scholarly journals Parental Views on the Lives of Preschool Children in the Covid-19 Pandemic Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Emel ARSLAN ◽  
Canan YILDIZ ÇİÇEKLER ◽  
Merve TEMEL
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
School Life ◽  
Selective Sampling ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Parental Views ◽  
Waking Up

This study aims to investigate the parental views of pre-school children during the Covid 19 pandemic and is conducted using a basic qualitative research design from qualitative research methods. In the study, parents of children attending pre-school institution were identified through criterion sampling techniques from non-selective sampling methods. The study prepared a semi-structured interview form for parents with children attending pre-school institution as an instrument for data collection. The data from the semi-structured interview form was collected through online interviews with parents whose children attend the pre-school facility. As a result of the study, parents indicated that during the pre-school children's pandemic process, there were more activities with family members at home, the children spent more time with technological devices, terms such as pandemic, diseases, and viruses were frequently used in their daily conversations, and their negative, boring, and aggressive behaviors increased. It was also noted that children were sleeping and waking up later during this time, thus changing their sleep patterns. Another finding observed by the parents was that irregular eating habits increased in the children's eating behavior. It was observed by the parents that children were washing their hands more frequently than before the pandemic. Another finding of the study was that children spoke with longing about their school life due to the disruption of personal instruction in schools.

scholarly journals Professional maturity of teachers within the scope of maturity theory of Chris ArgyrisChris Agyris’in olgunluk kuramı kapsamında öğretmenlerin mesleki olgunluğu

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 3078
Author(s):  
Süleyman Göksoy ◽  
Mahmut Sağır
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
High School Principals ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Academic Year

The present research aimed to reveal principals’ opinions about professional maturity levels of teachers within the scope of maturity theory of Argyris.The research was carried out with survey model. It was conducted with qualitative research design which aims to examine the meanings inflicted from individuals’ experiences and to demonstrate the concepts in their natural environment in a realistic and holistic way. The study group of the research was determined using criterion sampling and maximum variety sampling methods. The study group consists of 12 principals who have at least 5 years of professional experience and who work in primary, secondary and high schools in Duzce province in 2016-2017 academic year. The fact that principals were chosen among the ones who have at least 5 years of experience results from the idea that their awareness of teacher maturity would be higher. Primary, secondary and high school principals were consulted in order to provide maximum variation. Semi-structured interview form was developed based on the maturity theory of Argyris. Principals mainly stated that teachers are passive both in educational and managerial processes in school and in their professional processes. They remarked that teachers cannot operate the work independently and that they demonstrate indifference to the job. They also observed that teachers behave restrictedly, have short term perceptions and do not have the inclination to make progress in their career. Therefore, principals are of the opinion that teachers have not been professionally mature in terms of seven variables of Argyris’s maturity theory. It can be concluded that teachers have not achieved professional maturity in teaching.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu çalışmada, Chris Agyris’in “Olgunluk Kuramı” kapsamında, öğretmenlerin mesleki olgunluklarına ilişkin okul yöneticilerinin görüşlerini ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır. Tarama modelinde olan araştırma, kişilerin sahip oldukları deneyimlerden doğan anlamların sistematik olarak incelenebilmesi ve algıların, olayların doğal ortamda gerçekçi, bütüncül bir biçimde ortaya konulmasını amaçladığı için nitel araştırma deseni ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırmada veriler betimsel analiz tekniğiyle çözümlenmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma gurubunu 2016-2017 eğitim-öğretim yılında Düzce ili ilkokul, ortaokul ve liselerde görev yapan ve en az beş yıllık görev süresi olan 12 okul müdürü oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunun belirlenmesinde amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden ölçüt örnekleme ve maksimum çeşitlilik örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada okul yöneticileri öğretmenlerin mesleki olgunlaşmalarının göstergeleri olan okuldaki eğitim öğretim ve yönetim süreçleri ile mesleki iş ve işlemlere karşı pasif oldukları, bağımsız yürütemedikleri, ilgisiz oldukları, duyarsızlık gösterdikleri, sınırlı davrandıkları, kısa dönemli bakış açısına sahip oldukları ve meslekte yükselme eğilimi taşımadıkları yönünde görüş belirtmişlerdir. Araştırmada öğretmenlerin yönetici görüşlerine göre gerekli olgunluğa sahip olmadıkları sonucuna varılabilir.

