scholarly journals Assessing Ethno-Ecology of Women in Nepal: Practices and Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Gem Prasad Gurung ◽  
Kamal Prasad Koirala
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Plant Resources ◽  
Rapid Degradation ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Nepali Women ◽  
Collection And Management ◽  
Depth Interviews

Women mostly involve in raring and caring natural resources in their daily life. This paper intends to explore the practices and perspectives of Nepali women on ecology conservation in relation to ecological, socio-cultural and religious perspectives. For environmental degradation, women's resource management plays a vital role in ecology conservation. As a qualitative research approach, field observation, focus group discussion, and in-depth interviews with women in the community were the methods of collecting necessary information. Nepali women involve in the collection and management of plant resources inappropriately. Therefore, their perspective and practice can play an important role to minimize the rapid degradation of the environment regarding with management of plant resources. The theoretical literature review consists of movements on environment conservation in the world and in Nepal. No doubt, the message of their contribution will be the lesson to the world for the protection of environment as well as to support and meet the slogan of “local act global think” to save the nature.

scholarly journals A qualitative approach to evaluate the reconciliation of GOLDX and OneGram in Islamic Finance

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Marwan Mohamed Abdeldayem ◽  
Saeed Hameed Al Dulaimi ◽  
Fuaad Hameed Al Dulaimi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Countries

The purpose of this study is two-folded. The first purpose is to examine the perception of Islamic finance experts and Shariah scholars on the Islamic cryptocurrency (i.e., GOLDX and OneGram). The question is whether it has a role in reconciling cryptocurrency in Islamic finance. The second is to introduce the new Islamic cryptocurrency to serve these rich Islamic populaces. The study used a qualitative research approach by conducting interviews to explore the Islamic scholars’ views on the framework of the new Islamic cryptocurrency. The scholars have been deemed to meet particular requirements of having comprehensive knowledge and have extensive experience in both the Islamic Shariah and cryptocurrency. Accordingly, the number of such scholars was limited, and eventually, with the access offered only to five scholars from different Islamic countries. We thoroughly analyzed the collected data from the interviews. The findings reveal that Islamic law is absent on the essential models for the conventional cryptocurrency utilization(such as bitcoin) as either a legitimate or illicit apparatus exchange device. Consequently, introducing new Islamic cryptocurrencies is to reconcile cryptocurrencies such as GOLDX and OneGram. They will play a vital role in attracting more than 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe to enter the world of cryptocurrency.

The Challenges Faced by Young Entrepreneurs in Informal Trading in Bindura, Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962199085
Author(s):  
Itai Kabonga ◽  
Kwashirai Zvokuomba ◽  
Brighton Nyagadza
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
National Level ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs ◽  
Informal Traders

The objective of the study was to capture the challenges that are faced by young informal traders in Bindura town, Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the lack of attention to the challenges faced by young informal traders by the governing authorities at local and national level. We believe our study extends the understanding of the challenges faced by young informal traders, drawing on their everyday experiences and the navigation of the complex challenges they face. Deploying a qualitative research approach with in-depth interviews, focus group discussion and documentary analysis as data generation tools, the study found that young informal traders face several challenges that include lack of capital and harassment from municipal authorities as well as lack of mentoring and competition from established traders. Thus, the study established and concluded that within this difficult environment, young entrepreneurs employ different survival strategies such as raising capital from friends and relatives, relying on multifarious mentoring and coaching programmes from various sources. The paper recommends that government and private sector take up responsibility in nurturing these young entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Developing age-friendly city readiness: A case study from Depok City, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 205031211985251
Author(s):  
Fatmah Fatmah ◽  
Vita Priantina Dewi ◽  
Yudarini Priotomo
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Depth Interviews

