bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La estrategia desestabilizadora en Venezuela: propaganda y controversia en la acción contrainsurgente. Del constitucionalismo gaditano a la consolidación republicana, 1810-1828
Authors: Barrera Parrilla Beatriz , Navarro García Jesús Raúl
Published: April 2022

El estudio de la trayectoria ideológica del médico, burócrata y escritor venezolano José Domingo Díaz permite adentrarnos en el mundo de la propaganda y del periodismo en la época insurgente. Su visión “realista” y proespañola del incipiente proceso republicano nos aporta el contraste necesario para vislumbrar una perspectiva que se abre paso con empeño en las historiografías republicanas, marcadas ante todo por el culto a los padres de la patria. Un estudio detallado como el que ofrecemos en este trabajo permite evaluar en su justa medida el aporte de estos ideólogos monárquicos al mejor conocimiento de los procesos insurgentes, de las conexiones entre propaganda, espionaje y guerra, de los mecanismos que estuvieron al alcance de unos y otros para hacerse con el apoyo de la población, para manipular los acontecimientos y las opiniones. Fuera de todo color político, la utilización de las fuentes de propaganda “realista” ofrece una magnífica oportunidad de poder renovar los estudios políticos e ideológicos del primer tercio del siglo XIX en buena parte de los países de América Latina, recuperando del olvido a muchos intelectuales realistas totalmente ignorados en ambos lados del Atlántico.
La Barranquilla visual de las primeras décadas del siglo XX
Authors: Luquetta Cediel David J. , Vidal Ortega Antonino , Forbes Castillo Edwin
Published: April 2022

Memoria visual de Barranquilla a comienzos de siglo XX
Administración pública, desarrollo económico y corrupción en el archipiélago de San Andrés 1926 - 1927. Johannie James Cruz & Raúl Román Romero
Authors: Deávila Orlando
Published: April 2022

Reseña del libro “Administración pública, desarrollo económico y corrupción en el archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina. 1926-1927”.
La integración regional a comienzos del siglo XXI: MERCOSUR y UNASUR
Authors: Bermúdez Torres César Augusto
Published: April 2022

Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, se presentaron proyectos de integración en América Latina a la luz del concepto "Panamericanismo" y estrechamente ligados al surgimiento de Estados Unidos como potencia mundial. Para la segunda mitad de siglo, después de la creación de la Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), aparecieron proyectos que bajo el apellido “latinoamericana” (ALALC, ALADI), reflejaron la renovación de los propósitos de integración. No obstante, reaparecieron dificultades para la comunidad regional. Actualmente, existen dos proyectos en proceso de formación para destacar: el Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR, en 1994), que ha continuado muy a pesar de las variadas dificultades que se le presentan, entendidas muchas de éstas por su reciente constitución. Y hace poco surgió un nuevo proyecto: la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, (UNASUR, en 2008), que alterna como propuesta de integración con la Alternativa Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA, en 2004). Estos ambiciosos proyectos interactúan de frente al variopinto espectro político-ideológico de la región suramericana. El objetivo es hacer un análisis de los dos recientes proyectos de integración teniendo presente el contexto político-ideológico de la región y su repercusión en el proceso de formación de los mismos.
1875 Los Estados de la costa y el conflicto político con Santiago Pérez
Authors: Rueda Cáceres Dayana Angélica
Published: April 2022

Durante el periodo federal colombiano, a los Estados Soberanos de Panamá, Bolívar y Magdalena, se les identificó como Estados costeños, Estados del Norte o Estados del Atlántico. Panamá mantuvo fuertes vínculos con los demás Estados costeños auxiliándolos con material bélico, hombres y dinero en caso que fue necesario en las destinas contiendas ocurridas durante el periodo de 1855 – 1885. En el presente artículo se intenta a través de los acontecimientos políticos y bélicos de 1875, señalar, la participación de las Fuerzas del Estado soberano de Panamá en esta contienda y la relación u alianza político militar que mantuvieron los denominados Estados costeños. Dado que 1875 es un año bastante agitado, nos centraremos en el descontento de los Estados de la Costa con el Presidente de la Unión, Santiago Pérez, quien, según los primeros, buscaba favorecer tanto en campaña como en las urnas, la candidatura de Aquileo Parra como su sucesor frente a la emblemática figura del recién llegado al país Rafael Núñez, después de 10 años de ausencia.
La Princesa Ingérmina y Alonso El Conquistador. Una aculturación amorosa
Authors: López Restrepo Alba Doris
Published: April 2022

