We Are Here for the Future of Our Kids: Parental Involvement in Refugee Adolescents’ Educational Endeavours in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gandarilla Ocampo ◽  
Cyril Bennouna ◽  
Ilana Seff ◽  
Michael Wessells ◽  
Mackenzie V Robinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
The Us ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Every year, thousands of young refugees and their families face challenges as they adjust to schools in the US. This article explores how families resettled to the US from conflict-affected, Arab-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, such as Iraq and Syria, view education, and how parents support their children’s education following the experiences of resettlement. To centre the voices and lived experiences of these families, we analysed focus group discussions with 30 adolescents and in-depth interviews with 30 parents and 27 key informants. Analysis using constant comparative method and thematic analysis showed that, upon resettlement, education remained highly valued by families. Our study finds that, despite the challenges associated with families’ newcomer status, parents in this study provided educational support to their children by engaging with the school and with their children’s learning at home. We offer suggestions on how schools and organizations can bolster parents’ ability to support their children’s education.

When Culturally Significant Songs are Decontextualised: The Initiation Song Somagwaza, A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Dowling ◽  
Somikazi Deyi ◽  
Anele Gobodwana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Ritual Music ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Small Focus ◽  
Over Time

While there have been a number of studies on the decontextualisation and secularisation of traditional ritual music in America, Taiwan and other parts of the globe, very little has been written on the processes and transformations that South Africa’s indigenous ceremonial songs go through over time. This study was prompted by the authors’ interest in, and engagement with the Xhosa initiation song Somagwaza, which has been re-imagined as a popular song, but has also purportedly found its way into other religious spaces. In this article, we attempted to investigate the extent to which the song Somagwaza is still associated with the Xhosa initiation ritual and to analyse evidence of it being decontextualised and secularised in contemporary South Africa. Our methodology included an examination of the various academic treatments of the song, an analysis of the lyrics of a popular song, bearing the same name, holding small focus group discussions, and distributing questionnaires to speakers of isiXhosa on the topic of the song. The data gathered were analysed using the constant comparative method of analysing qualitative research.

The Experience of Occupational Disruption among Student Musicians

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon McCready ◽  
Denise Reid
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Major Occupation

Student musicians frequently need to take breaks from playing their instruments because of physical playing-related injuries, yet little is known about their experiences with these occupational disruptions. We conducted a qualitative study that explored student musicians' lived experiences with unplanned disruptions stemming from engagement in their major occupation of playing an instrument. In-depth interviews with seven student musicians who attended either a special arts high school or a university were conducted. Consistent with a grounded theory approach to qualitative research, the constant comparative method of qualitative data analysis was implemented. A major finding related to the theme of “being and becoming,” where student musicians expressed a strong sense of belonging to a group of other like musicians who they learned from, relied on for support, and created music with. Another theme was motivation to excel, where students expressed a strong desire and motivation to improve and master their instrument. Occupational tensions and pressures emerged as another theme. Students were aware of the need to practice and the need to care for their bodies. A constant negotiation was required in which students struggled to find a good balance between the need to practice and to respect their bodies while maintaining an identity of a musician. These findings are discussed in relation to how health care providers and educators need to understand the demands and stresses associated with playing an instrument so that they can better support these young musicians.

scholarly journals Criminal Liability of Medical Profecionals Negligience: Comparative Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (Especial II) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Kateryna Danchenko ◽  
Olga Taran
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Medical Office ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to study the criminal liability of medical professionals in cases of suspension, in accordance with jurisprudence in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States of America (USA). He made the comparative method. According to the investigation, the number of criminal proceedings in Ukraine by the authority and misconduct of medical doctors is about 2% per population, my figure that rises to 30% in Europe and is the stable yes in the US and is 28%. 32%. The main objective of the article is often area identify specializations in the medical office occurs with the mayor based on Ukrainian jurisprudence (data from Ukraine’s only state judicial decision register from 2016 to 2019). In addition, the study analyses the impact of the main influences on the ability of medical professionals for their professional functions. From counting the results show that surgeons, gynecologists, paramedics, and anesthesiologists are the most prone to deviation and medical error. Key proposed criteria have been proposed as medical errors differ from medical writing.

