Interaction in the classroom: district nurse students and their teachers

This research project aimed to investigate interaction in the classroom between district nurse students and their teachers and to identify some characteristics of effective teaching and learning. The research explored events in the classroom and relationships between students and teachers, and students and their peers. Symbolic Interactionism was used as the theoretical framework. Ethnographic methods within qualitative research focused on the ways in which teachers and students organise themselves and their environment through roles, rules and procedures.