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Insights from adolescents’ prayer requests within a Christian ethos school: a qualitative perspective
No full textState-maintained Christian ethos schools are a prominent part of the educational landscape of England and Wales, and a growing body of empirical research has sought to access, study and interpret the voices of their students in order to contribute to a fuller understanding of life within these schools and their place in contemporary Britain. As part of this endeavour, this study focuses on what may be learnt from students’ prayer in a joint Anglican and Catholic Christian ethos secondary school. Following the identification of the school prayer board and intercessory prayers within school Eucharists as offering a significant contribution to the Christian ethos school, this study set out to explore and evaluate these prayer requests composed by students. Taking a sample of 212 prayers, an established analytic framework for the analysis and classification of intercessory prayer (the apSAFIP) was employed and other notable characteristics identified (including prayer type, ‘proclamations’, drawings, liturgical language and style). The findings draw attention to the distinctive profile of the prayer requests offered within the school in terms of the issues for which prayers are offered, and the religious language, expressions, and themes that shape these prayers. The study concludes by appraising the performance of the apSAFIP in this new context and by considering what may be learnt from these themes and linguistic forms about the spiritual and religious lives of the students
‘F*** what the doctors tell you’: Mistrust and disempowerment in fathers of children with life limiting conditions.
No full textBackground, aim or objectives: Despite a growing corpus of qualitative research exploring parental experiences of caring for a child with a life-limiting condition (LLC), studies focusing on fathers’ needs are sparse. Their voice is often diluted within a predominant mother narrative in the academic literature, raising questions about their needs and support within the healthcare setting. This study aimed to provide a greater insight into the caregiving experiences of fathers with a child with an LLC.
Methods: Meta-ethnography was used to synthesise existing qualitative studies exploring fathers’ caregiving experiences. PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Science Direct search databases were used (up to April 2020) and qualitative, English studies were selected.
Results: Sixty-three studies were included. A conceptual model of fathers’ key experiences was developed. It included the following overarching concepts: ‘The paradox of support’; ‘Challenges in the caring process’; ‘Nobody thinks of men’; ‘Impact on family life’ and; ‘The fall of the curtain: an irrevocably altered world’. This presentation will focus on the first and third named concepts, which highlighted many paradoxical experiences within the healthcare setting. The concepts of honesty, trust, mistrust, empathy, alienation and abandonment were highlighted in relation to fathers’ experiences of health services and medical expert knowledge. Feeling side-lined and experiencing inconsistency in the healthcare system were also key themes. These informed fathers’ experiences of disempowerment when interacting with health professionals, as well as examples of reassurance and support. These issues, as well as sensitive challenges around intimate personal/nursing care, and the impact on fathers’ confidence in the caregiving process will be explored.
Conclusions: This study highlights the trust and health communication needs of an increasing number of fathers who are involved in caring for an ill child. Practical recommendations are provided, for example in relation to healthcare policy, and ethical issues around the recognition of fathers in child safeguarding and dignity of care policies
I’ve got something to tell you. I’m dyslexic”: The Lived Experiences of Trainee Teachers with Dyslexia
No full textLiterature has explored the placement experiences of primary school trainee teachers with dyslexia but there is a scarcity of research on secondary school trainees or university-based experiences. This study examined the experiences of three primary and four secondary school trainees with dyslexia, encompassing both their university and placement-based experiences in England. This research highlighted the similarities in experience across training in a primary and a secondary school but found there are specific challenges associated with training to teach at secondary school level. We also captured the strengths trainees brought to the profession. Implications for initial teacher education providers are discussed
The science of congregation studies and psychographic segmentation: O come all ye thinking types?
No full textPrevious research employing Jungian psychological type theory has both demonstrated that Church of England inherited congregations have problems engaging thinking types and suggested that fresh expressions of church have failed to address that problem. Three previous studies, however, have reported higher proportions of thinking types attending cathedral carol services. The present study was designed to check that finding on a larger sample. The Francis Psychological Type Scales were completed by 941 participants at the afternoon Carol
Services held in Liverpool Cathedral on Christmas Eve 2019, and the data compared with the profile of 3304 participants within 140 inherited congregations. The present study also found a higher proportion of thinking types among the participants at these carol services. These findings suggest that cathedral carol services may be functioning as fresh expressions of church in a significant way. Further research is needed to explore whether other cathedral services may function in similar ways.
Contribution: Situated within the science of congregation studies, rooted in psychological type theory and drawing on data from 941 participants at the afternoon Carol Services held in Liverpool Cathedral on Christmas Eve 2019, this study confirms that cathedral carol services
at Christmas are more successful than either inherited church or fresh expressions of church in reaching thinking types
The contribution of cathedrals to psychological health and well-being: Assessing the impact of Cathedral Carol Services
No full textThis study was designed to test the hypothesis that events such as the Christmas Eve Carol Services at Liverpool Cathedral that include some regular churchgoers (people who attend services most weeks) and much larger numbers of occasional visitors (who may attend church only once or twice a year) make a significant impact on the psychological health and well-being of the participants. Using a repeat-measure design, participants were invited to complete a copy of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire while they were waiting for the service to begin and then to complete a second copy during a five-minute organ improvisation just before the close of the service. Data provided by 802 participants who completed both copies of the instrument demonstrated a significantly higher score on the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire at time two than at time one, suggesting that attendance at the service had exerted a positive impact on psychological health and well-being
Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home
No full textThe focus for this article is the approach taken by the famous British nurse and public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) to responsibility for care, with
particular reference to healthcare as practised in the home. It begins by examining Nightingale’s involvement as a young woman in ‘Lady Bountiful’ style upper-class charitable health visiting in the period before 1850. It goes on to consider the district nursing model designed by Nightingale and William Rathbone in the 1860s as an attempt to adapt this localised model of charitable care to the demands of industrial Victorian cities. The final section broadens the lens to examine Nightingale’s views on religious vocations in care work and the state’s expanding role in regulating the nursing profession. Nightingale’s ideal vision of care combined multiple elements: attachment to a local community, a sense of religious vocation, and the scalability and
fundraising of national or governmental organizations
An immanent critique of decolonization projects
No full textThis piece argues that contemporary neoliberal UK universities are necessarily unable to enact
decolonization owing to a contradiction between their business needs and a genuine commitment to the
decolonial, which involves the complete dismantling of existing colonial discourse. Using the process of
immanent critique modelled by Adorno, it is argued that the neoliberal university presents inherent
contradictions that demand measurable knowledge, preordained by existing colonial epistemological
boundaries. A scholar engaged in immanent critique may facilitate the potential for decolonial practices
within, and against, the university apparatus
“Down here, it’s our time”: Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems and ‘The Goonies’
No full textIn this chapter, I am going to introduce you to a well-loved movie of the 1980s and an equally well-loved theory from child development, which can also be used for thinking about complex systems in society. My assertion is that Bronfenbrenner’s theory has been given a reductive handling, which means the nuances are lost in many examples of its use and description. In this chapter the theory will be explored so that it can be considered more fairly as a useful resource for sociologists, psychologists and pedagogues