Engagement valence duality and spillover effects in online brand communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 877-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Lay-Hwa Bowden ◽  
Jodie Conduit ◽  
Linda D. Hollebeek ◽  
Vilma Luoma-aho ◽  
Birgit Apenes Solem
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Consumer Engagement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Brand Communities ◽  
Brand Engagement ◽  
Online Brand Communities ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose Online brand communities (OBCs) are an effective avenue for brands to engage consumers. While engaging with the brand, consumers simultaneously interact with other OBC members; thus engaging with multiple, interrelated engagement objects concurrently. The purpose of this paper is to explore both positively and negatively valenced consumer engagement with multiple engagement objects, the interplay between these, and the spillover effect from consumers’ engagement with the OBC to their engagement with the brand. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 16 in-depth interviews with OBC members of a luxury accessory brand, a constant comparative method was adopted using axial and selective coding procedures. The objective was to understand the nature of participants’ engagement with the brand, the OBC, and the interplay between individuals’ engagement with these objects. The coding framework and resultant interpretive frameworks address engagement valence, outcomes, and direction. Findings This study illustrates consumer expressions of consumers’ positively and negatively valenced engagement with a focal brand, and with the OBC. Further, it demonstrates the interplay (spillover effect) that occurs between consumers’ engagement with the OBC, to their engagement with the brand. While the existence of positively valenced engagement with the OBC was found to further enhance consumer brand engagement (i.e. reflecting an engagement accumulation effect), negatively valenced engagement with the OBC was found to reduce consumer brand engagement (i.e. reflecting an engagement detraction effect). Originality/value While consumer engagement has been recognized to have both positive and negative manifestations, this study demonstrates that consumers’ engagement valence may differ across interrelated engagement objects (i.e. the brand and the OBC). Further, we demonstrate the existence of engagement spillover effects from the OBC to the brand for both positively and negatively valenced engagement.

scholarly journals Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Immigrant Parenting in the United States and Singapore

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

Confucian heritage culture holds that a good education is the path to upward social mobility as well as the road to realizing an individual’s fullest potential in life. In both China and Chinese diasporic communities around the world, education is of utmost importance and is central to childrearing in the family. In this paper, we address one of the most serious resettlement issues that new Chinese immigrants face—children’s education. We examine how receiving contexts matter for parenting, what immigrant parents do to promote their children’s education, and what enables parenting strategies to yield expected outcomes. Our analysis is based mainly on data collected from face-to-face interviews and participant observations in Chinese immigrant communities in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and in Singapore. We find that, despite different contexts of reception, new Chinese immigrant parents hold similar views and expectations on children’s education, are equally concerned about achievement outcomes, and tend to adopt overbearing parenting strategies. We also find that, while the Chinese way of parenting is severely contested in the processes of migration and adaptation, the success in promoting children’s educational excellence involves not only the right set of culturally specific strategies but also tangible support from host-society institutions and familial and ethnic social networks. We discuss implications and unintended consequences of overbearing parenting.

scholarly journals ¿Educación o desintegración? Parental Migration, Remittances and Left-behind Children's Education in Western Guatemala

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-590
Author(s):  
JASON DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Parental Absence ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Parental Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Children’S Education

AbstractMany Guatemalan parents migrate to the United States with the intention of returning earned income to improve the human capital prospects of their left-behind children. This laudable goal is achieved by many – arguably benefiting girls more than boys. However, negative international migration externalities including migration failure, familial abandonment, psychosocial harms and a culture of migration that disproportionally limits the educational prospects of boys need to be considered. Based on qualitative field interviews in western Guatemala with parents and educators, this article presents a nuanced view of economic migration and left-behind children's education, capturing both its remittance-related benefits and parental absence harms.

Parish and Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Colleen Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Black Catholics ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Latin Mass ◽  
The Us ◽  
Structural Responses ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how the largest US religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political diversification among American Catholics. Specifically, it explores bishops’ use of personal parishes—parishes formally established not on the basis of territory, but purpose. Today’s personal parishes serve an array of Catholics drawn together by shared identities and preferences rather than shared neighborhoods. Their contemporary application permits Catholic leaders to act upon the perceived need for named, specialist organizations alongside the more common territorial parish, designed to serve all in its midst. Parish and Place documents the US Catholic Church’s earlier move away from national parishes and more recent renewal of the personal parish as an organizational form. In-depth interviews and national survey data detail the rise and rationale behind new parishes for the Traditional Latin Mass, for Vietnamese Catholics, for Black Catholics, and more. Featuring insights from bishops, priests, and diocesan leaders throughout the United States, chapters offer a rare view of institutional decision-making from the top. The book is at once a demonstration of structural responses to diversity across wider conceptions of space, and a look at just how far fragmentation can go before it challenges cohesion and unity.

