scholarly journals Students as partners practices in Chinese universities: An analysis of undergraduate students’ and academics’ perceptions of involvement and importance

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Yifei Liang ◽  
Kelly E. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Teacher Interactions ◽  
Growing Body

There is a small but growing body of literature about engaging students as partners (SaP) in Asian countries. To further collective understanding of learner-teacher partnership practices in China, we invited undergraduate students and academics from three Chinese universities to complete a survey on their involvement in, and sense of importance of, 17 practices that align with SaP activities. The 402 students and 85 academic staff who engaged in the survey reported high levels of agreement about the importance of such practices that foster learner-teacher interactions although levels of involvement were lower. The findings demonstrate that SaP practices are unfolding in Chinese universities with evidence of a desire for growth of such activities. Our findings reveal potentials and possibilities for growing such practices in Chinese universities while raising questions about the underlying drivers and values motivating increased interest in learner-teacher interactions that warrant further qualitative research.  

scholarly journals Teaching strategies: promoting the development of moral competence in undergraduate students

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (suppl 4) ◽  
pp. 1650-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleci de Fátima Enderle ◽  
Rosemary Silva da Silveira ◽  
Graziele de Lima Dalmolin ◽  
Valéria Lerch Lunardi ◽  
Liziane Iturriet Avila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Competence

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify strategies and spaces used by professors to promote the development of the moral competence of nursing undergraduate students. Method: Qualitative research, developed with 20 nursing professors, through a semi-structured interview, from July to October 2016. Data were submitted to discursive textual analysis. Results: Three categories were constructed: Active methodologies as strategies for the development of moral competence; Knowledge and development of clinical reasoning as motivating spaces of moral competence; Attitude of professors as a strategy for dialogue, empathy, recovery of moral values and development of caring skills. Final considerations: The use of strategies and spaces to develop pedagogical actions favors the search for knowledge, clinical reasoning and the approach of ethical and moral aspects that collaborate for the development of the moral competence of nursing undergraduate students.

scholarly journals Seminar on research results: the violation of the maxim of quantity produced by the undergraduate students at the english department STKIP YPUP Makassar

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Fitriani Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
English Department ◽  
Research Seminar ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Good Outcome ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Depth Interview

This study aims at analyzing the violation of the maxim of quantity produced by undergraduate students in research seminar and the reason why they violate this kind of maxim. The researchers applied qualitative research design by using observation and in-depth interview. Four undergraduate students were the participants of this research recruiting using purposive random sampling. The results show that most of the participants violated the maxim of quantity by doing circumlocution (not to the point), providing more explanation, and talking too much. They considered that it was valuable for them to provide more information than needed to obtain the attention of the examiners. They assume that the more they speak the good outcome for their research seminar will be accomplished because having more explanation means they master their research content well.

scholarly journals “Shoot! Can We Restart the Interview?”: Lessons From Practicing “Uncomfortable Reflexivity”

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692096381
Author(s):  
Judith Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Typical Experience ◽  
Process Gain ◽  
Intellectual Challenge

Failure is a typical experience in research, but it is largely taboo in published studies. In recent years, however, we can observe a small yet growing body of literature on failure in qualitative research to address this gap. In this article, I contribute my experiences of failed interviews in a mixed-methods study in Germany to this body of literature and highlight some aspects of failure that have not yet received enough attention. First, in my example, it was not only one interview or a few interviews that failed; rather, it seemed that the whole study failed in design due to particular methodical decisions. Second, failed research presents an intellectual challenge, but it also produces emotional and social trouble because failed research might be attributed to a failed researcher. This may be one reason failure is so damaging for one’s well-being and so difficult to share. Nevertheless, practicing some form of “uncomfortable reflexivity” (Pillow, 2003) via qualitative, close analysis helped me navigate the research process, gain methodical insights and substantive results. Third, I share lessons that might be useful for other researchers: reading literature on failure, the search for a safe and supportive space, and analyzing failure as closely and early as possible.

scholarly journals Establishing Cultural Integrity in Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691774970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinchen Pelzang ◽  
Alison M. Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Methods And Techniques

This article contributes to the growing body of literature on the methods and techniques that might be used to help ensure the cultural integrity and rigor of research that has a cross-cultural dimension. Drawing upon our experiences while conducting a study investigating patient safety concerns in Bhutan, we will reflect on how the study was conceptualized and framed around the elements of the Bhutanese traditional cultural values; how the researchers were positioned; and how the intercultural perceptions, representations, languages, and attitudes influenced the fieldwork processes. It is anticipated that the approach described in this article will help qualitative researchers to understand how important it is to recognize and be responsive to the cultural and linguistic nuances of given research settings to achieve cultural integrity.

Care, Values and an Uncaring Media

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The University

Evidence of ‘dissemination’ is now seen as part of research delivery by grant-giving bodies such as the ESRC and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Drawing on the growing body of research into media sources (Manning 2001, Davis, 2000) and relating it to debates on the public sphere (Habermas 1989), the paper will ask what (if anything) researchers have to gain from involvement with the mass media and whether specialised help can assist in bringing social policy research from the margins into the mainstream of media discourse. It will look in particular at the special difficulties of disseminating ‘fuzzy’ qualitative research findings which do not lend themselves to obviously eye-catching headlines. The paper will draw on an ESRC funded experiment at the University of Leeds as a case study with which to explore these issues.

