The literature identifies three main types of peer associations: cliques, crowds, and dyadic friendships. When schools create learning communities, an additional type of peer association may emerge that is not based on interactions but instead is based on membership in a shared community. The aim of this study is to qualitatively explore the nature and characteristics of this association, labeled peer bonds. Observational data (n=432) and semi-structured interviews (n=33) were collected in two urban high schools over the course of three academic years. Data were analyzed using the constant comparison method. Findings suggest that there are six characteristics of peer bonds: investment in peer success, shared identity, shared values, pedagogical caring, shared success, and shared failure. The scholarly significance of this study is the expansion of theoretical conceptualizations of peer associations in learning communities while the practical significance is the potential use of a largely underutilized source for academic interventions, peers, by creating school community.
{"title":"Peer Bonds in Urban School Communities: An Exploratory Study.","authors":"Nicole M. Leach","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2018.3062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2018.3062","url":null,"abstract":"The literature identifies three main types of peer associations: cliques, crowds, and dyadic friendships. When schools create learning communities, an additional type of peer association may emerge that is not based on interactions but instead is based on membership in a shared community. The aim of this study is to qualitatively explore the nature and characteristics of this association, labeled peer bonds. Observational data (n=432) and semi-structured interviews (n=33) were collected in two urban high schools over the course of three academic years. Data were analyzed using the constant comparison method. Findings suggest that there are six characteristics of peer bonds: investment in peer success, shared identity, shared values, pedagogical caring, shared success, and shared failure. The scholarly significance of this study is the expansion of theoretical conceptualizations of peer associations in learning communities while the practical significance is the potential use of a largely underutilized source for academic interventions, peers, by creating school community.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"64-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46484955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay has the purpose of analyzing the development of my vital project as a Physical Educations teacher. It has been designed using the qualitative methodology through a reflexive auto ethnography with the biographical accounts that I had developed for the past 7 years. The categories that structure the results correspond to the stages that according to Romero (2004) are necessary to reach the vital project: “Reconnaissance stage”, “Crystallisation stage”, “Specification stage” and “Fulfilment stage”. The analysis confirms that going through all of these stages has allowed me becoming a reflective, critical and creative person and has eased me reaching my vital project. In addition, the essay shows the professional development that I have experienced along the process and that has allowed me setting up a new innovative physical education based on the Contemporary Art. It concludes with the importance for the teachers to think about their vital project in order to share with their students the importance that using biographical accounts has as instruments to show them the evolution of a teacher's professional practice.
{"title":"\"To Be\" as a Project: an Autoethnography of the Vital Project Construction Process for a Physical Education Teacher","authors":"Irene López Secanell","doi":"10.17583/qre.2018.3051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/qre.2018.3051","url":null,"abstract":"This essay has the purpose of analyzing the development of my vital project as a Physical Educations teacher. It has been designed using the qualitative methodology through a reflexive auto ethnography with the biographical accounts that I had developed for the past 7 years. The categories that structure the results correspond to the stages that according to Romero (2004) are necessary to reach the vital project: “Reconnaissance stage”, “Crystallisation stage”, “Specification stage” and “Fulfilment stage”. The analysis confirms that going through all of these stages has allowed me becoming a reflective, critical and creative person and has eased me reaching my vital project. In addition, the essay shows the professional development that I have experienced along the process and that has allowed me setting up a new innovative physical education based on the Contemporary Art. It concludes with the importance for the teachers to think about their vital project in order to share with their students the importance that using biographical accounts has as instruments to show them the evolution of a teacher's professional practice.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"36-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41602648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Blanco, María Verdeja Muñiz, Adelina Calvo Salvador
The paper presents the qualitative analysis of a Lesson Study process in Higher Education. The Lesson Study was developed in the degree of Pedagogy in the University of Oviedo in the context of an Interuniversity Project developed over two academic years (2015-16 and 2016-17). The aims of the analysis were two. On the one hand, to identify dilemmas and questions about teaching and learning arose during the LS (describing how participants faced them and analysing them in the light of current debates on university teaching). On the other hand, to discuss the potentials of LS for teaching improvement and professional development in University. Four techniques were used for data collection: natural observation of classroom practices, field notes and diary, interviews with the teacher and focus group. At the end of the process a final report was written.The categorization of data allowed us to identify problematic areas of the lesson, to analyse how participants faced them and to discuss the potentials of the methodology of LS for professional development in Higher Education.
