scholarly journals Environmental Education-related Policy Enactment in Japanese High Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 097340822110313
Author(s):  
Melissa Glackin ◽  
Kate Greer
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Enactment ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Japanese High Schools

Over the past decade, Japan’s rich tradition of environmental education-related policy has shifted to encompass international discourse concerning global competition and education for sustainable development. In view of this shift, this article explores environmental education-related policy enactment from the perspective of high school teachers. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 experienced teachers and were analysed using the environmental education-related conceptual lenses of Lucas (1972) and Stevenson (1987, 2007). The findings suggest that the current policy enactment in Japanese high schools features a narrow interpretation of environmental education that emphasises knowledge acquisition and overlooks the development of practical skills, attitudes or democratic citizenship. This case study highlights the necessity that, for a progressive environmental education to become established, policymakers must find a way to balance local knowledge with the demands of international organizations, paying particular attention to curriculum ideology, policy competition and the teachers’ voice in policy creation.

scholarly journals Pendekatan Living Values Education dalam Menanamkan Nilai Karakter Anak di RA Tiara Chandra Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Muammar Qadafi
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Values Education ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p><em>LIVING VALUES EDUCATION APPROACH IN DEVELOPING CHILDREN’S CHARACTER AT RA TIARA CHANDRA YOGYAKARTA. </em><em>This study aims to find out how the Living Values Education (LVE) approach in instilling the character values of children in RA Tiara Chandra Yogyakarta. The research used qualitative method with a case study approach. Data collection techniques carried out through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation, while data analysis technique are through data reduction, data display, and verification. The results showed that RA Tiara Chandra has used the LVE approach for the past three years, starting with the training given to teachers and staff as role models for children, then involving parents and the community around the school area. Training of adults was the first step to guide children in developing character values. This step was quite effective and had a positive impact on the development of children's character values in RA Tiara Chandra Yogyakarta.</em><em></em></p>

A freelancers’ cooperative as a case of democratic institutional experimentation for better work: a case study of SMart-Belgium

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Charles ◽  
Isabelle Ferreras ◽  
Auriane Lamine
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Worker Cooperative ◽  
Rules Set ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article discusses the experimentation led by SMart in Belgium, a worker cooperative founded to support freelance artists – and subsequently extended to other freelancers – with the aim of helping them reduce four forms of uncertainties that affect such workers. Over the past 20 years, SMart has sought to secure broader access to social protections for these workers, shifting its strategies to accommodate the changes in rules set by the Belgian federal state. Today, experimentation abounds for various types of intermediation with new forms of employment, but SMart is notable for its ambition to build a cooperative firm providing the protections of wage work to beneficiaries otherwise ignored by social policies. Based on qualitative research conducted from a Deweyan perspective, and 48 in-depth interviews with SMart worker-members, the authors examine the ways in which SMart can be considered an example of democratic institutional experimentation providing collective capabilities to its worker-members in pursuit of better work.

scholarly journals The Experience and Meaning of Media to Non-Mainstream Athletes: Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Eunhye Yoo ◽  
Jeong-Hui Park ◽  
Jung-Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Auxiliary Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to understand the process by which ssireum (traditional Korean wrestling), which was labeled a declining industry, has regained its popularity owing to the impact of the media. The study was conducted as a case study with ten ssireum athletes who participated in the television program “The Rhapsody of Ssireum.” Additionally, text analysis was performed based on in-depth interviews and auxiliary data collection. As a result, four media-driven transformative trends in ssireum were observed: a shift of the public’s interest from online to offline under the influence of media, shift in the public’s perception of ssireum athletes’ body, birth of ssireum stars with nicknames matching the characteristics of popular ssireum athletes, and ssireum athletes’ increased sense of responsibility toward ssireum matches felt under the spotlight of the media. Admittedly, media exposure of ssireum athletes has increased significantly compared to the past. However, for the popularization of ssireum, a sport unique to Korea, the athletes, and the ssireum association need to make a sustained effort.

scholarly journals A Case Study of How Visually Impaired Learners Acquire Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Minh Phuong Tran ◽  
Phuong Dzung Pho
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Interviews

The field of second language acquisition has grown enormously in the past decades. Many studies have been done on how learners acquire English as a second language; however, research on how visually impaired learners acquire English as a second or foreign language has been relatively scarce. It is even more difficult to find such studies in Vietnam. Based mainly on in-depth interviews with two visually impaired Vietnamese adults who have been successful in acquiring English, the present study seeks to answer two main questions: (1) How Vietnamese visually impaired learners acquire English as a second language; (2) What difficulties they have in learning English, and how they overcome their difficulties. The findings of the present study can contribute to the theory of second language acquisition and language teaching. The study can also provide strategies for practicing and learning a language not only for visually impaired learners but also for second language learners in general.

scholarly journals De poëtica van het verbeelden van geschiedenis op broadcast televisie

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Berber Hagedoorn
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Television Producers

In modern society, television is one of the most important media for presenting the past. This article focuses on the poetics of history on television broadcasts in relation to the manner in which these broadcasts present our past as well as our collective memory. This study rebuts criticism of television as a medium for historical accounts by demonstrating how professionals in the field actively display an extensive knowledge and understanding of the past, provide frameworks for the contextualization of audiovisual materials and depth, and apply and operate specific functions of different representation tools in their productions. To gain insight into the way television producers interact with history, this study combines qualitative textual analysis of the broadcasts and an approach from the field of production studies: diverse in-depth interviews and analysis of internal documents. The case study chosen for this research was Andere Tijden, a history program based on archive material and produced by NTR (formerly known as NPS) and VPRO for the Dutch Broadcast Foundation, from 2000 onwards. The case study demonstrates how television producers’ mediation of history is an important practice in the search for history and memories and the conservation and presentation thereof. The analysis reveals the possibility of more cohesive poetics with regard to history on broadcast television and offers insight into the objectives, strategies and conventions of television producers. Special attention is paid to the more implicit practices of selection and interpretation of material by television producers as curators of the past. These implicit practices are made explicit on a cultural-historical, institutional and textual level.