Depok, as one of the largest cities in Indonesia, has great potential to be an age-friendly city. Before the formation of age-friendly city is established, eight dimensions of age-friendly cities had been studied by the World Health Organization in 2013, but since 2013 these dimensions have not been assessed. The study aimed to assess the preparedness of Depok to be an age-friendly city with a qualitative approach from the stakeholders’ point of view. This study used a qualitative design involving 50 informants through in-depth interviews and focus group discussion techniques using purposive sampling. The findings indicate that Depok was deemed not yet prepared to be an age-friendly city due to an abundance of infrastructure deficiencies. There were not many changes in the facilities, such as infrastructure improvements in age-friendly city indicators and existing Regional Regulations of age-friendly cities, except for buildings and open green spaces. In general, Depok still needs time to achieve the age-friendly city where the community will have a good place to live, grow, and age in it.

scholarly journals Traditional Folk Media for Environmental Communication and Preservation in Guna Community, Amhara, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Destaw Bayable
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study focused on the assessment of folk media aimed at Environmental Communication (EC) in the Guna Community and suggested the dominant Guna Community folk media for environmental communication and preservation to conserve Mount Guna. Guna Mount is the home of different biodiversity and the tower of water, but it is becoming degraded. Folk media are operative in environmental communication and preservation. They have the power to transmitted environmental messages that incorporate cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes with societal needs. Folk media are locally oriented, easily accessible, flexible, portable, inclusive, and relatively inexpensive. A qualitative research approach was employed for this research. Ethnographic research design, snowball, and purposive sampling techniques were used to select the respondents. The researchers were gathered the data through in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, and observation. For this survey, 16 FGDs, 45 individual in-depth interviews, and participant observation were employed. Guna community has unique and indigenous folk media that use as a source of entertainment, information, and education. Their folk music, songs, dances, campfire storytelling, traditional motifs, fairs, and festivals, and folk poems are the dominants. Using folk media for operative ecology preservation is vital in the form of EC that inspires and develops positive behavior in the community by educating about environmentalism in the method of facilitating environmental issues incorporating the latest message. Finally, we recommended some folk media for developmental activities that use inform of advocacy regarding recommended reasons

scholarly journals Designing Content for A Web-Based Application Used in Blended Composition Classes: Things to Consider in The EFL/ESL Context

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1049
Author(s):  
Irfan Rifai
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Writing Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Composition Teaching ◽  
Additional Feedback ◽  
The Web

In the world of composition teaching, teachers of writing play just as vital role. Their tasks are demonstrating, motivating, supporting, responding, and evaluating. The days of these teachers are often filled with editing and additional feedback sessions. Thus, in order to have a web especially designed as a tool for learning to write in ESL, the five tasks mentioned by Harmer should be made as important points to consider (teachers’ preferences). The content of such web should be also based on careful considerations that include factors like students’ preferences (user experience). It is to make sure that the web being created meets the preference of the users. With the thoughts, two groups of students were gathered in a study involving two writing classes in which online technology being used as a platform for students and Instructor to exchange ideas, review and edit drafts, provide writing tips links and leave comments on others’ pieces of writing. Students’ online activities were observed and their feedback during group discussion was used as the base to construct the content of the web. 

scholarly journals Migration plans of the international PhD students

Geografie ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Dana Rakovcová
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cycle Phase ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Decisions ◽  
Life Cycle Phase ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Specific Influence

Within the concept of transnationalism and global development, migration decisions of international students play a vital role. This article draws on 21 in-depth interviews with PhD students coming from 16 different countries across the world, who are studying at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. The study explores the diverse factors influencing migration decisions and potential intentions of return. The results suggest that there is a specific influence of the life-cycle phase and the family considerations on the predictability and direction of respondents’ future migration steps. Migration decisions of the interviewed PhD students with children tend to be strongly driven by responsibility towards their families and institutions, while a permanent return is very likely. The single and childless PhD students expressed individual freedom and professional opportunities as essential driving forces in their temporal migration decisions with their future migration destination being less predictable.

scholarly journals UPAYA KESIAPSIAGAAN MASYARAKAT PINGGIRAN SUNGAI DALAM MENGHADAPI BENCANA BANJIR AIR PASANG

Jurnal Ecopsy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dwi Mayangsari ◽  
Sukma Noor Akbar ◽  
Dwi Nur Rachmah
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Face ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Depth Interviews

