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Community impact feedback questionnaire (CIFQ) : the user manual
Get PDFService-learning is an experiential pedagogy designed to benefit all stakeholders, comprising students, educational institutions, instructors, and perhaps more importantly, community partner organizations (CPOs) and the community as a whole. Through serving the community via the CPO, students consolidate their knowledge and skills while applying these in real-life situations. Effective service-learning, therefore, should demonstrate community impact as a result.
However, the community impacts arising from service-learning have not been well demonstrated in past research. One reason for this has been the lack of an effective, standardized tool for measuring the impacts. To address this problem, Lingnan University, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Education University of Hong Kong, consolidated relevant research findings into a conceptual framework about the community impact of service-learning, from which the Community Impact Feedback Questionnaire (CIFQ) has been developed.
The primary objective of the CIFQ is to serve as a standardized and reliable assessment tool for measuring the extent to which a service-learning project is perceived to have various kinds of community impact. The CIFQ is also designed to capture community impacts from the service recipients’ perspective, via the CPO as the service recipients\u27 proxy.
This manual explains the process of how the CIFQ was developed and validated. It also explains how the CIFQ should be administered and scored, and how its results can be interpreted. We envisage that if the CIFQ can be widely adopted, a more complete and reliable data set regarding community impacts arising from service-learning can be obtained. A fuller picture of the community impacts arising from service-learning can help inform how to further advance this experiential learning methodology, and how to derive further benefits for CPOs and the wider community.https://commons.ln.edu.hk/osl_book/1033/thumbnail.jp
Changing roles in long-term care service for elderly population in urban China — A case study of welfare mix in Qingdao
No full textThe care of the fragile elderly has increasingly become a social problem that needs collective intervention under rapid ageing. The long-term care insurance system, as one of the most typical institutional arrangements internationally, has been piloted in China since 2016. Qingdao is the first city in China to explore and implement social long-term care insurance targeted for elder people and summarised as a unique welfare model by the Chinese central government and academia. The introduction of the long-term care insurance system has changed the non-institutionalised picture of traditional elderly care services to a certain extent, and reshaped the relationship between the government, the market, and the family in the elderly care services. This study analyses the welfare mixed model development in Qingdao city through conceptual dimensions developed from welfare mix economy and social welfare analysis framework, including service coverage, service content, service provision, service financing, and service regulation combing from a longitudinal perspective of historicism. This study uses qualitative research methods including administrative text and literature analysis, and conducts interviews with local political elites as well as stakeholders to explain the characteristics and influencing factors of Qingdao welfare model
When history perpetuates narratives and stereotypes: The burden of historical representations on well-being
Get PDFPrevious research outlined that historical representations of different groups underlies stereotypes and prejudice. Individuals with a racial or ethnic minority background are highly likely to encounter discrimination and poorer mental health. We hypothesised that historical representations of Africans by Europeans and the perception of these representations among Africans in Europe relate to poorer psychological well-being in that population. We predicted that this effect is mediated by social identity and stereotype confirmation concern. Consistent with our predictions, historical representations was associated with increased anxiety. Further, historical representations predicted lower collective self-esteem. Stereotype confirmation concern mediated the effect of historical representations on increased anxiety. Social identity also mediated the effect of historical representations on high self-esteem as well as on high collective self-esteem. Our findings highlight the negative effects of people’s awareness of their racial history on their psychological health
Building a way back from the brink: Methodological reflections of mixed-methods research paused by a pandemic
No full textOn the 23rd March 2020, the British Prime Minster initiated the first English lockdown as a result of the COVID19 pandemic, impacting the research of a large majority of research students at English Universities. The impact of the pandemic has been felt by postgraduate students internationally and has inadvertently caused a generation of trainee researchers to become arguably more reactive, adaptive, and reflective in their practice than previous generations.
Reflections will be made on reactive adaptations to the research agenda of an embedded quasi-experimental mixed methods design, used to explore the experience of adapted LEGO®-based therapy for young people who use forms of communication other than speech to replace or augment their verbal communication skills, and associated changes in their communication.
Examples of adaptations made to research agenda will be shared along with considerations for the commencement of data collection in a country still significantly affected by the health, social, and educational repercussions of the pandemic.
Navigating the restrictions imposed on research within England during a pandemic poses significant challenges to a student researcher and forces them to become creative in adaptations to their research methods and design. Questions will be posed on the lasting impact of the pandemic on student research internationally, and reflections shared on the principles of compromise, and battle between ‘research training’ and ‘research experience’ for a modern student researcher
Digging deeper: approaching spirituality during suicide bereavement from phenomenological lens
No full textA loved one’s loss due suicide can be a traumatic experience and trigger a difficult grief process, identity changes, loss of sense of meaning and spiritual crisis. Although spirituality (as a search for the Sacred) can be an important resource as well as an obstacle in coping with suicide bereavement process, there is a huge gap in scientific understanding on what kind of spiritual experiences can be helpful or unhelpful, are they connected (and how) to pre-loss spiritual life, is spirituality always connected to religion or can it function separately and, above all, what forms does spirituality take during suicide bereavement.
