Knowledge-Constitutive Interests and Social Paradigms in Guiding Mixed Methods Research (MMR)

Günbayı, İlhan

doi:10.14689/jomes.2020.1.3

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“…This study is lensed with Transformative Paradigm (TP) to ensure that the current situation of rurally located universities is transformed and decolonised using ABA. This paradigm is appropriate because its priority is based on postmodernism, emancipation and ideological in changing the existing status quo for better (Gunbayi, 2020). In similar parlance, TP enables equal efforts among the people (university stakeholders) to challenge unequal power differential and reconstruct themselves within their sovereignty (Hughes, 2020).…”

Section: Research Paradigm and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Vindication of Decoloniality and the Reality of COVID-19 as an Emergency of Unknown in Rural Universities

Omodan

2020

RISE

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Coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, was adjudged as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2020. This deadly, contagious, and easy-to-spread virus has plunged the world into a tentative cul-de-sac, inclusive of the university education system. By implication, the abrupt national lockdown in South Africa cut universities unaware as an insurgence against its operationalisation, teaching, and learning process. In my argument, it further confirms the need to decolonise rural universities, to be able to respond to every unforeseen emergency, as an underside of coloniality, which is currently experienced in the system. Evidence indicates that the rural universities in South Africa are battling with enabling pedestal of alternatives to teaching and learning. This study is lensed through Transformative Paradigm (TP), Participatory Research (PR) was used as a research design. The participants consisted of 15 people, 5 management staff such as the deans, head of schools, head of teaching and learning and ICT members, 5 lecturers and 5 students in a selected rural university in South Africa. The participants were selected using the snowballing selection technique with the use of calls, email and other social media platforms as a medium of participants’ recruitment. Online and phone interviews were used to collect data from the participants because the participants are under national lockdown, and the data was analysed using thematic analysis. Low technology and innovative space in rural universities and students, lecturers and university’s disadvantage background were found as the major challenges vindicating the quest for decoloniality in rural universities. Also, the compulsory used of technological innovation within the university and contingency plan for/by the stakeholders are concluded to be achievable with the use of Assets-Based Approach.

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Section: Research Paradigm and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Vindication of Decoloniality and the Reality of COVID-19 as an Emergency of Unknown in Rural Universities

Omodan

2020

RISE

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“…The interpretive paradigm is an approach that tries to understand and explain the inner‐subjective world directly from the subjective point of view of individuals. It is anti‐positivist, voluntary and ideographic (Gunbayi, 2020). A research paradigm is based on ontology, epistemology and methodology (Ling & Ling, 2020).…”

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Problematic internet use in adolescents: A phenomenological study

Özparlak

Karakaya

Önder

et al. 2023

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Problematic internet use (PIU) negatively affects adolescents' lives biopsychosocially. There is limited qualitative research examining the problem of PIU in adolescents. These studies focused more on the non‐clinical population. Adolescents' perceptions of the internet, their thoughts, feelings and behaviours in situations where they can and cannot access the internet have rarely been examined. What does the paper add to existing knowledge? This research provides an in‐depth look at the experiences of adolescents with PIU in a clinical population. Unlike previous studies, adolescents mentioned that they turned to the internet for reasons such as lack of activity, their need to spend time with their friends and better getting along with people they met on the internet. They also described a world without internet as apocalypse, desert and grave. In this study, a holistic emphasis was placed on the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of adolescents in situations where they could and could not access the internet. This may contribute especially to mental health nurses working in clinics in terms of understanding the thought‐emotion and behaviour patterns of adolescents with PIU. Adolescents also stated that their lives were affected positively and negatively as a result of PIU. What are the implications for practice? Mental health nurses can use activity therapy, behaviour modification: social skills, coping enhancement, parent education: adolescent, self‐awareness enhancement, cognitive restructuring, emotion and behaviour management interventions to reduce the risk of PIU and the problems it causes for adolescents. What are the implications for practice? Mental health nurses can use activity therapy, behaviour modification: social skills, coping enhancement, parent education: adolescent, self‐awareness enhancement, cognitive restructuring, emotion and behaviour management interventions to reduce the risk of PIU and the problems it causes for adolescents. Abstract Introduction Studies on problematic internet use (PIU) are mostly on the non‐clinical population. Understanding the experiences of adolescents with PIU is critical in shaping nursing interventions and improving the quality of care. Aims A comprehensive description of the experiences of adolescents with PIU. Methods In the study, descriptive phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. Data were collected using a personal information form and a semi‐structured interview form and analysed using Giorgi's phenomenological method (n = 11). Results As a result of the content analysis, five main themes were identified: reasons of PIU, internet‐related perceptions, experiences in accessing the internet, experiences in not being able to access the internet and consequences of internet use. Discussion Different from previous studies, adolescents stated that they use the internet because of their lack of activity and their need to spend time with their friends. They stated th...

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“…The paradigm is deemed appropriate to lens the project because its assumptions are to emancipate the people through the ideological process and change the people's status quo from marginalisation to the world of being (Gunbayi, 2020). Hughes (2020) also views the transformative paradigm from the dimension of power by saying that unequal power differential among people could be challenged by working together as a team to transform their lives.…”

Section: Methodology Paradigmatic Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming socio-economic development in QwaQwa community of South Africa

Tsotetsi

Omodan

2022

IJRBS

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In the process of socio-economic development, the rural environment has witnessed various setbacks, mostly in agro-social and the socio-economic sustainability of the QwaQwa community of South Africa. Evidence exists from the literature, our observations and experience that sustainability in the rural economic development of the QwaQwa community is not equal and stable, which has exposed the youths of the community to crime and various anti-social activities such as drugging, drinking, gangsterism, raping, among others. Therefore, the asset-based community development approach was adopted to instigate stakeholders’ intention toward community emancipation. This was done within the lens of the transformative paradigm designed with the community-based participatory action research process. The research comprised key stakeholders such as community leaders, NGOs, and youths. A structured interview was used to elicit information from the selected participants. We used socio-thematic analysis to make sense of the data in order to understand the sociality of the people living within the spotted problem. The study revealed that the community is endowed with arable farming land and team spirit, but criminalities were found to challenge their development. In its quest for rural emancipation, the study also found out that the QwaQwa community needs empowerment programs in social and agricultural skill development.

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Knowledge-Constitutive Interests and Social Paradigms in Guiding Mixed Methods Research (MMR)

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

The Vindication of Decoloniality and the Reality of COVID-19 as an Emergency of Unknown in Rural Universities

The Vindication of Decoloniality and the Reality of COVID-19 as an Emergency of Unknown in Rural Universities

Problematic internet use in adolescents: A phenomenological study

Transforming socio-economic development in QwaQwa community of South Africa

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