Qualitative RM Week 1

Qualitative Researchers are not concern about numbers but QUALITY.
They talk to people and ask them questions.
Eg. How you feel?
      What you think?
      Why do you think so?
      What do you want to do?

Why do Qualitative Research?
To improve your own practice.

Eg. Can playing hopscotch help improve spatial awareness ability for children under 6?

Before you start your research... ...

What community are you interested in finding out?
Eg.
Children with a learning disability?
Children in Kindergarten?
Children, who come from Single Parent families?
Children, who come from Single Income Families?

Youths who have a criminal record?
Youths who have joined gangs before?
Youths who have tattoos?
Youths from privileged families?

Why are interested in working with these group of people? (Have a personal feel to it)
-To see if it is easy for other Youths who have join the gang to break out of it.
-You were influence by drama and realise that this was not the way to live my life so you came out of the gang. Now you want to go back and conduct drama for Youth in gang and see whether they will come to the same realisation.
- I read this inspiring article by ... and I want to find out more.

What are you going to do?
1) Read what others have done
2) Does it help you?
3) If not, find others.
4) What are the Gaps?

Factors to look out for in research papers
The country it was conducted.
The huge gap of years of the experiment compared to the current year.
The difference in culture/ demographics.
The way we approach the rehabilitation (method) is different.
SO YOU WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET SIMILAR RESULTS.

Eg. How does Arts help the rehabilitative process of youth offenders?

Examples
Children and Creativity
-Assessing creativity through task
- Define creativity? Ability to create something.
Eg. Get them to do something that demonstrates that they are able to create.

*Important
Find out age group as it will affect the type of task/test administered. (Use psychology knowledge)
The variable should be minimum.
Try not make assumptions questions or statement.
Self-expression forms?

Example (BEST EXAMPLE)
The school uses the traditional didactic method of teaching (raise hand and answer question) character education. This week she teach humility, the next week she uses drama (act it out) to perseverance. (SAME CLASS, DIFFERENT TOPIC)
Then she do a comparison.
- Teacher is consistent
- Class is consistent
- Topic must change
Student will only tell preference and not what is the most effective method.

*Don't use "effective", use "engaging".

QNS: Which is more engaging to the student from various demographics/ needs/ learning style?

My Group comment
What are you trying to find out?
What is it about Drama and Self Control (Aims) do you wish to look at?
Why?
-If participating in Drama, they have better self-control?
Eg. After enrolling in DADP can I have regular contact with drama, does it help me to have better self-esteem/ more pro social/ more emphatic now/ more in torch with emotion and can control it a lot better?
-To know if the person is constantly engaged in the drama does it actually contribute to their ability to manage their anger?
What is the link or relationship there?
Eg. I never know drama in my life until now being in this course and by default, I have to do drama. I noticed that I become angrier because drama unleashes a lot of emotions in me, gives me the license to be angry.
I want to know whether there is in impact. Whether drama people are very free with their emotions.
What exactly are you interested in? (What about drama are you interested in finding out?)
What does the topic mean to you?

Audience
- Youths at risk
- Youths participating in drama clubs (What kind of participation then?)
-Youths in drama as a cause of study
- Youths who watch drama

Ethics in AD: Volunteerism VS Voluntoursim

Voluntourism - Buy a tour package include visits to less fortunate places
                     - People pay money to go on a tour, volunteering is part of the trip.

QNS: Who are they doing it for?
(Are they doing it for themselves or the community?)

QNS: What is their intention?

(Question to self) WHY ARE WE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING?

QNS: Why do I want work with this community?

People who volunteer just want to do good. The earnest hope to help the community.


The GOOD and BAD of Voluntourism.













As an outsider, we think we know what is best for them. We think we know what they want/need.
WHO ARE WE TO ADOPT THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE?

Story: In Sri Lanka, the fisherman were affected by the disaster. The aid organisation went in and gave the people items. Without doing any prior research, they gave the community fibreglass boats. The Sri Lanka people were very happy but after a while, the boats could not be used anymore.
WHY?

The Sri Lanka citizens do not have the materials and knowledge to repair and maintain the boat. Previously, the citizen use boats that they have made by themselves. So, they would know how to fix them because of their rich local knowledge. There was nothing wrong with their handmade boats.

