Quality Insights of University Teachers on Dying, Death, and Death Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mui-Hing June Mak
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes

One of the main responsibilities of teachers is to help individual students cope with life difficulties such as grief following a death. However, very little research explores teachers' views on death, dying, and how they handle grief and loss in schools. This study aims to explore university teachers' knowledge and attitudes on dying, death, and death education. Fifteen university teachers were recruited using a qualitative method. This study reveals that most teachers' views on death and related issues are largely affected by their death experiences, religious beliefs, professional background, and the mass media. Although they have a general negative response toward death and dying, some teachers begin to affirm their meanings of life and death. Most teachers agree that they do not feel adequate about managing and teaching on life and death issues, so they strongly support including death education in the formal programs in Hong Kong.

Quality Insights of University Students on Dying, Death, and Death Education—A Preliminary Study in Hong Kong

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mui Hing June Mak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
University Students ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Death And Loss

Death is a subject seldom studied in school and often misunderstood and feared by many people. Children often learn about death from their family and mass media. From the literature review on dying, death, and death education, it may be concluded that people are generally ignorant about the issues of death and dying. There is a need to investigate what young people, such as university students, know about death and dying, and their attitudes toward them. Eight university students were recruited for this study. Most participants have had death experiences. They seldom talked about death and loss. Some of these experiences were quite pleasant but some of them were not. Most participants addressed the need to have “life and death” education in schools at their young age. Such a need is further supported by the incidents of two participants who attempted suicide unsuccessfully when they encountered a life problem which they could not solve.

The Growth of Death Awareness through Death Education among University Students in Hong Kong

2009 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-Ying Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Awareness ◽  
Attitude Toward Death ◽  
The Relationship

This study attempts to explore the attitude toward death, which ranges from fear of death to its acceptance, held by students of one of the universities in Hong Kong. It also tries to examine the relationship between their attitude toward death and their ratings of life and death. Another aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a death education course offered in that university. It is found that the present death attitude of Hong Kong university students is not satisfactory and that it has been significantly improved after students took a death education course.

Death Education in the Nigerian Home: The Mother's Role

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tr. Reuben Uche Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Awareness ◽  
The Subject

The death-awareness movement is new in Nigeria. Here the subject of death is still a taboo. Throughout history women have occupied the middle place between life and death. They understand and play their gender roles in several other aspects of life in the Nigerian home, but down play their roles as they concern death and dying. This article, therefore, offers a rationale for death education in the home and delineates the role of a mother with regard to death. The likely problems she may encounter in the course of discharging her death duties in the home are also identified.

The Concept of Death and the Growth of Death Awareness Among University Students in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-ying Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Current State ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Courses

This study examined the concept of and attitudes toward death of university students and evaluated the efficacy of the death education courses offered by different universities in Hong Kong. The study adopted a pretreatment and posttreatment comparison approach in assessing the efficacy of the courses. The same set of instruments, Death Attitude Profile-Revised and Semantic Differential Ratings of Life and Death, measuring students' views of and attitudes toward death were administered to the students twice, once at the start of the courses and another at the end. Results of the pretreatment survey also served to depict the current state of students' views and attitudes. The target students comprised two groups: those taking the relevant courses and those not; this latter group served as a comparison group in assessing the treatment group's behavior. The achieved sample included 368 students who responded to both the pre- and posttreatment surveys, of which 134 had attended the relevant courses. The results indicated that the students had a more negative views on death as compared with that of life. Findings also suggested that the death education courses had significant and positive impact on the students, that is, viewing death more positively than before, having less fear and avoidance confronting death. However, the impact differed depending on the gender as well as death experience of the student.

scholarly journals Storytelling as a Form of Political Propaganda. Political Protests in Hong Kong in the Narrative of RT and CCTV Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-370
Author(s):  
Grażyna Piechota
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Political Protests

The article contains an analysis of contextual models used for propaganda activities carried out in two state television stations – RT and CCTV, in connection with the protests in Hong Kong that have been ongoing since June 2019. The research, referred to in the text, is an analysis of the narrative created in connection with the protests on both televisions in the context relevant to the achievement of propaganda goals by broadcasters. Storytelling built a one-sided picture of events as a tool for persuasion and influence on public opinion using the existing social and political polarization. The research was carried out using the quantitative and qualitative method. The obtained conclusions are part of the research on propaganda and contemporary distribution channels to create alternative images of reality using contextual models by mass media positioning themselves as state broadcasters.

scholarly journals The hospice as a learning space: a death education intervention with a group of adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Lorenza Palazzo ◽  
Lucia Ronconi ◽  
Stefania Donna ◽  
Paolo Francesco Cottone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Experimental Group

Abstract Background The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education may allow them to become familiar with this topic without causing negative effects. This article describes the effects of a death education course with adolescents, wherein participants were given the opportunity to meet palliative doctors and palliative psychologists at school and in a hospice, where they were able to converse with the families of the dying. Methods This study used mixed methods and included an evaluation of a death education intervention with longitudinal follow-up of outcomes. The course involved 87 secondary school students (experimental group) aged between 16 and 20 years. We also recruited a control group of 76 similarly-aged students to observe differences. The variables we examined were: alexithymia, representation of death, value attributed to life and spirituality. These were measured with the following instruments: the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, the Testoni Death Representation Scale, the Personal Meaning Profile and the Spiritual Orientation Inventory, respectively. To better understand how the students perceived the experience, we asked the experimental group to answer some open-ended questions. Their answers were analysed through thematic analysis. Results The study showed that death education and the hospice experience did not produce negative effects, but rather allowed students to decrease alexithymia, improving their ability to recognise and express emotions. Thematic analysis revealed that all participants perceived the experience as very positive. Conclusions Our findings affirm that death education programs can be successfully implemented in high schools, and that they can usefully involve local hospices and palliative care professionals, especially physicians and psychologists.

Knowledge and attitudes regarding pain management among nurses in Hong Kong medical units

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 2014-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza YY Lui ◽  
Winnie KW So ◽  
Daniel YT Fong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes
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