scholarly journals Exploring The Challenges Facing Teenage Mothers in School and How They Cope in the Wa West District

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 689-698
Author(s):  
Amos Amuribadek Adangabe ◽  
Dogbey Alice Emmanuella ◽  
Julius Tigtig
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Teenage Mothers ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Essential Value ◽  
Cognitive Decision ◽  
The Right

Education is a built-in mechanism that retains its essential value as a human right, not as a static commodity to be viewed in isolation from its larger context. Every person has the right to quality education and the ability to guarantee their human rights are secure for the long term. This research examined teenage mothers' struggles in school. The study employed a descriptive phenomenological approach. Twelve teenage mothers were selected, using a snowball sampling approach. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from these teenage mothers by audio taping. The data was transcribed, pursued and analysed thematically. The research revealed that teenage mothers in school face various difficulties in school, including lack of financial support, poor time management, low self-esteem, and emotional instability. The further revealed that majority of teenage mothers in school employ direct problem solving, cognitive decision-making, understanding, and constructive cognitive restructuring to cope with the challenges they face.

scholarly journals SMART APPLICATION DETECTION OF CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SEBAGAI SALAH SATU UPAYA DETEKSI DINI DAN STIMULASI TUMBUH KEMBANG DI CIBEBER, LEBAK, BANTEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Yanti . ◽  
Ardiani Sulistiani ◽  
Eris Laras Patimah
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structure Interview ◽  
Child Growth ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Semi Structure Interview ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Right ◽  
Development Methods

ABSTRAKLatar Belakang: Keterlambatan pertumbuhan dan perkembangan merupakan masalah yang sering dijumpai di masyarakat, tetapi kurang mendapatkan penanganan yang tepat. Pentingnya pelaksanaan stimulasi dini perkembangan anak menjadi salah satu hal yang dapat mendeteksi gangguan tumbuh kembang secara dini. Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And Development merupakan salah satu produk inovasi dengan memanfaatkan teknologi informasi, yang dapat digunakan untuk mendeteksi tumbuh kembang anak melalui aplikasi yang dapat dipasang pada smartphone. Tujuan Penelitian: Mengetahui pengalaman ibu dalam penggunaan aplikasi Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And Development untuk memantau tumbuh kembang anak. Metode : Penelitian ini merupakan studi deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Semi-structure interview digunakan untuk mewawancarai 2 informan kunci dan 10 informan utama yang sesuai dengan kriteria inklusi. Analisis data dilakukan secara deskriptif analitik. Hasil : aplikasi sangat bermanfaat karena dapat menambah informasi dan pengetahuan untuk memantau perkembangan anak, 90% informan menyatakan bahwa aplikasi mudah dipakai, mudah dipahami, 100%  menyatakan bahwa aplikasi yang dibuat cukup efektif, aplikasi dianggap sebagai bahan informasi dan sumber pengetahuan. Sedikit kendala dalam penggunaan aplikasi karena ada beberapa ibu tidak memiliki smartphone, serta terkendala jaringan. Kata kunci : Pengalaman, Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And DevelopmentSMART APPLICATION DETECTION OF CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENTABSTRACTBackground: Delay in growth and development is a problem that is often encountered in society, but it does not get the right treatment. The importance of implementing early stimulation of child development is one of the things that can detect early growth and development disorders. Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And Development is an innovative product that utilizes information technology, which can be used to detect children's growth and development through applications that can be installed on smartphones. Purpose: To find out the mother's experience in using the Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And Development application to monitor children's growth and development.  Methods: This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a phenomenological approach. Semi-structured interviews were used to interview 2 key informants and 10 key informants who fit the inclusion criteria. Data analysis was carried out by analytic descriptive.  Results: the application is very useful because it can add information and knowledge to monitor children's development, 90% of informants stated that the application was easy to use, easy to understand, 100% stated that the application made was quite effective, the application was considered an information material and a source of knowledge. There are a few obstacles in using the application because there are some mothers who do not have smartphones, and are network constrained.Keyword : Experience, Smart Application Detection Of Child Growth And Developmen

scholarly journals The costs and benefits of nurse migration on families: A Lesotho experience

Curationis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matsola E. Ntlale ◽  
Sinegugu E. Duma
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Nurse Migration ◽  
Field Notes

