scholarly journals Controlling the Uncontrollable! Danish Citizens’ Attitudes Towards the COVID-19 Vaccination Program – a Qualitative Case Study Employing the Lens of Bourdieu’s Practice Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene Missel ◽  
Camilla Bernild ◽  
Ida Elisabeth Højskov ◽  
Selina Berg
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Citizens Attitudes

Abstract Background: Vaccination is an effective choice to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy may, however, be a threat to global health. What is structuring and at stake regarding citizens’ attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination in a society is not yet well understood. The aim was therefore to assess how the attitudes and beliefs of Danish citizens regarding the offer of a COVID-19 vaccine are expressed to make us wiser as to why people have the attitudes towards the vaccination program that they have.Methods: The study was designed as a qualitative case study including 25 citizens from different parts of Denmark and with different sociodemographic backgrounds. Data were collected through individual interviews and analyzed and interpreted through the lens of Bourdieu’s practice theory; the focus being especially on structures, habitus and capital within a health field. Findings: The findings highlight structures that regulate vaccination attitudes in the individual in which perceptions of being included or excluded in the logic of the state are particularly relevant. The individual’s usual social network seemed to have less structuring importance for their attitudes for or against COVID-19 vaccination. Participants’ health habitus was challenged by COVID-19 vaccination, and it had an impact on their attitudes whether they considered health, illness, and body as an individual or collective responsibility. The collection of health capital and positioning in relation to COVID-19 vaccination attitudes was essential, for which, however, unequal dispositions and conditions for the acquisition of knowledge were decisive.Conclusions: A belief in vaccination as a way out of the pandemic is seen in citizens who share the basic truth of the state, while holding attitudes against vaccination excludes individuals from community and society. Vaccination is for some citizens of no meaning, and they perceive receiving a vaccination as being made sick, while others highlight a collective responsibility to get vaccinated. Those who have the relevant capital, in the form of expert opinions and knowledge from highly educated people in their close social network, receive support from a collective capital, while other citizens might lack the right to express and act in relation to different approaches to knowledge.

scholarly journals The Learning Environment of Student Nurses During Clinical Placement: A Qualitative Case Study of a Student-Dense Ward

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237796082110523
Author(s):  
Siri Vestby Bøe ◽  
Jonas Debesay
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Clinical Placement ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Good Learning

Introduction Ensuring the quality of clinical placements has long been a challenge in nursing education. This is partly due to a growing aging population requiring health services, and an increased need for nursing workforce. Both in Norway and internationally, there is a rise in the use of student-dense models, wherein several students are placed together on the same ward at the same time where the supervision of the students is the collective responsibility of the nurses. Objective The aim of this study was to explore factors that promote or inhibit learning in a student-dense ward when used as a model for clinical placement in hospitals. We examined how clinical placement is experienced in a student-dense ward, as well as how learning is facilitated. Methods A qualitative case study design was used to capture the learning environment on the student-dense ward in a comprehensive way. We used focus group interviews, in-depth interviews, and observations with students and employees at a major hospital in Norway. Results Our findings showed that the orientation days and the teaching activities in student-dense wards, the feedback students receive, the clinical facilitator's role and the student community were factors that had particular importance for good learning environments in this placement model. Conclusions To ensure the quality of clinical placements, more attention should be paid to these factors in the planning, organization, and facilitation of new and existing student-dense wards. It is paramount to provide students with thorough written feedback and to secure the clinical facilitators with enough time to conduct student supervision when organizing clinical placement as student-dense wards.

Teachers’ responsibility and expectations: Dependent on the school organisation?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grethe Ingebrigtsvold Sæbø ◽  
Jorunn H Midtsundstad
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
School Organisation

This article presents findings from a qualitative case study focusing on teachers’ communication concerning expectations and responsibilities in different schools. The study indicates the following: (1) the connection between structural expectations and responsibility is important, (2) different expectation structures provide different opportunities for collective responsibility, and (3) expectations from others and towards others in a learning community can limit or expand opportunities to learn from each other. These findings enable a discussion on how teachers’ responsibility depends on schools’ expectations and also raise questions about teachers’ expectations towards themselves and the quality of the schools’ expectations towards the teachers.

scholarly journals Waste machines as an alternative way to enhance students’ speaking interest

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Yuliana Ningsih ◽  
Kurnia Dwi Artika
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
The State ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Simple Materials