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi cara atau upaya kesiapsiagaan (preparedness) masyarakat di daerah pinggiran sungai dalam menghadapi bencana air pasang. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan (1) In-depth Interview yang dilakukan oleh dua pihak yaitu komunikasi antara peneliti dengan informan; (2) Focus Group Discussion (FGD) Diskusi Kelompok Terarah yaitu media bagi sekelompok orang untuk mendiskusikan satu topik tertentu secara lebih mendalam; dan (3) Observasi. Subjek penelitian dipilih secara purposive sampling terdiri atas 3 orang informan perwakilan warga di daerah pinggiran Sungai Kuin Utara  Banjarmasin yang kriterianya telah disesuaikan dengan kriteria peneliti, sedangkan untuk FGD mencakup sampel 7 (tujuh) warga masyarakat. Hasil dari penelitian ini mendapatkan  informasi bahwa upaya kesiapsiagaan masyarakat pinggiran sungai terhadap bencana banjir air pasang kebanyakan adalah dengan cara bersiap masuk ke perahu untuk menyelamatkan diri dan menyelamatkan barang-barang perabotan rumah tangga ketika terjadi bencana banjir. Kata kunci : Banjir air pasang, Kesiapsiagaan This study aims to identify ways or preparedness communities in side river  areas in the face of flood disaster. The research approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Data collection technique used (1) In-depth interviews were conducted by the two parties, namely the communication between researchers with the informant; (2) Focus Group Discussion (FGD) are media for a group of people to discuss a particular topic in greater depth; and (3) Observation. Subjects were selected by purposive sampling consisting of 3 informants representatives of residents on the outskirts of River North KUIN that the criteria have been adapted to the criteria of the researchers, whereas for sample FGD includes seven (7) members of the community. Results from this study informed that the riverside community preparedness efforts against the flood tide mostly by way of getting into the boat to save himself and save items of household furniture in the event of a flood  disaster. Keywords: Flood disaster tide, Preparedness

Hearing muted voices: the crystallization approach to critical and reflexive child-centric consumer research

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevina Cody
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Young Consumers ◽  
Shopping Trips ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose – This paper aims to offer both a practical and reflective stance on a longitudinal multi-method interpretive consumer research project carried out with tween girls. Design/methodology/approach – This multi-layered approach to data collection, involving qualitative diaries, accompanied shopping trips, e-collages and in-depth interviews, addresses the need, as articulated by Morrow and Richards (1996, p. 96) to “move away from the narrow focus of socialization and child development” toward a research approach that prioritizes children’s own experiences of their lives as children, thereby reconsidering the richness of children’s voices. Findings – In line with those whose work seeks to privilege children’s knowledge of the world they inhabit while also emphasizing the need, as in the case of adult “doing” to place that existence within its broader social context (Russell and Tyler, 2005, p. 227), diaries, in-depth interviews, shopping trips, e-collages and researcher diaries were used to access the world of these social neophytes as they mediate their social worlds through the ever pervasive prism of consumer culture. The light and shade of their worlds cannot be captured by adult-oriented perspectives on research which assume that young consumers are incompetent, worthy of debate merely to ascertain levelness of agency or of interest merely to quantify degrees of participation in and comprehension of the semiotic markers of our consumer society. Research limitations/implications – Only female consumers were involved in this study which underlines the need to engage with both genders when it comes to researching young consumers. Practical implications – This paper offers a tangible contribution to the movement of research toward understanding young consumers’ worlds through engagement with multi-layered discourses and representations. Originality/value – This multi-layered, multi-method research project acknowledges the enthralling complexity of these young consumers’ social worlds, giving a richness and immediacy to their accounts of the compelling intimacy between young adolescent identity and the marketplace.

