Children’s Social Relationships and Motivation in Sledge Hockey

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Wynnyk ◽  
Nancy Spencer-Cavaliere

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore children with disabilities’ social relationships and motivation to take part in sledge hockey. Harter’s (1978) theory of Competence Motivation was used as the conceptual framework. Ten children (1 girl and 9 boys) between ages 11–16 years, who experienced a range of disabilities, participated. Primary data were collected using semistructured interviews, participant observations, and field and reflective notes. The thematic analysis led to four themes: (a) coach feedback, (b) parental involvement, (c) skill and belonging, and (d) (dis)ability sport. The findings revealed that interactions with significant others contributed extensively to the participant’s perceptions of competence and motivation to participate, as did the sport’s competitive nature. The findings are discussed in the context of Harter’s theory and the children’s sport and adapted physical activity inclusion literature.

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452110275
Author(s):  
Meredith R. Naughton

This qualitative case study explored the unique ways recent college graduates serving as full-time, near-peer mentors supported students along the path to college in three different urban public high schools. By applying the theory of figured worlds to school spaces and practices, this study sought to both define the physical and figurative ways mentors helped students envision and enact college-bound identities and compare and contrast the differences in these spaces across schools. Data and thematic analysis indicate that promoting the development and enactment of college-bound identities requires intentionality about how school culture, people, and policies enable real and figurative spaces for college-bound exploration and support.


Author(s):  
Adel Ismail Al-Alawi ◽  
Arpita A. Mehrotra ◽  
Sara Abdulrahman Al-Bassam

The internet has revolutionized the way people communicate, how they manage their business, and even how they conduct their studies. Organizations can conduct meetings virtually and store all their data online. With this convenience, however, comes the risk of cybercrime (CC). Some of the world's most renowned organizations have found themselves having to incur huge recovery costs after falling prey to CC. Higher learning institutions' databases are increasingly falling victim to CCs, owing to the vast amounts of personal and research data they harbor. Despite this, the area of CCs in learning institutions remains understudied. This chapter seeks to identify how CC is manifested in such institutions and the specific cybersecurity measures that stakeholders could use to minimize their exposure to the same. The qualitative case study was designed to explore the research questions, and collected data through semistructured interviews. The findings showed hacking, phishing, and spoofing as the most common manifestations of cybercrime in higher learning institutions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Samuel Elliott ◽  
Murray Drummond

There has been increasing academic interest in understanding the nature of parental involvement in youth sport. Much scholarly focus has illuminated both positive and negative forms of sport parenting from the perspectives of coaches, parents and youth participants. One less understood aspect however surrounds the potentially conflicting role of parents who coach their own children in youth sport. This is surprising given that many parents, especially fathers, demonstrate support by fulfilling essential roles such as team manager and team coach (Jeffery-Tosoni, Fraser-Thomas, & Baker, 2015). This paper emerges from an Australian study of 16 parent-coaches involved in Australian football. The original purpose of the study was to understand the nature of the sport parenting role in youth sport in Australia. A number of pertinent themes were constructed surrounding the contemporary experiences of parent-coaches who coach their own children, and how coaching is subsequently justified. The findings illustrate how concerns of favouritism impact how parent-coaches interact with their child in contrast to the rest of the team, encouraging nuances of ‘negative’ parenting toward their own children under the guise of being the coach. Examples of this include demonstrating deliberate criticism at training and matches and overlooking their child in awarding encouragement awards after each weekly match. Significantly, parent-coaches justify these behaviours in attempting to fulfil the dual role of parent and team coach. We argue that this can be potentially problematic for some parent and child relationships and have a reinforcing influence on how other parent-coaches negotiate being a parent and coach. 