En este artículo se analiza la novela Ingérmina o la hija de Calamar, de Juan José Nieto, en el contexto de la discusión sobre la novela histórica del siglo XIX como propuesta de construcción de una nación. Se pregunta por el papel de la relación entre Eros y Polis, característica del romance histórico, como búsqueda de la unión que signifique la consolidación de un proyecto nacional.
¿Cómo analizar la influencia de los actores e ideas internacionales en la formación de políticas educativas nacionales? Una propuesta de un marco de análisis y su aplicación a un caso de El Salvador
Authors: Edwards Jr. D. Brent
Published: April 2022

Este articulo aborda las distintas perspectivas desarrolladas por académicos acerca de cómo los actores y las ideas internacionales afectan los procesos nacionales que dan como resultado las políticas educativas. Específicamente, se elaboran cuatro perspectivas distintas de la literatura sobre políticas educativas para luego sugerir que la combinación de estas perspectivas puede servir para generar un modelo analítico sobre cómo los actores e ideas internacionales impactan la formación de políticas educativas a nivel nacional. Las cuatro perspectivas presentadas son: (a) la atracción de política, (b) la negociación de política, (c) la imposición de política y (d) la hibridación de política. El segundo propósito de este ensayo tiene que ver con la definición del fenómeno primordial al cual todas las perspectivas pertenecen. Se propone la necesidad de especificar una definición de este fenómeno porque, aún cuando hay varias perspectivas acerca de la influencia de los actores e ideas internacionales en la formación de políticas educativas nacionales, no hay un lenguaje común para discutir este fenómeno ni un entendimiento claro alrededor de los límites conceptuales. El término planteado y delineado aquí para referir al fenómeno que cada perspectiva tiene como su enfoque central es procesos internacionales de formación de políticas educativas.  El tercer propósito del presente articulo es aplicar el marco presentado al caso de la formación del Plan 2021 en El Salvador entre 2003–2005. Finalmente, se presentan tres mecanismos para explicar las dinámicas de la formulación de políticas educativas nacionales, a saber: la filtración, la reverberación y la legitimación estructural.
“We Brought It Upon Ourselves”: University-Based Teacher Education and the Emergence of Boot-Camp-Style Routes to Teacher Certification
Authors: Friedrich Daniel
Published: April 2022

The proliferation of boot-camp-style routes to teacher certification in the last two decades is seen by many university-based teacher educators as the result of the advancement of conservative interests aimed at de-professionalizing teaching. This essay argues that this view only accounts for one piece of the answer, the other one being that some of the foundational assumptions embedded in most university-based teacher education programs actually opened the doors for the boiling down of teacher preparation to the bare minimum. By situating the psychological sciences at the foundations of pedagogical knowledge and positioning them as the privileged lens to understand the learning subject, university-based teacher education has paved the way to its own disappearance. Both traditional and alternative routes to teaching can be understood, then, as part of the same system of thought, one that needs to be cracked open in order to be able to imagine other possibilities.
It’s Not Education by Zip Code Anymore – But What is It? Conceptions of Equity under the Common Core
Authors: Kornhaber Mindy Laura , Griffith Kelly , Tyler Alison
Published: April 2022

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a standards-based reform in which 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have agreed to participate. The reform seeks to anchor primary and secondary education across these states in one set of demanding, internationally-benchmarked standards. Thereby, all students will be prepared for further learning and work in a competitive global economy regardless of the sociodemographic variation associated with their “zip code,” that is, the location of their neighborhood or school. This article examines the role and meaning of equity within the Common Core at a level beyond “zip code.” It does so using data from interviews with Common Core policy entrepreneurs and qualitative analysis of interview data. Findings are considered against a conceptual framework of equal, equalizing, and expansive views of equity. The findings indicate that policy entrepreneurs hold primarily an equal view of equity, in accord with meritocratic and functional purposes of schooling, more so than equalizing or expansive views. The latter views emphasize compensatory purposes that focus on narrowing achievement gaps. From this analysis, we identify the paradox of equity in education policy: The successful launch of a policy that relies on existing paradigms of standards-based reform and an equal conception of equity helps tether educational outcomes to student background.
Focusing on Short-term Achievement Gains Fails to Produce Long-term Gains
Authors: Grissmer David W , Beekman John A , Ober David R
Published: April 2022

