Okay so I have been chatting with Alan again and he did bring an interesting question to me...will boys an teachers attitudes perhaps be to broad to focus on? what are the advantages of the bredth and what might the benifit be of a more tightly focussed aim? he suggested perhap just focussing on teacjer views and going for greater depth.

This got me thinking, it is right that I could get a much more indepth research for focussing on just one aspect, however I have found some really interesting litreture on boys attitudes as well as teachers and I do think that boh are importan aspects in conquering this issue. Terefore I am currently trying to think of a way to inlude both, but still keep my research focussed. I could focus in on the gaps and overlaps sort of like a cmpare and contrast type research, as suggested by Alan.

It is important for me to decide soon so that I can get my questionnaires more focussed to the research aim.

Any thoughts let me know"!