scholarly journals Beginning to Dismantle the Binaries that Frame the Neoliberal Kindergarten

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Binary Logic ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Education Stakeholders

The binary logic of policymakers’ neoliberal reforms has restructured kindergarten into a learning environment where teachers struggle to nurture children as learners. At the same time, the critiques that challenge these policies are also rooted in this binary logic. This allows policymakers’ neoliberal reforms to remain intact. In this article, I address this issue through analysing findings from a larger research study that examined how a range of education stakeholders (n=88) made sense of the changed kindergarten through binary logic. I then take apart these three binaries that emerged in my analysis process to provide insight into possible pathways for change that education stakeholders at all levels of governance can begin to engage in to dismantle policymakers’ neoliberal education reforms.

Analysis of Manpower Capability Needs in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for Tobacco Industry: A Case study on BPO industry in Clark Pampanga, Philippines.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2916-2923
Author(s):  
Feng Shuo ◽  
Qi Yao ◽  
Gualberto A. Magdaraog
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Business Process Outsourcing ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Insight Into

Objectives: The study focus on the capability needs of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees for tobacco industry.The study is a quantitative and qualitative research study. It used a survey questionnaire to gather data needed for analysis. The respondents of the study were 50 employees of BPO companies in Clark Pampanga Philippines,where BPO industry is a trend. The findings show an up-to-date picture of BPO industries in Clark Pampanga and an insight into BPO human resources capabilities needs for tobacco industry. It may let Tobacco companies analyze own employee management system with increased precision. They still enabled us to define employment perspective and the challenges tobacco companies are facing, to identify the current BPO human resources capability issues and the long-term human resources trends for Tobacco industry. Together, they provide an exact depiction for the Tobacco industry and valuable foresights to both its employees and employers.

Examining How Stakeholders at the Local, State, and National Levels Made Sense of the Changed Kindergarten

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 822-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Brown ◽  
Joanna Englehardt ◽  
David P. Barry ◽  
Da Hei Ku
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Standardized Testing ◽  
First Grade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Local State ◽  
National Education ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Academic Content ◽  
Education Stakeholders

Kindergarten in the United States has fundamentally changed. It is the new first grade where children are taught increased academic content and experience more standardized testing. There is much debate among education stakeholders about these changes, but such discussions are often siloed— making it difficult to know whether these changes reflect these stakeholders’ understandings of kindergarten specifically or public education in general. This explorative video-cued multivocal ethnographic study addressed this issue by examining how local, state, and national education stakeholders made sense of the changed kindergarten. Such findings provide insight into what it is they viewed driving these academic and instructional changes, what opportunities for further reform exist, and whether these stakeholders will work to support and/or alter such changes.

scholarly journals The Mathematical Proficiency Promoted by Mathematical Modelling

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-131
Author(s):  
Priscila Dias Corrêa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Mathematical Work ◽  
School Students ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Mathematical Proficiency ◽  
Insight Into

This study aims to investigate the mathematical proficiency promoted by mathematical modelling tasks that require students to get involved in the processes of developing mathematical models, instead of just using known or given models. The research methodology is grounded on design-based research, and the classroom design framework is supported by complexity science underpinnings. The research intervention consists of high-school students, from a grade 11 mathematics course, aiming to solve four different modelling tasks in four distinct moments. Data was collected during the intervention from students’ written mathematical work and audio and video recordings, and from recall interviews after the intervention. Data analysis was conducted based on a model of mathematical proficiency and assisted by interpretive diagrams created for this research purpose. This research study offers insight into mathematics teaching by portraying how mathematical modelling tasks can be integrated into mathematics classes to promote students’ mathematical proficiency. The study discusses observed expressions and behaviours in students’ development of mathematical proficiency and suggests a relationship between mathematical modelling processes and the promotion of mathematical proficiency. The study also reveals that students develop mathematical proficiency, even when they do not come to full resolutions of modelling tasks, which emphasizes the relevance of learning processes, and not only of the products of these processes.

scholarly journals Rigid Flexibility: Seeing the Opportunities in “Failed” Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692096378
Author(s):  
Anna S. CohenMiller ◽  
Heidi Schnackenberg ◽  
Denise Demers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Insight Into

This article highlights an experience of “failing” within a qualitative research study. Specifically, the authors speak to the failure of recruiting participants in conducting synchronous video and telephone interviews. Drawing from literature in business and examples from research method texts to demonstrate the cross-disciplinary concerns and insights of failure within one’s work, the authors discuss how failure can be reframed as opportunity through the lens of “rigid flexibility” and the innovative steps they implemented. Providing additional insight into the process of framing and reframing failure in research, the authors integrate poetic inquiry as a tool for reflection to highlight their process and suggested steps for new researchers. The authors argue that researchers can approach studies with the idea that failures in the planning and/or execution can lead to opportunities and new insights.