{"title":"Lesson Study in University. An Experience to Improve Classroom Practices","authors":"G. Blanco, María Verdeja Muñiz, Adelina Calvo Salvador","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2018.3167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2018.3167","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the qualitative analysis of a Lesson Study process in Higher Education. The Lesson Study was developed in the degree of Pedagogy in the University of Oviedo in the context of an Interuniversity Project developed over two academic years (2015-16 and 2016-17). The aims of the analysis were two. On the one hand, to identify dilemmas and questions about teaching and learning arose during the LS (describing how participants faced them and analysing them in the light of current debates on university teaching). On the other hand, to discuss the potentials of LS for teaching improvement and professional development in University. Four techniques were used for data collection: natural observation of classroom practices, field notes and diary, interviews with the teacher and focus group. At the end of the process a final report was written.The categorization of data allowed us to identify problematic areas of the lesson, to analyse how participants faced them and to discuss the potentials of the methodology of LS for professional development in Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"87-113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44266699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigar con Historias de Vida. Metodología Biográfico-Narrativa, por Anabel Moriña","authors":"Raquel Graña Oliver","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2018.3273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2018.3273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"114-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49336144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite the fact that listening is at the core of teaching, pedagogical literature has paid very little attention to listening. In this paper, we echo this absence of research and try to explore some of listening’s pedagogical and training possibilities. We move away from the kind of listening that underlies relationships of power, trying to find a pattern of listening in which our presence becomes important and related research activity is seen as a transformational experience. We address these matters on the basis of some learning experiences arising from a recent study in which we analyzed, by means of a narrative methodology, the experiences of academic failure of three adolescents. The article concludes with proposals of some principles which served as the basis and guidelines for our conduct in the course of the study, and which are an example of our concept of listening for educational research.
{"title":"Learning to Listen in Educational Research","authors":"J. E. S. Nieto, Nieves Blanco García","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.2783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.2783","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the fact that listening is at the core of teaching, pedagogical literature has paid very little attention to listening. In this paper, we echo this absence of research and try to explore some of listening’s pedagogical and training possibilities. We move away from the kind of listening that underlies relationships of power, trying to find a pattern of listening in which our presence becomes important and related research activity is seen as a transformational experience. We address these matters on the basis of some learning experiences arising from a recent study in which we analyzed, by means of a narrative methodology, the experiences of academic failure of three adolescents. The article concludes with proposals of some principles which served as the basis and guidelines for our conduct in the course of the study, and which are an example of our concept of listening for educational research.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"303-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45631221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Previous literature has examined teachers’ motivations to teach in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic motives, personality dimensions, and teacher burnout. These findings have been cast in the rubric of differences between teachers and non-teachers and the linear relations between these measures among teachers. Utilizing a phenomenological approach (Giorgi, 1970) to analyze data generated in structured interviews with four tenured professors from small, liberal arts universities whose central mission is teaching, this paper presents the telic or project-ive horizons of teaching – those motives aimed at what is ‘not yet’ (Heidegger, 1927/1962). Results revealed that teaching is understood by teachers to be a dialogical enterprise between a teacher and learners across dimensions of transformation, knowledge, and personhood. This dialogue entailed an abiding tension between self and other, activity and passivity, giving and receiving, preparation and spontaneity, instructing and learning, leading and following, asserting and withdrawing. It comprised an orientation to a teachers’ vision for the possible future personhood of the teacher and their students and to the character of the world which teachers and learners inhabit together. These findings are discussed in terms of the reviewed literature and as a case in point for a vital complementarity of research approaches.
{"title":"Why Teach? A Project-ive Life-world Approach to Understanding What Teaching Means for Teachers","authors":"Brittany Landrum, Catherine Guilbeau, G. Garza","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.2947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.2947","url":null,"abstract":"Previous literature has examined teachers’ motivations to teach in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic motives, personality dimensions, and teacher burnout. These findings have been cast in the rubric of differences between teachers and non-teachers and the linear relations between these measures among teachers. Utilizing a phenomenological approach (Giorgi, 1970) to analyze data generated in structured interviews with four tenured professors from small, liberal arts universities whose central mission is teaching, this paper presents the telic or project-ive horizons of teaching – those motives aimed at what is ‘not yet’ (Heidegger, 1927/1962). Results revealed that teaching is understood by teachers to be a dialogical enterprise between a teacher and learners across dimensions of transformation, knowledge, and personhood. This dialogue entailed an abiding tension between self and other, activity and passivity, giving and receiving, preparation and spontaneity, instructing and learning, leading and following, asserting and withdrawing. It comprised an orientation to a teachers’ vision for the possible future personhood of the teacher and their students and to the character of the world which teachers and learners inhabit together. These findings are discussed in terms of the reviewed literature and as a case in point for a vital complementarity of research approaches.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"327-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41855371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This qualitative study explored the self-regulated learning (SRL) of teachers and their students in virtual social spaces. The processes of SRL were analyzed from 24 semi-structured individual interviews with professors, instructors and their students from five Lithuanian universities. A core category stroking the net whale showed the process of SRL skills development of university teachers and their students. This core category was constructed from three categories: building boats, angling in the multifaceted ocean, nurturing the big fish. Building boats showed social networking and identity marketing processes which are the same for both research participant groups. Angling in the multifaceted ocean implied personal capabilities and mutual trust dimensions, applicable to both teachers and students. Other dimensions of Angling in the multifaceted ocean differ: maintenance of liquid identities was observed for teachers; students stressed reinforcement of formal studies in virtual social spaces. Nurturing the big fish for both participant groups means academic communication; for university teachers, it also means professional knowledge development, and for students, virtual learning skills development. These findings contribute to understanding how the SRL of university teachers and their students progresses in virtual social spaces.
