APPLIED ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Applied Article Analysis Assignment

Summary

The selected article is more qualitative and action research. The reason for saying so is explained in further sections of the paper.

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the selected article was to investigate the professional development course BINE taking place in university for addressing education sustainable development (ESD) and the involved participants learning for action research regarding the implementation of ESD in their educational institutes (Rauch, Steiner & Kurz, 2021).

Description of Participants/ Sample/ Setting

Until now, four BINE courses have been conducted in Austria in which the participants from the latest course held in 2016 to 2018 were taken. A sample of 11 people was interviewed, who comprised 50% of the total BINE course participants. There were nine women, and the remaining two were men. The contact with the selected participants was created through regional group leaders.

The participants gave their consent for the conduction of interviews. Each interview lasted between 35 to 70 minutes. Structured interviews were formulated based on three features: questions regarding the content of the course, questions about learning outcomes in BINE, and questions related to future recommendations for the course.

Research Design

The research design is applied research with descriptive evaluation. The study is true applied research since it seeks to solve a problem, teaching the participants (the educational teachers) about action research and implementation of ESD in their working institution and professional development.

Besides, the evaluation is descriptive and extracted from the interviews as the set of statements describes the nature of the situation. The words and text could sometimes be more than numerical data since opinions and attitudes towards a phenomenon could not be described statistically.

Also, the selected articles research design uses the phenomenological approach in this qualitative research. It aims to scrutinize the path of practice, such as in the BINE course, and the learnings gained by the participants so that their sense of an existing phenomenon could be explored (Elkatawneh, 2016, p. 4).

Therefore, the participants were selected from only the BINE courses experience to conduct interviews and obtain their comments about the course content, its complexity, and learning outcomes of the entire BINE course knowledge.

Method of Data Collection

The data was collected through structured interviews conducted among the selected sample of 11 people who took the latest BINE course. It is the qualitative method of data collection. Regional group leaders helped contact the participants as recordings were made for the conducted interviews.

Analysis

Qualitative analysis is used in the chosen article via descriptive evaluation. The article uses content narrative for the analysis purpose since verbal materials in the interviews that are presented within quotation marks are given in the published material. The verbal materials represent their personal experiences with the course in line with their background knowledge and know-how.

Moreover, the analysis of the article reveals that it uses second-order theoretical analysis for studying a phenomenon in a particular context, which is the BINE course participants take on ESD and its implementation in their educational institute (Shkedi, 2007). A type of low level theory could be established using verbal materials from interviews with the BINE course...

…learning heterogeneity are not taken into deep consideration within the research study. It could be a major obstacle in their understanding and previous experience with the course since they could not impact accurate attitude toward the course and its learning outcomes were vague. Cultural diversity and intercultural languages are interconnected, and for better comprehension of the course, the contents should provide a roadmap to learning, practice, and thinking.

Since sustainability in education is challenged by globalization and intercultural dialogue could solve the problem of communication, the study should have explored in depth the cultural and linguistic complications while understanding the course that the participants could not demonstrate well in their verbal materials. The cultural lens might have given a panoramic view of the alternative perspectives related to the course and traditional knowledge of responding to this obstacle.

Implications of the Findings

The study revealed that although participants found the course complex based on their previous unawareness, they still found strength in the research. This is the main aim of the course, as professional development has to be obtained via the conduction of the BINE program. Since the course trainers are experts in professional development and the fellow course participants serve as critical assessors with their level of comprehension, the continuous process of learning never ends, and mentoring is constant.

As the course projects ar related to one another depending upon the parallelism of the topics, the action research in which the participants are involved gives them important steps to formulate and support a project. The course gives topics of interest to the participants so…