scholarly journals Teacher Positioning in Rural Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Patricia A. DiCerbo ◽  
Lottie L. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Rural Educators ◽  
Teacher Positioning

In this qualitative study, we ask how 40 rural educators of English learners (ELs) culturally position themselves and their students. We obtained data through a cultural autobiography assignment that prompted teachers to describe their interactions and relationships with others. Drawing on both rural and non-rural experiences, teachers established their ability to exercise agency, mediated by individual histories and beliefs and the context of their rural settings. Teachers developed their capacity to reflect on the ways they position themselves toward their ELs, a crucial first step in creating culturally sustaining pedagogy. Implications point to the potential of cultural autobiography as a means to heighten rural teachers’ awareness of how their experiences and interactions nuance their cultural identity. Such reflections can expand notions of culture beyond common social identifiers and enable teachers to forge links with their students that would otherwise not be apparent. We suggest this autobiographical process is particularly important for rural teachers who are new to teaching ELs in their classrooms.

Young Writers Create Digital E-Books Using Nooks

2014 ◽  
pp. 307-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Brown
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
Second Graders ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
First Languages

This chapter presents the details of a year-long qualitative study that investigates the literacy development of a diverse group of second graders as they engage in digital writing experiences at school using the Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader. Twenty students, including eleven English learners whose first languages were Spanish, French, and Korean, immersed themselves in reading e-books and then, wrote and narrated their own digital books using the available tools from the DrawWriteRead app and the Tikatoc.com Website. The findings reveal students developed a sense of agency while developing new literacies through interactions with others. The chapter begins with an introduction to the use of technology with diverse students. Next, an overview about the theory associated with digital and new literacies is discussed. The chapter continues with a review of current research studies focusing on digital writing with young students across a variety of contexts. Finally, this particular study is detailed through a description of the methodology, findings, and conclusions.

scholarly journals Obstacles for Iranian rural population to participate in health education programmes: a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. e000020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Hamidzadeh ◽  
Mina Hashemiparast ◽  
Hadi Hassankhani ◽  
Hamid Allahverdipour
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Data Saturation

ObjectiveTo explore the obstacles of community participation in rural health education programmes from the viewpoints of Iranian rural inhabitants.DesignThis was a qualitative study with conventional content analysis approach which was carried out March to October 2016.SettingData collected using semistructured interviews that were digitally recorded, transcribed and analysed until data saturation. MAXQDA 10 software was used to manage the textual data.ParticipantParticipants were twenty-two seven clients from a rural community in Ardabil, Iran who were receiving health services from health centres.ResultThe main obstacles to participate in health education programmes in rural settings were ‘Lack of trust to the rural health workers’, ‘Adherence to neighbourhood social networks in seeking health information’ and ‘Lack of understanding on the importance of health education’.ConclusionRural health education programmes in Iran are encountered with a variety of obstacles. We need to enhancing mutual trust between the rural health workers and villagers, and developing community-based education programmes to promote health information seeking behaviours among villagers. The finding of this study will be a referential evidence for the qualitative improvement of local health education programmes for rural inhabitants.

scholarly journals How health professionals conceive and construct interprofessional practice in rural settings: a qualitative study

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Parker ◽  
Karen McNeil ◽  
Isabel Higgins ◽  
Rebecca Mitchell ◽  
Penelope Paliadelis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Interprofessional Practice ◽  
Rural Settings

Cultural Identity and Passport Designs

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Cumhur Coskun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The Times

A passport is an identity given to an individual by his country, to travel to other countries. With globalisation, ‘passports’ that were papers stamped at the entrance and exit by customs during the past centuries have increasingly become critical documents. It is not only a personal document, but it also represents the country to which it belongs. The designs should reflect the cultural identity of a nation, in the form of visual elements, illustrations and photographs. Countries that are aware that their passports reflect their cultural values are able to combine their passport designs with the modern design concept of the times creatively and stylishly, as an artistic work. This qualitative study is aimed at evaluating passport designs in terms of being a representative of a cultural identity and examining passport designs that are re-examined with innovative and modern understanding cultural identity. Keywords: Passport design, cultural identity, graphic design.