{"title":"Stroking the Net Whale: a Constructivist Grounded Theory of Self-Regulated Learning in Virtual Social Spaces","authors":"J. Kasperiūnienė, V. Žydžiūnaitė, M. Eriksson","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.2756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.2756","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explored the self-regulated learning (SRL) of teachers and their students in virtual social spaces. The processes of SRL were analyzed from 24 semi-structured individual interviews with professors, instructors and their students from five Lithuanian universities. A core category stroking the net whale showed the process of SRL skills development of university teachers and their students. This core category was constructed from three categories: building boats, angling in the multifaceted ocean, nurturing the big fish. Building boats showed social networking and identity marketing processes which are the same for both research participant groups. Angling in the multifaceted ocean implied personal capabilities and mutual trust dimensions, applicable to both teachers and students. Other dimensions of Angling in the multifaceted ocean differ: maintenance of liquid identities was observed for teachers; students stressed reinforcement of formal studies in virtual social spaces. Nurturing the big fish for both participant groups means academic communication; for university teachers, it also means professional knowledge development, and for students, virtual learning skills development. These findings contribute to understanding how the SRL of university teachers and their students progresses in virtual social spaces.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"276-302"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mezzi di Educazione di Massa. Saggi di Storia della Cultura Materiale della Scuola tra XIX e XX Secolo, por Juri Meda","authors":"C. Simón","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.3037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.3037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"352-353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44328629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The principal aim of this study is to evaluate the perception of the students and teachers involved in the mediation team at a secondary school in Madrid, specifically, in terms of its performance. To conduct this research study, we have used a qualitative research method. Firstly, to evaluate the teachers’ perception, we designed a semi-structured interview questionnaire to gather their opinions about their participation in the mediation team. In addition, we created two focus groups; one with students and another with teachers. The results demonstrate a high degree of teacher and student satisfaction towards the implementation of the mediation program. The students’ perception after participating in the mediation program suggests that this type of experience helps to improve their personal and social skills. Our research also demonstrates the importance attached to the selection of the mediator students, as well as the relevance of the management team for setting these types of programs in motion.
{"title":"Student and Teacher Perception of a Peer Mediation Program","authors":"I. Lorente, J. C. Seijo","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.2713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.2713","url":null,"abstract":"The principal aim of this study is to evaluate the perception of the students and teachers involved in the mediation team at a secondary school in Madrid, specifically, in terms of its performance. To conduct this research study, we have used a qualitative research method. Firstly, to evaluate the teachers’ perception, we designed a semi-structured interview questionnaire to gather their opinions about their participation in the mediation team. In addition, we created two focus groups; one with students and another with teachers. The results demonstrate a high degree of teacher and student satisfaction towards the implementation of the mediation program. The students’ perception after participating in the mediation program suggests that this type of experience helps to improve their personal and social skills. Our research also demonstrates the importance attached to the selection of the mediator students, as well as the relevance of the management team for setting these types of programs in motion.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"214-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45531658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Motivations for study abroad have been studied mostly from a quantitative point of view. This study attempted to understand those motivations through qualitative methodology, by getting "into the heads" of international students using a multiple case study approach. Participants were 15 Israeli Hebrew-speaking graduates. Data sources included in-depth interviews with the students, a business professor, as well as official program documents. Findings show that while intrinsic motivations recur in the data, that are in essence the selling points of an MBA, stressing experience and gaining knowledge and skills, the dominant motivations are instrumental and at times even fantastic and extreme, although presented implicitly in the discourse. All these motivations reflect a mismatch between students’ perceptions of MBA education and the actual reality of getting a graduate business degree abroad, which has serious ramifications for students' learning experience and the way in which efforts and resources are prioritized.
{"title":"Understanding the motivations: A qualitative analysis of israelis holding a bachelor's degree who pursue an MBA abroad","authors":"Ayelet Sasson","doi":"10.17583/QRE.2017.2475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/QRE.2017.2475","url":null,"abstract":"Motivations for study abroad have been studied mostly from a quantitative point of view. This study attempted to understand those motivations through qualitative methodology, by getting \"into the heads\" of international students using a multiple case study approach. Participants were 15 Israeli Hebrew-speaking graduates. Data sources included in-depth interviews with the students, a business professor, as well as official program documents. Findings show that while intrinsic motivations recur in the data, that are in essence the selling points of an MBA, stressing experience and gaining knowledge and skills, the dominant motivations are instrumental and at times even fantastic and extreme, although presented implicitly in the discourse. All these motivations reflect a mismatch between students’ perceptions of MBA education and the actual reality of getting a graduate business degree abroad, which has serious ramifications for students' learning experience and the way in which efforts and resources are prioritized.","PeriodicalId":42606,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"179-213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41793367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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