Method Of Inquiry Research Articles

Implementasi Pendidikan dan Pelatihan dalam Meningkatkan Kompetensi Guru Sekolah Dasar/Madrasah Ibtidaiyah di Desa Duren Kecamatan Klari Kabupaten Karawang

The Management of Pedagogical Competence and Professional Competence Improvement for Elementary School Teachers through Education and Training (Diklat) must be continuously enhanced and intensified, and should be conducted well to achieve the Diklat goals from the planning stage to implementation and evaluation, even though there are still some weaknesses in the planning and execution of the Diklat. This is based on a preliminary study that found about 60% of elementary school teachers in Karawang Regency apparently have insufficient mastery of teaching competencies, especially in pedagogical and professional competencies. Meanwhile, among the prospective Diklat participants, 37 individuals (61.6%) claimed to have a sufficient grasp of pedagogical and professional competencies, while 23 individuals (38.3%) lacked mastery of these competencies. The Diklat planning process involves conducting a Need Assessment analysis of the training, including a strategic program analysis, a personal analysis of prospective participants and training instructors, and an analysis of tasks related to the training's content and objectives. The implementation phase begins with Diklat packages for Mathematics Adaptation, Science Adaptation, ICT Learning, and the Reading Program. Diklat activities are carried out gradually, starting with School Team Workshops (STW), Teacher Study Groups (KKG), and Teacher Coaching and Assistance Teams (KKKS). Participants, who are elementary school teachers, are trained by MI/SD supervisors and instructors from public and private higher education institutions (PTN/PTS) using inquiry, demonstration, role-playing, and problem-based learning methods. The Diklat is expected to enhance teachers' competency by achieving a high level of mastery of the training material. They should also have a good grasp of teaching competencies and be able to contribute to improving teacher performance. Despite some challenges encountered during its implementation, including: a. A small number of training instructors lacking professionalism in mastering the training material; b. The combination of teacher participants with different educational backgrounds, some having completed SPG/SLTA-equivalent education and others holding a Bachelor's degree, resulting in varying rates of material absorption and reduced motivation for learning among SPG/SLTA-equivalent graduates; c. Insufficient computer facilities for ICT lessons.

Cultural and Linguistic Capital of Second-Generation Migrants in Cyprus and Sweden

Abstract The linguistic and cultural values of migrants, as well as their attitudes and behaviour, differ from those of the host society. All resources and values can be characterised as linguistic and cultural capital, which can provide migrants with certain advantages in their new country of settlement. A heritage language (HL) and knowledge about another culture are important components of this linguistic cultural capital. It is crucial for multi-generational families to maintain their HL and transmit the culture of their heritage to help individuals gain a better understanding of their own identity. This study aims to investigate the views, attitudes, and beliefs of second-generation migrants in Cyprus and Sweden in relation to their HL, linguistic and cultural capital, factors affecting HL use, maintenance, and development, as well as their future plans and aspirations regarding HL transmission. Narrative analysis of the semi-structured interviews revealed certain differences and similarities between the countries under investigation regarding the personal reflections of the participants and their perceptions regarding the role of family language policies, home literacy environments, child and parental agency, socio-emotional well-being, local context, and other internal and external factors influencing HL use, maintenance, and transmission. Storytelling proved to be an effective method of narrative inquiry, providing a deeper insight into the complex process of HL development and support. In addition, it offered participants an opportunity to reflect on their personality, language, and culture.

Uncovering financial distress conditions and its determinant factors on insurance companies in Ethiopia.

The study examines the financial distress situation and its determinants in insurance sectors in Ethiopia. To achieve study objectives, revised Altman's 2000 is adopted to measure the financial distress situation. The study adopted an explanatory research design with an arrangement of secondary data analysis via document analysis, quantitative approach, and deductive method of inquiry. The study used panel data from ten insurance companies over the study period 2010/11-2020/21. Descriptive and regression analyses were performed to analyze the data using STATA 14. Econometric model estimation procedures and multiple regression assumptions were tested accordingly. The random effect regression result revealed that firm-specific factors (liquidity and profitability) have a significant positive association, whereas firm size significantly negatively impacts financial distress. While the random effect regression result also proposed inflation has a positive and significant association with financial distress. However, firm-specific factors (revenue growth and leverage) have positive and negative, respectively, and macroeconomic factors (Gross Domestic Product) have positive but statically insignificant to the financial distress situation of insurance sectors in Ethiopia.