A Multi-Component and Multi-Disciplinary Student Design Project Within an International Academic and Industrial Collaboration

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike C. Mund ◽  
Anestis I. Kalfas ◽  
Reza S. Abhari ◽  
Yasemin Turcan ◽  
Jean Hourmouziadis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Aircraft Engine ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Student Interactions ◽  
Secondary Air ◽  
Industrial Needs ◽  
The Impact

The design of modern aircraft engines increasingly involves highly sophisticated methodologies to match the current development pace. International company relations affect the collaboration between design offices all around the world. An important part of academic mission of modern engineering education is to produce graduates with skills compatible with industrial needs. Education may readjust accordingly to meet the higher requirements. However, a realistic scenario of the design process of an aircraft engine cannot possibly be transferred one-to-one into the student education process. A unique attempt to overcome this discrepancy was the International Gas Turbine Project. Within this project, undergraduate students have designed the cooling system of the HPT blades for a 30,000 lb thrust two-spool turbofan aeroengine. This project was collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of TU Berlin, the Turbomachinery Group of EC Lyon and the Turbomachinery Laboratory of ETH Zurich. It also involved mentoring industry professionals from Rolls-Royce Deutschland, MTU, SNECMA and Alstom Power. Similar to modern aeroengine company structures, the design tasks included multi-component, multi-disciplinary and international interfaces of different educational systems. The student teams considered various aerothermodynamic and mechanical integrity aspects of the design. Particular attention was paid to design of the compressor, the secondary air system and the HP turbine including blade cooling. The three Universities integrated the project differently into their education curriculum and approached the tasks with different levels of software involvement. In this paper, the technical details of the design process, and the different approaches adopted are presented. Besides the application of turbomachinery-related knowledge, the impact of student interactions on the technical aspects of the project is discussed. The interfaces, including information management and the involvement of industrial partners are also addressed. Team spirit developed between the students from an initial competitive behavior to a final feeling of sitting in the same boat. It was observed that increased effort was required from academic staff in comparison to the conventional academic instruction. Nevertheless, students greatly benefited from the social interaction and an early training-on-the-job tuned to current industrial needs.

scholarly journals ‘I don’t mind watching him cum’: Heterosexual men, threesomes, and the erosion of the one-time rule of homosexuality

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 30-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Scoats ◽  
Lauren J Joseph ◽  
Eric Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Contact ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The One ◽  
University Experience ◽  
Undergraduate Men

In this qualitative research, conducted on 30 gay-friendly, heterosexual, undergraduate men, we examine actual and hypothetical experiences of sexual threesomes, both with two women and one man (FFM), and two men and one woman (MMF). We show a cultural willingness for heterosexual men to engage in not only FFM threesomes, but also MMF threesomes. A year and a half into their university experience, seven of our participants had had at least one FFM threesome, and five of our participants had had at least one MMF threesome. We argue that this threesome experience is a component of cultural progression toward a more liberal, recreational culture of sexuality that encourages play and experimentation instead of a procreative model of sexuality. Thus, this research contributes to the growing body of literature showing that the cultural boundaries of heterosexuality are rapidly expanding for males, permitting more same-sex sexual contact without triggering the one-time-rule of homosexuality.

scholarly journals Artful Research Approaches in #amwritingwithbaby: Qualitative Analysis of Academic Mothers on Facebook

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
A. S. CohenMiller
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Child ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Word Clouds ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Narrative Poem

This study contemplates one facet of academic motherhood through the use of artful research approaches in qualitative research to examine the (im)balance of being a mother writing academic works while raising and caring for a young child, as presented in an online hashtag Facebook campaign, #amwritingwithbaby. Speci cally, this study uses an analysis of online posts and arts-based representations of ndings through a comparison of narrative, poem, and word clouds. Through using popular media for representing the ndings, this study helps address the accessibility of artful inquiry into the growing body of works seeking equity for women and mothers in academia.

scholarly journals PEER INFLUENCE AS DETERMINANTS OF UNIVERSITY- COMMUNITY PREFERENCE FOR GSM SERVICE PROVIDERS IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
Olowe, Modupe Oluwatoyin
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Network Provider ◽  
Ondo State ◽  
University Community

The study investigated the strength of peer influence as determinants of university-community preference for GSM service providers in Ondo State, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised to guide the study. The study adopted a descriptive research survey. The population for this study consisted of the undergraduate students, academics staff and non-teaching staff of universities in Ondo State who were subscribers to each of the various popular service providers in Ondo State, Nigeria, namely, MTN, Globacom (Glo), Airtel and Etisalat (now 9mobile). The four universities have 34,246 students, 1,642 academic staff and 2,743 non-teaching staff totaling 38,631. Random sampling technique was used to select the sample of three thousand, and eight hundred and sixty-five (3,865) respondents. Questionnaire was used for data collection; the reliability was done by using Gultman Split-half method with a r-value of 0.859. Completed copies of the questionnaire were retrieved from the respondents, 3,863 copies of the instrument were distributed 3,671 copies were collected and used for analysis. The data generated was analyzed using descriptive statistics, charts, mean, standard deviation and percentage. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents are students and friends pressurized themselves to use the network they have been using, it was recommended that, the students should be careful not to be influenced by friends to choose a wrong network provider that might affect them in their academics. KEY WORDS: Peer Influence, Network Providers and University-Community

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