Commercialization of Innovations in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
Mshindi Andrew Rwamuhuru ◽  
Amani Gration Tegambwage
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Regulatory Authorities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
University Industry

The study investigates types, sources of innovation, and corresponding challenges to commercialization among small and medium-sized industries (SMIs) in Tanzania. It employed a qualitative research design with semi-structured interview method. Findings indicate that incremental, product, and process are common types of innovations introduced. The major sources of innovations are employees, consumers, user-manufacturer lifestyles, consequential needs, and best practices by manufacturing firms. Also, it was revealed that SMIs do not follow all steps of the innovation commercialization process. Major challenges facing SMIs in the commercialization process include lack of commercialization knowledge; lack of development infrastructure and fast logistics; lack of strong university, industry, and public institutions linkage; and regulatory authorities' bureaucracy, among others. The study recommends that SMIs establish strong research and development units and collaborations with key stakeholders in order to improve identification and commercialization of innovations in Tanzania.

scholarly journals Metaphor as Sea Creature Naming Strategy in Akan

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Patrick Nana Wonkyi ◽  
Patricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah ◽  
Grace Nana Aba Dawson-Ahmoah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Salient Features

The paper discusses the role of metaphor in the name construction of sea creatures among Akan (Mfantse) people within the purview of onomasiology. The role of metaphor in the naming of sea creatures has been understudied. This paper is a step towards filling the gap by analyzing the role metaphor plays in constructing naming units for sea creatures. This study has a qualitative research design. Twelve (12) fishers were purposely sampled, three (3) each from four fishing towns: Anomabo, Apam, Sekondi (Sekunde) and Moree (Mowure). The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. The paper finds that likeness between sea creatures and static and/or dynamic entities triggers names for sea creatures. It concludes that, metaphor is employed to achieve simpler forms for salient features, communicate non-codable salient features and condense multiple features in the quest to name sea creatures among the Mfantse people. Through these vital roles, a general metaphor Sea Creatures are Land Animals/Entities is realized. The encyclopedic knowledge, which the Mfantse people have about their environment is realized through their naming strategies. It is recommended that the linguistics of naming percepts in indigenous Akan occupations be explored further.

scholarly journals Using Timeline Methodology to Visualize Treatment Trajectories of Youth and Young Adults Following Inpatient Opioid Treatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692097010
Author(s):  
Laura B. Monico ◽  
Ariel Ludwig ◽  
Elizabeth Lertch ◽  
Shannon Gwin Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Opioid Use Disorder ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Youth And Young Adults

While the use of visual methods in qualitative research is gaining recognition, there has been less attention to timelines. This paper addresses this gap and contributes to the overall literature on qualitative research design and analysis. In a randomized trial of extended release naltrexone for youth with opioid use disorder timelines were used as a part of the semi-structured interview process. Timelines were constructed in a participatory manner in which both youth and their caregivers were separately asked to recount significant events related to substance use, treatment, and criminal justice involvement that took place between interview time points. This paper suggests that using timelines in qualitative, substance use research offers two main advantages: 1) improving the data collection process, and 2) advancing understandings of temporally contextualized narratives through a visual format. Here, timelines were an integral tool for summarizing and illustrating the complexity of youths’ experiences following residential drug treatment.

scholarly journals The Sampling Conundrum in Qualitative Research: Can Saturation Help Alleviate the Controversy and Alleged Subjectivity in Sampling?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Favourate Y Sebele-Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Research Question ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Sampling Process ◽  
Adequate Sample Size

Sampling is one of the most controversial matters in qualitative research. Qualitative researchers have often been denounced for not giving adequate rationalisations for their sample size resolutions. This study aimed to provide an extensive review of sampling methods used in qualitative research and discuss the extent to which saturation might help alleviate the issues concerning these methods, sample size sufficiency and when to sample. The study specifically honed on the sampling adequacy (how big or how small should a sample be), the sampling techniques used and whether sample sizes should be delineated a priori, posteriori or during analysis. Having highlighted, the paradoxically nature of these aspects, through an overview of the sampling process, the researcher explored saturation as a tool to alleviate the challenges and the lack of objectivity in sampling in qualitative research. The overall findings were that, saturation does provide same degree of transparency and quality in sampling, but the concept is not immune to controversy, guidelines on how to apply it or achieve it remain foggy and contestable among researchers. Discussions are in most cases oversimplified and comparatively unknowledgeable. The answer to the research question, was that, what really constitutes an adequate sample size is only answerable within the context of the study, scientific paradigm, epistemological stance, ontological and methodological assumptions of the research conducted. Contextualisation of the mode of saturation adopted, clear articulation of the research methodology and transparent reporting of the whole process is key to enhance the role of saturation in alleviating subjectivity in sampling. This paper sought to make a contribution to the on-going methodological discourse on how qualitative researchers can justify their sampling decisions.

