{"id":5160,"date":"2019-02-25T23:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:14:21","slug":"focus-group-discussion-in-kapan-with-pupils-their-parents-and-pedagogues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/5160.html","title":{"rendered":"Focus Group Discussion in Kapan with Pupils, Their Parents and Pedagogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the scope of a sub-grant allocated by the &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; project funded by the European Union, on 25 February 2019, the &#8220;Kapan Teachers&#8221; NGO held focus group discussions foreseen by the &#8220;Budget Accessible for All&#8221; in N1 Main School of Kapan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Members of the pedagogical, student and parent councils of the N 1 Main School of Kapan participated in the focus group discussions, 42 participants in total.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Magda Gevorgyan, the President of the &#8220;Kapan Teachers&#8221; NGO, gave a welcome speech. She thanked the meeting participants for welcoming the project idea and the willingness to cooperate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Afterwards, Gevorg Grigoryan, Nune Sargsyan, Hakob Davtyan and Eleonora Danielyan, the monitors and interviewers of the &#8220;Budget Accessible for All&#8221; project held 4 focus group discussions in N1 Main School of Kapan with pupils, pedagogues, parents and management board members in the following groups:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">School&#8217;s student council\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">School&#8217;s pedagogical council\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">School&#8217;s parent council\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">School&#8217;s management board\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the scope of focus group discussions, the questionnaires designed by the project sociologist, were filled out with the participants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The focus group discussions were implemented through an in-person interviews which were recorded, edited and filmed by monitor-interviewers.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The meeting participants asked the monitor-interviewers their questions, which were related to the methodology of\u00a0 budget design, approval and monitoring of accountability processes in public educational institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Meeting participants completed the attendance sheets, thus confirming their participation in focus group discussions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the end of the meeting, the parties attached importance to such meetings in the scope of the project, highly valuing the importance and effectiveness of the project, in addition to expressing willingness to continue their joint work within the project, for the purpose of efficient realisation of the project activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the scope of a sub-grant allocated by the &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; project funded by the European Union, on 25 February 2019, the &#8220;Kapan Teachers&#8221; NGO held focus group discussions foreseen by the &#8220;Budget Accessible for All&#8221; in N1 Main School of Kapan.\u00a0 Members of the pedagogical, student and parent councils of the N &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-kapan","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}