scholarly journals Synthesis: A Poetic Exploration of the Integral Model Investigating the Interconnected Strands of Mindfulness in Our Educational Landscapes

in education ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Kimberley Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Integral Theory ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Keywords Education

As a researcher, I am seeking a mode of inquiry that would allow for a reflection on mindfulness and the role it plays in curriculum and learning. Needing to merge my personal voice with the diverse educational landscape, I found that poetic storytelling allowed me to “present possibilities for understanding the complex, mysterious, even ineffable experiences that comprise human living” (Chambers, Hasbe-Ludt, Leggo, & Sinner, 2012, p. xx). Using first-person auto-ethnographical narrative as a research methodology and the Integral Model as a theoretical framework (Wilber, 2000, 2006, Wilber, Patten, Leonard, & Morelli, 2008), the interconnected strands of mindfulness are synthesized within the four quadrants of the model. Self, Science, Storytelling, and Systems are components of mindfulness that together formulate a holistic understanding as “integral theory weaves together the significant insights from all major human disciplines of knowledge, including natural and social science as well as the arts and the humanities” (Visser, 2003).Keywords: education; narrative inquiry; qualitative research

Contemplating Framing: Unpacking the Possibilities of Printmaking in Narrative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472199108
Author(s):  
Michelle Lavoie ◽  
Vera Caine
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
School Children ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, we explore, name, and unpack the possibilities that printmaking, as an art form, holds in visual narrative inquiry. We also explore the relationship between visual narrative inquiry and narrative inquiry, a relational qualitative research methodology that attends to experiences. Drawing on two different ongoing narrative inquiry studies, where we engage with either trans young adults or refugee families from Syria with pre-school children, we explore how printmaking practices facilitate processes of inquiry. The etymology of the word “frame” helps us understand framing as a process that is future oriented and reflects a sense of doing, making, or preforming. In this way, framing allows us to see otherwise, to respond to and with participants, and to engage with experiences in ways that open new possibilities of inquiry.

Narrative inquiry: A relational research methodology suitable to explore narratives of health and illness

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Haydon ◽  
Pamela van der Riet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Qualitative Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into

This paper proposes the need for further qualitative research to gain valuable insight into individuals’ experiences of health and illness and the suitability of narrative inquiry as a methodology to investigate these experiences. It is essential to increase qualitative knowledge of individuals’ experiences of illness in order to improve and personalise their care. Narrative inquiry aims to understand knowledge gained from the individual’s narrative of their experiences. Narrative inquiry explores experiences through the dimensions of temporality, sociality and spatiality. The aspect between these dimensions provides an exploratory structure for narratives surrounding health and illness: temporality – when did the illness begin, how will it influence the future; sociality – cultural and personal influences on views of illness; spatiality – surroundings, such as hospitals, and their influence on the health–illness perspective. Narrative inquiry not only provides a deep understanding of the investigated phenomena, it is also provides a rich vibrant narrative presentation of findings for the reader and user of research.

scholarly journals Conceptualising and researching the body in digital contexts: towards new methodological conversations across the arts and social sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey Jewitt ◽  
Sara Price ◽  
Anna Xambo Sedo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

The turn to the body in social sciences has intensified the gaze of qualitative research on bodily matters and embodied relations and made the body a significant object of reflection, bringing new focus on and debates around the direction of methodological advances. This article contributes to these debates in three ways: 1) we explore the potential synergies across the social sciences and arts to inform the conceptualization of the body in digital contexts; 2) we point to ways qualitative research can engage with ideas from the arts towards more inclusive methods; and 3) we offer three themes with which to interrogate and re-imagine the body: its fragmenting and zoning, its sensory and material qualities, and its boundaries. We draw on the findings of an ethnographic study of the research ecologies of six research groups in the arts and social sciences concerned with the body in digital contexts to discuss the synergetic potential of these themes and how they could be mobilized for qualitative research on the body in digital contexts. We conclude that engaging with the arts brings potential to reinvigorate and extend the methodological repertoire of qualitative social science in ways that are pertinent to the current re-thinking of the body, its materiality and boundaries.