The impact of mandated collaboration in the workplace: a case study of Ethiopian primary school teachers

This qualitative case study explores how implementing mandated collaboration in the workplace impacts teachers’ professional practices based on the experience of primary school teachers in Ethiopia. The study adopted a constructivist orientation, which prompted the use of qualitative methods of inquiry, and data were collected through eighteen one-to-one interviews and three focus group discussions (FGDs). The findings indicated that implementing mandated teacher collaboration might be helpful in the early stages of teacher collaboration as a starter from which a voluntary and authentic collaborative culture emerges, yet it is not necessarily a good thing once collaborative practices are well initiated. That means, despite its potential for fostering teacher professional learning, mandated collaboration can be a threat to the professional autonomy of teachers; it can also intensify conflict, nurture groupthink, and promote social loafing among teachers.

Effects of Team Teaching and Lecture Method on the Retention of Physics Students in Secondary Schools in Delta State

This study investigated the effects of 5E-guided inquiry, team teaching, and lecture methods on physics students’ retention in Delta State. To guide the study, two research questions and two hypotheses were raised and tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The study used the quasi-experimental non-randomized pre-test, post-test, and delayed post-test planned variation group design. The population consisted of all mixed public secondary school (SS2) Physics students in Delta State with a population of 476 secondary schools and 31,711 SS2 students. A sample of six (6) secondary schools and 326 students were used for the study. The six (6) schools used for the study were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. The Physics Achievement Test (PAT) was used for data collection. Mean and Standard Deviation were used in answering all the research questions, and collected data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results obtained indicated that students taught with the team-teaching method performed better than those taught using the 5E-guided inquiry and lecture method. Furthermore, the result showed that there is no significant effect of interaction between sex and method on the retention of physics students. Based on these findings, it was concluded that students taught with the team-teaching method achieved significantly better than students taught with the 5E-guided inquiry method and lecture method. Results from the study led to many recommendations, that teachers should expose physics students to team teaching methods so as to promote effective and active learning among students.

A Narrative Inquiry into the Cultivation of Professional Identity Among Medical Students Through an Online Knowledge Community

Background: Cultivating medical talents with professional identity is the ultimate goal of medical education. Nonetheless, the pre-service stage does not create sufficient opportunities to develop their professional identities. Also, there is a lack of long-term empirical data for this process. This longitudinal narrative study involved a dynamic online knowledge community in which students shared confusion, anxiety, and transformation about professional identity. Through capturing their reflections and interactions, the study explored how their professional identities developed over time through the online community in medical school and how this community best supported professional identity development. Method: We collected data from chat records and telephone interviews, using the narrative inquiry method and its interpretative tools to analyze professional identity development. Quantitative analysis was carried out to reveal some influencing factors. Results: Fine-grained analysis showed that medical students experienced a contextual change from individual identity to physician community and a collaborative process to create a supportive environment to develop a professional identity through multi-layered interactions. The analysis also identified that in a virtual community that formed group resonance, medical students balanced their self-identities and professional identity through changed perspectives to engage in selfreflection, with mentor coordination, blended interaction, and facilitating strategies as influencing factors. Our study uniquely presents online learning patterns and identity development trajectories. Conclusions: The study complements the literature about online communities and the professional identity of medical students and has important implications for online informal learning

Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making

ABSTRACT Background With a growing new materialism paradigm and research on multimodality, there is an increasing attention on the role of material objects in science teaching and learning. However, there is currently no available framework, coding scheme, or method of inquiry to specifically analyze the use of material objects in science meaning-making. Purpose This paper presents and discusses two analytical frameworks developed to examine teachers’ and students’ interaction with material objects during classroom discourse. Design and methods The first analytical framework was theoretically informed by multimodal interaction analysis (MIA), focusing on humans’ situated interaction using embodied and disembodied modes located in the material world. The second framework was informed by social semiotics multimodal analysis (SSMA), focusing on material interaction as a semiotic mode with unique affordances for sign-makers to make meaning alongside other semiotic modes (e.g. speech, gesture). Sample Both frameworks are used to analyze two vignettes of classroom discourse generated from video data to illustrate their applications, coding procedures, and interpretative potential. Results The MIA-informed framework highlighted the dynamic and reciprocal relations between students’ experiences and the transformation of materials, while the SSMA-informed framework highlighted the subtle meanings constructed with the unique affordances of the material mode. Conclusion The affordances and limitations of the two frameworks are discussed, along with their compatibility and complementary relations. This work contributes to the emerging field of materiality in science education research and provides a foundation for future studies on the analysis of material interaction in science meaning-making.

