How was their learning process like?
SDL is a process as viewed by Caffarella. In the context of breast cancer, a survivor goes through a typical process consists of the followings:
-Coping with the results
-Seeking information about treatments
-Preparing for personal life changes
-Coping with the results
After getting much suspicion about some signs of lump in their breasts, they start to seek information. Their sources of informations are family members, relatives, friends, doctors and internet. After the signs that they have match with what are suggested by the sources of information, they take the initiative to see doctors in order to confirm their suspicion.
Seven of the participants were mentally prepared to face the news that they were diagnosed with breast cancer. Examples of their reactions:
1. Hanim said she did not break down because she had knowledge about it before and prepare to accept the news.
2. Karima was told that the result was positive on one breast, but that does not mean she was going to die. She was prepared to accept the news.
3. Nora was told to get her partner to accompany her to the doctor's visit but she did not think that it is necessary. She said that she would still be okay to hear the result.
Some emotional moments were experienced by two participants, Rina and Thanam.
1. Rina cried in doctor's room when the doctor broke the news.
2. Thanam went 'blank' when she was told of the result. She was thinking about how her situation was going to affect her two children, she kept asking "Why me?".
-Seeking information about treatments
Seeking for information is the first thing that they did in order to learn more about their disease. For example,
1. Swee Lan did not wait any longer, she asked her doctor what she should do.
2. Nora went to the bookshop and start buying relevant books on cancer.
3. Hanim, having her third month of pregnancy, browsed internet to get information on how her situation affect her yet to be born baby.
-Preparing for personal life changes
Saturday, September 20, 2008
THEME SUMMARISED
How was their learning process like?
Coping with the results
Seeking information about treatments
Preparing for personal life changes
Why did they learn?
The need to ascertain information
The need to understand how to cope with the disease
The need to help other patients and survivors to learn
How did they learn?
-What were their learning activities?
- What sources did they draw upon?
Reading (books, other printed materials, and internet articles)
Talking to others (consulting doctors and asking other survivors)
What challenges did they face?
Emotional effect of exposure to information
Concern about reliability of information
What were the learning outcomes?
Being able to make informed decisions
Gaining personal understanding of the situation
Spiritually inspired
Concern about other patients and survivors
Coping with the results
Seeking information about treatments
Preparing for personal life changes
Why did they learn?
The need to ascertain information
The need to understand how to cope with the disease
The need to help other patients and survivors to learn
How did they learn?
-What were their learning activities?
- What sources did they draw upon?
Reading (books, other printed materials, and internet articles)
Talking to others (consulting doctors and asking other survivors)
What challenges did they face?
Emotional effect of exposure to information
Concern about reliability of information
What were the learning outcomes?
Being able to make informed decisions
Gaining personal understanding of the situation
Spiritually inspired
Concern about other patients and survivors
Friday, July 4, 2008
3. What have you done that merits a PhD? What have you accomplished in your research? In one your sentence, what is your thesis?
What have you done that merits a PhD?
My investigation provide insight and understading to phenomenon of SDL in Malaysian context.
What have you accomplished in your research?
I have completed an investigation ...
In one sentence, what is your thesis?
My thesis is
My investigation provide insight and understading to phenomenon of SDL in Malaysian context.
What have you accomplished in your research?
I have completed an investigation ...
In one sentence, what is your thesis?
My thesis is
Sunday, June 22, 2008
2. Summarise your key findings? What are your main findings?
My findings can be summarised into four: the learning process, the motivations, the strategies, the challenges and the outcomes.
The key findings are the learners learn as they need to ascertain information about their diisease, they need to understand, and they need to help others. Theere were two main strategies used: by reading from various sources and talking to doctors and other survivors. In the course of their learning, the challenges that they faced were in terms of emotional effects of exposure to information and the reliability of information that they received.
The key findings are the learners learn as they need to ascertain information about their diisease, they need to understand, and they need to help others. Theere were two main strategies used: by reading from various sources and talking to doctors and other survivors. In the course of their learning, the challenges that they faced were in terms of emotional effects of exposure to information and the reliability of information that they received.