2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Nancy Maldonado, ◽  
Kate Callahan, ◽  
Joan Efinger,

This qualitative case study investigated the lived spiritual experiences of participants who attend a Five Weeks seminar about holistic and end of life (EOL) care decisions. Auditaped, semistructured interviews recorded participants’ responses. Content analysis was the central technique used to identify themes. Four themes emerged. These included perspectives, life after death, reflective insights, and rituals. Implications and recommendations are included for caring practices related to EOL care and spiritual support.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ståle Knardal ◽  
John Burns

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of accounting when managing the institutional complexities of a festival organisation pursuing financial and social objectives. Specifically, it focuses on how accounting can be implicated in handling a festival’s multiple and potentially conflicting logics. Also, through mobilising the concept of institutional work, the following builds on our knowledge of the importance of what people do, in managing an organisation’s institutional complexity. Design/methodology/approach This paper is grounded in a qualitative case study, for which the primary data derives from interviews, plus examination of internal documents and information in the public domain. Findings The festival studied is commercially successful, though ultimately one of its main organisational goals is to maximise donations to charitable causes. Other goals include: offering an alternative community through music, particularly to the young; fostering new and innovative artistry; and nurturing a festival family that is rooted to a large extent in its army of volunteers. The paper reveals how seeking such goals simultaneously requires the handling of logics that potentially can pull in opposite directions. Moreover, it highlights the efforts of festival organisers to maintain coexistence between the different logics, including the utilisation of accounting, accounts and accountability to facilitate this. Originality/value There are three main contributions of the paper. First, it offers new insight into how accounting can be purposefully used to mediate between potentially opposing logics in a complex organisational setting. Second, the paper extends our knowledge of the use of accounting specifically within a popular culture context. Third, the following adds to recent use of the concept of institutional work to understand why and how people mobilise accounting to handle institutional complexity in organisational settings.


Author(s):  
Annisa Indah Kartika ◽  
Sara R. Qanti

ABSTRAKPeningkatan produksi susu di Indonesia masih belum mencukupi kebutuhan konsumsi susu diIndonesia yang juga terus meningkat. Koperasi Produksi Susu (KPS) hadir untuk memfasilitasi parapeternak sapi perah. KPS tidak dapat menjalankan seluruh kegiatannya sendiri maka KPS menjalinkerja sama dalam memenuhi sarana produksi, distribusi, kualitas, dan kontinuitas. Tujuan penelitianini adalah untuk mengetahui pola dan keragaan kemitraan yang terjadi pada KPS Bogor. Penelitiandilakukan di KPS Bogor di Jln. Baru Kedung Badak, Kelurahan Kedung Badak, Kecamatan TanahSareal, Kota Bogor, Jawa Barat. Penelitian dilakukan dengan desain deskriptif kualitatif dan teknikpenelitian studi kasus. Responden dan informan ditentukan dengan sengaja. Data yang digunakanadalah data primer dan sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa KPS Bogor memiliki enamperusahaan mitra yaitu PT. AMS, CV. MAJU, Cimory, Indolakto, Nutrifood, dan Unican. Hanya satudari enam perusahaan ini yang memiliki perjanjian tertulis yaitu PT. AMS dalam bentuk Kerja SamaOperasi (KSO). Perjanjian tidak tertulis dengan Indolakto, Cimory, Nutrifood, dan Unican dalambentuk kemitraan subkontrak, dan CV. MAJU dalam bentuk vertical forward linkage. Dalampelaksanaan kerjasama antara KPS dan mitra, banyak proses yang dilakukan secara spontan.Kata kunci: susu, keragaan, kemitraan, kerja sama bisnis, spontanABSTRACTMilk production in Indonesia is still insufficient to fulfil increasing milk consumption in Indonesia.West Java is one of the largest milk production centre in Indonesia and also place where there aremany milk production cooperatives (MPC). MPC presents to facilitates the dairy farmers. MPC wasnot able to run the entire business itself, then it cooperates with various partners in term ofproduction facilities, distribution, quality control, and continuity. The purpose of this study is todetermine the pattern and the performance of partnerships at the MPC in Bogor. The study wasconducted at the MPC in Bogor located at Jln. Baru Kedung Badak, Kedung Badak Village, TanahSareal District, City of Bogor, West Java. Descriptive design and a qualitative case study researchtechnique were used in this study. Primary data were collected by using participant observation andinterviews. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. Important results suggest thatMPC in Bogor has six partner companies, namely PT. AMS, CV. MAJU, Indolakto, Cimory,Nutrifood, and Unican. Only one (PT. AMS) of these six companies has written agreement and inform of Joint Operation. The unwritten agreements with Indolakto, Cimory, Nutrifood, and Unicanare in subcontract partnerships form, and CV. MAJU is in vertical forward linkage form. In theimplementation of partnerships, many processes are carried out spontaneously.Keywords: milk, the performance, partnerships, business collaboration, spontaneous