Games With a Continuum: Globalization, Regionalization, and the Nation-State in the Development of China’s Online Game Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 801-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaolei Jiang ◽  
Anthony Y.H. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Popular Nationalism ◽  
Depth Interviews

As a case study, this article examines the development of China’s online game industry and how China responds to the forces of globalization. Based on in-depth interviews, ethnographic research, and the analysis of archive documents from the past few years, this study identifies China’s evolving strategy of neo-techno-nationalism. In the Chinese context, this national strategy manipulates technology to create a version of popular nationalism that is both acceptable to and easily censored by the authorities. Therefore, cultural industries that adopt this strategy stand a good chance of prevailing in the Chinese market. This success explains why the regional competitors of Chinese online games—Korean games—are more successful in China than most of their Western counterparts. By providing a snapshot of the current ecology of China’s online game industry, this article also discusses the influence of regional and global forces in a concrete context and argues that the development of China’s online game industry depends more on political factors than economic factors.

Teachers’ Beliefs About Creativity and Possibilities for its Development in Polish High Schools: A Qualitative Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Gralewski
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe aim of the present study was to research teachers’ beliefs about creativity and possibilities for its development in Polish high schools. The study consisted of in-depth interviews. It was conducted with a group of 15 high school teachers, all of whom taught the key subjects (math, Polish and foreign languages) for the final school-leaving examination. The qualitative thematic analysis applied to the collected data revealed eight themes. Each of them concerned the teachers’ understanding of what creativity really is, their attitude towards students’ creative activity at school, aims that they formulated to stimulate their creativity, as well as the role and place of students’ creative activity at school. In addition, the themes referred to actions that had been taken by the teachers to stimulate their students’ creativity and factors that inhibited or stimulated the development of students’ creativity at school. The teachers, who were the subject of the analysis, understood creativity as creative potential, that is, the ability to think independently, to give new and original solutions to all sorts of tasks and problems, as well as creative activity oriented towards everyday innovation. Additionally, the study revealed that there exists a creativity gap between verbal support for developing students’ creativity at school and classroom practice.

scholarly journals Perceptions on fisherman’s insurance: A case study in PPN Prigi, Jawa Timur

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Indri Mustikasari ◽  
Rahayu Relawati
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Work Accident ◽  
Work Accidents ◽  
Depth Interviews

Coastal communities commonly depend on their income on marine resources with fishing produces as the main income. Their work is quite risky, as fishing is inextricable from work accidents, loss of life, loss of boats and equipment, personal health and safety, and safety of ship crews. This study aims to determine the mechanism of insurance implementation and fishermen’s perceptions of the Insurance Assistance Program for Fishermen in Prigi, Trenggalek, Jawa Timur. This present study employed descriptive qualitative. The data was collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and literature study. Results show that the number of insurance participants fluctuated, and even decreased every year from 2018 to 2020. Some of the causing factors were fishermen’s lack of interest in the insurance programs due to bad experiences in the past. They reported that the claim submission process was long and complicated when a work accident occurred. Lack of socialization of the insurance program had also made fishermen less familiar.

Gauging underdog entrepreneurship for disabled entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Satish Saxena ◽  
Rushi Sanat Kumar Pandya
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Speech Impairment ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose In the past decade, entrepreneurship research has evolved with the contribution of different scholars, but there is a lack of studies available that focused on entrepreneurship with disabilities. The objective of the research is understanding differently abled entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial journey. How challenges caused by disability contribute to motivate them to pursue entrepreneurship as a career. This study is based on “Underdog entrepreneurs: Challenge-based entrepreneurship model” theoretical model proposed by Miller and Breton-Miller (2017). Design/methodology/approach This qualitative research includes case study methodology to study eight differently abled entrepreneurs. All the identified cases are located in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. In-depth interviews and multiple visits were scheduled to collect the data. Transcripts of the interview and observation notes were developed for the analysis of the content according to the adopted theoretical model. Findings Differently abled entrepreneurs show similar traits as the non-disabled entrepreneurs. They are also found to be more resilient and persistent while dealing with the challenges of failure, stress and uncertainty. Difficult conditions and experiences of discrimination indirectly prepare them for tackling challenges while pursuing entrepreneurship. People close to differently abled entrepreneurs play a critical role in shaping and supporting their ventures. Research limitations/implications Owing to the lack of authentic information available on disabled entrepreneurs, the study does not include different entrepreneurs with more disabilities such as hearing impairment, speech impairment and mental illness. The study also focuses on the entrepreneurs of Ahmedabad City, Gujarat because of the similar reason. Originality/value This paper is an original submission and contributes towards understanding the differently abled entrepreneurs.

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