1. What is the area you wish to be examined?
My research focus on self-directed learning of Malaysian women with breast cancer. My are is located under the discipline of adult learning where self-directed learning is an important component. My wish is to expand knowledge base of SDL in Malaysian breast cancer context as there have been a dearth of published data in teh inquired area.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Viva questions
1. What is the area you wish to be examined?
2. Summarise your key findings? What are your main findings?
3. What have you done that merits a PhD? What have you accomplished in your research? In one your sentence, what is your thesis?
4. Would you briefly summarise your research effort?
5. Can you highlight the major contribution that your thesis make? What have you done that merits a PhD? A PhD research is supposed to be a contribution to the literature. What is your contribution? What are the contributions (to knowledge) of your thesis? What contribution to knowledge does your PhD thesis make?
6. Who in your area of study would agree with your findings? Why? Who would disagree? Why?
7. What areas of further research did you uncover?
8. Where could you publish your findings to reach the audience that could profit from your work?
9. How did you reduce biases and prejudices?
10. What additional work you plan to undertake as a result of your study?
11. What did this exercise in research teach you?
12. How do you intend to use your findings?
13. What is original about your work? What is your original contribution?
14. How would you describe your methodology, and why did you decide to use this? Why have you done it this way?
15. How have you evaluated your work? How do you know that your approach is correct?
16. What do you think the weakness of your research methodology?
17. What are the alternatives to your approach? Looking back, what might you have done differently?
18. How did your research emerge? What are the motivations for your research? Why is this problem you tackled worth tackling?
19. You discussed further work in your conclusion chapter, who long do you think it would take to implement and what are the problems envisaged?
20. What do you plan to do next? What do you see this kind of research moving in the future, what are the openings?
21. What have you gained from your research approach? What does your result mean?
22. What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD?
23. Has your topic changed during the course of your research? How has your view on your research topic changed during the course of your research?
24. What are the three most important papers / references in your research?
25. What are the major developments in your area of study? What is the current industry state in perceiving the problem you investigated? Is your field going in the right direction?
26. Any ethical issues relating to your research?
27. How does your research contributions generalise, and to what extent it would be significant to the bigger scenario? How does your system cope with bigger examples? Are your findings likely to be found in other sectors, for example?
2. Summarise your key findings? What are your main findings?
3. What have you done that merits a PhD? What have you accomplished in your research? In one your sentence, what is your thesis?
4. Would you briefly summarise your research effort?
5. Can you highlight the major contribution that your thesis make? What have you done that merits a PhD? A PhD research is supposed to be a contribution to the literature. What is your contribution? What are the contributions (to knowledge) of your thesis? What contribution to knowledge does your PhD thesis make?
6. Who in your area of study would agree with your findings? Why? Who would disagree? Why?
7. What areas of further research did you uncover?
8. Where could you publish your findings to reach the audience that could profit from your work?
9. How did you reduce biases and prejudices?
10. What additional work you plan to undertake as a result of your study?
11. What did this exercise in research teach you?
12. How do you intend to use your findings?
13. What is original about your work? What is your original contribution?
14. How would you describe your methodology, and why did you decide to use this? Why have you done it this way?
15. How have you evaluated your work? How do you know that your approach is correct?
16. What do you think the weakness of your research methodology?
17. What are the alternatives to your approach? Looking back, what might you have done differently?
18. How did your research emerge? What are the motivations for your research? Why is this problem you tackled worth tackling?
19. You discussed further work in your conclusion chapter, who long do you think it would take to implement and what are the problems envisaged?
20. What do you plan to do next? What do you see this kind of research moving in the future, what are the openings?
21. What have you gained from your research approach? What does your result mean?
22. What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD?
23. Has your topic changed during the course of your research? How has your view on your research topic changed during the course of your research?
24. What are the three most important papers / references in your research?
25. What are the major developments in your area of study? What is the current industry state in perceiving the problem you investigated? Is your field going in the right direction?
26. Any ethical issues relating to your research?
27. How does your research contributions generalise, and to what extent it would be significant to the bigger scenario? How does your system cope with bigger examples? Are your findings likely to be found in other sectors, for example?
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