Mindful Inquiry in Social Research

Bentz, Valerie Malhotra; Shapiro, Jeremy J.

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“…Our primary interest was in the participants’ perspectives on the federal role in special education. The “basic datum of phenomenology is the conscious human being” or the lived experiences of the participants in the research (Bentz & Shapiro, 1998, p. 98); therefore, the transcribed interviews were key texts in our analysis.…”

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Federal Leadership Perspectives on the Early Years of Special Education

2021

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This article is part of a case study of federal leadership in special education from the perspective of those who served in the roles of Assistant Secretaries of Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) and Directors of Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), or their equivalents in the former U.S. Office of Education and later U.S. Department of Education. The perspectives cover the time-period since the passage of the Education of the Handicapped Act of 1975 to amendments of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1997 and the end of the Clinton administration in 2001. The participants detailed their (a) Career and appointment, (b) vision for educating students with disabilities, (c) theory of change, (d) politics and financial constraints, (e) advocacy, and (f) views of the past, present, and future.

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Federal Leadership Perspectives on the Early Years of Special Education

2021

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“…As the study explores opinions, perspectives and beliefs on the use of video cameras and microphones for online learning using more than one data collection tool, a phenomenological case study approach was suitable. Phenomenology, a philosophical method with Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) as its ‘fountainhead’ ( Vandenberg, 1997 : 11), has the aim of ‘understanding phenomena in their own terms – to provide a description of human experience as it is experienced by the person herself’ ( Bentz and Shapiro, 1998 : 96). At the core of phenomenology is an understanding of how people make meaning of themselves and the world as they are experiencing phenomena ( Vagle, 2014 ), thus revealing ‘worldhoods’ of residence ( Moran and Mooney, 2002 : 248) or ‘essences of experience’ ( Moustakas, 1994 : 13).…”

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Cultural and linguistic struggles and solidarities of Emirati learners in online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hopkyns

2021

Policy Futures in Education

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The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented shifts in higher education worldwide, with some nations more adversely affected than others. Since the onset of the crisis, almost all education abruptly moved to ‘emergency remote teaching and learning’. While the United Arab Emirates has been praised for its swift and effective responses, unique cultural and linguistic dynamics in this region present additional challenges for teaching and learning. This article presents empirical data from a qualitative phenomenological case study investigating female Emirati university students’ ( n = 69) perspectives on the use of video cameras and microphones in online classes. Students’ reflective writing and researcher observations in autumn 2020 revealed discomfort using video cameras and microphones due to a range of cultural and linguistic factors. Such factors include Islamic beliefs relating to modesty, home as a gendered space, noise considerations, concerns about privacy, struggles with language in their English-medium instruction university and fear of judgement from peers. Data are interpreted thematically using intersectionality together with Goffman’s theories of everyday interaction, stigma and relative deprivation, through which complexities of learner identities are explored. Practical suggestions are made on ways to adapt online learning to better suit the cultural and sociolinguistic realities of periphery and Global South contexts. It is argued that greater efforts need to be made toward inclusion of marginalized learners during the COVID-19 period.

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“…In the argument looking into mindul finance and mindfulness as influencer, it is important to look into literature involving factors shaping human beahaviour in a broader, interdisciplinary sense (Jain, Sharma, & Mahendru, 2019; Sharma & Mahendru, 2017; Srivastava, Sharma, & Srivastava, 2019; Srivastava, Sharma, Srivastava, & Kumaran, 2020; Talan & Sharma, 2019, 2020). The relevance of mindfulness has been explored by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and religious studies experts under different ontological, empirical, and theological agendas (Ben‐shahar, 2012; Bentz & Shapiro, 2012; Gelles, 2015; Gilbert & Choden, 2014; Gunaratana, 2001; Hasson, 2013). Recently, in microeconomics researchers have started to appreciate that the interaction of mindfulness with finance is leading to the concept of mindful finance (Faugere, 2016; Gonzalez & Byron, 2010; Halpern, 2015; Halpern, Tamdjidi, & Boschert, 2018).…”

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Toward a new conceptualization of financial well‐being

Mahendru¹,

Sharma

Hawkins³

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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Research on financial well-being is still in its nascent stage, despite being an important topic in consumer research. Research on the antecedents of financial well-being is even more limited. Using in-depth interviews with consumers and practitioners, and expert discussions, this article conceptualizes the construct of financial wellbeing from underdeveloped countries' perspective. We conceive financial well-being as a confluence of four situations-namely, meeting present and future financial commitments; feeling of financial security; freedom of choice; and improved quality of life. Our findings reveal that the objective and subjective financial measures are critical predictors of consumers' financial well-being. Financial behavior, which is caused by antecedents such as financial knowledge, personality traits, and mindful finance, intervenes this relationship. Based on this analysis, we propose five propositions concerning antecedent-based interventions for future scholarship in the field. The paper suggests a theoretical framework illustrating behavioral interventions in a given socio-economic environment to achieve financial well-being. Our results pave the way for the advancement of the theory in financial-well being and its antecedents in different socio-economic environments. The managerial contribution of this study lies in informing the marketers to contextualize their strategies to the financial well-being. We also inform the macroeconomic policymakers to design behavioral interventions to improve the financial well-being. 1 | INTRODUCTION Financial well-being of the individuals continues to attract multidisciplinary interest in recent times. Governments and policymakers use financial well-being to measure the success of economic prosperity and to plan future policy interventions. Corporations use financial well-being when making decisions regarding new products, market segmentation, and new market entries. Financial institutions condition their lending policies in accordance with the financial well-being of their consumers. Consumers are interested in improving their financial well-being in order to attain this eligibility. This multifaceted application renders consumer financial well-being highly relevant for theorists and policymakers. To inform policymakers, corporations, and consumers, the research community has been approaching financial well-being by (a) highlighting the objective and subjective measures of financial well-being (Delafrooz & Paim, 2011, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2015a; Kempson, Finney, & Poppe, 2017), (b) emphasizing the relevance of financial education and financial behavior in financial well-being (Binti Azmi & Ramakrishnan, 2018; Grable & Joo, 2006), and (c) conforming disparity in financial wellbeing across different socio-economic environments (Kempson et al., 2017). Some studies have highlighted the characteristics of financial well-being, while others have attempted to identify its antecedents. In general, the existing conceptualizations of the term tend to inc...

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Mindful Inquiry in Social Research

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Federal Leadership Perspectives on the Early Years of Special Education

Federal Leadership Perspectives on the Early Years of Special Education

Cultural and linguistic struggles and solidarities of Emirati learners in online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Toward a new conceptualization of financial well‐being

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