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ulfi Maryati ◽  
Kurniawati Putri ◽  
Armel Yentifa ◽  
Dita Maretha Rissi

Printed Newspaper readers began to decline with development of technology, and online media readers increased. Printed newspaper companies must take a decision whether to keep the printed newspaper or change to online media. This research is a quantitative applied research using a case study approach. Data collection techniques used were interviews, observation and documentation. This study uses primary data, the analytical method used is thematic analysis, Hansen Mowen's tactical decision making steps, and rational theory models. The results of this research that switching to online media is more profitable going forward for companies, because online media do not cost as much as printed newspapers. Online media does not require ink, paper and operational vehicles such as print newspapers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Racionero-Plaza ◽  
Juan Antonio Piñero León ◽  
Manuel Morales Iglesias ◽  
Leire Ugalde

Introduction and Aims: This article explores the role of toxic close relationships in night life on substance use disorders and mental health conditions. We also contrast the quality and effects of social relationships when doing drugs with those produced by a mental health program that fosters quality relationships between patients.Design and Methods: This qualitative case study was carried out at a mental health day care center of a hospital in Malaga (Spain). The cases of two patients with severe mental disorders and a history of drug addiction were analyzed. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with every patient, semi-structured interviews about each patient with the psychologist of the medical team of the program, and medical documentation. The analysis involved a combination of inductive and deductive approaches.Results: The analysis of the data revealed, on the one hand, the influence of toxic relationships in nightlife, including violent sporadic sexual relationships, in the initiation and persistence of substance use that took part of the mental health disorder in these patients. On the other hand, the findings show that these participants' current involvement in a mental health program, which fosters quality relationships between patients, has brought emotional benefits to both of them.Discussion and Conclusion: This paper points out the relevance of considering quality of social relationships when examining substance use disorders and related mental health problems. Additionally, the findings indicate the importance of fostering quality peer relationships in mental health rehabilitation programs addressed to patients with histories of drug addiction to improve treatment outcome.


Author(s):  
Hongxiang Zhu ◽  
◽  
Ang Lay Hoon ◽  

The purpose of this study is to identify the translation methods of sound words from weapon collisions in Legends of the Condor Heroes. This qualitative case study probes into how the sound words from weapons collisions are translated. The translation material of this study adopts translated Volume I and Volume II of Legends of the Condor Heroes. The sound words or expressions (n=120) of weapon collisions are collected based on purposive sampling method. Data is analyzed by inductive thematic analysis method. The finding illustrates that the sound words from weapon collisions are translated with the methods of omission with the figure of 48%, onomatopoeia of 29% and explication 23% in the translation version. In conclusion, the trend of translation method of sound words from weapon collisions in Legends of the Condor Heroes goes towards target language-oriented translation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 2333-2362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Parkinson

Interviews with 30 women in two shires in Victoria, Australia, confirmed that domestic violence increased following the catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires on February 7, 2009. As such research is rare, it addresses a gap in the disaster and interpersonal violence literature. The research that exists internationally indicates that increased violence against women is characteristic of a postdisaster recovery in developing countries. The relative lack of published research from primary data in developed countries instead reflects our resistance to investigating or recognizing increased male violence against women after disasters in developed countries. This article begins with an overview of this literature. The primary research was qualitative, using in-depth semistructured interviews to address the research question of whether violence against women increased in the Australian context. The sample of 30 women was aged from 20s to 60s. Recruitment was through flyers and advertisements, and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and checked by participants. Analysis was inductive, using modified grounded theory. Seventeen women gave accounts of new or increased violence from male partners that they attribute to the disaster. A key finding is that, not only is there both increased and new domestic violence but formal reporting will not increase in communities unwilling to hear of this hidden disaster. Findings are reported within a framework of three broad explanations. In conclusion, although causation is not claimed, it is important to act on the knowledge that increased domestic violence and disasters are linked.


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