PATCHWORLD research GermanySaarland University, department of information science
PATCH-WORLd – PArenTs and CHildren Working, ORganising and Learning together 135285-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-KA3-KA3MPGrant Agreement 2007- 3620/001-001This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsiblefor any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Quantitative and qualitative research
The German PATCHWORLD research is based on 120 quantitative interviews witha questionnaire. This research was conducted in association with theVolkshochschule of Saarbrücken, the biggest adult education institution in theGerman federal state of Saarland. The final question was whether theparticipants would also be prepared to take part in a qualitative video interview.Thus we got contact with partners to conduct qualitative interviews. However, thereadiness to take part in a video interview was very limited; a twentieth of theoriginal participants were prepared to take part. We don’t now what types(sociologically or individually) of people declined the video interview (or whatcriteria have to be fulfilled to accept such an interview) and thus don’t know howsignificant and meaningful these interviews are.
Social selection of interview partners
However, already the way we got into contact with the participants for thequantitative research meant a quite significant form of selection. As our partnerin this research was an adult education institution, it was already ensured that allparticipants had an at least partial interest in education, continuous learning andso on. The decision to work together with an adult education institution wasvoluntarily and has had advantages and disadvantages. A decisive disadvantageis, of course, that we thus were not able to explore the attitudes of your ‘typical’ Germans but only to a selection that might be different in social regard, orconcerning their attitudes.
PATCH-WORLd – PArenTs and CHildren Working, ORganising and Learning together 135285-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-KA3-KA3MPGrant Agreement 2007- 3620/001-001This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsiblefor any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Common basis for assessement: interest in lifelong learning
However, as our research was determined by getting information in order toorganize and research an applied project that is focussing on who to get familiesinto learning, we thought that at least a certain interest in education wasdesirable. If you want to adapt to a certain subgroup, you’d of course have to getinformation on this very subgroup and not of the population as a whole.
Access to information and communication technologies
Another important point of the PATCHWORLD project is to get families intolifelong learning by using digital media. Thus another selection criterion was of whether the interview partners had access to, or even possess their owncomputer.
All do use information and communication technologies
Indeed, all interview partners do know and work with digital media. All of themuse digital media in their private lives and contexts. Those who are in theworking live – that is: all except children, housewives, retired persons – usethem in their professional context as well.
Applications 1 – daily usage
Besides software such as text editing, all use the internet services like the web ore-mail. Anyhow, these two are the services several members of the families usetogether or to keep into contact with each other. However, a common utilisationof computer services is relatively scarce.
PATCH-WORLd – PArenTs and CHildren Working, ORganising and Learning together 135285-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-KA3-KA3MPGrant Agreement 2007- 3620/001-001This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsiblefor any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Search History:
Result 00 of 00
00 results for result for
p.
More From This User
Notes
Load more
