scholarly journals The wisp of an outline ≈ Storying ontology as environmental inquiry↔education :–)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Scott Jukes ◽  
David Clarke ◽  
Jamie Mcphie
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
To Come ◽  
Everyday Performance

Abstract They thought they felt something, perhaps. The wisp of an outline not distinct enough to trace. Good. They circled it, at times, and at other times found themselves within. As they walked (a sort of walking. Figurative but real. Digital, but here. Over months of events), it curled open and headed in several directions. Foldings in the backcloth that furrowed them along until, as they walked and talked, they felt that perhaps a territory was becoming simultaneously clearer and more obscure, that they might find a way to enquire, even as it meant becoming the folds themselves. As they coalesce, Scott, Jamie, and Dave each come to this project differently (of course). From their own situations, with their own problems and with different voices and ways of writing. We (for the first shift in voice) take post-qualitative inquiry to be infused with a question mark, wary of attempts to make it a ‘thing’. Yet here we are, drawn to potentials, to the opening of conditions, to the possibility of something still to come. We hope to make a shift, to realise (as in make manifest) ontology and its everyday performance as synonymous with environmental education. Environmental education as a life.

Meaning of happiness: A qualitative inquiry among adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naina Kapoor ◽  
Shifa Rahman ◽  
Tejinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
To Come

Research on happiness seems to be blooming in current academics. Psychology's engagement with psychopathology left no space for this concept to come to the fore. With rapid changes in the academic world, together with the shift in the focus towards more positive concepts has resulted in a renewed interest in the concept of happiness. The domain of qualitative research seeks to explore the diverse human experiences and the present study uses this domain to understand the subjective meaning of happiness in adolescent students. Using a qualitative approach, twenty adolescents were asked to share their life experiences using a semi structured interview schedule. A grounded theory analysis revealed that happiness forms a core concern for an individual where it depends not only on the cultural norm involving an individual where social relationships form an important part, but also goals and aims (s) he/she wishes to achieve in life. It exists in temporality but is impacted by the larger dimension of meaning in life which is relatively stable and covers a huge expanse of an individual's existence. Finding happiness in life involves both personal goals such as self growth and attainment of peace, and also professional goals like fulfilment of one's academic aim. Happiness is also seen as being impacted by an individual's past happenings, belief in selfworth and social responsibility. Analysis of the findings thus points to the fact that meaning of happiness varies across individuals, however, the essence remains the same for a given culture. The consideration of the emic approach not only creates sound knowledge, but also leads to a holistic understanding of human affairs.

Bernard Shaw on Tragedy

PMLA ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 888-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvan Barnet
Keyword(s):  
Question Mark ◽  
The Public ◽  
To Come ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy ◽  
Better Than

When Shaw was alive the public had little opportunity to come to any conclusions about his attitude toward tragedy—and especially toward Shakespearean tragedy—because the septuagenarian, then octogenarian, then nonagenarian was always willing to publish yet another play, another pamphlet, or another letter reminding his readers that he was inordinately fond of Shakespeare's verbal music, quarreled not with Shakespeare but with Irving, and had included a question mark after the words “Better than Shakespear?” His pronouncements have often embarrassed his admirers, and a number of friendly critics have sought to clarify and make tolerable his opinions by demonstrating that he admired much in Shakespeare, that his fundamental conflict was only with bad Shakespeare or badly adapted Shakespeare.

water/watery/watering: Concepts for Theorising in Environmental Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-168
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lasczik ◽  
David Rousell ◽  
Yaw Ofosu-Asare ◽  
Angela V. Foley ◽  
Katie Hotko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe assemblage of water/watery/watering is a lively cartography of how water may be accounted for when theorising with and through environmental education research. Challenging the universalising claims of Western technoscience and the colonial logic of extraction, the article develops an alternative theoretical mapping of environmental education through engagements with Ingold’s (2007, 2012, 2015) concepts of lines, knots, and knotting. For this article and for the Special Issue in which it is housed, the concepts of such knottings are defined as an assemblage of haecceities, lived events that are looped, tethered and entangled as material and conceptual agencies that inhere within situated encounters. Thus, this article grapples with the need to account for water differently in contemporary posthuman ecologies. To overcome anthropocentric and mastery-oriented approaches, various other ways to account for water in science or environmental education will continue to come to the surface, bubbling and rushing like a waterfall as they have done in this work. Some of these will include thinking with water, which will be central to a theoretical mapping of water that seeks embrace sticky knots. The article explores a (re)turn to artful practices and encounters as spaces in which posthumanist concepts for environmental education might be cultivated.

