In this paper, we will describe an ongoing research on the communication styles of immigrant adolescents in Italy. Following a comparison of native and immigrant high school students, based on their responses to questionnaires and interviews, we began a series of interviews and focus groups with immigrant students, which led us to propose and use what we call the immigrants' double virtual citi...

The purpose of this study was to test an alternative method for facilitating communication between student teachers and university supervisors. The study was guided by two research questions and three hypotheses and used two quasi-experimental research designs along with focus group interviews to test the hypotheses. Results indicated that the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) was an effective ...

In Chapter Three, we documented that women are more likely to leave during retention periods, where separation decisions are most likely to be voluntary. This result is supported by survey data showing that junior women are less likely to anticipate a full 20-year career (Figure 10). In this chapter we present the common perceptions offered by officers as to why career progression differs for w...

This study explored the influences of socializers (e.g., parents, teachers, peers, and counsellors) on the university female students’ decisions to pursue careers in mathematics-related disciplines. Data were collected through interviews and focus group meeting from six female students in the second to final year from mathematics and physics departments at the mid-size university in Canada. The...

This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of seven in-service environmental education teacher training courses conducted in the Czech Republic in 2009ñ2011. The evaluation applied a grounded theory approach. 14 focus groups, 13 interviews and two postprogramme questionnaires were used. The evaluation describes a process of managing cognitive dissonance between the participantsí concepts of e...

Previous studies have found the perception of the body and death practices can have an influence on perceptions of deceased organ donation. This is the first study in the UK to investigate the views of the Polish migrants, a fast growing community, toward organ donation, death practices and the deceased body. In total, there were 31 participants that took part in the study in one-to-one intervi...

Objective To understand key challenges in researching end of life issues and identify ways of overcoming these. Design Qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with researchers and focus groups with people affected

In this paper, we describe the results of an ongoing pilot study with marginalised young people, i.e. unemployed young people with no formal qualification, who interact on an online mobile learning platform. Starting from the user needs that have been reflected in the technological development of the platform as well as in the pedagogical approach the paper focuses on preliminary outcomes of th...

This study explores psychotherapists’ somatic experiences during the therapeutic encounter, linking these to ideas from the phenomenological school of philosophy, in particular the notion of the lived-body paradigm in relation to therapists’ physical reactions to clients. The methodology for this research evolved from 3 discussion groups, which led to a series of 14 in-depth interviews and 2 pr...

This article considers the possible contribution of the ‘kids in parks’ programme offered at Golden Gate Highlands National Park to the professional development of teachers. Focus group interviews were held with teachers who participated in the programme, and an interview with open-ended questions was held with a learning facilitator from the provincial education department. Although the progra...