Liberal Studies’ role in civic education: an exploratory study

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wai Wa Yuen ◽  
Yan Wing Leung ◽  
Sally Jie Qing Lu
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Liberal Studies ◽  
Public Affair ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject

Purpose – Liberal Studies (LS), as a compulsory subject for senior secondary students (S4-6) who sit for the Diploma of Secondary Education, was introduced in 2007. There has been increased discussion about merits of the subject. This paper was written based on a study the researchers conducted with LS teachers and students to probe the role LS may play in relation to civic education. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The study employed a qualitative methodology and a series of in-depth interviews were carried out with real LS teachers and students to tap their views about LS from their lived experience. Findings – Findings suggest that LS, if conducted appropriately, can be one of vehicles of civic education particularly in such matters related to enhancing social awareness and the ability to partake in public affair debates. It can also be of potential use to nurturing civic virtues in support of democratic discussion. On the other hand, its relationship with real social and political participation by students was not confirmed. Originality/value – This paper represents one of the first to explore about LS’s possible role in civic education with real grounded data. The paper will be of reference value to readers interested in civic education and teachers, students and policy planners of the subject.

Imagined innocence meets lived experience

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Lightner
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ya Literature ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Literature Class

Purpose The purpose of this study was to challenge pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) assumptions about youth readers, the researcher in this study invited a group of three seventh-grade students to attend a multicultural young adult (YA) literature class designed for PSTs at a large mid-western university. Design/methodology/approach Using qualitative methodology, the researcher strove to answer the following question: How can instructors use youth literature and teaching practices to shift the way that youth readers are perceived – especially marginalized youth – within educational institutions? Data sources included participant observation and field notes, semi-structured interviews with participating seventh-grade students, discussion artifacts, lesson plans and discussion transcripts. Findings The author found that the seventh-grade students in this study shared intertextual connections and offered critical readings of text and the world that had the potential to challenge PSTs’ notions of how YA literature can, and should, be used in classrooms. Importantly, the adolescent students were also able to see themselves as competent participants in collegiate dialogue around texts. Originality/value Much research has been done on the value of giving PSTs experiences in school field experiences, but this research highlights the power of interactions between adolescents and PSTs in a university classroom.

Service inclusion: the role of disability identity in retail

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Dodds ◽  
Nitha Palakshappa
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Service Experiences

Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore the role of identity for consumers with disabilities in a retail context. Understanding disability identity is critical to ensuring inclusion in service environments. Despite the growing call to understand the role of identity in consumer services, research on disability identity and the impacts of identity on service inclusion remains minimal. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology generated data through personal narratives from people with disabilities revealing deep insights into the complexity of identity in a fashion retail context. Findings Emergent themes detail five consumer disability identities – authentic unique self, integrated self, community self, expressive self and practical self – seen when viewing service experiences from the perspective of people with lived experience of disability. Individual and collective agency also emerged as key themes that enable people with disabilities to feel a sense of inclusion. Originality/value This research explores the service experiences of people with disabilities in a retail context through a disability identity lens. The authors contribute to service literature by identifying five consumer disability identities that people with a disability adopt through their service experience and present a typology that demonstrates how each identity impacts on agency, with implications for service inclusion.

Effectuation-causation: what happens in new product development?

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1717-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Ortega ◽  
M. Teresa García ◽  
M. Valle Santos
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
New Product ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Degree Of Innovation ◽  
Number Of Firms

Purpose The literature provides contradictory findings on planning contradictory findings on planning as a success factor in projects which entail high innovation. Nevertheless, new product development (NPD) research has mainly adopted the causation lens, in which planning plays an important role. By embracing the logic of effectuation, the purpose of this paper is to secure a wider perspective concerning how the various NPD options develop, taking into account the role played by uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach By adopting an inductive approach, the authors attempt to advance existing knowledge on the topic. The qualitative methodology (documentary analysis, content analysis and alternate templates) is adopted for the analysis of four NPD projects in the food industry in Spain. Findings Results reflect the relevance of the two perspectives considered when explaining the NPD process, with the presence of hybrid behaviour in all the projects and effectuation emerging as the dominant logic in the project linked to a greater degree of innovation and uncertainty. Research limitations/implications Projects involving varying degrees of innovation would seem to require different NPD approaches. This paper provides an initial approach to the subject, and it analyses a small number of firms. It is necessary to better understand to what extent the two logics are present in different types of projects. Practical implications By incorporating the logic of effectuation, firms might consider using NPD as a means of engaging in projects that entail a higher degree of innovation, since it offers ways of dealing with the uncertainty linked to such projects. Originality/value The paper contributes to the still early efforts to apply the perspective of effectuation to the area of NPD, by linking the logics of effectuation and causation to the various NPD processes taking account of their varying degrees of innovation and uncertainty (exploitation, exploration and leverage options).