scholarly journals Undergraduate Arab International Students' Adjustment to U.S. Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazza M. Abu Rabia
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
International Students ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
The United States ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
The Us ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Host Nation

The adjustment process and issues of 16 Arab international students enrolled at two universities in the Northeast of the United States were examined through this qualitative, exploratory study. The participants were from Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates and had been in the US for 2 to 5 years. In-depth interviews were employed to document and analyze the experiences and challenges of these students on U.S. campuses. One-on-one interviews with the participants revealed multiple factors obstructed Arab international students' academic success and limited their socialization within the context of their postsecondary institution, their host community, and their host nation. Several prevailing themes were discovered among the participants, including culture shock, language barrier, cultural differences, and isolation. While further research is needed, these findings suggest that specific programming and outreach by U.S higher education institutions could be implemented to assist Arab international students' adjustment to the academic and social environment of their host campus.

scholarly journals Aspirai Orang Tua tentang Pendidikan Anak di Jorong Kampuang Pisang Nagari Koto Panjang Kecamatan IV Koto Kabupaten Agam

JURNAL BUANA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Mutiara Putri Insani ◽  
Yurni Suasti ◽  
Ratna Wilis
Keyword(s):  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Career Women ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Formal School

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan aspirasi orang tua tentang pendidikan anak di Jorong Kampuang Pisang Nagari Koto Panjang Kecamatan IV Koto Kabupaten Agam.Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Informan dalam penelitian ini adalah orang tua yang memiliki anak usia sekolah. Penelitian ini dikumpulkan dalam wawancara mendalam dan dianalisis melalui reduksi data, penyajian data, dan pengambilan kesimpulan. Penelitian ini menemukan: (1) Cita-cita orang tua terhadap pendidikan anaknya yaitu orang tua ingin anaknya menjadi dokter, guru, abdi negara, wanita karir, dan lain sebagainya. (2) Hasrat berkaitan dengan usaha orang tua untuk mewujudkan cita-cita orang tua terhadap anaknya, seperti memasukkan anak ke sekolah formal, orang tua tidak membedakan pendidikan antara anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan, bagi orang tua sama nilai keduanya, dan berusaha memenuhi kebutuhan anak walau sering terkendala biaya (3) Ketetapan hati berkaitan dengan kepuasan orang tua terhadap apa yang telah dicapai anaknya, orang tua merasa puas jika cita-cita mereka terhadap anak bisa terwujud. Abstract This study aims to describe aspirations of parents about children's education in Jorong Kampuang Pisang Nagari Koto Panjang District IV Koto Kabupaten Agam. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The informants in this study are parents who have school-age children. This research was collected in in-depth interviews and analyzed through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. This research found: (1) parents' aspirations for their children's education, namely parents want their children to be doctors, teachers, state servants, career women, and so on. (2) Desire is related to the efforts of parents to realize the ideals of parents towards their children, such as entering children into formal school, parents do not distinguish education between boys and girls, for parents both values, and trying to fulfill needs of children even though often constrained by costs (3) Determination of the relationship with parents' satisfaction with what their children have achieved, parents feel satisfied if their aspirations for children can be realized

scholarly journals PARENTS INVOLVEMENT ON CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OMESURI, LEMBATA REGENCY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ramadhan Jamhar ◽  
Sunu Hastuti
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Parents Involvement ◽  
Learning At Home

This study was done to know the parents’ involvement on children’s education at elementary school in Omesuri, Lembata Regency. The aim of the study is to ascertain how does parental involvement on students elementary education. In this case study, a qualitative research was used. Data was gathered by interviewing parents of five differents elementary school in Omesuri, who all have children that have good achivement in academic. The study found that all participants are all highly involved with their children’s education. However, not all aspects the parents involved. There were three of six aspects that the parents involved, namely parenting, communication, and learning at home. While the other three aspects were not involved, namely volunteering, decision making, and collaborating with community. The study showed that parental involvement has positive effects on students’ academic achievement on Elementary Schools in Omesuri.

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