalent), we are very keen to discover what is the potential for peer education to be developed for RSE. We should point out that, by road safety education, we are looking beyond topics such as the Green Cross Code. We would hope to extend its application to exploring wider issues such as the risks to the young who might be out and about at night, in cars with friends, risk taking on the road, and the effects of peer pressure, etc.
Please answer, as fully as possible, the questions below:
- Can you tell me about any peer education that is taking place in secondary schools in your area?
- If there is peer education, would you please clarify the type and subjects/topics in which it is being used.
- What do you see as the strengths of peer education?
- What, if any, are the weaknesses?
- Do you think that peer education might be applied to road safety education in the secondary school?
- Are there any frameworks that might be adapted to support peer education in road safety?
- How might a road safety peer education scheme be implemented?
- How might a road safety peer education scheme be supported?
- How much teacher and/or Adviser time might need to be devoted to it, both:
at its inception and
during its operation? - How much training and support might be required for participating:
teaching staff and
pupils? - What do you expect might be the response and take-up from schools and pupils in your area?
I wonder if you could suggest a school in your area where successful peer education is being carried out and where we might be able to visit and talk to teachers and pupils about peer education.
Many thanks for your help.
List of areas from which the interviewees were drawn
Areas in which interviewees were based:
Central
Fife
Glasgow City
Orkney
An Adviser from North Lanarkshire had agreed to become involved but pressure of work meant that he had to withdraw.
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