The short-term emphasis engendered by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has focused research predominantly on unraveling the complexities and uncertainties in assessing short-term results, rather than developing methods and assessing results over the longer term. In this paper we focus on estimating long-term gains and address questions important to evaluating schools and identifying educational policies and practices that produce long-term sustained gains. Estimates are made of annual pass rates on state exams using fixed effect models for six years of pass rates at grades 3, 6, 8 and 10; the percentages of schools making statistically significant gains, gains, losses, and statistically significant losses in pass rates are determined. Estimates are contrasted using models that include and exclude demographic characteristics. The percentages of schools with statistically significant gains varied markedly from 38 to 6 at grades 6 and 10, respectively; the percentage of schools with statistically significant declines ranged from less than 8 percent at grades 3, 6, and 8, to 23 percent at grade 10. Including demographics increased the percentages of schools with statistically significant gains and lowered the percentages with statistically significant declines. The results suggest that schools with higher proportions of free-reduced lunch and minority students are more likely to have statistically significant gains with demographic controls. Estimates of pass rate trends are made using Monte Carlo simulations; from these simulations the percentages of schools that may be mislabeled as having statistically significant gains and losses are determined. Even with six years of trend data, results suggest that chance can still play a significant role in mislabeling school performance, especially in grades having weak overall trends.
TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH INNOVATIVE APPROACHES: AN EDUCATOR’S PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Authors: KAYA-CAPOCCI Sıla
Published: April 2022

A variety of teaching methods and strategies are used in the education department, but not transferred effectively from there to the other departments, such as business and economy. As educators’ pedagogical knowledge is as important as their subject knowledge to increase students’ learning of the subject studied, this study aims to improve educators’, particularly entrepreneurship educators’, pedagogical knowledge and support their professional development. In this paper, after presenting a brief understanding of entrepreneurship, teaching methods and strategies that are used in the business and economics departments are summarized. Four practical teaching methods and strategies, such as the jigsaw method, are drawn from education literature and exemplified to contribute to increasing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. This study contributes to the field by providing educators with practical and innovative teaching methods and strategies to help create higher-achieving, well-motivated students who have a higher tendency to transfer their entrepreneurial intention to entrepreneurship behaviour.
Usefulness of the eyeball exposure area as an eye measurement modality through a comparison between eyes with inborn double eyelids and operated double eyelids
Authors: Kim Se Hun , Han Dong Gil , Park Joo Hyuk
Published: April 2022

Background Many Korean women with single eyelids wish to have their eyes enlarged through double eyelidplasty, and many of them also want to have additional procedures in order to have a larger perceived size of their eyes, with the desire for their eyes to resemble those with inborn double eyelids. Thus, in this study, we performed eye measurements and evaluated the usefulness of the eyeball exposure area to differentiate the overall eye size according to the nature of double eyelids (inborn or operated).Methods This study involved 92 eyes with natural double eyelids (group A) and 76 eyes with only double eyelidplasty (group B). The two groups were compared through measurements of the exposed eyeball area (EEA) and palpebral fissure height (PFH). To compare the usefulness of the EEA for the perceived eye size, the PFH value was also measured by adjusting it to a percentage value.Results The mean value of the PFH was 9.95±0.67 mm in group A and 8.48±1.04 mm in group B. The adjusted percentage value of the PFH relative to the corneal diameter (11.3 mm) was 88.05% in group A and 75.04% in group B. The EEA was 85.59%±3.25% in group A and 82.89%±6.36% in group B. The difference between the two groups was 13.01% in terms of PFH and only 2.7% in terms of EEA.Conclusions The values of PFH and EEA were higher in group A, but EEA was more useful for evaluating the perceived eye size between the two groups.
“We have same background” as Japan’s propaganda to Indonesia
Authors: Rosalini Raisa Hashina
Published: April 2022

This paper analyzes how propaganda works during the war, focusing on Japanese propaganda during its occupation in Indonesia between 1943-1945 through the magazine. Using the text analysis approach, this paper tent to analyze how Djawa Baroe magazine, which consists of 250 articles, works as a propaganda tool in doctrine and mobilizes its dominated society. The research was conducted through three stages of analysis and later analyzed through critical discourse analysis. It can be seen that Japan uses Djawa Baroe magazine as a propaganda tool by showing a variety of persuasion, doctrine, proximity aspect, and the implementation of Japanese cultural influences in Indonesian society. In conclusion, the propaganda strategy used by Japan during its occupation in Indonesia can be seen from the style of language, the article’s content, the use of provocative or persuasion sentences and images, and the information displayed in articles.
A Reflection on Teaching Practices in Middle Schools in Disadvantaged Areas - With a Focus on the Level of the Cohort Compared to That of the Single Class
Authors: Auriac-Slusarczyk Emmanuèle , Maire Hélène , Barroche Inès , Haptel Lison , Hudry-Critoux Tiphaine , Slusarczyk Bernard
Published: April 2022