The phenomenon this time was that many lecturers had fallen asleep with the technological advancements used in the learning media. By relying on a more unique creativity, this study used simple materials from spare parts of a machine that can be used as learning media especially in speaking interest. The paper aims to explore speaking interest through waste machines to the students of Mechanical Engineering, the State Polytechnic of Tanah Laut. It investigates how waste machines can be incorporated in English for Specific Purpose (ESP) learners’ speaking interest. This study was qualitative case study, and data were gathered through observations, field notes and interviews. Data were interpreted based on the prepared achievements indicator. The results of the study reveal that the utilization of waste machines such as shocks, piston, gear, and bold is successful improving speaking skill for the students of Mechanical Engineering. In addition, students also learnt how to deliver in presentation with their field studies.

scholarly journals Russian Students' Use of Social Network Sites for Selecting University Abroad

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 724-740
Author(s):  
Natalia Rekhter ◽  
Donald Hossler
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
State University ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Russian State ◽  
And Training

This qualitative case study explores how undergraduate students from the Russian State University for Humanities used social network sites (SNSs) for their decision to transfer to higher education institutions (HEIs) abroad. Participants reported using specific SNS features, such as likes and shares, for measuring HEI rating and indicated that ability to use native language was among motivating factors for membership in a specific SNS. The reported benefits of SNSs included instantaneous connections with likeminded individuals, realistic visualization of campuses, and unbiased and multidimensional views presented by SNS members. One of the emerging findings was that participants with no connections abroad relied exclusively on SNSs for their college choice. Participants with connections abroad relied on the advice of international contacts, and SNSs played a complementary role. HEI professionals may consider hiring and training international students to maintain consistent and meaningful content on different SNS platforms, particularly in their countries’ specific SNSs.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SQ3R TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Susie Kusumayanthi ◽  
Sely Mariam Maulidi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Teaching Reading

This study aims to describe the implementation of SQ3R in teaching reading comprehension and to identify students' responses to the implementation of SQ3R. This study uses a qualitative case study conducted at one of the state vocational school in Purwakarta. It involves 4 students. Data were collected through observation and interviews. The data from 2 instruments were analyzed qualitatively. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of SQ3R helps students to understand English words. According to Apandi (2011), SQ3R helps the students to understand English words. The students also responded positively to the implementation of SQ3R. Therefore, SQ3R is recommended to be implemented in teaching reading comprehension.

It's My Site, and I'll Do What I Want

2016 ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Melissa Kelly ◽  
Anita Jetnikoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Way

This chapter is based on a qualitative case study that researched the perceptions of nine male and female pre-service English teachers' in regards to their preparedness to mentor positive digital conduct in Social network sites (SNS). These sites enable individuals to perform public representations of identity, consumed by virtual audiences, with various degrees of perceived privacy. The chapter frames what we call “identity curation” through three theoretical lenses; of performativity, customisation and critical literacy. This chapter discusses one of the themes that emerged from the research, which is the way in which “normalised” and naturalised representations of femininity on SNS were judged more harshly than masculine representations.

scholarly journals Austerity, teleological ‘ends’ and the timespace practices of the state organisation

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110214
Author(s):  
Crispian Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Homogeneous Set ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban State ◽  
Development Department

The impact of austerity on urban governance has become a key area of academic concern, but many studies tend to interpret the effect on individual urban state bodies through analysis of broader governance relations, whilst also framing austerity as an overarching and homogeneous set of ideas, values and practices. In response, this paper examines a city government’s economic development department as a means in which to understand how the heterogeneous agency of the organisation mitigates austerity. In examining the adaptation to austerity, the paper deploys the practice theory of Schatzki. This involves utilising his conceptualisation of the construction of practices through various elements in producing the organisation, and their related ‘timespaces’. In conclusion, examining practices are important in understanding the intricacies of the ‘agency’ of the organisation, with the paper elucidating the uneven reconfiguration of the case study towards forms of timespace governing based on entrepreneurial pro-growth practices.

Qualitative Case Study Research Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Study Research

Qualitative case study research can be a valuable tool for answering complex, real-world questions. This method is often misunderstood or neglected due to a lack of understanding by researchers and reviewers. This tutorial defines the characteristics of qualitative case study research and its application to a broader understanding of stuttering that cannot be defined through other methodologies. This article will describe ways that data can be collected and analyzed.

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