The present day migration of nurses from developing countries, to more developed countries,depletes these countries of this vital human resource, which is necessary to provide optimum quality nursing care to their populations. If nurse migration persists, the health systems of these countries face collapse.It is important that a nurse understands the costs and benefits of migration to their families, whom they leave behind. This is not only to curb the problems that may occur, but to help the migrant nurses to realise how migration affects their families, especially their children and spouses, before they decide to leave their home countries to work in foreign lands.The purpose of this study, which was exploratory, descriptive and qualitative, was to investigate and describe the experiences of family members, of migrant nurses, from the Maseru district of Lesotho, about the costs and benefits of nurse migration. The objectives were to explore and describe the disadvantageous costs and the benefits gained by the families of migrant nurses. These were explored through the research question ’What are the experiences of family members of migrating nurses with regard to the costs and benefits of nurse migration?’The target population of the study was families of migrant nurses from Lesotho. Using purposive sampling the families of two migrant nurses, who were colleagues of the researcher, were identified and approached to participate in the study. Snowball sampling was next utilised to recruit the remainder of the participants. In total, six families were identified and included in the study.The semi-structured interviews and field notes were the two data collection methods that were implemented. The Giorgi’s (1970) steps for data analysis, as outlined in (Burns & Grove 2001:610), were followed and seven themes were discovered as findings. The themes that relate to the costs of nurse migration are: emotional instability, weaker family connections and increased responsibility. The themes that relate to the benefits of nurse migration for their families are: better household income, improved quality of life, essential skills development and travelling opportunities.The use of communication technology is recommended to increase contact across borders in order to reduce the emotional costs of nurse migration on the families of migrant nurses. The article provides a balanced view of the costs and benefits of nurse migration on their families.

scholarly journals VATSONGA PEOPLE’S PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-485
Author(s):  
Lisenga Simbine ◽  
Liana Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
The Right ◽  
People’S Perceptions

This article is based on the findings of a qualitative study that explored the Vatsonga people’s perceptions of children’s rights to protection. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 community-based participants and 11child protection social workers who were familiar with the Vatsonga people's cultural heritage. Key informant and snowball sampling techniques were employed to select the community-based participants and availability sampling for selecting the social work participants. The study established that the Vatsonga people recognise the provision, protection and participation rights of children. Child participation is perceived as comprised of childhood responsibilities, not the right to be heard perse. The paper argues that some of the purported violations of child rights in Africa emanate from the universal application of a Eurocentric worldview of children’s rights. We conclude that to understand child rights in Africa, African people should be allowed to contribute to the construction of an indigenised and contextualised perspective on child rights.

scholarly journals How Students' Perceptions in Narrative Class (The Lord of Flies) Through Online Collaboration Learning.

Abjadia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-121
Author(s):  
Noer Doddy Irmawati ◽  
Adhe Puspita Mayasari
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Online Collaboration ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Right

Mariwan Hasan (2020), suggests that Golding’s novel can be used in a second language classroom to teach democratic values such as the right to free speech using reader-response theory. Curriculum requires that democratic values be taught through each subject, suggests that students can be taught about democratic values through classroom discussions and writing assignments based on the novel (Ghazal Kazim Syed, 2020). In addition to academic learning, researchers believe that students also gain confidence through the collaboration work. When students conform each other’s opinions in activities involving group work, it makes them confident and comfortable with each other. When the teacher is not around to ask a question, they will be less at pressure. against them (Cynthia S, 2020). The practice of collaborative learning in online education is increasing steadily as many curriculum creators and online course teachers are starting to understand its positive effects on the learning of students. This study aimed to analyze students' perceptions in narrative class (The Lord of Flies) through online collaboration learningu used a qualitative research design was followed by this study. As it is a study of perceptions, a qualitative methodology using a phenomenological approach, the participants of this study were twelve the eleventh grade students, data for this article was gathered through semi-structured interviews. The researcher checked part of the coding against each other to ensure trustworthiness of data. Keeping in light the usefulness of online collaboration learning shown in this study, it is recommended that teachers should take effort to include students in literature online discussion group. Furthermore, it is recommended that similar studies should be conducted in schools and colleges. As this study is recommended for future researchers to check the adaptability of the findings in other contexts.

scholarly journals Employability skills: perspectives from employers and tourism graduates in Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Samuel B. Owusu-Mintah ◽  
Michael Kissi
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The Right ◽  
Level Of Importance

Employers of graduates of higher education have often complained of a gap between skills and work attributes required by industry and those acquired by graduates. The main aim of this paper was to provide a comparison of views of employers and tourism graduates on employability skills required for employment by industry in Ghana. The paper was based on a tracer study conducted in June and July 2011 at the Tourism Department of Cape Coast Polytechnic, in Ghana. The study, which was cross sectional, involved a sample of 174 employed tourism graduates, selected using snowball sampling and 25 of their employers selected through multi stage sampling. The results of the study indicated that while there were no vast differences in their views regarding importance of certain skills, there were variations in the level of importance placed on such skills. For instance, the graduates considered the work attribute of time management more important than the employers, while the employers gave higher priority to team working skills than the graduates. An implication of this study is that strong collaboration is needed between higher educational institutions and industry employers not only to ensure industrial attachment placement for students but also for the students to acquire the right employability skills and work attributes, needed by industry

scholarly journals Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study

Food Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (S5) ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
M.N. Mazlan ◽  
A.R. Saili ◽  
J. Saili ◽  
F. Zulkefli ◽  
S. Syahlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Pepper Plant ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Authority

