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A Phenomenological Study
on How School Dropout
Became Successful in the
Field of Food Business
around Metro Manila
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Chapter I
The Problem and Its Background
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Background of the Study
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• The "Iceberg Theory of Success" will give you
a chance to acknowledge that is so imperative
to do 'whatever it takes' if you aim to succeed
(Meuller, 2017).
• Anyone can be successful if they want to.
• Change the mindset of the people that a
school dropout can be successful.
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Statement of the Purpose
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• Understand and discover the lived experiences of school dropouts in metro manila.
• Central Problem
∞ How did school dropout became successful in their food business?
• Sub-problems
∞ What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a school dropout in the field of
food business?
∞ What are the different problems that you have faced in the field of food business?
∞ What make you become successful in your chosen field despite of being a school
dropout? 4 4
Theoretical Framework
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• Steve Mueller's Iceberg Theory of Success
(2017) is about how others see a successful
individual and looking the business on how it
work successfully by hardwork and endeavors
of food business owners. The hypothesis will
allow you to recognize that it is so basic to do
"whatever it takes" in the event that you
expect to succeed (Meuller, 2017).
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Guiding Framework
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Phenomenon
Experiences of Successful School Dropout in
Manila
The Study to Understand Why School Dropout
Became Successful in Field of Food Business
around Manila
Interview using a validated aide memoir
Data Interpretation
How School Dropouts became successful
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Scope and Delimitation
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• This study will use 5 school dropouts who became successful in the field of food
business around Metro Manila.
• Experiences
• Motivations
• The researchers will focus on people whose ages are ranging from 46 to 76 years
old.
• This research excluded people who are under 46 years old 7 7
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Chapter II
Review of Related Literatures
and Studies
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Related Studies
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• What Is The Secret Behind Successful Students?
One effective element for success is to have a goals and plans (Goodin, 2012).
• How I Became A Successful Entrepreneur Without A College Degree
College does not always dictate future success. Whether you attend or not, you can
be successful. (Smartt, 2017).
• The Education of Millionaires
Nowadays the wrong belief of having a good grades, study hard, get into college and
have a degree will surely makes people successful, but really you need to learn real
world skills (Ellsberg, 2012). 9 9
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Chapter III
Research Methodology
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Research Design
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• Phenomenology as an approach
• Interviews
• Qualitative research
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Participants of the Study
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• School Dropout
• Ages ranging from 46 to 76 years old
• 5 random participants
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Sampling Procedure
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• Purposive sampling; judgmental, selective
• Specific criteria
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Researchers’ Role
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• Explore the lived experiences of school dropouts that
became successful in the field of food business.
• Provide a consent letter
• Data and information will be confidential
• Questions
∞ Not bias to the researchers
∞ Will not harm or offend the participant
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Data Gathering Procedure
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• Consent letter
• The aide memoire will be the guide to complete the central purpose of
the study.
• Conduct the interview
• Respect the decision of the participants
• Maximum of 1 hour per meeting
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Data Validation Procedure
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• 3 validation procedures
∞ Member checking
∞ Cross-checking procedure
∞ Peer debriefing technique
• The gathered data will be validated
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Data Analysis Procedure
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• The researchers will analyze the data through
interpretative phenomenological data analysis
• Process of analyzing the collected data
∞ Read all the responses
∞ Evaluate
∞ Transcribe
∞ Conclusion
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Chapter IV
Presentation, Interpretation and
Analysis of Data
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E. C. P. A.
Achievement
Challenges
Perseverance
Endeavor
With the use of thematic analysis, it revealed four (4) themes that describe the
experiences and ways of school dropouts before they achieve their success. In the
findings you can learn strategies and what the struggles they face. Therefore, the
researchers generated a theme are the following: Endeavor, Challenges, 1919
Perseverance and Achievement called E. C. P. A. model.
E. C. P. A. model
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• Endeavor
• This refers on the ways on how school dropouts keep on going to become
successful despite of their condition, their condition is their motivation to keep on
going. Endeavor in the model is represented by the feet of the school dropout that
make them to keep on going to push the rock which is the problem of the school
dropout in achieving their success.
• Challenges
• The theme challenges refer to all the problems faced by the participants. The
Challenge of the school dropouts from establishing their businesses is difficult.
The challenges symbolized as the rock because it stop or blocks the school
dropout to achieve success or reach achievements but the participants must not
stop there, they must keep pushing harder. 20
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E. C. P. A. model
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• Perseverance
• The next theme is Perseverance, as the participants have to persevere that refers
to the theme perseverance where the participants need to overcome all the
challenge in pursuing to be successful in life. . The hands of the school dropout
represent perseverance in not quitting on the challenges and keep pushing all the
challenge to achieve success.
• Achievement
• This theme refers to the success that the school dropouts had achieved in their
business despite of their challenges and condition. This model symbolizes the
peak of the mountain that means the success of their life through their business
by overcoming the challenges that they had faced.
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Chapter V
Summary of Findings, Conclusion and
Recommendations
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Conclusion
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• This phenomenological study came up with the model of the representation E. C.
P. A. which describes the lived experiences of school dropouts in the field of
business. This study concluded the experiences and came up with the following
conceptual themes: Endeavor, Challenges, Perseverance and Achievement.
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Recommendations
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• For the Future Food Business Owners:
• They should share effective ways on how to make a food business become
successful.
• They should have traits like determination, passion and resilient in order for
the business to be successful.
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Recommendations
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• For the Future Researchers:
• They can make this study wider and deeper by adding additional data that will
give aid to the study
• They can add more participants to have a variety of answers to their sub-
questions.
• They can use this study as a basis for their review of related literature and
studies.
• They are also encouraged to make their scope out of Metro Manila.
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Recommendations
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• For the School Dropouts:
• They should continue to aim for their goal in becoming successful even though
they were not able to graduate from college.
• They should learn how to bounce back from the challenges that they are
experiencing.
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Recommendations
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• For the Students:
• They should know and prepare themselves if they are deciding to start a food
business of their own.
• They should not easily give up on their studies and aim to finish their studies for
better opportunities because in the real world it is not all about the mind learn
from experiences and let those experiences be your teacher
• They should get motivation and inspiration from this study because they can
use this study to be motivated because if we can do it they can do it also
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Recommendations
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• For the Readers:
• They should know how school dropouts overcome the problems that they have
faced in terms of business, family and general public.
• They should know that even though a person is a school dropout, they can
also be successful through hard work.
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THANK YOU AND GOD
BLESS!!
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