scholarly journals ATTITUDES TOWARD COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, BELIEFS IN AFTERLIFE AND RELIGIOSITY AMONG PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS AND THEOLOGISTS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Kardum ◽  
Žanu Kralj
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Afterlife Beliefs ◽  
Dietary Food

Background: The aim of our study was to investigate the differences in beliefs, attitudes toward CAM, beliefs in afterlife and religiosity among the sample of psychiatrists, psychologists, and theologists. Relationship among these constructs could have impact on the concept of mental health.Subjects and methods: Research was conducted in the Split urban area, Croatia, during 2017 on a sample of psychiatrists (n=51), psychologists (n=55), and theologists (n=25). Participants were presented a figure of the human body, which contained numbers identifying eight different regions of the body. Participants were asked to select which region best represents the location of the self, soul, and mind in the body. We used CAIMAQ (The Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire) which contains five subscales. The Afterdeath Beliefs Scale was used to measure the varieties of afterlife beliefs. Analyses showed that applied questionnaires have appropriate reliability and expected factor structure.Results: The most frequent locations of the Soul were 9 (37%, Not located in any centralized region in the body) and 5 (31% chest), whereas Self and Mind were mostly located in the head (43% and 73%). Psychiatrists and psychologists have average scores on positive pole of CAIMAQ but did not differ significantly (p>0.05). There were statistical differences between theologists and psychologists/psychiatrists on two subscales: “nutritional counseling and dietary/food supplements can be effective in the treatment of pathology” and “attitudes toward a holistic understanding of the disease” (p<0.05). There were significant correlations between religion and three CAIMAQ subscales. Although they were mostly religious, psychiatrists and psychologists had a higher averagescore on Annihilation than theologists. They also did not believe in body resurrection and connection between behavior during life and after death.Conclusion: The results of our study could have impact on the concept of mental health and in the future must be deeper evaluated within qualitative research methodology.

Why Post Qualitative Inquiry?

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

This article explains that post qualitative inquiry is not a pre-existing humanist social science research methodology with research designs, processes, methods, and practices. It cannot be accommodated by nor is it another version of qualitative research methodology. It refuses method and methodology altogether and begins with poststructuralism, its ontology of immanence, and its description of major philosophical concepts including the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, rationality, and so on. Its goal is not to find and represent something that exists in the empirical world of human lived experience but to re-orient thought to experiment and create new forms of thought and life.

scholarly journals A Study Aesthetic Values In The Lyrics of The Song “Rejung Usul Seminggu” With Connection To Pancasila Values

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-134
Author(s):  
Sriwahyuningsih Sriwahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Aesthetic Values

This study aims to examine the moral message in the lyrics of popular song rejung recommended a week from the Semende area as a form of the application of Pancasila values ​​in the formation of characteristics in the study of aesthetic values ​​in the arts to form a character towards the values ​​towards nationality as practice in the principles of Pancasila .The research methodology is a qualitative descriptive regional song proposed by the week of rejung as a form of trust from God values ​​towards the formation of a trustful attitude given to people's representatives as a form of our obedience to our responsibilities as humans to God Almighty. symbolized in people's behavior through the song lyrics and qualitative research is one method to get the truth and classified as scientific research that is built on the basis of theories that develop from research and are controlled on an empirical basis.So in this qualitative research not only presents the data as it is but also seeks to interpret the correlation as an existing factor and also gives shape to the meaning of the moral message in the song's lyrics. Keywords: aesthetic value, song lyrics Pancasila values

Innovative Research Methodology

2015 ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziska Fields
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

The knowledge economy requires that social science researchers start questioning the type of knowledge they are producing and the type of methods they are using to produce this knowledge. This chapter explains how the knowledge economy is linked to creativity, innovation, and qualitative research. This chapter aims specifically to highlight the need and importance of innovative research methodologies in a knowledge economy. Emerging innovative qualitative research methodologies in social sciences are briefly identified, and arguments for and against methodological innovation are explored. The stages of creativity and phases of innovation are highlighted in a research environment to show social science researchers that innovative research methodologies can be generated and that barriers to creativity and innovation can be overcome using various techniques. After reading this chapter, the reader will be able to apply creativity and innovation to identify new and novel ways of undertaking qualitative research, as well as being able to integrate innovate methodologies with existing methodologies.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Interaction Markers of Pakistani Journalistic Discourse from Gender Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mehboob-Ul-Hassan ◽  
Fahmeeda Gulnaz ◽  
Haroon Shafique ◽  
Muhammad Adrees
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Gender Based