scholarly journals Assessing the level of relatedness of civic education and government as a school subject: A threat to class attendance

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Bello, Muhinat Bolanle
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Selection Of

Senior Secondary Students' inability to draw a significant difference between these school subjects, which lead to their ceaseless absence in the class is a critical issue that calls for an investigation. This research examined teachers' and student’s assessment of the level of relatedness of Civic education and Government as a school subject in Kwara State. A correlational form of a survey was adopted, civic education and government teachers and students in the senior schools in the three Senatorial districts were the populations. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed in the selection of 63 Government and Civic education teachers and 606 students. A questionnaire with content validity and a reliability index of 0.87 and 0.76 respectively was used for eliciting the data. The analyses were done using descriptive and inferential statistics.  Findings revealed that the two-school subject was very related in all ramifications, with a pass in one leading to a pass in the other. It was recommended that the curriculum planner should collapse the curriculum and contents of the two subjects into one rather than overburden the school timetable.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN METODE TANYA JAWAB DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MATA PELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN KEWARGANEGARAAN DI SMA DHARMAWIRAWAN PEPABRI MAKASSAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asriadi ◽  
Masni Masni
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Factor C

The Use of the Question and Answer Method in Learning Citizenship Education Subjects at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar. This research was conducted at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar. The purpose of this research is to (1) determine the application of the question and answer method by the subject teachers of Citizenship Education at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar, (2) provide an overview of knowledge about teacher and student perceptions of the use of the question and answer method in the learning process at Citizenship Education subject at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar, (3) to find out how the obstacles a teacher faces in applying the question and answer method at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, with data collection carried out through interview and documentation techniques. The sample in this study were 2 class XI teachers. The results showed that: (1) The application of the question and answer method in the learning process of civic education at the Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar was considered to be running well. This is evidenced by the results of interviews conducted with Citizenship Education teachers who show that the application of the question and answer method in the learning process is to facilitate interaction between teachers and students so that learning activities will be more effective and efficient.(2) The consideration of a teacher choosing the question and answer method at Dharmawirawan Pepabri High School Makassar, to apply the question and answer method, which is to give effect to students to always be ready to master the subject matter before starting the teaching and learning process at school so that students will always focus on the material provided. (3) The obstacles faced by a teacher in applying the question and answer method at the Dharmawirawan Pepabri Makassar High School are divided into (a) the student factor (b) the duration factor, (c) the facility factor.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH PEER REVIEW TECHNIQUE

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Surya Rahman Nasution ◽  
Masitowarni Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Level ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thinking Process

Writing, regarded as a thinking process enables language learners to explore and transform their ideas into words in accurate and appropriate ways. Although it has been taught from the Elementary school level up to the higher level of education, English teachers and students encounter various challenges. For students, they still get difficulties in writing a text even after being taught. For teachers, correcting students’ writing increases their workload. Therefore, how to reduce the load of teaching writing and to decrease students’ difficulties in writing have become important problem to solve. Through applying a technique in teaching writing, this research aimed to explore whether the application of peer review technique can improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. The method applied in this research was a classroom action research. The subject of the research was X-4 class SMA Negeri 21 Medan. The instruments of collecting the data were writing tasks as quantitative data while observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, diary notes and interview as qualitative data. The finding showed that Peer Review Technique gives contribution to improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. Keywords: Achievement, Writing, Recount Text, Peer Review Technique

Development of SETS E-Module Integrated with POE Model for Science Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Insih Wilujeng ◽  
Tri Suci Yolanda Putri
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Feasibility Assessment ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Assessment Sheet ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Analysis Design ◽  
Addie Model ◽  
Readability Assessment

This research developed Science, Environment, Technology, Society (SETS) e-module integrated with predict, observe, explain (POE) model on the subject matter of Earth Layer and Its Dynamics for grade VII students. This study aimed to reveal i) the feasibility of the developed e-module for grade VII students, and ii) the practicality of the developed e-module and its dynamics. This is a developmental research adopting the ADDIE model consisting of five stages, i.e.: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The subject of the limited test consisted of 15 students of grade VIII.G of Public Junior High School 8 Yogyakarta. The data were collected using a product feasibility assessment sheet for material and media experts, a product practicality assessment sheet for teachers, and a product readability assessment sheet for students. The results show that the developed e-module was feasible to be used according to the material and media experts and the developed e-module is practical according to teachers and students.