We decided to explore this under the researched theme through phenomenological lens, which inspired us to create three stops of the author\u27s PhD journey. The first stop is an autoethnographic research of the authors experience of spirituality during suicide bereavement. It allowed a deep reflection on the author\u27s position in the field. The second stop is a systematic literature review of qualitative researches related to the theme of spirituality during suicide bereavement. It revealed the above-mentioned gap of literature and the need to dig deeper into the theme. The third stop is an empirical research, in which we are conducting in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews with people bereaved by suicide, expecting to explore the spiritual experiences of the bereaved. The phenomenological approach slowly, but steadily allows to reach many levels of the spirituality manifestations during suicide bereavement. The results of our studies can be an important contribution to the field of suicide bereavement research
A comparison of novels in One flew over the cuckoo\u27s nest by Ken Kesey and Hamlet by William Shakespeare
No full textComparative research is meant to be the methodology of research. The Comparative research is the act of comparing the two or more things which determine something about the specific one or all of the things which has been compared. It is also called as the Multiple Discipline Study. Comparative research can take many steps. Mainly the two key factors are time and space. The historical comparative research has many different timeframes and that occurs within the model of some stages. The Comparative research has come across all over the cross-cultural scientific spirit which arose in Greece (6th century) and the whole appreciation of learning comes under the characteristic of 5th century. Moreover, the Greek comparative research is philosophical and also one of the democratic polis in which the representations questioned the Milesians. Comparative research compares the two ideas or analyses. It also demonstrates to examine and to compare the certain subjects. This research shows the two subjects which is similar and different in study. There are several methods to analyse the comparative one: individualising, universalising, variation-finding, and ambient. The comparison research of two novels “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hamlet”. In this novels the tragic hero is a character who has heroic attitudes with flaws and that leads to their downfall. In these two novels it can be compared by the same manner of main characters; Nurse Ratched, King Claudius, Randle McMurphy and Hamlet in the part of story
How do aid and tax revenue affect government spending in Africa? Evidence from panel quantile regression
No full textThis study assesses the impact of aid and tax revenue on government spending in Africa. The study employs a panel quantile regression approach that minimises the sum of absolute deviation, thereby controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity and heterogeneity at varying distributional levels. This approach enables to correct for endogeneity, dynamic panel data bias, misspecification and under or overestimation of parameters associated with the LS-type regression. The empirical findings reveal that the impact of aid and tax revenue, including other regressors are clearly heterogenous. In specific, the impact of aid on government spending supports the partial fungibility hypothesis in low spending countries and the degree of aid fungibility decreases with increasing aid inflow in high spending economies. The impact of tax revenue on government spending is also evidently heterogenous. Besides, the findings show that a lower level of tax revenue has more impact in less spending on economies than aid. However, higher tax revenue loses dominance and strength to aid at higher levels of government spending. This is in line with both the fiscal synchronisation hypothesis and the tax-spend hypothesis. In addition, trade openness, quality of life, well-being of people and quality of governance play an important role in the spending dynamics of economies especially high spending economies. However, there is little evidence of FDI inflows in influencing government spending in Africa. Moreover, the findings provide evidence of long-term persistence of aid and tax revenue across some distributional levels. In conclusion, the study is relevant policy recommendations to policymakers, economy managers and donors
Sex selection, family building strategies and the political economy of gender
No full textThis paper will contextualise the contemporary concern over sex selection once rendered as missing women . Though Amartya Sen\u27s famous article in the New York Review of Books More than one hundred million women are missing in 1990 is thought to have been seminal in bringing the phenomenon to the notice of social scientists, India has contended with a long history on the subject. Beginning in the colonial period when British officials encountered practices of female infanticide and saw gender skews in the first Censuses, Indian demographers in the late 1960s and 70s were bedevilled by the conundrum of long term worsening trends in overall sex ratios which continued to decline after independence. A new moment in this history comes with the women\u27s movement\u27s discovery of the annexation of amniocentesis testing for sex determination of the foetus and its subsequent normalisation through pre-natal ultrasound as part of ordinary maternal care during a pregnancy.
I argue that this new moment is distinctive in the Indian context in more than one way: It is urban-led and most visible among non-poor small families aspiring to have the right kind of family of one boy and one girl. While dominant approaches to sex selection see it as the core of Indian culture (son preference); or alternatively as part of the continuum of violence against women, I suggest that the lens of political economy might have its own insights to offer, and that gender is becoming more complex than simple accounts of son preference and daughter aversion would suggest
