scholarly journals Training Student Workers in a Social Learning Space

2015 ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Fujishima
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
National University ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Original Size ◽  
Student Workers

This paper investigates the issues involved in training student workers in a social learning space (SLS) located at a large national university in Japan. Six years after its inception, the SLS has grown to more than eight times its original size. With the increase in space, there have been more visitors and activities, which has led to the hiring of more student workers. With the increase of workers, the manager implemented a more organized system to delegate the duties of each student worker. The researcher looked at the different roles of the student workers and what they consist of. A thematic analysis of transcripts taken from one 3-hour training session and three interview transcripts was done to understand these roles and how the students viewed their responsibilities. How to balance the SLS as a delicate ecosocial system (Murray & Fujishima, 2013) while maintaining a solid foundation for training effective student workers is a challenge. Some common themes found in the interview data will be highlighted, as well as implications and recommendations for improvement.

scholarly journals Social Language Learning Spaces: Globalization Glocalized

2017 ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Garold Murray ◽  
Mariko Uzuka ◽  
Naomi Fujishima
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
National University ◽  
Local Students

In this era of globalization, Japanese universities will have to accommodate an increasing number of local students wishing to learn foreign languages and they will also have to welcome more international students to their campuses. While universities will undoubtedly take steps to ensure that both groups have positive educational and intercultural experiences, we contend that it is also incumbent upon them to implement measures designed to facilitate the adaptation of international students to Japanese society. In this article, we examine the role social learning spaces can play in helping universities respond to these challenges. We argue that these facilities can make an invaluable contribution by supporting language learning and cross-cultural acclimatization for both international and Japanese students. The term social learning spaces refers to places where students can come together in an informal or quasi-formal environment in order to learn from and with each other. To illustrate our points, we draw on the data from a five-year ethnographic inquiry carried out at one such facility on the campus of a large national university. After describing the social learning space, outlining the study, and tracing the theoretical orientation guiding the interpretation of the data, we focus on the benefits social learning spaces can afford international students wishing to improve their language skills and adapt to Japanese society. To conclude, we reflect on how social learning spaces can support the process of glocalization by making local universities more globalized places.

scholarly journals Exploring Leadership Learning in an Undergraduate Kinesiology Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Laidlaw ◽  
Cari Din
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Undergraduate Leadership

The purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate learning in an undergraduate leadership course in a kinesiology faculty. The research question driving this study was: What do students feel influences learning in this evidence-informed leadership course? We collected and analyzed 12 students’ perspectives on their learning experiences over one semester by conducting focus groups at the end of term. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to interpret and analyze responses. The influences on student learning shared by participants in this research included course design and learning activities, instructor behaviours, peers, project work, and student agency. The course was described as a valuable social learning space. Findings may be applied to improve leadership learning in kinesiology and similar disciplines in higher education.  

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.

scholarly journals Enhancing Social-Skills through Social Learning Intervention among Rural Underprivileged Adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. A. Velayudhan ◽  
Palanisamy. V
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Learning Intervention ◽  
Post Test

Rural underprivileged youth from India are mostly failing to get decent job due to lack of life-skills. The chances are very less for rural underprivileged adolescents to acquire necessary skills from their cultural context. Hence Indian Adolescents from rural area presently requiring basic life skills for complete their education effectively and get a suitable job in India or abroad. As attaining this task present study examined the effectiveness of social learning intervention on enhancing self-leadership skills and communication skills among rural adolescents. Purposive sampling method was used to select the sample (N=50), it included 25 female and 25 male adolescents from underprivileged category. The sample was selected from the Government higher secondary school located in rural area of Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu. This study consists following four phases which are Pre-test, Intervention, Post-test, and follow up phases. The social learning intervention was designed based on Bandura’s social learning theory therefore modeling, role play, and constructive feedback methods were used. Weekly one training session was taken totally 12 training sessions, 2 hour for each session. Revised self-leadership questionnaire and communication locus of control scale were used to collect the data in pre-test, post-test, and follow up phases. Mean, SD, repeated measure of ANOVO and Post-Hoc test was used to analysis the data and the results shows that self-leadership skills and communication skills was significantly improved after social learning intervention.

scholarly journals Self-Access Centers and Autonomous Learning: Report on the Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) Conference, 2017

2018 ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
Lorraine Reinbold
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Plenary Talk ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Non Profit

JASAL (The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning) held their 12th Annual Conference/Forum on December 16th, 2017 at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Chiba. JASAL is a non-profit organization that fosters learner autonomy and self-access learning to a cross-section of educational institutions in Japan. This article contextualizes the plenary talk and selected presentations that captured the underlying themes of this conference: 1) necessity to become a social learning space for language learners, 2) necessity of structured support, and 3) necessity to assess and modify.

