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Why a qualitative research strategy?: A discussion on research strategies, focusing on qualitative research; a challenge for the maritimecluster
World Maritime University.
2004 (Engelska)Ingår i: Proceedings of The 5th Annual General Assembly and Conference International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), 2004, s. 142-154Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2004. s. 142-154
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Pedagogik
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39071OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-39071DiVA, id: diva2:1516472
Konferens
5th Annual General Assembly and Conference International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU); Launceston, Australia, 8-11 November 2004
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1. A Mixed Crew Complement: A maritime safety challenge and its impact on maritime education and training
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2006 (Engelska)Licentiatavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

The human factor/human element starts to have a key role in accidents and incidents during shipments at sea. Investigations show that poor communications increasingly are the root for many tragedies. A possible reason for communication constraints is the growing trend to employ multicultural crews. This thesis aims to document this new challenge in the maritime industry and to endeavour to show how the Maritime Education and Training (MET) can address the problem. The lack of a company crewing policy entails a variation in management standards; it causes confusion. Therefore, it is commonly advised that a common working language be used and expressed in the company policy. It is not only substandard communication that lies behind accidents but also a lack of cultural awareness and “wrong” stereotyping. This is a worrying situation. Researchers in the maritime field have tried to quantify and describe the risks and identify possible benefits with multicultural crews. Disappointingly, the results show a strong disharmony. The industry appears not to be capable of coping with diversity or hesitates to balance eventual advantages with eventual risks. The reason could be that past research studies rather confuse the industry, instead of giving useful guidance. The research strategy, that has been used to find pros and cons in multicultural crews, perhaps has not been the best suited. This thesis aims to propagate for a professionally applied inductive strategy to phenomena related to human factor constraints in the shipping industry. This thesis is also urging MET institutions to conduct courses in cultural awareness and increase the learning goal in English to something more than bare basic. With World Maritime University (WMU) students as the prime research object, it has been found that studying in a multicultural environment is not problem free but instead creates an opportunity to increase the students’ communicative competence. This research study looks at the aspects of psychology, language and pedagogy to conclude that there is a need for courses in cultural awareness. Most likely, multicultural crews in the shipping industry are an irreversible trend. The solutions presented in this thesis focus on communications and cultural awareness and the point made is that, if courses in these two subject areas are not introduced in MET, a mixed crew will continue to be a risk factor hazarding safety at sea. The implication of the results, from a WMU point of view, is that extended understanding of different cultures is a needed subject for both students and teachers. The present, high level of study contact time makes the need for such courses even more important.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2006
Serie
Malmö Studies in Educational Sciences: Licentiate Dissertation Series, ISSN 1653-6037 ; 3
Nyckelord
multiculture, communication, shipping, education, teacher, seafarer, context, maritime
Nationell ämneskategori
Pedagogik
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7647 (URN)5962 (Lokalt ID)978-91-976140-4-7 (ISBN)5962 (Arkivnummer)5962 (OAI)
Tillgänglig från: 2020-02-28 Skapad: 2020-02-28 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-27Bibliografiskt granskad

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