Addressing food insecurity in Australia through education for sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1601-1611
Author(s):  
Sonia Nuttman ◽  
Rebecca Patrick ◽  
Mardie Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Within Australia food insecurity affects an estimated 4 million people annually. Health promotion degrees traditionally prepare pre-service graduates to address food insecurity from a social determinants perspective, little consideration of integrating ecological determinants, however, has been noted. This is a significant problem considering unprecedented environmental challenges facing future food production. Education for sustainability (EfS) is purported to develop graduates who can respond to significant sustainability issues in the 21st century. This study examined the potential for health promotion degrees to utilize EfS to address food insecurity through an ecological lens. The study also illustrates why it might be valuable for academics to use such an approach. Semi-structured interviews with 15 Australian health and sustainability academics and document analysis of 26 associated teaching units was undertaken. Thematic analysis informed the data analysis process to provide meaning and insight into emerging themes. Academics were unaware of EfS or its potential for developing ecologically literate graduates. A lack of university commitment towards sustainability and knowledge and skills to implement EfS were identified as potential barriers. Academics, however, were ascribing to the central tenets used in EfS such as interdisciplinary thinking and reflective practice, demonstrating its potential use in health promotion. EfS, as a framework for incorporating an ecological perspective into health promotion degrees has not been fully realized. This study suggests capacity building of academics with regard to the use of EfS as an approach within health promotion degrees to address significant sustainability issues in the 21st century, such as food insecurity.

Curiosity and Caring Levels in Undergraduate Nursing Education: A Relational Investigation Toward Understanding Empathetic Curiosity

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Sandra G. Nadelson ◽  
Louis S. Nadelson
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Education ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Exceptional Patient ◽  
Programs Of Study ◽  
Insight Into

Emotional caring and curiosity are associated with exceptional patient care. Combined, the characteristics form empathetic curiosity. Little is known about nursing students' curiosity. Our quantitative research study provides insight into connections between caring and curiosity of nursing students both early and late in their programs of study. Students early their program perceived more caring from others toward them than the students late in the program. The students did not differ in their curiosity or caring levels for others. Our findings indicate a positive relationship between caring and curiosity. Nursing student curiosity may be reflective of their preparation as professionals.

scholarly journals Children’s analysis processes when analysing qualitative research data: a missing piece to the qualitative research puzzle

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna K Gillett-Swan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Researching With Children ◽  
Insight Into

Children’s role in the research process is often limited to a passive role as subject, recipient or object of data rather than as active contributor. The sociology of childhood considers children to be competent social actors and advocates for them to be recognised as such. This recognition is yet to filter into mainstream research agendas with children often remaining a passive provider to research that seeks to elicit their perspectives. This article presents an examination of the processes that children use when analysing their own qualitative research data as observed within a qualitative research project. It provides insight into the ability to increase the richness of data obtained when researching with children, by including their perspectives and contributions in the data analysis process. Children’s capacity as capable and competent contributors to research beyond the more passive role of participant is described and the ways that children can have a greater participatory role in qualitative data collection and analysis processes are discussed.

scholarly journals Nursing students’ satisfaction of the clinical learning environment: a research study

BMC Nursing ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evridiki Papastavrou ◽  
Maria Dimitriadou ◽  
Haritini Tsangari ◽  
Christos Andreou
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Students Satisfaction

scholarly journals Student nurse perceptions of supervision and clinical learning environment: a phenomenological research study

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 306 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Flores Vizcaya-Moreno ◽  
Rosa M. Pérez-Cañaveras ◽  
Ismael Jiménez-Ruiz ◽  
Joaquín De Juan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Student Nurse ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment

Objetivo: Analizar las percepciones de los estudiantes de enfermería sobre la relación de supervisión y ambiente de aprendizaje clínico durante sus prácticas clínicas. <br />Metodología: Se utilizó un diseño cualitativo con un enfoque fenomenológico. Los datos se recogieron a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas de grupos focales. Se realizó un muestro intencionado y se conformó una muestra de 48 estudiantes de Enfermería de la Universidad de Alicante (España). Las entrevistas fueron transcritas textualmente y analizadas utilizando el método “Stage by stage”. A partir del análisis surgió una estructura en forma de árbol con cuatro categorías: individualización, innovación en enseñanza clínica, participación de los estudiantes y relación entre enfermera tutora-estudiante de enfermería. <br />Resultados: El estudio muestra que no hay individualización en el proceso de aprendizaje clínico. La participación de los estudiantes en las actividades de la unidad depende de su experiencia, de las características de la unidad, del equipo de enfermería y del tutor. Los estudiantes sienten que el papel del tutor de prácticas no está claramente definido. La ansiedad, la vulnerabilidad y los sentimientos de ser “trabajadores temporales” son comunes entre los estudiantes de enfermería.<br />Conclusiones: Estos resultados deben conducir a reflexiones más profundas sobre los elementos estudiados del proceso de supervisión y del entorno de aprendizaje clínico. Más concretamente en los aspectos de individualización, participación de los estudiantes, sentimientos y la elucidación del papel del enfermero tutor. <br /><br />

scholarly journals Is Democratic Learning Possible in a High-Stakes Classroom?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Diana L. Satterfield
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
High Stake ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Learning And Collaboration ◽  
Democratic Learning

However well-intentioned, standardization and increased testing conflict with theories and research that supports authentic learning and collaboration. Implementing methods to empower and engage students can feel nearly impossible within a high-stake environment. This article discusses the findings of an action research study conducted to explore ways for teachers to engage students to become active participants in both teaching and learning. Students were encouraged to explore a democratic learning environment in which they worked collaboratively to develop lesson plans for social studies that adhered to state requirements. The findings showed a profound shift in perceptions of teaching and learning by students and teacher.

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