scholarly journals Kimwimbi Women as Mirrored in the Cultural & Social Notions & Expressions

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1175-1180
Author(s):  
Christine Atieno ◽  
Jane Kathom
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Linguistic Group ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Guide

Among the Mwimbi linguistic group, expressions exist or are used for a variety of purposes including communication and all are geared towards socialization of societal members so as to enable each fit in their expected caliber. In the social context words and expressions have been used by Mwimbi speakers to explicitly devalue women by normally not saying what they mean. The purpose of this study therefore, is to establish the notions expressed by cultural and social beliefs and practices upon which devaluing of women is based. The objective of this paper is to find out the cultural and social notions and expressions used to devalue women in Kimwimbi Language. Halliday's Social Semiotics Theory was used. A qualitative research design was used. Data was collected in Mwimbi in Ganga Ward Maara sub county, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. The population includes all the expressions that contribute to devaluing women in Kimwimbi. Speakers of the language were selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected using focus group discussion guides and a semi structured interview guide. The paper established that the Kimwimbi Language uses expressions that are heavily embedded on cultural and social attitudes to devalue women.

scholarly journals TOWARDS MAQASID SHARIAH IN SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH IMPACTFUL STRATEGIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Sabariyah Yaakub ◽  
Nik Ab Halim Nik Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Life On Earth

Maqasid Shariah requires the preservation of life on earth and with the relevance of environmental sustainability in protecting the earth and all life within it, the objectives of this paper is to investigate the strategies taken by a port in order to be environmentally sustainable and discuss it according to the principles of Maqasid Shariah. Qualitative research design was employed where data was collected through semi-structured interview with the officers in charge of environment at the company. Findings indicate that strategies implemented by the port have been successful in reducing emission and improve air quality which is an important step both to being environmentally sustainable and adhering to the Maqasid Shariah principles.

scholarly journals Metaphorical Perceptions About Being A Teacher in Turkey During The Pandemic Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Sevilay YILDIZ
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Voluntary Basis

In this study which aims to uncover and examine the metaphorical meanings that teachers have attributed to the concept of teaching during the pandemic period, phenomenological method that is a qualitative research design was used. The study group of the research consists of the teachers working in public primary, secondary and high schools in a city in the Western Black Sea Region during the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. The teachers participating in this study were selected on a voluntary basis. In order to collect the data, a semi-structured interview form used in qualitative research method was used as a data collection tool. Content analysis that consisted of such procedures as coding, finding themes, organizing the data according to code and themes was used in the analysis of the data. Based on these perceptions, 278 metaphors were obtained related to the concept of ‘’being a teacher in Turkey during the pandemic period’’. The related metaphors were grouped under 12 categories by the researchers. When they were examined, it emerged that the preferred metaphors usually reflected a negative structure.

scholarly journals Examination of the Problems of the Department of Turkish Language and Literature Students Receiving Pedagogical Formation Training

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Faruk Polatcan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Turkish Language

The aim of this study is to investigate the problems encountered during education by the Department of Turkish Language and Literature students who receive pedagogical formation training. The case study was used as a qualitative research design, in which students’ opinions were obtained by using a semi-structured interview form. 36 students voluntarily participated in the study, in which the convenience sampling method was used. The collected data were evaluated by using the content analysis method. The findings of the study show that the students consider the formation training necessary; that some of the lecturers did not fully teach the curriculum; they had problems with lighting and heating in the classroom; and they could not focus on the departmental courses due to the addition of the formation courses. In addition, students believe that pedagogical formation training should not be used for commercial purposes.

Qualitative Sampling Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-581
Author(s):  
Sara L. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Quantitative Sampling ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Research Studies

Qualitative sampling methods differ from quantitative sampling methods. It is important that one understands those differences, as well as, appropriate qualitative sampling techniques. Appropriate sampling choices enhance the rigor of qualitative research studies. These types of sampling strategies are presented, along with the pros and cons of each. Sample size and data saturation are discussed.

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