Phenomenology in five music education journals: Recent use and future directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-351
Author(s):  
Debra Joubert ◽  
Liesl Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Education Journal

The purpose of this comparative case study is to explore the recent use of phenomenological inquiries in music education articles published in five selected journals listed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science between 2012 and 2015. The five music education journals are The British Journal of Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education and Music Education Research. An interpretative philosophical worldview and a qualitative research design informed this research. By employing a constant comparative method and analysing 480 articles, the findings of this study revealed that phenomenological inquiry is the third most preferred strategy of inquiry by music education researchers. A heuristic model was developed as an interpretive tool to analyse the data. Although phenomenology is a strategy of inquiry that has a lot to offer music education, several concerns emerged over the quality and proper use as some studies evinced deficiencies regarding the clarity of the research design and disclosure of research procedures.

Group music composing strategies: A case study within a rock band

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Biasutti
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
The Impact

This paper reports on the compositional processes of an Italian rock band whilst composing a new piece over seven group composing sessions. The band members were videotaped during the group composing sessions in their rehearsal room. A qualitative analysis of the video recordings was performed using the Constant Comparative Method. In the analysis, 59 different behaviours emerged, which were subsequently reduced into 13 categories. When analysing the categories, five themes (activities) were defined. The five activities were: context definition, experimenting, constructing, playing and evaluating. The activities were employed as a coding technique for time coding the videotaped data, which revealed the time percentages spent by the musicians in each of the group composing activities. Results from the joint qualitative and percentage time analysis indicate the importance of the strategies adopted by the musicians during group composing. The results are discussed by taking into account the impact of the processes employed in a group composing setting as well as suggestions for future research. The implication for music education involves the possibility to apply approaches based on the development of cognitive processes rather than the product of collaborative composing activities.

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.

scholarly journals ANALISIS ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP DAN HAMBATAN PERTUMBUHAN USAHA DI UMKM PENGOLAHAN TAHU “RDS” SINGOSARI MALANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Aris Wahyu Tristanto ◽  
Ludi Wishnu Wardana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Leadership ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Collection Methods

This research was conducted to describe the entrepreneurial leadership of SMEs Tofu "RDS" and description about the obstacles experienced by SMEs Tofu "RDS". This research uses descriptive qualitative research design that aims to obtain the information available at this time, and then attempt to describe, record and interpret the information. Data collection methods used were interviews, observation and documentation. This type of qualitative research is case study. The result of the research is the condition of entrepreneurial leadership from the leadership of SMEs Tofu "RDS" is generally good because he is able to motivate employees well, have a picture of the future effort, able to read opportunities well, actively seeking new ideas, persistent in running their business And barriers faced by SMEs Tofu "RDS" can be overcome well by the leadership of SMEs Tofu RDS.

scholarly journals “Book Nerds” United: The Reading Lives of Diverse Adolescents at the Public Library

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Diverse Community ◽  
Adolescent Learning ◽  
Project Data

This research asks the question: How does a public library contribute to the literate lives of a diverse community of adolescents? To explore this question, this article presents portraits of three young women, for whom a public library provided transformative opportunities. These portraits come from a larger ethnographic case study that examined a public library’s role in sparking and sustaining adolescent learning. Over 18 months, the author observed library activities involving youth, interviewed library staff and adolescent patrons, and led teen volunteers in a participatory research project. Data were analyzed in a constant comparative method within a sociocultural-historical framework. Through attention to the girls’ activities within the public library, two contributing elements— 1) a democratic space created by library practices, and 2), the diversity in discourse facilitated by the teen librarian—expanded the participants’ literacy practices and perspectives on reading. This article informs our understanding of diversity in adolescent literacy and highlights the practices that libraries and communities can use to foster the next generation of readers.

#ArtGoals

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-65
Author(s):  
Aisha Adel Provoteaux
Keyword(s):  
Middle School Teachers ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Art Curriculum ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Extrinsic Motivators

This qualitative case study investigated the challenges and opportunities for fostering artistic engagement in early adolescent students. As developmental stages are likely to be factor, the experiences of three middle school teachers were analyzed to identify strategies for nurturing artistic engagement in this population. A constant comparative method of analysis of interview data revealed the following themes: the importance of artistic engagement, how to recognize it, challenges with fostering this type of engagement and strategies for overcoming them, opportunities for promoting artistic engagement, the developmental needs of adolescent students, their relationship to artistic engagement and the implications for the secondary art curriculum. Ultimately, it was found that while stages of development do influence artistic engagement, extrinsic motivators also play a role. Challenges, however, can be mediated by a constructivist approach to art education, as it motivates and empowers students to become responsible for their learning, through the creation of meaningful artwork.

scholarly journals Fostering Mathematical Creativity Among Engineering Undergraduates

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Keng Keh Lim ◽  
Zaleha Ismail ◽  
Yudariah Mohammad Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Mathematical Creativity ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Creative Methods ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Engineering Undergraduates

