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The Experiences with Qualitative Validity in a Classroom Research: Issues Pertaining to Value Claims Okeke, Chinedu I.O.
EDUCARE Vol 2, No 1 (2009)
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, the writer calls into question the yet to be resolved epistemological issues about the way researchers make value claims in support of the authenticity of their research discoveries. The writer offers recognition to existing paradigmatic duality as a necessity for the third wave expressed by proponents of triangulation. Such dichotomy offers room for continuous divergence of opinions on the ways researchers perceive the empirical social world. The paper supports on-going argument that any discussion of the criteria for judging social and educational research findings must confront the issue of relativism. This position resonates through the writer’s encounter and experience with qualitative validity during a classroom study. The conclusion drawn through this encounter is that a research design is not made valid or reliable by the user’s ability to apply many verbose or exoteric terms. Instead such claim is made by the meanings, which the designs and the final report make to those for whom the study is conducted in terms of policy and practice.      KEY WORDS: epistemology, quantitative methods, qualitative research, validity, reliability, and generalisability.About the Author: Dr. Chinedu I.O. Okeke is a Lecturer at the Department of Educational Foundations and Management UNISWA (University of Swaziland) in Africa. His contact address is Department of Educational Foundations and Management, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4 Kwaluseni, Swaziland M201. His e-mail addresses are: ochinedu@uniswacc.uniswa.sz and okekechinedu@yahoo.comHow to cite this article? Okeke, Chinedu I.O. (2009). “The Experiences with Qualitative Validity in a Classroom Research: Issues Pertaining to Value Claims” in EDUCARE: International Journal for Educational Studies, Vol.2(1) August, pp.1-16. Bandung, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press owned by ASPENSI in Bandung, West Java; and FKIP UMP in Purwokerto, Central Java, ISSN 1979-7877.Chronicle of the article: Accepted (June 17, 2009); Revised (July 17, 2009); and Published (August 17, 2009).
Bullying as Gendered Violence: Girls Talk of Their Classroom Experiences within a Heterogeneous Classroom Okeke, Chinedu I.O.
EDUCARE Vol 5, No 1 (2012)
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ABSTRACT: Bullying is a global phenomenon with devastating consequences for the victims, their families, and the societies at large. Bullying is a serious social ill; a lived experience capable of turning individuals within a given society into social misfits with long-term implications. This paper reflects on the account of the stories by some Nigerian school girls of their classroom experiences in a heterogeneous school setting. Aspects of the deliberations from among the 25 girls (and 25 boys as well) who took part in the study are employed in this paper to interrogate how gendered bullying played into the girls’ perceptions of their classroom. Results from the study show that within co-educational classroom, girls are more likely to be bully-victims than boys. Results also revealed that boys are more likely to be perpetrators of bullying than girls in a mixed-sex classroom. Bullying as lived experience, therefore, emerges in the study as a form of belligerent masculinity; and is germane to the understanding of the girl participants’ submissive posture as they struggled for space and identity within the classroom in complex and subtle ways. The implications of this for co-education and co-educational policy-making are highlighted and recommendations for changes in policy and practice are equally suggested.    KEY WORDS: Schooling, classroom bullying, girls’ participation, gender, Nigerian school girls, and co-education and co-educational policy-making.About the Author: Chinedu I.O. Okeke, Ph.D. is a Lecturer at the Department of Educational Foundations & Management, Faculty of Education UOS (University of Swaziland), Kwaluseni Campus, Private Bag 4 Kwaluseni M201, Swaziland, Africa. Phone: +26825170374. Fax: +26825185276. Email address: okekechinedu@yahoo.com and ciookeke@gmail.comHow to cite this article? Okeke, Chinedu I.O. (2012). “Bullying as Gendered Violence: Girls Talk of Their Classroom Experiences within a Heterogeneous Classroom” in EDUCARE: International Journal for Educational Studies, Vol.5(1) August, pp.1-14. Bandung, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press owned by ASPENSI in Bandung, West Java; and FKIP UMP in Purwokerto, Central Java, ISSN 1979-7877.Chronicle of the article: Accepted (June 15, 2012); Revised (July 17, 2012); and Published (August 17, 2012).
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