{"title":"Ten Years of Tutoring in Shadow Education: A Narrative Inquiry into Industry Features and Evolution in China","authors":"Bin Hua, K. Yung","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"The modernized private tutoring in China appeared in the 1990s and then grew at full speed to become one of the world’s most extensive shadow education systems. Since 2010, the industry has entered an era of deepening institutionalization and capitalization. This paper, through the narrative of an expert tutor, illuminates his experiences of tutoring and managing in this industry from 2010 to 2020 in Mainland China. The narrative was constructed through the tutor’s chronological reflection, which was stimulated by various electronic files he produced during the tutoring period and his ongoing conversations with former colleagues. In making sense of his narrative, the researchers have discussed a neglected phenomenon, three shining points, six gray areas, and four developmental stages of shadow education to demonstrate the industry features and evolution. Through discussing these issues, this paper finds its originality in illustrating at a micro level the industry’s operational mechanism, such as tutor training, curriculum, instruction, and after-class management, from a unique perspective of a tutoring practitioner and entrepreneur.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129933824","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 Social Cartographic Mapping of Research Paradigms: Opening up Space for New Directions","authors":"P. Kwok","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early 1970s, there have been ongoing debates between realist / postpositivist (quantitative) and interpretivist / naturalist (qualitative) research paradigms in the epistemological and ontological aspects of research methodology. Each camp has its advantages and defects in educational / social research (Howe, 1985; Stallings, 1995). Afterwards, some pragmatic researchers take mixed-methods approach by striking a happy medium between the two paradigms, and others look for emancipatory / transformative research paradigms by paying close attention to indigenous knowledge systems and disadvantaged people. The methodological debate continues onwards due to changing nature and landscape of educational and social phenomena. Notably, this paper endeavors to use Rolland Paulston (1997, 1999) ’s social cartography to map four research paradigms and to open up some new space for further development by ‘decentering’ them. Based on social cartograph, four dimensions are formulated, and some implications are drawn for future methodological development in Asian contexts.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132389154","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":"Teaching Qalitative Methodologies as Praxis: Five Tales from South Korea","authors":"Young Chun Kim, Seo-Hwan Choi, Jung-Hoon Jung","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.47","url":null,"abstract":"Informed by Patti Lather’s notion of ‘research as praxis,’ the purpose of this article is to provide the meaning of teaching qualitative research in South Korea wherein whose academic culture has been highly influenced, if not dominated, by the West. In this respect, the authors conceptualize the experiences of teaching qualitative research to undergraduate and graduate students in South Korea. For this study, we employed a critical incident technique that summarizes and describes the data in a useful manner, while at the same time sacrificing as little as possible of their comprehensiveness, specificity, and validity. Three authors have collected stories, experiences, and reflections on teaching qualitative methodologies, and then categorized their reflections of these experiences. The stories the authors tell entail five themes as follows; teaching qualitative research as (a) dangerous practice, (b) painful practice, (c) horrifying practice, (d) educative practice, and (e) brave practice. Each practice, as a metaphor, illuminate the meanings of the practices of teaching qualitative research in South Korea. The authors conclude the article with questions to provoke Korean researchers to rethink and reflect on their practices of teaching and conducting qualitative research in the Korean context and beyond. In doing so, the authors intend to contribute to the international discourse of teaching qualitative research which embraces various experiences and interpretations within different contexts.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116689176","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}
K. Witz, Sung-A Bae, H. Lee, Y. Jun, Yong-sock Chang
{"title":"Colwyn, Age 5 1/2, “Protecting Mom and Dad”","authors":"K. Witz, Sung-A Bae, H. Lee, Y. Jun, Yong-sock Chang","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper is part of a larger case study of a 5 1/2 year old Korean boy, Colwyn, with his mother, Dr. Bae. Dr. Bae interviewed Colwyn twice, about 2 months apart; the first interview was audiotaped, the second videotaped. The present paper is based primarily on the second interview where Colwyn tells several wildly imaginative stories of himself like a superhero “protecting mom and dad.” Our aim is to communicate a sense of Colwyn’s “feeling, consciousness, state” when he is telling these “stories”, using the portraiture philosophy of Lawrence-Lightfoot and Davis and the “Participant-as-ally - Essentialist portraiture” approach of Witz and his students. \u0000The paper suggests that Colwyn’s “telling stories” in that Interview involves a highly self-actualized way of “being involved with his ‘I’”, which was apparently prompted by Interview 1 and is expressed in the drawing in Fig. 1. (In Interview 2 he constantly comes back to this drawing and uses it as a jumping off point for ideas in the stories). In addition, when he is telling a story, his whole being (feeling and mind) is “as if flowing in a direct channel,” manifesting as a constant stream of inspiration (creativity), ideas and diverse kinds of energy which is coming from within him, and that is carried on a powerful undercurrent of moral feeling of “being good.” At the same time telling the story represents a state of “subjectively being in a unity with” his mother’s feelings of appreciation and love. These things represent intense genuine spiritual engagement that at the same time manifests itself as creative expression in painting and in verbal interaction, already at this young age. This conclusion is supported by various additional data available.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127969199","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":"Editing Between the Lines: The Collaborative Writing Process of Two Scholars from Disparate Cultures","authors":"Deborah Buckberry Gilman, Yong-sock Chang","doi":"10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56428/aqij.2022.1.2.101","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative writing and language learning efforts between two graduate students, one a South Korean art educator and the other a retired ESL(English as a Second Language) teacher from the United States, are explored in this autoethnographic and ethnodrama collaborative piece. The authors give candid accounts of their experiences with understanding one another’s perspectives, sharing beliefs and cultural differences, developing respect for each other, and discovering friendship as they worked together in editing and revising Korean ideas into the Americanized English of academia. The tie that binds their collaborative efforts is the authors’ advocacy for social justice education.","PeriodicalId":351415,"journal":{"name":"Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125306428","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}