Science teachers designing text use for equitable Next Generation Science instruction

AbstractStudents need support to learn Next Generation Science practices that include use of such texts as investigative records and datasets, analyses and arguments, and works of other scientists. This article describes secondary school science teachers' curation and support of students' multimodal text use during their development of a library of equitable, text‐rich, phenomena‐based science units of study. Following a description of project background and inquiry methods, findings delineate how teachers collaborated to select texts, delineate roles for the texts, and use scaffolds to support students' equitable access to these texts in investigations and engineering designing. Findings also explain how the pandemic and teachers' ongoing concerns for their students' equitable learning of science and literacy practices caused teachers to amend their plans. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for science educators and others who are interested in science‐specific disciplinary literacies.

Pengaruh Penggunaan Metode Inkuiri Terhadap Keaktifan Belajar Pendidikan Agama Kristen Dan Budi Pekerti Siswa Kelas IX SMP Negeri 1 Muara Batangtoru Tapanuli Selatan Tahun Pembelajaran 2023/2024

The aim of this research is to determine the positive and significant influence between the use of the inquiry method on the active learning of Christian Religious Education and Characteristics of class IX students of SMP Negeri 1 Muara BatangToru South Tapanuli for the 2023/2024 academic year. The research method used is a quantitative research method with inferential statistics. The population is all 102 class IX students of SMP Negeri 1 Muara BatangToru Tapanuli Selatan for the 2023/2024 academic year and the research sample was determined to be 36 people, which is 35% of the total population. Data was collected using a positive closed questionnaire with 36 items, namely 17 items for variable 1 Muara Batang Toru Tapanuli Selatan Academic Year 2023/2024: 1) Test the analysis requirements: a) positive relationship test obtained rxy = 0.570 > rtable(a=0.05,n=36) = 0.329. b) Testing a significant relationship obtained a value of tcount= 4.040 > ttable(a=0.05, dk=n-2=34)= 2.042. 2) Influence test: a) Regression equation test, obtained the regression equation Y ̂="29.04"+0.60X. b) Regression coefficient of determination test (r2) = 32.4%. 3) Test the hypothesis using the F test to obtain Fcount > Ftable=(a=0.05, dk numerator k=17, dk denominator=n-2=36-2=34) namely 16.31 > 1.62. Thus Ha, that is, there is a positive and significant influence of the use of the inquiry method on the learning activity of Christian Religious Education and Characteristics of class IX students of SMP Negeri 1 Muara Batang Toru South Tapanuli for the 2023/2024 academic year is accepted and H0 is rejected.

PERANAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN LITERASI MASYARAKAT DI PROVINSI BANTEN

This study highlights the strategies used by the local government in Provincia Banten to increase the level of literacy among the populace. The present study employs a qualitative method of inquiry and relies on a single source of information. The focus of the study is the Pemerintah Theory of the Four Regions as outlined by Arif (2012): (1) Regulator, (2) Facilitator, (3) Dinamisator, and (4) Katalitator. In this study, observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation were used to collect data. This study uses the method of collecting data, reducing data, displaying data, and drawing conclusions. This study shows that the role of local governments in using various programs, both directly and indirectly, such as social media platforms, is not ideal. This is due to the lack or limitations of the facilities and infrastructure that are already owned by the local government, the lack of infrastructure to reach the area, the lack of public understanding of the use of information technology, the lack of internet network access, and the lack of resources at the Regional Library and Archives Service of Banten Province

The Virtual Geography of Afrodiasporic Womanist Love: Black Women Critical Educators Collectively Cultivating Solidarity and (En)countering Loneliness Online

In this multimodal article, we respond to the pervasive erasure of Black women’s knowledge-making practices and pedagogies in academic literature writ large while illustrating the use of creative methods for making meaning of community, connection, sociality, and solidarity, in virtual or online adult learner education spaces. We begin by narrating how our collective of U.S.-based Black women comparative and international education scholar-practitioners lovingly banded together for a Study Abroad Program. We theorize the diasporic Blackness undergirding our womanist love of one another as a spatial, relational, corporeal, and political force helpful for cultivating critical community and affective solidarity in our virtual geographic context. Then, using kitchen-table talk as a reflexive method of inquiry, we probe the particularities of that Afrodiasporic womanist love—the energy cohering our collective in an online environment—as noun and verb: a source of sustenance, a reprieve from loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a care-full comforting and healing practice. We locate our theorizing in the genealogy of Black feminist thought, and to interrogate how Afrodiasporic womanist love is shaped by and situated in time, space, and body(ies), we explore our geohistories and legacies. We conclude by reflecting on how, in addition to building solidarity, Afrodiasporic womanist love helped us form a supportive critical community online that provided sanctuary as we (re)conceptualized justice, freedom, and humanity in our individual and collective praxis vis-à-vis the intimacy, authenticity, and vulnerability demanded by this type of Black love.

