scholarly journals Dimensions of Quality in Teacher Education: Perception and Practices of Teacher Educators in the Universities of Sindh, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study was conducted to explore the dimensions of quality education in teacher education departments at universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. The qualitative research approach was employed for data collection and then analysed through thematic-narrative analysis technique. The total eight dimensions of quality were found, as two were concerned with pre-sage, four as process and two as product dimensions, known as 3Ps. The findings of this article would be found reliable resource and an addition in to the existing literature of quality education to understand the phenomenon in existing organisational setting of teacher education departments and institutions in Sindh, Pakistan. The radical reforms for educational and economic development can be brought through better understanding of the phenomenon of the quality education, which support the teacher educators, students and the heads to maintain peace and prosperity for humanity in their respective societies through quality teaching-learning process.

scholarly journals Perception and Experience of Teacher Educators about Their Motivation: A Case Study Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province

This study was designed to explore the perception and experiences of motivation of teacher educators of the universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. The data was collected and analysed through case study approach, the qualitative research design and thematic-narrative analysis technique. The total twenty-one teacher educators revealed their stories in the form of narratives about their motivation. The findings of this article would be found suitable, authentic and reliable resource, which would be an excellent addition in to the existing literature of motivation in order to understand the phenomenon, its process and causations.

scholarly journals A Narrative Analysis of Teacher Educators’ Motivation: Evidence from the Universities of Sindh, Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 673
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Departments Of Education

The study was conducted to explore the factors of motivation of teacher educators of the departments of Education at universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. The data was collected and analyzed through narrative analysis technique, the qualitative research design. The total sixteen factors of motivation were found as five intrinsic and eleven extrinsic respectively. The findings of the article would be suitable and reliable addition in to the available literature to understand the phenomenon of motivation in organizational setting to support their students’ to work for the betterment of society.

scholarly journals Effect of English Language Competency on the Job Satisfaction and Motivation of Teacher Educators: A Narrative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Zafarullah Sahito ◽  
Pertti Vaisanen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
Language Competency

This research study was designed to explore the English language competency of teacher educators and its effect on their job satisfaction and motivation in order to maintain their position at their departments of Education at Universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. As, languages are generally taught and assessed in terms of four skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Where listening and reading are known as receptive skills while speaking and writing as productive skills, which are directly concerned and connected with the cognitive development of the teachers  educators and its proper utilization to become satisfied and motivated faculty members. The data was collected and analysed through narrative analysis technique, the qualitative research design and method. The findings of this article would be found suitable, reliable, strong resource and a rich addition in to the existing literature, which provides a suitable insight to all stakeholders to understand the real position and phenomenon of language competency and its effects.

scholarly journals Mobilisasi Politik Kelompok Kepentingan Dalam Pilpres 2014 Di Desa Dasan Borok (Studi Nahdlatul Wathan)

POPULIKA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Syamsul Mukhlisin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Two Sides

