Reflective journal -June. 2016

Reflective journal -June. 2016

Things I should have done this semester:

Coding, Firstly, find relationship between cooking and after relationship however narrowing to ‘after activity’ is not appropriate yet, so I did open coding more broadly.

Order and Contents of coding;

1.     Look for stakeholder in detail.- (service design methodology) To check who is concern and who is in close relationship with children ; who is main target of this service, In this service and experience.  After fill out the stakeholders I checked what group interact with what group.

2.     With comment from interview and observation, I wrote a open coding comment
Duplication number (open coding)
12 times 집단클래스의 전형적 유형
10 times 자기주도성
8 times  청결
5 times 안전
5times 완성된 요리 공유
4 times 난이도
4 times 부모의 도움
4 times 사후활동
4 times 집에서 어린이와 요리
4 times 소근육 발달
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3.     Based on open coding comments, I tried axial coding. (At first I wrote all comments from open coding to time order that is before, during, after. and made group but it was useless effort.)

So I did categorized open coding comments into 11 category which is creativity, psychological obstacle, physical obstacle, children centered, communication, satisfaction of parents, space limitation, time sharing, before/after activity, cooking concern, etc. problem.

problem1
Each children has different difficulties and different characteristics. Some kids are outgoing and others are passive toward activity. Those are important elements to be self directed.

problem2
Some kids are strong enough to cut hard materials but most of kids under 7 has difficulty in physical strength. Therefore kids ask helps to parents and teachers. If individual care is possible, children might be more willing to do self leading activities.

problem3
Gap between will and action ; physical strength and safety issue
Kids really loves to do task by themselves but fine motor skill is not well developed yet so there is a gap between their willing and actual action. Also, some cooking task are dangerous for kids so they feel fear. 
If there is tools safe enough for kids to use, kids might do activities more actively

problem4
Teachers said that children feel bored when they do theory class and waiting time for oven to be done. It is characteristic of children that they hate to wait and to clean up. If there is before/after activity interesting enough, kids would love to participate more.

problem5
Parents, especially mother feel burdensome to cook at home. (especially in Korea) Because it took time and kids mess up their kitchen. That is the reason why parents choose cooking class but if there is easy way to cook at home with kids, parents can share time with family members more.

problem6
Children tends to ask for help to parents and teacher when they encounter burdensome of difficult task. Problem solving ability is basic for creativity development so need to provide contents to help overcome fear and tiresome

problem7
Teachers keep care about safety and kids' task speed. In group class it is almost impossible to give freedom to kids, because they might hurt when they feel free to do other activity. Also, there is no one to one communication between teacher and kids. It is almost one-way communication. 

Each of 11 categories is problem of ‘self leading’ that is important factor for kids’ activity, especially for educational effects.

After that, I found each sub category of them and I linked cause and effect from each sub category problem. Fortunately, each cause and effect connected easily and the root cause was inferred from the data link. The inference problem can be my service aim. I draw one more graph with stakeholder, which is kids, parents, and teacher, so I could find visible problem relationship among the stakeholders in kids cooking class.

1. Consider characteristics  of each children.

2. Consider personal development characteristics ( Those two problem can be tied into one category)

3. Reinforce safety for  freedom in kids activities

4. Reinforce safety for  freedom in kids activities

5. Burdenless kids home cooking

6. Improvement contents to overcome fear and annoyingness

7. Improvement contents to overcome fear and annoyingness

All aim from the coding could be inked to ‘self directed’ and every problem were discouragement factors of ‘self directed’. From ‘self directed’ I could explain problem of kids cooking class and cause of the problem so it could be the concept of selective coding.

I have to check coding one more time to check whether I missed important part.

[Grouping and priority marking]

[Solution stakeholder map]

I can summary my research and finding as ;

In kids cooking class, kids' 'self directed' is important factor for maximize educational effect of cooking. 

And there are 3 factors that is boosting self directed cooking activities, which is 1 Interesting before and after activities. 2 Overcome group class's limitation. 3 Develop tools and contents.

And among the 3 concepts, cleanliness is essential factors.

Things to do;

1.     Make storytelling presentation

2.     Find supported information from articles/ scholars.

3.     Choose academic words.

4.     Concept visualisation. (data analysis and attach photos and video clip to understand easily.)

5.     Choose appropriate ways among 7 problems. (Which is easy to approach in service fields. Which is more interesting)

6.     Ideation to some degree.