scholarly journals Perceptions and Conceptions of “Place” in Australian Public Foundations

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402199846
Author(s):  
Alexandra Williamson ◽  
Belinda Luke ◽  
Craig Furneaux
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Strategic Focus

This study examines place-based philanthropy in public ancillary funds (PubAFs) in Australia. While PubAFs vary greatly in their purposes, stakeholders, and operating models, place emerges as a strong element of foundations’ perceived identity, strategic focus, and grantmaking. This article advances the understanding of philanthropic giving by investigating and identifying the perceptions of place by PubAF managers and trustees, contributing to a novel and valuable “insiders” perspective on PubAFs. Drawing on Agnew’s three elements of place, namely location, locale, and sense of place, key findings highlight PubAFs’ ties to place in multiple contexts and dimensions. This qualitative study contributes to understandings of the ways in which place shapes and defines giving by public foundations, overlaps and interacts with foundations’ mission and strategy, and affects philanthropic impact.

scholarly journals Writing from and with Community Knowledge

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
María Paula Ghiso ◽  
Patricia Martínez-Álvarez ◽  
Bessie P. Dernikos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
School Based ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Language Classrooms

This chapter draws from a primarily qualitative study with two first grade dual language classrooms over the course of a semester. The authors detail how multimodal writing engagements provide an avenue for Latino young children, whose language and knowledge is often devalued in schools, to reframe their community experiences at the center of academic inquiry. Through the medium of photography, children are able to enact agency to position the multiple contexts they navigate—marked by linguistic dynamism and diverse transnational experiences—as resources that could expand conceptions of school-based literacy practices.

scholarly journals Smartphones and Varsity Athletes: A Complicated Relationship

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poppy DesClouds ◽  
Natalie Durand-Bush
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Varsity Athletes ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

Varsity athletes are a group of high performers situated within a demographic notable for smartphone usage and media-multitasking. Surprisingly, little research has examined the impact of smartphones in the lives of varsity athletes. The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study was to begin addressing this gap by investigating varsity athletes' experiences with smartphones. Varsity athletes (n = 21) from nine different sports participated in one of five focus groups, and data emerging from these discussions were subjected to an inductive thematic analysis. Results indicate that smartphones are a mainstay of varsity athletes' experiences, as the athletes regularly use their smartphones to manage roles and demands across multiple contexts (e.g., sport, school, home). Themes pertained to concurrent negative (e.g., stress, distraction, disengagement) and positive (e.g., self-regulation, social connectedness) implications of smartphone usage, making it clear that athletes' relationship with their smartphone is a complicated one. Findings contribute to the limited studies of smartphone usage among athletes, and support the notion that implications of usage exist along a continuum, rather than in distinct categories of “good” and “bad”. Results can inform practical guidelines for optimising athletes' use of smartphones in and around the sport context.

Preparing New Zealand's Teachers to Use Culturally Responsive Relationship-Based Pedagogies

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Ressler ◽  
James D. Ressler ◽  
Barrie Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Quality Teaching ◽  
Naturalistic Inquiry ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Multiple Contexts

This article addresses culturally responsive relationship-based pedagogies as a foundation to quality teaching and learning. Framed through an examination of the Masters of Teaching and Learning (MTchLrn) program in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this qualitative study was conducted using naturalistic inquiry. A study of how this program works across multiple contexts forms a basis for determining whether it could serve as a model for other institutions and countries. Results indicated the MTchLrn program, through the infrastructure of the program and triad relationships so central to the program, holds promise for effectively preparing teachers in culturally responsive and relationship-based practices.

Writing from and with Community Knowledge

2014 ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Paula Ghiso ◽  
Patricia Martínez-Álvarez ◽  
Bessie P. Dernikos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
School Based ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Language Classrooms

This chapter draws from a primarily qualitative study with two first grade dual language classrooms over the course of a semester. The authors detail how multimodal writing engagements provide an avenue for Latino young children, whose language and knowledge is often devalued in schools, to reframe their community experiences at the center of academic inquiry. Through the medium of photography, children are able to enact agency to position the multiple contexts they navigate—marked by linguistic dynamism and diverse transnational experiences—as resources that could expand conceptions of school-based literacy practices.

scholarly journals Individual behaviors and beyond: Toward a multidimensional view of gamer identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl ◽  
Jordan Reed ◽  
Christopher Keys
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Accurate Reflection

Aims. “Gamers” have historically been described via consumption habits and other unidimensional definitions such as genres played. Increasingly, researchers understand social identity as situated within multidimensional contexts, including community members’ interactions with other members and society at large.Methods and results. Our qualitative study involving 434 fighting game community members suggests this expanded, more multidimensional view of social identity is a more accurate reflection of how people who play games view their identities. Our findings focused on four themes of gamer identity: (1) behaviors, (2) player motivations, (3) centrality, and (4) negative perceptions.Conclusion. Our research complements more recent research on gamer identity incorporating individual-level gaming habits or preferences and group-level identities emerging from out-of-game and/or in-game worlds. In this way, we consider the influence of multiple contexts on individual identity. Understanding the influence of various social contexts can provide better insight into the multidimensional nature of gamer identity.

scholarly journals Identity and Sense of Place of Ghajar Residents Living in Border Junction of Syria, Israel and Lebanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-1) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Shamai Shmuel ◽  
Shemali Ali ◽  
Gorbatkin Dennis ◽  
Chativ Nadim ◽  
Elachmad Halil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Quantitative Survey

Abstract The study focuses on the sense of place among Ghajar inhabitants.Ghajar is unique in its geographical and ethnic status. It is located in the junction of Israel, Syria and Lebanon.The residents are the only Alawites under Israeli control and are isolated from their ethno-religious center in Syria. Two consecutive quantitative surveys and a qualitative study have been implemented: The first quantitative survey was aimed at determining a variety of aspects and attitudes of Ghajar residents towards Israel and towards their village. The second quantitative survey describes the national identity of the residents towards Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Ghajar. The results represent complicated and instrumental feelings towards Israel, and a very clear and positive attachment toward Syria and towards their village.

Qualitative study on “hydropic degeneration” of The hepatocytes in viral hepatitis

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-569
Author(s):  
Le Meizhao ◽  
Ye Ming ◽  
Song Xiaoming ◽  
Xu Jiazhang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Viral Hepatitis ◽  
Chronic Active Hepatitis ◽  
Microscopic Observation ◽  
Hydropic Degeneration ◽  
Light Microscopic Observation ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Endoplasm Reticulum ◽  
Mixed Fluid ◽  
Peripheral Cytoplasm

“Hydropic degeneration” of the hepatocytes are often found in biopsy of the liver of some kinds of viral hepatitis. Light microscopic observation, compareted with the normal hepatocytes, they are enlarged, sometimes to a marked degree when the term “balloning” degeneration is used. Their cytoplasm rarefied, and show some clearness in the peripheral cytoplasm, so, it causes a hydropic appearance, the cytoplasm around the nuclei is granulated. Up to the present, many studies belive that main ultrastructural chenges of hydropic degeneration of the hepatocytes are results of the RER cristae dilatation with degranulation and disappearance of glycogen granules.The specimens of this study are fixed with the mixed fluid of the osmium acidpotassium of ferricyanide, Epon-812 embed. We have observed 21 cases of biopsy specimens with chronic severe hepatitis and severe chronic active hepatitis, and found that the clear fields in the cytoplasm actually are a accumulating place of massive glycogen. The granules around the nuclei are converging mitochondria, endoplasm reticulum and other organelles.

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