{"title":"Sand Story Counseling for Korean Early Childhood and Young Students: Life History Research on Heesoon Cho's Life Works and their Meanings","authors":"Heesoon Cho, Jae-seong Jo","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study centers on the dynamics of psychology theory. Drawing upon Heesoon Cho's life, we aim to extract and analyze sand story counseling in her personal and academic experiences. Additionally, we aim to investigate her process of adapting sand play techniques into Korean sand story counseling and explore how this adaptation of sandplay, along with its dissemination, contributed to early childhood development, counseling, and psychological exploratory behaviors in Korea. To avoid bias, we adopted a life history method, including collaborative interviews and triangulation. The results reflected Cho’s life chronologically, describing significant events in her life. Using existing Western theories, Cho transformed and acculturated the existing sandplay technique into sand story counseling in the Korean context. Cho observed significant positive outcomes through sand story counseling. Sand story counseling theory significantly contributed to professional counseling. This study strongly supports future culture-fit counseling research in Korea, as opposed to adopting Western theories.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115509890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations on Attachment Theory and Its Clinical Considerations","authors":"Hyejin So","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.43","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to provide information on attachment theory, including definitions, aspects, and theorists’ observations. In addition, the author shares observations of actual interactions between a mother and a child, interpretations of their attachment types, and possible developments of the relationship for the child’s later life. Lastly, clinical considerations and applications in a therapeutic relationship of attachment theory are discussed.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115761383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Broadening of Art Perspectives in an Art Course of Non-Art Major Students through a Korean Art Teacher’s Asian Art Viewpoint","authors":"Yong-sock Chang","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.51","url":null,"abstract":"This research explores how Multicultural and Asian art affects college students in a U.S. university. The students did not major in art, and they chose art as elective subjects. The art course consisted of art theory and practice based on DBAE(Discipline-Based Art Education). In the art class, some non-white students always enrolled in the course. The researcher found that DBAE was satisfactory but sometimes inappropriate because DBAE is rooted in Western high art. The researcher changed the art studio class with a multicultural perspective, especially Asian art because he wanted to introduce a new art style to the class and give them a chance to appreciate non-western art. Qualitative action research and arts-based research methods were used to conduct this project. The result revealed that the students of color showed more confidence and actively participated in the class. The works of students of color were changed and improved. Second, women became more aware of social issues and expressed their feelings and emotions in their works. It seemed that the women students would become social activists and voice their opinions by making their art. Third, some students, especially Hispanic and Asian students showed their identity through their artworks. Forth, some Korean students did not make much progress. By including multicul-tural art in art classes, more students could broaden their perspectives on art and understand diversity through their artworks.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114545480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening to and Sharing Concerns with One’s Spouse: Co-constructed Narra-tives and Sociocultural Discourses in Japanese Marital Communication","authors":"Inagaki Ayako","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"The persistence of a status gap between men and women in Japan, on the other hand there is growing skepticism about gender inequality. This discrepancy between the reality and beliefs about gender roles and disparities sug-gests that Japan is undergoing a transitional phase in terms of the division of labor according to gender. Moreover, Japanese couples are less likely to listen to or confide in their spouses regarding their problems than those of couples from other East Asian countries. The present study examined Japanese marital communication, division of labor in the context of traditional gender roles, and the need for their support. The study involved sequential analysis of a single couple therapy session. Co-constructed narratives and sociocultural discourses were examined in the structured session, in which attachment needs were discussed between spouses, particularly those arising during crises. The results revealed that feelings of “Amae” and refraining from expressing one’s own needs ac-counted for the challenges in communication. It is important to engage in dialogue that focuses on the needs and efforts of the couple, as well as to create an environment conducive to the discussion of work-related issues, household chores, and childcare. Meeting the couple’s proximity needs and improving family management may promote equitable division of labor based on new gender roles.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"425 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115930387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Curriculum Studies: A Postcolonialist Perspective","authors":"Gough Noel","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2023.2.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This essay offers a postcolonialist standpoint on transnational and international curriculum studies, addressing such concepts as “Asia as method”, the politics of “helping”, the “post-reconceptualisation” of curriculum studies, decolonising curriculum, and the contemporary relevance of love and care in framing curriculum problems and issues.