scholarly journals Dakwah Bil Hal: Empowering Muslim Economy in Garut

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Ace Toyib Bahtiar ◽  
Bahri Ghazali ◽  
Yunan Yusuf Nasution ◽  
Shonhaji Shonhaji ◽  
Fitri Yanti
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Uses And Gratification Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews

The problems that occur to Muslims in the world including Indonesia are somewhat complex. Muslims are still in a circle of poverty. At the same time there is a gap between the lives of elite, Muslim leaders and the fate of most Muslims. This research was conducted to find out how important the role of dakwah bil hal (preaching by action) compared to oral preaching by preachers, preachers in Indonesia. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods that collect data by observation, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). From the research conducted, it was found that dakwah bil hal must be done in a balanced manner and in tandem with oral preaching, does not need to be dichotomized between the two. Both methods of da'wah must go hand in hand. Dakwah bil hal the case especially in the economic field increases the ability and independence of Muslims. Henceforth will increase the human resources of Muslims, away from backwardness. This has relevance to the theory of uses and gratification theory proposed by Elihu Katz, Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch. More serious and systematic efforts are needed by Muslim leaders, Muslim organizations in carrying out preaching activities. So that there is no gap between the lives of Muslim leaders, administrators of Islamic organizations and Muslims generallyPersoalan yang terjadi pada kaum muslim di dunia termasuk Indonesia terbilang komplek. Kaum muslim masih berada di dalam lingkaran kemiskinan. Pada saat yang sama ada jarak antara kehidupan elit, tokoh muslim dengan nasib sebagian besar kaum muslim. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui seberapa penting peran dakwah bil hal dibandingkan dengan dakwah bil lisan oleh para dai, pelaku dakwah di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif yang mengumpulkan data dengan observasi, wawancara mendalam dan focus group discussion (FGD). Dari penelitian yang dilakukan, ditemukan bahwa dakwah bil hal harus dilakukan secara seimbang dan beriringan dengan dakwah bil lisan, tidak perlu didikotomikan antara keduanya. Kedua metode dakwah tersebut harus seiring sejalan. Dakwah bil hal khususnya di bidang ekonomi meningkatkan kemampuan dan kemandirian kaum muslim. Untuk selanjutnya akan meningkatkan sumber daya manusia kaum muslim, menjauh dari ketertinggalan. Hal ini memiliki relevansi dengan teori penggunaan dan kepuasan (uses and gratification theory) yang dikemukakan oleh Elihu Katz, Jay G. Blumler dan Michael Gurevitch. Diperlukan upaya lebih serius dan sistematis yang dilakukan oleh tokoh muslim, organisasi muslim di dalam melakukan kegiatan dakwah bil hal. Sehingga tidak ada jurang (gap) antara kehidupan tokoh muslim, pengurus organisasi Islam dengan kaum muslim secara umum.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT: CONNECTING MODERNIZATION AND FAMILY INSTITUTION ON QUALITATIVE GROUNDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 82-90
Author(s):  
Imran ◽  
Intikhab Alam ◽  
Mamoon Khan Khattak ◽  
Muhammad Jawad ◽  
Muhammad Aurangzeb Khan
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
The Family ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose of the study: The qualitative study has been designed with the primary objective to find the impact of and link between modernization and the changing facets of the family institution. The study also focused on exploring the various dimensions of modernization responsible for bringing change in the family institution. Methodology: The data was collected from the different nature of potential participants from all seven tehsils of district Swat, Pakistan. In-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussion (FDG) were incorporated as research instruments, whereas an interview guide was used under IDIs and FGDs. The collected data were processed under the frame of qualitative research approach wherein after transcribing, and coding of the data themes was identified. Main Findings: The thematic analysis of family structure, patriarchy, decision making in the family, and ways of communication exposed that due to modernization, the family institution is under continuous change. Applications of this study: The research results can be applied to such studies that focus on changes in family institutions, communities with similar socio-cultural characteristics. Novelty/Originality of this study: The unique feature of this study is that such kinds of topics have been very rarely investigated in the context of Pakistani society and especially in Pakhtun culture. 

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