Interviewing deaf adults in postsecondary educational settings: stories, cultures, and life histories.

This article provides a brief examination of how Deaf adults describe their life histories as learners and as workers in the workforce. We show how these histories are intricately tied to the movements in and around the participants' social positions as Deaf persons in a hearing world. Three discursive positions are evident in the talk of these interviewees in relation to Deafness: as disability, as logistic complexity, and as community/culture. We also show how the life stories produced in the interviews entail variations on the theme of fragmentation: the losing, missing, and finding of viable life circumstances. In addition, we discuss how the interviewer-interviewee relationship comes to embody a hearing community's interests, recasting a Deaf interviewee's everyday life into a series of curiosities.

Road safety and drink-driving: the knowledge and opinions of male and female adolescents.

This paper reports on a structured questionnaire survey of high school students from years 8, 9 and 10 and their knowledge and opinions on issues relating to general road safety and drink-driving. A representative sample of this larger group was then interviewed in more depth. The results are discussed in terms of previous surveys of adolescents' attitudes and knowledge on these issues and the educational questions that arise in the light of reported sex differences.

Road safety. Perceptions of final-year secondary-school students.

Final-year high-school students were surveyed to assess their knowledge and opinions concerning various aspects of road trauma, in particular, its extent, its causes, its relationship to alcohol consumption and the possible solutions to the problem of drink-driving. When compared to the students who took part in a similar study conducted six years previously, it was found that the 1983 students knew more about road trauma in general, and its relationship to alcohol, and were more accepting of intrusive remedial measures such as random breath-testing and speed-humps. Recommendations are made which take into account the students' views on the matter of possible solutions to the problem.