You better watch out, short stories of competition, surveillance, and compliance in the construction of vocational education English language teachers’ professional identities in China

ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a qualitative study whose purpose was to explore the teacher identity construction experiences of one group of vocational education English language teachers in China. The study uses narrative methods of inquiry to examine how English language teachers construct their professional identities within a performative institutional environment. Results reveal that three themes – competition, surveillance, and compliance – exemplify the struggles and tensions the participants face in negotiating their language teacher identities as they seek to be recognised as legitimate and capable members of their vocational education community. Implications for vocational education stakeholders wishing to support the wellbeing of language teachers as they construct and reconstruct their teacher identities in China are considered. Suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Authenticity, Facts and Politics in the Fin-de-Siècle Pushkin Debate

Abstract: The article focuses on the Pushkin debate of the 1890s to examine attitudes toward facts and authenticity in fin-de-siècle Russia. It traces the clash between positivist-empiricist methods of enquiry that emphasized facts and authenticity and the neo-romantic intuitivist paradigm that dismissed their importance. While the debaters' modes of engaging with the past might have been impacted by an array of factors (generational preferences, professional habits of mind, matters of aesthetic taste), an important rift also followed ideological lines. The fusion of Pushkin with Russia, typical of nationalist and official patriotic narratives, was aligned with a reliance on subjective intuition as a basis for historical depiction. Conversely, accounts devoid of nationalist fervour and ritualized reverence were grounded in positivist methods of enquiry.

Learning to Live with a Circle: Reflective Equilibrium and the Received View of the Scientific Realism Debate

The Scientific Realism Debate (SRD) has been accused of going around in circles without reaching a consensus, so that several scholars have advocated its dissolution in favor of reformed projects that are eliminativist towards the distinctively philosophical aims and methods. In this paper, after outlining the project that SRD-participants have been involved in for some time now—which we call the Received View—we discuss two dissolution-proposals: sociological externalism and localism. We argue that these projects are incomplete and that, even when judged in themselves, they cannot flourish without the ‘traditional’ philosophical reflection they wish to get rid of. However, although not substitutes for the Received View, those projects have some insightful features. These are assigned their proper place in the dialectics of SRD, which is shown to be an instance of the method of reflective equilibrium (MRE). Lastly—based on Michael DePaul’s work—we provide a response to the well-known concern that MRE is epistemically circular, by claiming that MRE is the only rational method of inquiry. Overall, our goal is ‘therapeutic’: we try to mitigate the anxiety caused by simultaneously believing that SRD is circular and suspecting that there is a good way out of the circle that we just haven’t found yet. For, having dismissed the suspicion that there might be a good trick to dissolve the circle, one may learn to live in it and be more calm in carrying on with what one has.

The Complaints of Health Workers After Mask Usage

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the complaints of health workers after the use of masks. Methods: Individuals who were actively working at the hospital and who agreed to participate in the study were included in the study. The questionnaire form was created by the researchers with respect to recent literature and was applied by the face-to-face inquiry method. Results: The study included 1557 health workers. Experiencing at least one side effect related to the mask was reported to be 72.7% (n=1135). While systemic side 40% effects (n=625) were seen; local side effects concerning the nose were 67.3% (n=1051). The most common skin-related side effect was defined as acne 38.6% (n=603). The most common systemic side effect was dyspnea (37.5%; n=585). There was a relationship between having at least one side effect and the total mask load. In addition, there was a relationship between total mask load with systemic side effects and local effects. Conclusion: The most common side effects were mostly local effects, and most of them were scar formation in the nose. A correlation was found between mask load and side effects, calculated by the type and duration of mask use. Keywords: COVID-19, healthcare workers, masks

Examining the Occupational Safety and Health Hazards encountered by Municipal Waste Collectors in Murewa Rural District Council, Zimbabwe

The failure of Zimbabwean local authorities to implement contemporary waste management technology, combined with refuse management incapacity exposes handlers of solid waste to work-related diseases and accidents. The study sought to use Murewa Rural District Council (RDC) as a case study and a mixed-method that triangulated qualitative and quantitative research methodologies was employed as a method of inquiry. The study established that, in Murewa, there is an irregular garbage collection schedule which results in piles of uncollected refuse on roadsides, street corners and other undesignated areas. The illegal dumping of refuse and overflowing of garbage bins have become an eyesore in Murewa Township Centre. The people employed to clean this mess are often ill equipped to clean the garbage in hygienic ways as they often use their bare hands to shovel the garbage from dumpsites and overloaded bins into the refuse collection trucks. In doing this, these workers are exposed to biological hazards such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites and cysts. To minimise the associated hazards, the study suggests, among other things, that the Murewa Rural District Council should improve workplace safety and health for employees by modifying workplace and process design and by adhering to the hazard identification and risk assessment methodology.

