ABSTRACT
Research in the social sciences, including education is full of pitfalls into which even the most experienced research worker can unsuspectingly be lured. It bristles with unwanted and uncontrollable variables, and woe betide the investigator who attempts one of its problems without having an intimate clinical knowledge of the whole situation. This chapter summarises the relevant facts regarding co-educational and single-sex schools by allowing teachers, ex-pupils and pupils to speak for themselves through their attitudes to the institutions and to various key aspects of their own school experience. Reasons given for preferring co-education were primarily in the areas of social and emotional development, especially the former, the chief argument being that the two sexes trained each other for entry into an adult bisexual world. Teachers' comments against co-education were fewer and were on the academic aspect rather than the social.