Identités sociomatérielles et création d’histoires plurilingues et numériques

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200097
Author(s):  
Magali Forte
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
French Immersion ◽  
Major City ◽  
Inquiry Stance ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
To Come ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Immersion Classroom

In the context of this special issue offering new materialist viewpoints in the field of language education, a sociomaterial perspective allows me to question an anthropocentric definition of learners’ and teachers’ identities in a school context. Looking at two moments of plurilingual and digital story production that occurred in an elementary school located in a major city in British Columbia, I trace the trajectories of sociomaterial agencements which involved learners, languages, spaces, researchers and other materials. I adopt a post-qualitative inquiry stance and go back and forth between concepts from posthumanist, new materialist, Deleuzo-Guattarian and Indigenous perspectives and narrative descriptions, screenshots and other figures. Thinking with theories, I follow unpredictable lines of flight which lead to the rhizoanalysis of two moments lived in a French immersion classroom, and I invite readers to come up with their own questions and to take part in the inquiry process. The following concepts – spatial repertoires, agencements, body materiality, excesses and flows of affect – demand that we widen our gaze in research and in practice so that we can better understand the dynamic identity agencements that gather diverse human and material elements.

TEOLOGI BENCANA; SOLUSI PENDIDIKAN LINGKUNGAN BERBASIS AL-QUR’AN

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Ali Muhdi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
To Come

Every person should be able to learn the causes of the disaster among them . This is needed so that people can anticipate and avoid the coming disaster in the days to come . Humans can also learn from history or record of previous ones related disaster or calamity that befell at that time to take a lesson or knowledge about how to respond should disaster. In the next stage, become an important environmental education are given to prepare the various ways in which humans actively to manage their environment properly. Environmental education can also be interpreted as efforts to establish expertise, guidance, and rules to understand and measure the proper relationship between man and his environment, and explain the importance of keeping the environment resources. This work is done for the realization of human prosperous in order to get a degree and a good decent life. Setiap orang harus dapat mempelajari penyebab bencana di antara mereka. Hal ini diperlukan agar masyarakat dapat mengantisipasi dan menghindari datangnya bencana di masa yang akan datang. Manusia juga bisa belajar dari sejarah atau catatan yang sebelumnya bencana atau musibah yang menimpa pada saat itu untuk mengambil pelajaran atau pengetahuan tentang bagaimana menanggapi seharusnya bencana yang terkait. Pada tahap selanjutnya, menjadi pendidikan lingkunganpenting diberikan untuk menyiapkan berbagai cara di mana manusia secara aktif untuk mengelola lingkungan dengan baik. Pendidikan lingkungan juga dapat diartikan sebagai upaya untuk membangun keahlian, bimbingan, dan aturan untuk memahami dan mengukur hubungan yang tepat antara manusia dan lingkungannya, dan menjelaskan pentingnya menjaga sumber daya lingkungan. Upaya ini dilakukan demi terwujudnya sejahtera manusia untuk mendapatkan gelar dan kehidupan yang layak baik.

scholarly journals Welfare Reform: The Positioning of Academic Work

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Steele ◽  
Cynthia Wallat
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Heterogeneous Population ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come

Current welfare reform legislation raises a number of questions about how the field of human services will broaden its analytical and educational functions in a context of uncertainty about what welfare will look like in the years to come. How can information and insights about the distribution of welfare dollars and the process of leaving welfare by a heterogeneous population of clients become the basis of contrastive analysis? We describe information sources which can provide a framework for positioning academic work to use longitudinal quantitative tracking sources to lay out qualitative inquiry suggestions for collecting process data that will emerge over time. We suggest that such data will be valuable to practitioners working with persons composing their own histories in the face of the admonishing welfare construct "get off welfare."