scholarly journals Ludic and Cultural Space for Beginner English Learners: Studying the Hippie Movement Songs and Lyrics

PAPELES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Rigoberto Castillo ◽  
María Camila Garay Agudelo ◽  
Paula Segura Soto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Expression ◽  
The Subject

This article reports a qualitative action research study on the contribution of using songs and lyrics to integrate cultural understanding and language development in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class at a middle school. We observed that our learners had difficulty to understand and express themselves in English. The social and cultural context of the late 1960’s Hippie movement was the subject of the study through songs and lyrics. We offer our readers the most relevant literature and a synthesis of research reports on the subject to invite them to deepen in this topic. The findings of this qualitative study suggest that culture contextualized language and enhanced comprehension facilitates oral expression in EFL.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS ON CODE-SWITCHING AND MIXING AMONG ENGLISH LEARNERS OF GAYONESE-SPEAKING STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-184
Author(s):  
Imam Munandar ◽  
Ramadhani Sukria
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Efl Students

This research tries to find out types and their dominance of code-switching and code-mixing among EFL students with Gayonese backgrounds. This research also looks at whether a certain type of ethnic group is affluent to a specific type of code-switching and mixing. The employed method is a qualitative study, in which this study manages to identify a social phenomenon in a certain community. The data is obtained from the 13 participants in their conversations. Instruments used are observation, recording, transcribing to identify code-switching, and mixing. The result of this study shows that the participants, who are all entitled to Gayonese identity, employed all kinds of code-switching and mixing, which were extra-sentential, inter-sentential, and intra-sentential. All types of code-switching and mixing are apparent in all sets of conversations. Along with some previous research, this study affirms that there is little evidence that a certain type of ethnicity employs a certain dominant form of code-switching and mixing. There appear all types of code-switching and mixing, without one dominant type, is found in all sets of conversations. Thus, code-switching and mixing were believed to assist the learners to deliver them through to be completely understood and meaningful in the communication.

"Until People Are Given the Right to Be Human Again": Voices of American Indian Men on Domestic Violence and Traditional Cultural Values

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arieahn Matamonasa-Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Indian Men ◽  
The Right

Domestic violence is a serious social problem in contemporary American Indian communities and research is critical to create and evaluate prevention and intervention strategies. This small qualitative study sought to discover the ways in which men from a single reservation community with histories of domestic violence define and perceive domestic violence within the cultural context. The narratives held themes of intergenerational family violence and dysfunction, alcoholism, racism, isolation, deep grief, and remorse. Each of the narratives also revealed themes of healing and hope through connecting with elders, learning spiritual traditions and strengthening cultural identity as a means for achieving sobriety and lives of nonviolence.

Poems on Māori identity: From multimodal interaction analysis to poetry

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tui Matelau
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Way

AbstractResearch into Māori identity has revealed cultural identities that neglect to include a large number of Māori (McIntosh, 2005; Moeke-Maxwell, 2005; Meijl, 2006; Houkamau, 2010). Fluid Māori identity is an emerging cultural identity and is encouraging but there continues to be a gap in the research into an inclusive Māori identity (Borell, 2005; McIntosh, 2005; Moeke-Maxwell, 2005). I conducted a small scale qualitative study. Through ethnographic observations of two Māori female participants and semi-structured socio linguistic interviews, I explored the participants’ Māori identities and analysed my findings using multimodal interaction analysis. These findings revealed that the participants enacted two distinctive Māori identities. I also found that numerous networks and institutions contribute to the layers of discourse that enforce the Māori identities. At this point in the research I used poetry to enhance my analysis of the data as poetry can be used “to convey our experiences of other people and - even more audaciously - to explain why human beings think and act the way we do,” (Maynard & Cahnmann-Taylor, 2010, p.14). I wrote two poems; each poem representing one participant. Writing these poems helped me to move from describing the findings of the research to analysing the findings.

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