The pepper plant is considered a valuable and popular choice of crop in Malaysia despite market fluctuation affecting its prices and other constraints in the pepper industry. In addition, pepper plant is mainly grown in rural areas of Sarawak and the growers are mainly smallholders who face tough challenges in the industry. Thus, this research endeavours to explore the challenges faced by pepper growers in Sarawak as seen from their perspectives. Qualitative data with a phenomenological approach was conducted to allow an in-depth understanding of their challenges. Data analysis of six semi-structured interviews on the pepper growers was conducted at an agreeable place to the participants. A sampling method was done via snowball sampling. The findings indicated several main themes of the challenges. The emerging main themes revealed that the challenges were associated with a shortage of workers, climate, profits, government assistance, pest, and crop diseases. The result will provide useful information for the government authority, agricultural agencies, and help to formulate the action plan to enhance pepper cultivation.

scholarly journals On Choosing the Place

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Joanna Malita-Król
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Right

Numerous contemporary Pagan groups conduct their ritual ceremonies outside, communing with nature. This essay describes research conducted in a small, eclectic group following the Wiccan wheel of the year in Warsaw, Poland. It focuses on the places used by the group, applying Edward Casey’s phenomenological approach to understand an encountered place, and examines what constitutes a good ritual place according to the group members. The initial supposition was that technical aspects would prevail: privacy, accessibility, and proximity of the four elements. However, the participant observation and semi-structured interviews proved that choosing the right place was primarily based on the experience and interpretation of the feeling evoked by the place: namely, whether the atmosphere was right and the entities dwelling there were seen as welcoming or not.

Workarounds and social support: the saviors for visually impaired bankers in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Jain ◽  
Divya Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Sampling Bias ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Accessible Information

Purpose This research aims to study the coping experience of visually impaired (VI) bankers in India after they have received reasonable accommodation from their employers, that is, the work process or environment has been suitably modified to ensure a barrier-free environment for them. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 VI bankers working with public sector banks in India. A phenomenological approach was adopted during data analysis. Findings Despite the provision of reasonable accommodations, VI employees often find it difficult to fulfill their job responsibilities. This is on account of extensive paperwork required for completion of their jobs and the partially accessible information systems available to them. As a result, these VI employees are found resorting to workarounds to carry out their jobs, with the nature of workarounds adopted varying with the type and extent of visual impairment. Furthermore, it is observed that VI employees require social support not only from their superiors and peers but also from their subordinates and customers to carry out their tasks. Research limitations/implications Data collection was done through snowball sampling which could have resulted in sampling bias. Due to confidentiality issues, observation of workarounds in practice by VI employees could not be carried out as part of the study. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature on integration of persons with disabilities (PwDs) by examining their coping experience after provision of reasonable accommodations. It emphasizes the role of workarounds, an under-studied area in PwD integration, as well as support of other stakeholders in the experience.

scholarly journals The People’s Right To Choose their Healthcare Services: View Point of Health Managers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaheh Parnian ◽  
Ali Aboutorabi ◽  
Mohammadreza Sheikhy-Chaman ◽  
Arya Sakhidel Hovasin ◽  
Zanyar Soltani
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
The Right

Background: People, as the main recipients of healthcare services, consider themselves entitled to the right to choose in the health system. This study aimed to investigate people’s right to choose and freedom about healthcare services from healthcare managers’ perspective. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in 2020. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 healthcare managers. Then, the snowball sampling method continued until data saturation level was achieved. All interviews were recorded, analyzed, and the main themes were extracted. MAXQDA10 was used for data analysis using content analysis method. Results: The people’s rights to choose their healthcare services were categorized into five main themes: people’s awareness of their right to choose, freedom of choice regarding receiving or not receiving services, government guidelines and policies, choice of hygienic services and medical services in a special way, and barriers to free access to services. Conclusion: Recently, more attention is paid to social values in health systems than in the past, and people have more freedom and choices. On the other hand, to strengthen social justice foundations, there is a need for comprehensive policies and planning in various aspects.

scholarly journals Pengalaman Pembelajaran Informal Dalam Kalangan Sukarelawan Mycorps, Kuala Lumpur

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainaatul Afifah Md Saleh ◽  
Kassim Thukiman ◽  
Mohd Koharuddin Mohd Balwi ◽  
Muhammed Fauzi Othman ◽  
Mohd Azhar Abd Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Impact

The study aimed to identify informal learning experiences among MYCORPS volunteers using qualitative methods through semi-structured interviews and using snowball sampling methods. The three objectives of the study were (i) to know the informal learning experiences experienced by the MYCORPS volunteers, (ii) to identify the factors that contributed to the informal learning experiences experienced by the MYCORPS volunteers and (iii) to know the impact of the informal learning experiences experienced by the MYCORPS volunteers. The data obtained were analyzed using thematic analysis method. The informal learning experience is divided into two, soft skills and real skills. The contributing factors to the informal learning experience are learning strategies, outsiders and team members which affects the knowledge, skills and attitudes of volunteers. The chosen phenomenological approach is to understand a phenomenon. The results show that informal learning is experienced through these factors and affects knowledge, skills and attitudes. The study implicates adult learning practitioners, theories used and also the volunteers.

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