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127488253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Photographic Writing about Korean Mothers’ Educational Strategies","authors":"Minyoung Yang","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.85","url":null,"abstract":"Photography has been continuously attempted as a research tool in social science research. Photo-based qualitative research continues to this day while branching out into various methods such as the visual methodology (Rose, 2016), photovoice (Wang, 1999), and photo essay (Quinn et al., 2006). The purpose of this study is to present a case of reconstructing the research results presented in the existing text as photo-based qualitative research. The subject of the study is 'A Qualitative Case Study on the Educational Practice of Mothers for Their Children's Academic Success: Korean Bear Moms,' a study by Kyung-ri Kim, Young Chun Kim, and Jae-seong Jo (2022). The four significant subjects presented as the study's main results were converted into visual data, including photos, to reconstruct the existing results differently. \u0000The research methodology was participatory observation and in-depth interviews using photographs. The research participants were parents who actively supported their children's academic achievement. Data were analyzed using a comprehensive data analysis procedure among about 100 photos taken in 2022. One or two photos most suitable for the four areas of the research topic were presented. First, the participants turned their homes into places suitable for their children’s study. Second, parents become learning experts to teach their children effective learning methods. Third, parents make an intensive financial investment in children’s shadow education. Fourth, mothers use the coffee gathering to collect useful information for their children’s academic success. This study exemplifies how photography transcends the limits of text, delivering intuitive and implicit messages, including the symbolic expression of the inner feelings of the participants, which might not have been revealed in the written text.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121590220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Portrait of Korean Won-Buddhist’s Mind Practice Experiences: Focusing on Higher Aspects from the Ways of Evolving to Inner Maturity","authors":"Y. Jun, K. Witz","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.71","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a portrait of a Korean woman Wonmahn (pseudonym) who engaged in Won Buddhist religious life including Mind Practice. Mind Practice allows the participant to reflect on one’s own state of mind and observe how it triggers other emotions, feelings, or effects in human relationships and in relation to facing troubles in everyday life. We try to understand how her Mind Practice affected her inner states of mind, feelings, attitudes etc. more deeply based on the “Participant as Ally - Essentialist Portraiture” approach. The in-depth interviews were conducted 6 times between the fall of 2011 and 2013. We tried to find out significant passages of transcripts and then articulate them on her ways of evolving to inner maturity through Mind Practice activities. This portrait illustrates her nature and impression with some alive passages and a timeline for grasping unity or oneness of the whole person. Also she repeatedly tried to be aware of her own mind states whenever she encounter troublesome situations in order to become a better person revealing higher aspects. In this portrait, we explore that such “higher aspects” are related with her values, commitments or inner changes as a whole person. Further we try to understand that her higher aspects are manifested as a “subtle and pervasive inner consciousness” in a person.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121970794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review] American College Students' Experiences and Spiritual Aspirations for Mathe matics","authors":"Y. Jun","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.143","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133365095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photosartorial Elicitation and the Bukae of Korean Instagram","authors":"Michael W. Hurt","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.113","url":null,"abstract":"Korean Instagram is in the midst of a phenomenon involving the creation and self-marketing of alter ego identities — 'bu-kae'— that create a culture in which more specific, digital subcultures lead to the formation of real communities offline, which are a thriving part of youth culture today. The 'sub'(부) 'character'(캐) is nowadays a major mode of interacting online in South Korean social media and a clear result of digital media cultures that nowadays house different parts of identities for specific kinds of social uses through identity separation. This research uses 'photo-sartorial elicitation', a structured interaction and means of gathering social data by having a model and photographer interact around clothing in a way that reveals previously hidden or non-obvious social facts about that person or even a community. I am able to engender participation around a photographic project since photographs on Instagram are the prime social currency within digital subcultures on Instagram, with 'exchange rates'for participation in front of the camera far higher than even direct payments of fiscal currency might provide. In the end, it is only by being able to answer the questions, 'Why are you here?'and 'What do I get out of participation as a subject?'that one can gain the ability to reach into the depths of social phenomena that are otherwise largely impenetrable to the researcher’s gaze.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130750239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Hidden Meaning of Care through the Life History of a 53-year-old Woman","authors":"Myungin Kyeon, Seungnam Son","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.125","url":null,"abstract":"This study is based on the story of a woman who has been caring for children and the elderly for a living. As a mother of three children she supported her mother-in-law with Alzheimer's for over 20 years. This paper tried to explore the meaning of care through the life history of a 53-year-old woman and discover its implications for pedagogy. As results, first, the meaning that 'life is a period of vulnerability(Donna J. Haraway)' came to light through the characters surrounding this woman's family history; Second, the fact that the relationship between the caregiver and the person being cared for is the core of a good care relationship became clear; Third, since care is already a relationship in itself, care work is a labor of love and relationships that cannot be standardized or objectified. Finally, the meaning of care work illuminated that self-care and care for others are constantly interacting. The family discord experienced by the participant due to solitary care work gave social, political and economic suggestions that care work was passed entirely on to women. This life history research with a participant K suggested also possibilities of inventing a new viewpoint of humanity and a new mode of human relationship through care work. So this study presented a new task for pedagogy in that care is the knowledge that anyone should and can learn.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}