Women's Anger on the K to12 Implementation: An interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In the full implementation of the K to 12 Program which mandated in the Republic Act 10553 also known as the Basic Enhancement Education Act of 2013, some parent-mothers have strong emotional negative reactions. The researcher witnessed how this inner feeling among mothers contributes to the successful implementation of the said program. In this study, the researcher explored the reasons why parent-mothers felt angry about the recent revamp of the Philippine education and how it affects the program implementation.

METHODS

A qualitative design was used in this research with two types of sampling; the snowball and purposive samplings. These types were utilized in data gathering to ensure the validity of the data gathered. An initial personal interview was being conducted by the researcher to the one woman-mother who was identified as an appropriate respondent for the study. After this, a recommendation from the identified sample as to the qualifications of other samples will be secured upon the verification of the researcher. Using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) by Smith and Osborn (2007), the researcher harvested data from the three interview transcripts in which carefully analyzed through the help of MAXQDA10 -A SOFTWARE which analyzed and coded written transcripts.

RESULTS

In the questions on why mothers got angry with the K to 12 Program implementations, four themes emerged. The following were; poverty, stressors, lack of government support and lack of information dissemination. These results and findings would greatly affect the full implementation of the K to 12 program of the Department of Education (Department of Education) because mothers negated the advantages of the program that it may bring primarily to their children's education.

DISCUSSIONS

The yielded result of this study emphasized the need for an immediate intervention program in addressing the anger of mothers towards the K to 12 Program implementations. These intervention programs would be collaboratively initiated by the administrators of theDepartment of Education and the Local Government Unit officials.In order to have a triangulation, there should be A Quantitative Research on Women' anger as a confirmatory study to the result of this research.