Abstraksi Nahdlatul Wathan merupakan suatu kelompok kepentingan yang melakukan mobilisasi politik terhadap masyarakat desa Dasan Borok pada saat Pemilu PILPRES RI 2014. Mobilisasi politik ini dilakukan karena Nahdlatul Wathan adalah salah satu pengusung pasangan kandidat calon Presiden dan Wakil Presiden RI 2014. Terpecahnya Nahdlatul Wathan menjadi dua Pengurusan Besar berdampak pada perbedaan dukungan terhadap pasangan kandidat calon Presiden dan Wakil Presiden RI 2014 seperti Nahdlatul Wathan Pancor mengusung pasangan Prabowo-Hatta dan Nahdlatul Wathan Anjani mengusung Pasangan Jokowi-JK dan masing-masing kubu memiliki massa yang besar di desa Dasan Borok. Adapun tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui “Peran Kelompok Kepentingan Dalam Memobilisasi Politik Masyarakat Desa Dasan Borok Pada PILPRES 2014”. Dalam memetakan masalah dari penelitian yang bersetting di desa Dasan Borok, Kec. Suralaga ini, maka peneliti menggunakan pendekatan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif dengan tujuan agar data yang disajikan relevan dengan pendekatan yang dipakai. Adapun tekhnik yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini menggunakan tekhnik purposive sampeling. Di samping itu untuk meningkatkan kevalidan data yang diperoleh, maka penelitian ini menggunakan tekhnik pengumpulan data observasi berbentuk participant observation dan wawancara tidak terstruktur serta dokumentasi dengan teknik analisis domain (domain analysis). Dari hasil temuan di lapangan dapat dideskripsikan bahwa PILPRES RI 2014 dipandang sebagai arena pertarungan oleh dua kubu Nahdlatul Wathan selaku kelompok kepentingan karena perbedaan usungan kandidat pasangan calon Presiden dan Wakil Presiden. Sebagai Kelompok Kepentingan, Nahdlatul Wathan berperan sebagai tim sukses dengan menggunakan peran dakwah sebagai media untuk melakukan mobilisasi politiknya terhadap masyarakat desa Dasan Borok pada PILPRES 2014. Hal ini terlihat ketika Nahdlatul Wathan mengadakan pengajian akbar maupun lawatan-lawatan agama dengan menghadirkan pasangan calon presiden yang diusungnya dengan dihadiri oleh ribuan jamaah NW maupun sosialisasi pasangan kandidat ketengah masyarakat yang dilakukan oleh pengurus NW ditingkat cabang dan ranting yang ada di desa Dasan Borok. Kata Kunci: Kelompok Kepentingan, Pilpres, dan Nahdlatul Wathan  Abstract Nahdlatul Wathan is a group interest conducting political mobilization on the society in Dasan Borok in president election in 2014. It is done because Nahdlatul Wathan is a group that brings the candidate of president and vice president of RI in 2014. Nahdlatul Wathan becomes two managing committee which affects the support of the president and the vice candidate of RI in 2014. Nahdlatul Wathan Pancor carried Prabowo-Hatta and Nahdlatul Wathan Anjani carried Jokowi-JK, and each group has a great amount of mass in Dasan Borok. This research purposed at knowing “the role of political mobilizationof group interest in the president election in 2014 in Dasan Borok”. This research is a qualitative research approach utilizing descriptive in order the data is relevant. The technique used is purposive sampling.  The data collection used is observation in from of participant observation, unstructured interview as well as documentation using domain analysis technique. Based on the found data, it can be described that the president’s election of RI 2014 seemed to be a strange struggling arena done by two sides group of Nahdlatul Wathan as the group interest. As the group interest, Nahdlatul Wathan personated as the success team, it was done through religious endeavor or dakwah in the society in Dasan Borok in president’s election of RI 2014. It can be seen when Nahdlatul Wathan held a great meeting (great religious endeavor) as well as a visit of the candidate of the        presidents. It was also done by the chapter and the subsection of NW in Dasan Borok. Keyword: Group Interest, President Election (Pilpres), Nahdlatul Wathan

scholarly journals Practice-Focused Research in Initial Teacher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Abbiss ◽  
Eline Vanassche
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Theoretical Contribution