When the Worst Imaginable Becomes Reality

Janus Head ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-213
Author(s):  
Katherine J. Janzen ◽  
Sherri Melrose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Crack Cocaine ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry

This article describes findings from a qualitative study that investigated the lived experiences of four mothers recovering from crack cocaine addictions who lost custody of their children. The project was guided by feminist interpretive inquiry, van Manen’s approach to hermeneutic phenomenology, and involved thematic analysis of in depth interview data. By telling the stories of these women and using their own words as well as interpretive poetry written by one of the authors to describe their suffering, our research offers important insights to professionals involved in the field of addictions.

scholarly journals Liminality revisited: Mapping the emotional adaptations of women in carceral space

2020 ◽  
pp. 146247452095962
Author(s):  
Yvonne Jewkes ◽  
Ben Laws
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Environmental Constraints ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Spatial Selection ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
Selection Strategies ◽  
Women In Prison ◽  
The Uk

This article draws on interview data with women in two prisons in the UK to understand the emotionally nuanced and sensorially attuned relationship between confined individuals and carceral space. The article presents an ‘emotional map’ comprising: (i) living or ‘being’ spaces; (ii) free places; and (iii) ‘therapeutic spaces’ in prisons.This tri-spatial thematic analysis enables us to use Victor Turner’s concepts of ‘liminality’ and ‘communitas’ to uncover the complex, contradictory and sometimes transient emotions that permeate spaces in prison. This in turn allows us to explore the particular challenges that accompany transitional periods of adjustment to prison life, the environmental constraints that women in prison live with and navigate, and the careful ‘spatial selection’ strategies they implement in order to seek or avoid particular emotional states.

scholarly journals The Acculturation Experiences of Elite Rugby Union Coaches

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Andrew J.A. Hall ◽  
Cedric English ◽  
Leigh W. Jones ◽  
Tony Westbury ◽  
Russell Martindale
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
International Level ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

Currently, little is known about how elite coaches acculturate and how they manage their acculturation environment. This study examines the acculturation experiences of elite rugby union coaches and their management of multicultural squads. Five male elite coaches participated in the research. Each of the five coaches arguably fit a “best of the best” criterion, boasting between them multiple European and U.K. domestic championships as well as multiple Super Rugby titles with similar accomplishments at the international level across 15- and seven-a-side. Inductive thematic analysis of semistructured interview data revealed two emerging themes: (a) proactively managing personal acculturation, and (b) proactively managing player acculturation. Implications for coaches managing their own acculturation experience and their respective acculturation environments are discussed.

scholarly journals The Meaning of Love and Love Orientation of Widows Based on Erich from Perspective (A Study at St. Petrus Paulus Church, Wlingi, East Java, Indonesia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aprilia Dwi Kristianti ◽  
Farah Farida Tantiani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Church

This study aims to explore the meaning of love and love orientation of Catholic widows based on Erich Fromm’s theory. The research model used qualitative research with descriptive phenomenology, based on interviews among four widow members of St Peter Paulus church. This interview data was analysed using thematic analysis techniques. The results showed the participants interpreted love as an effort to give what they have. Participant’s love orientation tends to be stronger towards children and God. Meanwhile, other orientations were also found namely grandchildren, nieces, neighbours, deceased spouses, friends and themselves. Productive love is experienced primarily in relationships with children, God, and people in their extended social spheres. Relationships with partners and themselves become the least dominant relationships in the life of a widow and less interpreted with productive love. Based on the results of this study it is advisable to the church to add a counselling for their member who has loss their partner (spouse) so that they regain a sense of self-worth. Keywords: meaning, orientation, love, Erich Fromm, phenomenological, widow, Santo Petrus Paulus Church Wlingi.

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