This article addresses the question of the adaptation in a teacher's pedagogical practices of sixth-grade pupils in priority education zones. This research approach, within the framework of a research intervention program, sought to verify the correlation between pupils’ cognitive, language skills, and their ability to benefit from different philosophical teaching practices. Two types of measures are deployed in relation to sixth-grade pupils. Two standardized tests (language: linguistic/comprehension - EVAC and ECL-2 tests - measure of global fluid intelligence - Raven's matrix test) evaluate the scores. This assessment is cross-referenced with the measurement of the pupils’ academic skills in language and mathematics assigned by teachers. Our results are based on a full sample of 124 pupils in seven classes, sometimes reduced to 90 pupils by removing pupils from linguistic minorities. The results indicate, by comparing two samples, significant differences in the levels of the pupils in priority education zones compared to standard scores: a minimum gap of 20 percentiles is noted for each subtest, which implies a form of delay in the academic performance of the pupils in priority education zones. Compared to the general average of French sixth-grade pupils, a lack of lexical skills is particularly apparent, indicating a form of abandonment. A differentiation is apparent between the different classes tested. Therefore, the scale of the class or schooling context must therefore be distinguished and studied separately. We discuss the desirability of identifying more precise pupil profiles, to enable teachers to move beyond an overly global view of the class.
Improving stakeholder participation in schools: Intentionally inviting practices of school heads in Cape Coast and Ajumako school districts, Ghana
Authors: Amakyi Michael , Ampah-Mensah Alfred , Bakah Marie Baah
Published: April 2022

A sequential mixed-method design adopting a non-experimental survey and a basic interpretive study was used to explore the intentionally inviting practices of school heads of the Cape Coast metropolis and Ajumako district. Data were collected using 2 X 2 Intentionally-Inviting Matrix and semi-structured interview protocols.

Data collected from the survey were analysed using frequency counts, while the data from the interview were analyzed and put into themes that provided a description on how the adopted practices promote stakeholder participation. The study findings revealed that school heads in Cape Coast metropolis and Ajumako district adopt intentionally inviting practices that address the physical frame of the school, communication with stakeholders, and building relationship with stakeholders to promote stakeholder involvement in schools. The study further revealed that the adopted practices of the school heads foster a sense of pride in the stakeholders to be connected to the school. The practices also increase stakeholder confidence and trust in the school head. The Ghana Education Service should replicate the study in other school districts to identify the practices that support stakeholder participation in schools and also conduct a similar study to elicit the perceptions of stakeholders on practices that enhance their participation in schools.
Comprehensive Perception Approach of Adoption: Innovative Wrap & Plant Technology for Nematodes Management on Yam
Authors: Dedehouanou Houinsou , Affokpon Antoine
Published: April 2022

ABSTRACT

A new agricultural practice, wrap & plant technology, was experimented in yam fields on three different sites in the centre-north of Benin. These sites were "Savalou", site 1, "Savè", site 2 and “Glazoué”, site 3. The research sought to highlight the perception of various actors from the vegetative to the culinary phases. Two improved practices were introduced: treatment A (wrapping of seed yam cv. Klatchi with banana-fibre paper, impregnated with micro-doses of abamectin), treatment B (wrapping of seed yam of cv. Klatchi using banana-fibre paper alone). On the basis of a Comparative Appraisal Index (CBI), that is, the practice introduced was well appreciated by enumerators if the difference in perception scores of characteristics was greater than zero. In terms of results, treatment A seemed to be the most popular practice on sites 1 and 2. On site 3, treatment B seemed to substitute for A. While in the first two sites, the sensory characteristics of dishes and the agro-morphological descriptors constituted a main component of favourable perception, the descriptors from agro-morphological and harvest phases were very much important at site 3. In terms of the decision to adopt a treatment, it depended significantly amongst other socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents on the sex, number of years of experience, membership in an association, level of education, other income generating activity and the site. For future expansion of introduced practices, agricultural research needs to address socioeconomic characteristics and to improve agro-morphological descriptors.