Tales from the Future: A Narrative Investigation of the Imagined Career Paths of Young Athletes

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Mortensen ◽  
Kristoffer Henriksen ◽  
Reinhard Stelter
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Athletic Career

Abstract Athletes’ paths to international sporting success are unique but always include a number of transitions within sport, as well as outside of it, which hold the potential for crisis or growth. Particularly the transition from talented junior to elite senior athlete plays a critical role in the overall athletic career. The present study is a qualitative inquiry using semistructured interviews as data. We asked eight young and very talented athletes to imagine they were at the end of a successful career in their chosen sport and invited them to describe how they got there. The qualitative interview strategy was narrative in its attempt to elicit how the young athletes made meaning of their endeavours through narratives, and biographical in its attempt to ask the athletes to describe their future career paths. We analysed the interviews as single case studies, subjected them to meaning condensation and then constructed the final narratives. Common features of the tales pertain to the fact that these athletes are still young and have yet to grasp the reality of what they are embarking on, which is clear from the simplicity and lightness that is portrayed in their perspectives. The athletes give little emphasis to the challenges and need of social support inherent in an athletic career. On the one hand, the poor preparation of the athletes for the time to come is worrying; on the other hand, the unworried lightness and optimism of the athletes’ stories could also be seen as a strength.

Proclaiming the New: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093912
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Kuntz ◽  
Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
To Come

This introduction to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on “new approaches to inquiry” questions the need for preexisting social science research methodologies for inquiry that aspires to produce the “new,” that which is unrecognizable and incomprehensible in the Cartesian onto-epistemological arrangement that enables those methodologies. Quite a few contemporary scholars encouraged by the lure of the new have found “old” philosophies promising in dislodging that dogmatic image of thought and its concepts that weigh us down. Whatever the “new” is, it will be different every time, so the articles in the special issue cannot be models of new approaches to inquiry that can be copied and repeated but, instead, are bursts of intensities that have not yet been rendered ordinary. New inquiry, then, is always not-yet, to-come, a force of pure difference pushing through what has been normalized and stratified as it comes into existence.

scholarly journals Exploring posthuman ethics: opening new spaces for postqualitative inquiry within pedagogies of the circular economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Helen Kopnina
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Closed Loop Systems ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Retail Company

Abstract This article discusses closed-loop systems, namely Cradle to Cradle and circular economy, in the context of sustainable education. These circular models, at least ideally, promise absolute decoupling of resource consumption from the economy. This article presents student assignments applying these models to Hennes & Mauritz, a clothing retail company, and insect food producer, Protix. While the discussion of circular economy revolves around the economic benefits of closed-loop systems, it rarely addresses posthumanism. Posthumanism is related to postqualitative theory, inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari emphasize that nature has become intertwined with technology and culture. In the cases discussed, combining both techno- and organic materials produces ‘monstrous hybrids’. It appears that fully circular solutions are rare as absolute decoupling is limited by thermodynamic (im)possibilities. This realization still has to be developed in environmental education. Within this posthumanist inquiry, the larger lesson from the case studies is the necessity of teaching about degrowth in production, consumption and corporate strategy. In pedagogical terms, this article aims to generate a more critical discussion within the environmental education community about how postqualitative inquiry can provide different and distinct perspectives from qualitative inquiry in the context of the circular economy.

scholarly journals MALĒCIYA TAMIḺ EḺUTTĀḶARKAḶ MATTIYIL, MIṈṈAL PAṆPALAI VĀṈOLI ILAKKIYA NĀṬAKAṄKAḶ EḺUTUVATIL TŌYVU: ŌR ĀYVU [A LACK OF TAMIL LITERARY DRAMA ON RADIO MINNALFM AMONG MALAYSIAN TAMIL WRITERS: A STUDY]

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
RAVINDARAN MARAYA ◽  
KAVITHA KANEAPA
Keyword(s):  
Radio Drama ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Tamil Literature ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
To Come ◽  
Stage Play ◽  
Data Analytic

The Tamil language is primarily comprised of three elements, namely poetry, music and drama. Dubbed the mother of art, the drama element has been through so much of developments over the years. Initially, it was in a street theatre form, which then found its way to stage play and eventually becoming an integral part in the Tamil literature, widely knows as drama in literature. Drama in literature is said to be very significant as it bears the identity of the Tamil community. However, the fate and future of radio drama (or also known as audio theatre) seem to be a question mark. Apparently, there seems to be only a handful who could pen scripts for this art form. Having that said, most writers these days choose only to write about the society, mainly focusing on love, friendship and domestic life. 85% of today’s works are based on social dramas and unfortunately, only 15% consists of radio drama. The lack of knowledge and understanding in epics or ancient literature amongst young writers as well as the scarcity ot such art works are being said to be the two main reasons for this upsetting scenario. In addition, audio theatre requires a special diction which sadly not known to many and as a matter or fact, there aren’t enough writers who could provide guidance on writing this genre. These are findings from a data analytic, which also concluded that Malaysian Tamil writers, not only lack interest and guidance, but also hesitate to come up with such scripts as they feel that it is outdated.

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