Parvaneh Valavi; Parvin Khazami; Seyyed Jalal Hashemi; Masoud Safai Moghadam
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Background: Challenges in the field of education show their deconstructive presence and have a dramatic and sometimes negative impact on students' psyche, ethics and behavior. The impact of methods, practices and changes, the education system faces many challenges in various fields such as educational-ethical ...
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Background: Challenges in the field of education show their deconstructive presence and have a dramatic and sometimes negative impact on students' psyche, ethics and behavior. The impact of methods, practices and changes, the education system faces many challenges in various fields such as educational-ethical challenges.Objectives: The present study examines students' experiences of facing the educational-ethical challenges of depression and suicide.Methods: The research method is qualitative and has been done using phenomenological method. The statistical population of this study includes all female high school students in Ahvaz. After identifying the educational-ethical challenges, 20 students were purposefully selected for the interview according to the available samples in the field of depression challenges and suicide (suicide attempt). In the field of saturation depression challenge after 12 people and in the suicide challenge (suicide attempt) after 13 people saturation. Identification of educational-ethical challenges is in accordance with the reports sent by Ahvaz District 2 school counselors to the counseling core of that district. The three-step recour method was used to analyze the interview data. The steps include raw reading or simple comprehension, structural analysis, and total interpretation.Results: Includes 5 main themes of causes of depression, methods of coping with depression, main causes of suicide, pretending to attempt suicide, students' feelings about suicide and 14 sub-themes.Conclusion: Students face many educational-ethical challenges. Challenges that are not rooted in their subconscious thoughts, but are rooted in untested assumptions and misconceptions. By analyzing students' life experiences, it provides a clear picture of their perceptions and mentalities about each of the educational-ethical challenges without making any judgments about the correctness or incorrectness of their perceptions. It is a breadth, and from every experience one can reach the depth and hidden meanings of the word.Background: Challenges in the field of education show their deconstructive presence and have a dramatic and sometimes negative impact on students' psyche, ethics and behavior. The impact of methods, practices and changes, the education system faces many challenges in various fields such as educational-ethical challenges.Objectives: The present study examines students' experiences of facing the educational-ethical challenges of depression and suicide.Methods: The research method is qualitative and has been done using phenomenological method. The statistical population of this study includes all female high school students in Ahvaz. After identifying the educational-ethical challenges, 20 students were purposefully selected for the interview according to the available samples in the field of depression challenges and suicide (suicide attempt). In the field of saturation depression challenge after 12 people and in the suicide challenge (suicide attempt) after 13 people saturation. Identification of educational-ethical challenges is in accordance with the reports sent by Ahvaz District 2 school counselors to the counseling core of that district. The three-step recour method was used to analyze the interview data. The steps include raw reading or simple comprehension, structural analysis, and total interpretation.Results: Includes 5 main themes of causes of depression, methods of coping with depression, main causes of suicide, pretending to attempt suicide, students' feelings about suicide and 14 sub-themes.Conclusion: Students face many educational-ethical challenges. Challenges that are not rooted in their subconscious thoughts, but are rooted in untested assumptions and misconceptions. By analyzing students' life experiences, it provides a clear picture of their perceptions and mentalities about each of the educational-ethical challenges without making any judgments about the correctness or incorrectness of their perceptions. It is a breadth, and from every experience one can reach the depth and hidden meanings of the word.
Ahmad Abdolkhani; parvaneh Valavi; Seyed Jalal Hashemi
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Introduction This study aimed to investigate the lived experience of personal and social competency of male students. This study was a qualitative approach with phenomenological method. The study population included the male students of first level of high schools, in Susa. Methods To select the ...
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Introduction This study aimed to investigate the lived experience of personal and social competency of male students. This study was a qualitative approach with phenomenological method. The study population included the male students of first level of high schools, in Susa. Methods To select the participants with rich information in the present study, the criteria were the researchers' diagnosis and students' readiness. Also a semi-structured interview was used to collect the data, and the interviews continued until the saturation stage; hence the number of the final sample was 20 contributors. The data from the interview were analyzed using Van Menen's method for discovering the students' experiences of social competence. Results The findings of this study, include 2 main themes and 13 sub-themes. The first main theme was social consciousness, which includes 5 sub-themes such as empathy, guidance of others, service-centered, impact on others, political and social awareness, and the second main theme was social skills, which includes 8 sub themes such as communication, link development, leadership, collaboration, group capabilities, commitment, conflict management, and evolution. Conclusion According to the findings of this study it seems that the best way to increase personal and social competency is creating proper understanding of the competencies by parents, school guardian and community officials. Personal and social competencies are appropriate criteria for performance which will enable people to do their duties successfully.