Februar 2021
Februar 2021
steffen.vogel
20. Januar 2021 - 21:44
Phenomenological Approach and Bakhtinian Dialogism: Epistemological Tensions and Methodological Responses
In this article, I develop a methodological reflection based on research concerning the role of the history of mathematics in the context of pre-service teacher training. The purpose of the study was to describe the experience of six prospective secondary school mathematics teachers engaged in the reading of historical texts in a history of mathematics course. In the process of research, epistemological tensions emerged between, on the one hand, the need to account for a portion of the participants' intimate personal experience by deploying a phenomenological approach, and on the other hand, the convocation of a historical-cultural perspective of mathematics education focusing on social interaction and artifacts. The answers formulated in response to these epistemological tensions were methodological. I analyze in what way these tensions played a reflexive and emulator role developing both the research methodology and an innovative description adapted to the context of the study, i.e., a polyphonic narration.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3544
Modes of Learning in Educational Organizations: Theoretical Considerations, Methodological Approaches and Empirical Findings
In this article I deal with the question of starting points and dynamics of learning processes in pedagogical organizations using the example of schools. Starting with a brief discussion of established approaches to determine organizational learning, I use the idea of the organization as an activity system to outline a concept of school organizations. Based on this heuristic, I present a methodological approach to the analysis of organizational learning processes, and present and discuss empirical findings based on the analysis of group discussions and expert interviews using the documentary method. In the triangulation of the reconstruction of learning orientations of members of a single school organization (a group of teachers and the school's principal) and their positioning in the activity system of the school, an organizational mode of learning comes into view.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3526
How Do Stroke Survivors, Relatives, and Experts Experience Post-Stroke Care After Completion of a Medical Rehabilitation Measure? Results of a Qualitative Study
While the German healthcare system has an excellent medical acute care treatment system (stroke unit) for stroke victims, it is the discharge process and post-inpatient follow-up care after the completion of a rehabilitation measure in which misuse still occur. The aim of my study has been to formulate recommendations for improvements in the aftercare process based on the experiences of the participants. All in all, 19 persons were interviewed, six experts from medical and therapeutic care, seven stroke victims, and six relatives took part in the interviews. The audio-documented interviews were transcribed with the analysis software MAXQDA and analyzed using qualitative content analysis (KUCKARTZ, 2016). The results show that the dissemination of information, the involvement of relatives, and the budgeting in the German health care system can influence gaps and interruptions in follow-up care and thus offer starting points for improvement.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3604
How to Involve Young Children in a Photovoice Project. Experiences and Results
For a considerable period of time, discussions on children and how they describe their own life-worlds did not form a part of research practice (CHRISTENSEN & JAMES, 2008). Although some methods are currently being applied with success in research with children, a more comprehensive implementation of different participatory methods is necessary which takes into account the child's peculiarities. One aim of the project "Learning Together, Living Diversity" was to involve children of kindergarten age in participatory research. To demonstrate diversity in a context close to everyday life and to start conversations with the children about this topic we used photographs taken by the children in their living environment. We aim to use the collected findings to develop a didactic method for early childhood education dealing with diversity in the sense of a basic form of existence: every person is unique, and this uniqueness should be perceived as enrichment. In this method, the early childhood phase and the institutional experiences embedded within it are considered fundamental to understand and accept the existence of various life-worlds.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3457