The items were given is not sustainable and not what the community really needs or wants. (THINK ABOUT IT)



This is applied locally.
The project here must be addressing the real need.
WHO IS GOING TO GAIN THE MOST OUT OF IT? Receiver or Giver?


#InstagrammingAfrica: The Narcissism of Global Voluntourism

An article in The Onion mocks voluntourism, joking that a six-day visit to a rural African village can “completely change a woman’s Facebook profile picture.”  The article quotes “22-year-old Angela Fisher” who says:

I don’t think my profile photo will ever be the same, not after the experience of taking such incredible pictures with my arms around those small African children’s shoulders.

(Read: http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/instagrammingafrica-narcissism-global-voluntourism-83838)

QNS: Who do you do it for? 

Some people do it to feel good about themselves. 

She talks about how you get around this. How you can actually make Voluntourism work!

MINDSET Ethics in AD!

GAME: Guess who is that!

- Get to know each other better.
-  People meeting for the first time.

Instruction
1) Write something down on the paper that nobody knows about you. (Take about 1 minute)
2) Write down what you are comfortable with sharing.
3) Fold the paper and pass it to the person in charge.
4) Inform them that the papers will be put in the middle, everyone will grab one, open and guess who the person may be.

Ethics 

- Be responsible
- The risk of losing student's trust for that moment.
(It will take a while for the trust to build back up again.)
- Maintain Safe Space
Usually, you deal with personal stories so the space that you cultivate has to be safe.
How do you cultivate a safe space?
- Your manner (How you run your sessions)
>> Got to read people in your class
- Language (Things that you say)
>> Be Sensitive to your participant
(Are they uncomfortable?)
>> Try to say something positive
- Rules
* Takes time to cultivate SAFE SPACE depend on your participants. Participants trust depends on the individual.

Bottom Line:

Don't go in with the SUPERIOR ATTITUDE ...  ...
- YOU ARE BETTER THAN EVERYONE!
- YOU'RE in CHARGE!

Go in with HUMILITY ... ...
- APOLOGISE if you make a mistake.
- be HONEST!
- it should be a 2 WAY DIALOGUE.

QNS: When you work on Project what do you need to think about/ consider or plan to make it ethical? 

Educational D: Dwarka

Underwater Dwarka

 




           What was like before the city sunk?
Could the undeniably geometric ruins in India’s Gulf of Cambay be the lost city of Lord Krishna?








Many Indians believe so, designating Dwarka as an important site for Hindu pilgrimage. The ruins are located just off the coast of modern-day Dwarka, one of the seven oldest cities in India. The ancient Dwarka was a planned city built on the banks of the Gomati river but was eventually deserted and submerged into the sea, as documented in texts like the Mahabharata and Purana, though some experts maintain that it was mythological.

As the story goes, Lord Krishna had a beautiful and prosperous city built, with 70,000 palaces made of gold, silver and other precious metals. It was his death that supposedly sent Dwarka sinking into the sea.

The ruins, discovered in 2000 and investigated with acoustic techniques, are known as the Gulf of Khambat Cultural Complex. They’re 131 feet beneath the surface. One of the artefacts dredged up by scientists was dated around 7500 BCE, which could support the theories that it is, in fact, the ancient Dwarka.

(Taken from http://weburbanist.com/2013/04/22/submerged-cities-7-underwater-wonders-of-the-world/)

Activity:

- Predicting what happened in the city. (Build up expectation of city)

- Being "in" the city.

- Found out the truth about why the city sank.

-Getting to look back as an archaeologist and come up with a name for the museum.

Objectives of workshop

- Emotions people go through in a disaster.
- Understand that there is decision in life that we have to make which is not about being right or wrong.

Resource

- Watch Aftershock (2010 film)

The film depicts the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. 

In the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, a rescue team informs Li that her twins are trapped together under a slab of concrete. Lifting the slab in any way will kill one of her children. Heartbroken, she decides to save her son, Fang Da. The girl, Fang Deng, survives and wakes up later to find herself among several dead bodies.

(Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftershock_%282010_film%29)