The objective of this research is to investigate the language used by male and female Pakistani journalists by focusing on the use of interaction markers. This study aims to explore the meta-discourse features in the writings of the Pakistani English newspaper journalists. The data is collected from Dawn, The News, The Nation and The Express Tribune newspapers. The corpus for the research consisted of two hundred (200) columns written by forty Pakistani journalists including both males and females. Hyland’s (2005a) model of interactional meta-discourse was used as a theoretical framework. Mixed methodology will be used to analyze the data qualitatively and quantitatively to find out the gender-based differences in the use of interaction markers in the writings of Pakistani journalists. First, the data collected are quantified quantitatively then for the elaboration of gender-based differences in the use of interaction markers, qualitative research methodology is used. Moreover, Antconc, a corpus-based research tool, is employed to statistically analyze the corpus of the study. The study provides the analysis of interactional markers in the Pakistani journalistic discourse by employing Hyland’s (2005a) model of interaction. The results show that there exists a gender-based difference in the use of interaction markers. The female Pakistani columnists use interaction markers more frequently than the male counterparts. The research provides new insight to the national and international researchers about gender-based differences in media discourse within the Pakistani context.

Critical social science as a research methodology in universities in times of crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
John Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Critical Social

PurposeTo consider what a criticalist qualitative research methodology might look like for universities in the context of the contemporary COVID-19 crisis.Design/methodology/approachThis polemical paper explores the rationale for a dramatic recasting of the approach needed in qualitative research methodology to address the challenges of the crisis-ridden times we live in. Broadly conceived of as an “evolving criticality”, to borrow from Kincheloe, the paper addresses the kind of disposition, orientation or state of mind required that provides the space and opportunities in universities within which this strategic methodological reinvention might occur. After explaining what a research methodology committed to the notion of “criticality” might look like, the paper argues that to enact this we need to start with the immediacy of our own academic work and then emanate to other public spheres.FindingsThe polemical exchange engaged in by this paper presents the underpinnings of how critical social science might be deployed in both reconceiving how we understand the purpose of research in universities and changing the nature of academic work.Research limitations/implicationsThese exist only in so far as university academics are prepared to embrace what is being argued for to change the status quo.Practical implicationsThe broader critical social science methodology being argued for in this paper is using a wider framing to a form of critical ethnography that has the potential to enable academic workers to extricate themselves from the ruinous situation brought on by the neoliberal paradigm that has been so drastically exacerbated by COVID-19.Originality/valueWhile the paper rehearses some existing ideas of critical social science, the novelty of the papers lies in the way these are applied to the COVID-19 crisis within which universities have become embroiled.

scholarly journals To Be and How Not To Be: The Challenges Of Nation-Building in Nigeria

ARISTO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Adewunmi J. Falode
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Community ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

The work is the analysis of both the various nation-building challenges that have confronted Nigeria since independence and the possible ways the country can overcome them. The dream of Nigeria since independence in 1960 is to turn itself into a viable and cohesive nation. This has become an impossible dream however due to a myriad of challenges. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic society with over 250 ethnic groups. Each of these ethnic groups also have religious and economic issues that separates them from one another.  Nigeria’s diversity has been a major obstacle in its drive to become a global and responsible player in the international community. By using the qualitative research methodology, the work identified various challenges, such as corruption, autarky, governance and distribution that have been the major barriers to the creation of a viable polity. The style used in the study is also historical, descriptive and analytical. Crucially, the study also used the concept of nation-building as its Theoretical Framework. This has made it possible for the work to highlight and posit specific pragmatic and logical ways Nigeria can overcome its nation-building challenges and emerge a viable, cohesive and functional polity in the 21st century.

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