The Changing Perception of the Five Senses

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Sara Benninga
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Peter Paul Rubens ◽  
Courtly Culture ◽  
Southern Netherlands ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
The Senses

This article examines the changing approach towards the representation of the senses in 17th-century Flemish painting. These changes are related to the cultural politics and courtly culture of the Spanish sovereigns of the Southern Netherlands, the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. The 1617–18 painting-series of the Five Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens as well as the pendant paintings on the subject are analyzed in relation to the iconography of the five senses, and in regard to Flemish genre themes. In this context, the excess of objects, paintings, scientific instruments, animals, and plants in the Five Senses are read as an expansion of the iconography of the senses as well as a reference to the courtly material culture of the Archdukes. Framing the senses as part of a cultural web of artifacts, Brueghel and Rubens refer both to elite lived experience and traditional iconography. The article examines the continuity between the iconography of the senses from 1600 onwards, as developed by Georg Pencz, Frans Floris, and Maerten de Vos, and the representation of the senses in the series. In addition, the article shows how certain elements in the paintings are influenced by genre paintings of the courtly company and collector’s cabinet, by Frans Francken, Lucas van Valckenborch and Louis de Caullery. Through the synthesis of these two traditions the subject of the five senses is reinvented in a courtly context

Documenting Contact and Thinking with Skin: A Dermatological Approach to the Study of Police Street Checks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Anita Lam ◽  
Timothy Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Practice Projects

Abstract In contrast to quantitative studies that rely on numerical data to highlight racial disparities in police street checks, this article offers a qualitative methodology for examining how histories of anti-Blackness configure civilians’ experiences of present-day policing. Taking the Halifax Street Checks Report as our primary object of analysis, we apply an innovative dermatological approach, demonstrating how skin itself becomes meaningful when police officers and civilians make contact in the process of a street check. We explore how street checks become an occasion for epidermalization, whereby a law enforcement practice projects onto the skins of civilians locally specific histories and emotions. To think with skin, we focus on the narratives shared by African Nova Scotians, a group that has been street checked at higher rates than their white counterparts. By doing so, we argue that current debates about police street checks in Halifax must attend to the emotional stakes of police-initiated encounters in order to fully appreciate the lived experience of street checks for Black civilians.

The 2016 Police and Crime Commissioner elections

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the 2016 elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and to compare them with those that took place in 2012. It seeks to evaluate the background of the candidates who stood for office in 2016, the policies that they put forward, the results of the contests and the implications of the 2016 experience for future PCC elections. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based around several key themes – the profile of candidates who stood for election, preparations conducted prior to the contests taking place, the election campaign and issues raised during the contests, the results and the profile of elected candidates. The paper is based upon documentary research, making particular use of primary source material. Findings The research establishes that affiliation to a political party became the main route for successful candidates in 2016 and that local issues related to low-level criminality will dominate the future policing agenda. It establishes that although turnout was higher than in 2012, it remains low and that further consideration needs to be devoted to initiatives to address this for future PCC election contests. Research limitations/implications The research focusses on the 2016 elections and identifies a number of key issues that emerged during the campaign affecting the conduct of the contests which have a bearing on future PCC elections. It treats these elections as a bespoke topic and does not seek to place them within the broader context of the development of the office of PCC. Practical implications The research suggests that in order to boost voter participation in future PCC election contests, PCCs need to consider further means to advertise the importance of the role they perform and that the government should play a larger financial role in funding publicity for these elections and consider changing the method of election. Social implications The rationale for introducing PCCs was to empower the public in each police force area. However, issues that include the enhanced importance of political affiliation as a criteria for election in 2016 and the social unrepresentative nature of those who stood for election and those who secured election to this office in these contests coupled with shortcomings related to public awareness of both the role of PCCs and the timing of election contests threaten to undermine this objective. Originality/value The extensive use of primary source material ensures that the subject matter is original and its interpretation is informed by an academic perspective.

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