ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the research project in detail and includes accounts of the process, ethical procedures, the place of research and the participants. It explores how the emerging themes were identified for transcription from the everyday, mundane teaching and learning interactions. To initiate the process of ethical consent, an application to conduct the research was written and submitted to the researcher's Research and Ethics Committee within the university. Due to the hierarchical way in which consent to research with children has to be achieved, the term gatekeeper's is often given to the top layers of people that the researcher has to gain permission from prior to discussing the proposed research project with the children. This process of consent is detailed in prior research using CA to investigate children's social interactions in a New Zealand playground. CA and MCA were used to examine the interactions to reveal which types of verbal and non-verbal actions were apparent between teachers and children.