Eight Moments in the History of Qualitative Research

This article provides an overview of the history of qualitative research, from its origins in colonial ethnographies to the development of formalized methods, and the pluralism and interpretive approaches of the blurred genres period. The article also discusses the challenges and controversies faced by qualitative research in the present and future, leading to the rise of new approaches such as mixed-method research and critical conversations about diversity, moral discourse, and global society. The article also describes the three perspectives used to classify research: application, objective, and mode of inquiry. Qualitative research is a method of scientific inquiry that uses data collection and analysis, primarily focused on understanding an issue or solving a problem. The article explores the eight moments of qualitative research development as identified in 'The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research', from the traditional phase to the fractured future. Each moment is characterized by a different paradigm, ontology, and methodology, and has been influenced by key contributors such as Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead.
 Finally, the article highlights the growing importance of qualitative research in the field of social science research, which is now considered equal to quantitative research. The mixed method approach, which links both quantitative and qualitative research, has also gained popularity. The article concludes by emphasizing the value of scientific inquiry and the importance of understanding the world around us in all its complexity and diversity.

Strategi Guru Dalam Mengatasi Kesulitan Belajar Siswa Kelas X IIS Mata Pelajaran Geografi di MAN 4 Denanyar Jombang

The aim of this research is to determine the learning difficulties experienced by students in the geography subject of class This research uses qualitative methods. This type of research uses qualitative research which aims to understand the object being studied in depth. Descriptive research carries out analysis only to the level of description, namely analyzing and presenting facts systematically so that they are easier to understand and draw conclusions from. The learning difficulties experienced by students are mainly difficulty understanding the material so the teacher provides a form of formative test evaluation in the form of a pre-test and post-test, apart from that the teacher also provides a contextual approach that connects the material with everyday life. The strategy used by teachers to overcome learning difficulties is the donkey bridge strategy using lecture, inquiry, discussion and snowball throwing methods. As a result, students can easily understand the material and easily differentiate the material and the teacher also gives a test question to determine the results of student learning using attitude and knowledge assessments.

Tensions of Difference in Integrating Refugee Children in Norwegian ECEC Centers

This article explores the tensions that arise in the integration process of refugee children in Norwegian ECEC centres. For many refugee children, ECEC centres form the first public institution where they learn about the norms and values outside of their homes. Using institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry, data was gathered using semi-structured interviews with ECEC professionals, focusing on how they interact with refugee children and how they do everyday integration work. The article adopts the concept of the "civilizing process" by Norbert Elias as the overarching analytical concept. The findings reveal that integration of refugee children involves tensions in negotiating language, civilising children into Norwegian ideals of childhood, and civilising parents into the Norwegian cultural ideal of parenting.

Three-Phase Video-Assisted Multidisciplinary Team Debriefing in High-Fidelity Blast Simulation through the Advocacy and Inquiry Method.

Video-assisted debriefing (VAD) combined with the advocacy and inquiry (A&I) technique is a tool that allows video playback of selected segments of a simulation, thereby helping the debriefers structure the session. However, no consensus exists on how to optimally perform a team debriefing. The authors demonstrate and describe the methodology of A&I debriefing in an instructional simulated blast scenario and assess the impact of VAD on residents' technical and nontechnical skills. After institutional review board approval, the authors performed a study with 50 residents who were randomly assigned to 2 groups. Group 1 (control, or no VAD; n = 25) consisted of residents who received oral debriefing by 1 independent faculty member without the recorded video of the simulation. Group 2 (intervention, or VAD; n = 25) consisted of residents who received VAD from the second independent faculty member. These residents repeated the same simulation scenario 1 week after their debrief. Every resident was assessed on the primary and secondary survey, as well as the nontechnical skills, based on the integrated skills score. The VAD group presented significantly higher values for the integrated skills score ( P < 0.001) compared with the no-VAD group. This demonstration of 3-phase VAD emphasizes important aspects of coherent simulation-based training: psychologic safety, A&I, reflection, cognitive frames, prebrief, main debrief, summary, and translation of new discoveries to real-life patient care. The unique audiovisual aspect of the VAD enhanced residents' performance in simulation.