This research is used to study engineering undergraduates fostering their mathematical creativity during creative problem solving. This was an exploratory research carried out in a public university as to find out the impact of CPS towards mathematical creativity among the engineering undergraduates. A case study was used to provide deep exploration of how the engineering undergraduates using their creative methods to solve open-ended mathematical problems creatively. Qualitative research design was applied in order to understand in depth the engineering undergraduates working collaboratively to generate their creative ideas during mathematical problem solving. Three final years engineering undergraduates took part in the study.  They had to use their divergent and convergent thinking to generate creative methods to solve twelve open-ended mathematical problems. Qualitative research design of case study was used in this study to explore the engineering undergraduates using creative methods to solve open-ended mathematical problems during creative problem solving processes. By analyzing the data collected from the case study can provide in-depth and detail understanding of the creative processess and products of the research. Observation and recording sheets were used to collect all the data. SCAMPER was also used as a guideline for them to spark their creaivity. All the qualitative data of drawing from documents, videotape from observation and snapshot texts from recording sheets were collected and then analyzed. They were coded and categorized into different themes in order to find out the mathematical creativity among the engineering undergraduates. The results in this study shows that the engineering undergraduates were able to generate different creative methods with the help of the SCAMPER.

scholarly journals Faktor Individual dan Struktural pada Kepuasan Kerja Bidan Era Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-530
Author(s):  
Amalia Raafiah
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Interview Guide

Abstrak Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional telah berjalan kurang lebih empat tahun, namun Praktik Mandiri Bidan yang bekerjasama dengan BPJS Kesehatan di Kota Semarang mengalami penurunan, pada tahun 2017 sebanyak 95 PMB dan menurun menjadi 85 PMB di tahun 2018. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor individual dan struktural pada kepuasan kerja bidan era Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Mei s.d. Juli tahun 2018 di Kecamatan Ngaliyan, Kota Semarang, jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus dan teknik pengambilan data menggunakan teknik wawancara mendalam. Informan dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 7 orang dengan 4 orang informan utama dan 3 orang informan triangulasi. Instrumen yang digunakan diantaranya panduan wawancara mendalam, alat perekam dan buku catatan. Data dianalisis menggunakan metode perbandingan tetap. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa faktor individual pada kepuasan kerja bidan adalah nature of work, pencapaian nilai dan motivasi, sedangkan faktor struktural pada kepuasan kerja bidan adalah supervisi, rekan kerja, komunikasi dan keadilan. Simpulan penelitian ini adalah tingkat kepuasan kerja bidan cukup puas pada era JKN.   Abstract Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional has been running for at least four years, but Independent Practices Midwife who collaboration with BPJS Kesehatan in Semarang City has declined, from 95 IPM in 2017 to 85 IPM in 2018. The objective of this research was to figure out individual and structural factors of Midwife’s job satisfaction in Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional era. This research was occurred on May until July 2018 in Ngaliyan Sub-district, Semarang City, this research was a case study with descriptive qualitative research using in-depth interview technique. Informants in this study amounted to 7 people with 4 main informants and 3 triangulation informants. The instrument used was an in-depth interview guide, a tape recorder and a notebook. Data were analyzed with constant comparative method. Result showed that individual factors of midwife’s job satisfaction were nature of work, value attainment and motivation, and structural factors of midwife’s job satisfaction were supervision, co-worker, communication and equity. Conclusion of this research was a phase of midwifes’s job satisfaction were enough in JKN era.  

scholarly journals Perception and Experience of Teacher Educators about Their Motivation: A Case Study Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province

This study was designed to explore the perception and experiences of motivation of teacher educators of the universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. The data was collected and analysed through case study approach, the qualitative research design and thematic-narrative analysis technique. The total twenty-one teacher educators revealed their stories in the form of narratives about their motivation. The findings of this article would be found suitable, authentic and reliable resource, which would be an excellent addition in to the existing literature of motivation in order to understand the phenomenon, its process and causations.

scholarly journals Cultural identity of bilingual adults : a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anastasiia Gorlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Research Findings

This case study of the cultural identity of bilingual adults aims to discover the changes in the self-identification of sequential Russian-English bilingual adults that occur as a result of the immersion in the second language and culture. The study strives to answer the question of the change in self-identification of bilingual adults and the way they perceive those changes as well as the role that language plays in the transformation of identity. The participants of the study are Russian-born graduate students pursuing their graduate studies at the Universities in the United States. The data for this qualitative study were gathered through oral semi-structured interviews and samples of participants' writing and analyzed using the constant comparative method. The research findings show that the participants of the study are situated on a various levels of the construction of hybrid identities. Among the factors that influenced that transformation of identity, the most were the loss of network and connections and the differences between American and Russian cultures. Additionally, language as a factor in the change of self-identification affects the identity when individuals temporarily lose the ability to communicate and then learn new communication strategies that involve a system of both languages based on the principles of efficient communication.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN CONVERSATION USED BY INTROVERT STUDENTS AT POLITEKNIK LP3I MEDAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Sarah Monalisa Harahap ◽  
Anni Holila Pulungan ◽  
Siti Aisyah Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
The Way

This study deals with the language  communication strategies in conversation used by extrovert and introvert students at Politeknik LP3i Medan. It uses qualitative research design with a single case study to gain an understanding on this study. It is conducted descriptively. This study aims to find out the types of communication strategies in conversation used by introvert students of Politeknik LP3i Medan. The subjects were 10 persons of introvert and of Politeknik LP3I Medan. The use of instruments in this study were observation ,interview and documentation. The observation were the types of communication strategies in conversation used by extrovert and  introvert students of Politeknik LP3i Medan. The interview was used to in depth the data. The theories of Celce-Murcia was used in this study. The data were analyzed by Spradley (1979) analysis. The result of the study there were three reason of communication strategy were used by students of Politeknik LP3I Medan. They are providing opportunities for practice strategy, proving list of needed vocabulary and remind forgotten words strategy.Keywords: Communication Strategies, the Reason Why the Introvert Students Used Communication Strategies in the Way They Do

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