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Elena Semenova
Indigenous language education in Russia: current issues and challenges
Despite the high number of recognised Indigenous groups who are struggling to maintain their languages, cultures, and identities in Russia, there is little research done on the matters of cultural and linguistic revitalisation. This study sought to address this gap by exploring the views of two Indigenous groups, Karelian and Mari, on the development of their Indigenous languages and educational strategies to protect and revive their languages. The study relied on in-depth one-on-one interviews with 20 participants, ten from each Indigenous group. The findings show that despite older generations’ relative proficiency and interest in their respective Indigenous languages, motivation to maste…
‘Teachers see nothing’ : exploring students’ and teachers’ perspectives on school bullying with a new arts-based methodology
Even though bullying is a perennial problem, there are still significant gaps in the research. The sensitive nature of the issue prompted us to develop and test a new arts-based method – a set of incomplete, problem-focused comic strips that were given to the participants for creative completion and were subsequently used as individualised interview prompts. The study took place in Russia with 14 teachers and 39 school children. The findings indicated that students and teachers agreed that instances of bullying should not be reported. However, there is a significant difference in how bullying is perceived by teachers and students. The majority of teachers indicated either seeing no bullying…
Supplemental Material, Participant_instructions_for_the_Graphic_Vignettes - School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic
Supplemental Material, Participant_instructions_for_the_Graphic_Vignettes for School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic by Daria Khanolainen and Elena Semenova in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Indigenous education in Russia : opportunities for healing and revival of the Mari and Karelian Indigenous groups?
Despite being a multicultural country throughout its history, the Russian Federation has long struggled to embrace its diversity. As a result, the country’s many cultural, religious, and ethnic minority groups have been going through waves of assimilationist policies and practices. Assimilation into the Russian society enforced through formal schooling, daily life, and mass media has led to a destruction of Indigenous lifestyles, cultures, identities, and languages. This article explores the views of Russia’s Indigenous people regarding the country’s education system and its ability to support the cultural revival of Indigenous groups as well as the healing of the trauma that emerged from h…
School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes : Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic
The purpose of this study was to develop a new arts-based measure assessing school bullying and to test it within a pilot study involving 19 schoolchildren (mean age = 15.4; range = 1.00). The researchers designed the new methodological tool (referred to as graphic vignettes) as a set of incomplete comic strips, which participants were asked to complete in a creative way. Researchers then invited participants to engage in follow-up interviews using completed comic strips as individualized interview prompts. The authors detail the design and administration of the graphic vignettes and discuss their efficacy, limitations, and potential applications. The researchers argue that studies on sensi…
Indigenous language education in Russia: current issues and challenges
Despite the high number of recognised Indigenous groups who are struggling to maintain their languages, cultures, and identities in Russia, there is little research done on the matters of cultural and linguistic revitalisation. This study sought to address this gap by exploring the views of two Indigenous groups, Karelian and Mari, on the development of their Indigenous languages and educational strategies to protect and revive their languages. The study relied on in-depth one-on-one interviews with 20 participants, ten from each Indigenous group. The findings show that despite older generations’ relative proficiency and interest in their respective Indigenous languages, motivation to maste…
Self and others in school bullying and cyberbullying : Fine-tuning a new arts-based method to study sensitive topics
Despite continuous international research and prevention efforts, bullying not only persists globally but also evolves into new forms, such as cyberbullying. In this methodological article, we present a new arts-based research tool, graphic vignettes, that can extend our understanding of peer aggression and other sensitive topics by facilitating participants’ creative reflection over the roles of self and others in different problem-based situations. Each graphic vignette, designed for this study, looks like an incomplete comic strip that participants individually develop further. Flexible and open to interpretation vignettes were used in combination with more restrictive/structured vignett…
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Vignettes_1-4_(English_translation) - School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Vignettes_1-4_(English_translation) for School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic by Daria Khanolainen and Elena Semenova in International Journal of Qualitative Methods