A review of the field of practice-focused research in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reveals four broad genres of qualitative research: case studies of teacher education programs and developments; research into student teacher experience and learning; inquiry into teacher educators’ own learning, identity, and beliefs; and conceptual or theory-building research. This is an eclectic field that is defined by variation in methodologies rather than by a few clearly identifiable research approaches. What practice-focused research in ITE has in common, though, is a desire on the behalf of teacher educator researchers to understand the complexity of teacher education and contribute to shifts in practice, for the benefit of student teachers and, ultimately, for learners in schools and early childhood education. In this endeavor, teacher educator researchers are presented with a challenge to achieve a balance between goals of local relevance and making a theoretical contribution to the broader field. This is a persistent tension. Notwithstanding the capacity for practice-focused research to achieve a stronger balance and greater relevance beyond the local, key contributions of practice-focused research in ITE include: highlighting the importance of context, questioning what might be understood by “improvement” in teacher education and schooling, and pushing back against research power structures that undervalue practice-focused research. Drawing on a painting metaphor, each genre represents a collection of sketches of practice-focused research in ITE that together provide the viewer with an overview of the field. However, these genres are not mutually exclusive categories as any particular research study (or sketch) might be placed within one or more groupings; for example, inquiry into teacher educators’ own learning often also includes attention to student teachers’ experiences and case studies of teacher education initiatives inevitably draw on theory to frame the research and make sense of findings. Also, overviewing the field and identifying relevant research is not as simple as it might first appear, given challenges in identifying research undertaken by teacher educators, differences in the positioning of teacher educators within different educational systems, and privileging of American (US) views of teacher education in published research, which was counteracted in a small way in this review by explicitly including voices located outside this dominant setting. Examples of different types of qualitative research projects illustrate issues in teacher education that matter to teacher educator researchers globally and locally and how they have sought to use a variety of methodologies to understand them. The examples also show how teacher educators themselves define what is important in teacher education research, often through small-scale studies of context-specific teacher education problems and practices, and how there is value in “smaller story” research that supports understanding of both universals and particularities along with the grand narratives of teacher education.

Sustainability Education and Teacher Education: Finding a Natural Habitat?

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractSustainability education competes for curricular space, both in schools and in teacher education. Opportunities and barriers for the inclusion of sustainability education in an Australian university primary teacher education program are examined in this article. The study focused on the roles, practices and perceptions of teacher educators in promoting sustainability education. Three focus groups were conducted with members of faculty staff from each of the K–6 Key Learning Areas to gather data, which were analysed according to three frameworks: espoused/aspirational and actual practices of staff members; barriers to and affordances for teaching sustainability education; and the nature of initiatives, in terms of teaching/learning activities, assessment tasks, and resources. Beyond the Social Sciences, and Science and Technology, we found that inclusion of sustainability education is somewhat sporadic. The article proposes some ways forward to promote and abet sustainability education in a tertiary context.

scholarly journals Semantic Meaning in Attitudinal Lexemes in the Domain of Kesenangan (Joy) in Indonesian: An Analysis of Meaning Components and Lexical Relation

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Prima Gusti Yanti ◽  
Fairul Zabadi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Circular Definitions ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lexical Relations

The attitudinal lexeme on the domain of kesenangan in Indonesia language has not shown such clear meaning relationship, for both the common and diagnostic meaning of the lexemes. Those lexemes have such circular definitions, confusing upon their use. This study is conducted using a qualitative research approach employing content analysis technique. The aim of this study is to find out lexical relation and semantic meaning in attitudinal lexeme in the domain of kesenangan (joy) in Indonesian language. Data is collected from seven Indonesian dictionaries, two magazines, five newspapers, and six literary works. All data is analyzed using a component analysis in the semantic theory. The research findings show that fourteen (14) lexemes (senang, nikmat, enak, puas, asyik, sukacita, ria, bangga, lega, bahagia, gembira, girang, riang, and ceria) of attitudinal lexemes are related with the domain of kesenangan. The result shows that hyponymy and synonymy lexical relations occur in the domain of kesenangan. Synonymy relation consists of near-synonymy and propositional synonymy. In this case, absolute synonymy is not found. 

scholarly journals Understandings and uses of assessment: case study with Spanish teacher educators

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
André Moura ◽  
Amândio Graça ◽  
Paula Batista
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Use Of Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Spanish Teacher

