Saldaña, J. (2016). The coding manual for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 1, "An Introduction to Codes and Coding" (pp. 1-42)
Chapter 2, "Writing Analytic Memos About Narrative and Visual Data" (pp. 43-65)
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the chapters in the Saldaña text found in this week's Learning Resources.
Review the Introduction to Coding and From Content to Coding media programs in the Learning Resources.
Refer back to your observational field notes from the Scholars of Change Videos from Weeks 1-4.
Choose one of the four Scholars of Change videos and refer to your field notes from your observation.
Access the transcript you downloaded for the media program of the Scholars of Change video you selected for this Discussion.
Begin to code the transcript and the observational field notes of the Scholar of Change Video you chose. (Note: You will only need one or two codes for this Discussion, although more are acceptable.)
Post a brief description of the video you chose. Next, include an example of one or two codes and provide quotes from your notes or transcript to support your example. Finally, explain your reasoning for this coding.
Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week's Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.
Case: Scholar of Change - Christine Topper Program Transcript
CHRISTINE TOPPER: My name is Christine Topper and I am doctorate student in educational psychology at Walden University. Today I want to show you how I grow as a scholar practitioner and use what I learned in my courses to impact social change in my local community.
I am international school teacher in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a compact and vertical city. As such our student body does not have much exposure outside of home and has developed a disconnection from the natural world. High rise buildings are taking over the natural green spaces where children usually play and media technology is keeping people indoors and changing the lifestyle of society from active to sedentary. Richard Louv coined a term, nature deficit disorder, to explain this phenomena in his book Last Child in the Woods. Nature deficit disorder is a real social problem in a big city like Hong Kong. I decided to conduct an independent research study looking to ways to address nature deficit disorder.
Building on the rooftop greening project an early childhood teacher and myself started a sustainable micro-garden for the kindergarten students in the outdoor play space. The students were in charge of taking care of the garden, from planting, weeding, to harvesting and selling the produce at to the school community, and response to [INAUDIBLE] garden. We started with a herb patch and within a year it is grown into a vegetable and flower garden. With help from our secondary school the kindergarten students recently started a vertical plastic bottle garden.
We witnessed the benefits of the garden immediately. The pocket garden initiative will continue in my school this year. And we are collaborating with local organizations to create more green spaces in schools around Hong Hong. Contact and exposure to nature no longer happens intuitively, so adults need to create authentic opportunities for children to reengage with nature every day. We all can be an agent of change. Changing a child's life can be as simple as starting a garden at home or in the classroom.