Assessment can serve different purposes. In Spain there has been an increase of research in assessment processes that intends to enhance students’ learning. Attending to this scenario, this study intends to explore the understandings of four teachers from one Spanish university, known as one of the most active in developing formative and shared assessment processes, about i) the process of implementing formative and shared assessment processes and ii) the impact of these assessments on students and on the teaching-learning process. Four teachers were purposively selected to be interviewed, according to their availability, use of assessment to promote students’ learning, work in a teacher education programme and have more than 15 years of experience as teacher. Analysis of data collected from semi-structured individual interviews resulted in the following themes i) formative and shared assessment – advantages vs. disadvantages, ii) vision about teacher education programmes, iii) teachers’ changes throughout their career, iv) students’ participation in assessment, and v) negotiating the teaching-learning process with students. These teachers consider that formative and shared assessment can be laborious, but worth the effort, mainly in teacher education programmes, where the focus is not only on student-person, but also on future teacher-person.

scholarly journals Metodologia de Ensino-Aprendizagem-Avaliação de Matemática Através da Resolução de Problemas: uma Análise das Perspectivas de Licenciandos em Matemática

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Gabriela Castro Silva Cavalheiro ◽  
Renata Cristina Geromel Meneghetti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Teacher Trainer

Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa que buscou responder ao seguinte questionamento: Como licenciandos em Matemática avaliam a metodologia de ensino-aprendizagem-avaliação de Matemática através da Resolução de Problemas (RP) implementada por um docente formador-pesquisador em disciplina específica da área? Para desenvolvê-la, adotou-se uma abordagem qualitativa de investigação, coletando-se os dados por meio de um questionário, após implementação da metodologia em uma turma de 18 licenciandos em Matemática que cursavam a disciplina Aritmética. O objetivo desse instrumento foi identificar, na perspectiva desses sujeitos, as possíveis contribuições da metodologia para a aprendizagem dos conteúdos matemáticos e dos demais conhecimentos necessários à formação do licenciado em Matemática. Os principais achados foram organizados em função do tripé aprendizagem, ensino e avaliação de Matemática. Diante das conclusões obtidas, embora a maioria dos sujeitos tenha conseguido perceber a importância do uso dessa metodologia para sua Formação Matemática, Pedagógica ou em Educação Matemática, considera-se importante o desenvolvimento de mais estudos na mesma linha, ou seja, trabalhos que possibilitem ao licenciando em Matemática vivenciar efetivamente várias vezes as diversas metodologias de ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação, por meio de RP e de outras abordagens alternativas, seja na condição de aluno ou de futuro professor.   Palavras-chave: Licenciatura em Matemática. Futuro Professor. Docente Formador-Pesquisador. Aritmética. Metodologia Qualitativa.   Abstract This article presents a research that sought to answer the following question: How do students of a Mathematics Degree course evaluate the methodology of teaching-learning-assessment of Mathematics through Problem Solving (PR) implemented by a teacher trainer-researcher in a specific discipline in the area? To develop it, a qualitative research approach was adopted, collecting the data through a questionnaire, after implementing the methodology in a class of 18 graduating in Mathematics who studied the Arithmetic discipline. The aim of this instrument was to identify, from the perspective of these subjects, the possible contributions of the methodology to the learning of the mathematical contents and other knowledge necessary for the formation of the graduate in Mathematics. The main findings were organized according to tripod learning, teaching and assessment of mathematics. In view of the conclusions obtained, although the majority of the subjects were able to perceive the importance of using this methodology for their Mathematical Formation, Pedagogical Formation or Mathematical Education Formation, it is considered important to develop further studies in the same line, that is, works that allow the graduating in Mathematics to effectively experience several times the different methodologies of teaching, learning and evaluation, through PR and other alternative approaches, whether as a student or future teacher.   Keywords: Degree in Mathematics. Future Teacher. Teacher Trainer-Researcher. Arithmetic. Qualitative Methodology.

scholarly journals Rigorous Phenomenography: A Conceptual Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Straub ◽  
Nancy Maynes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This paper presents a visual conceptual model for the qualitative research approach referred to as phenomenography. The static and recursive stages of a rigorous phenonemographical approach to research are outlined in detail. Using the example of a research study situated in pre-service teacher education, the authors explain how the fifteen distinct steps of phenomenographic research should be addressed with attention to the sequencing of these steps to support reliability and rigor of the research process and validity and generalizability of the outcome spaces that may result from the use of phenomenography.

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