Key-words: Abamectin, actors, Dioscorea spp., nematode management, sensory selectivity, Benin
Attractiveness index of national marine parks: A study on national marine parks in coastal areas of East China Sea
Authors: Wang Li , Wang Guodong , Hou Xiaohong , Chen Zhiwei , Lu Kai
Published: April 2022

Balancing the development and protection of national marine parks in a suitable way is of great SIGNIFICANCE for environmental sustainability. Tourism attractiveness is an important indicator for measuring this development. In this study, by searching through online reviews of the national marine parks in the coastal areas of the East China Sea, and by analyzing tourists’ perceptions of them, an indicator system for tourism attraction was established. Natural attributes, supporting facilities, service experience, and tours were taken as secondary indicators. This study combines the analytic hierarchy process with questionnaires to calculate the attractiveness index of national marine parks. The study finds that national marine parks in the coastal areas of the East China Sea have a higher level of tourist satisfaction and attractiveness, but that more attention needs to be paid to supporting facilities, as tourists currently find them insufficient. Among these, natural attributes are an important factor affecting the attractiveness of the marine parks, while special cuisine, customer experience, public transportation, and attitudes are all indicators with higher weight within the attractiveness index. The tourism attractiveness of national marine parks was investigated quantitatively and the indicators affecting the tourism attractiveness index were illustrated clearly.
Quantitative discrimination of the influences of climate change and human activity on rocky desertification based on a novel feature space model
Authors: Wen Ye , Guo Bing , Zang Wenqian , Lai Jibao , Li Ran
Published: April 2022

Under the stress of the global change, rocky desertification has become a serious environmental problem in the Karst Mountain area. At present, few remote sensing monitoring research works on rocky desertification based on feature space model have been conducted and reported. In this study, the Albedo-LST feature space remote sensing monitoring index based on point-point model has been proposed, and subsequently the spatio–temporal evolution pattern and driving mechanism of rocky desertification in Dafang district from 1986 to 2019 were analyzed. The results show that: (1) The point-point Albedo-LST feature space model of rocky desertification has good applicability with the overall accuracy of 90.79%; (2) From 1986 to 2019, the rocky desertification in Dafang district first showed an increasing trend (1986–2005) and then a decreasing trend (2005–2019); (3) The comprehensive evolution frequency of rocky desertification during 2001–2005 was the largest with 7.51% a−1, which was related to the implementation of the Grain for Green Project; (4) The single factor with the largest contribution rates to rocky desertification are land use type, landform, and temperature. The interactive factors with the largest explanatory power are temperature ∩ land use type and landform ∩ land use type. The research results can provide decision support for the prevention and control of rocky desertification in Southwest China.
Research on fault detection and identification methods of nonlinear dynamic process based on ICA
Authors: Xie Chao , Zhang Rui , Bhola Jyoti
Published: April 2022

In the present study, nonlinear dynamic process data are mapped into the kernel state space by kernel gauge variable analysis method to obtain decorrelated state data. The time-lapse covariance matrix of the state data is weighted and summed to obtain the time-lapse structure matrix of the state data, and then supervised kernel independent component analysis (SKICA) is established, the independent component feature data is extracted from the status data and the monitoring statistics are constructed to detect the process faults. The data show that kernel independent component analysis (ICA) method (KICA) method can detect slow fault faster than the ICA method, except that the statistical detection ability of F3 and FS is reduced, and the KICA method can significantly improve the detection performance of other faults and statistics. By analyzing the detection results of SKICA method, it is obvious that in the detection process of all five kinds of slow faults, the fault detection capability of SKICA is better than that of ICA and KICA. The results of continuous stirred reactor simulation system show that, compared with the basic linear process, the slow fault detection has a good monitoring performance, it can detect the small deviation in the process sensitively and give alarm information to the slow fault in time, to improve the fault detection rate.
Finite-size effects in one-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensation of photons
Authors: Liu Zhi-Jie , Xie Mi
Published: April 2022

The finite-size effect plays a key role in one-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of photons since such condensation cannot occur in the thermodynamic limit due to the linear dispersion relation of photons. However, since a divergence difficulty arises, the previous theoretical analysis of the finite-size effect often only gives the leading-order contribution. In this article, by using an analytical continuation method to overcome the divergence difficulty, we give an analytical treatment for the finite-size effect in BEC. We show that the deviation between experiment and theory becomes much smaller by taking into account the next-to-leading correction.
Citizen Taxonomy in Social Media
Authors: dela Cruz Thomas Edison E. , Olayta Carlo Oliver M.
Published: April 2022

Citizen science is a research collaboration between scientists and volunteers who provide data for education, conservation, and environmental protection. Volunteers, often the locals in the area, provide data on species occurrence while researchers perform distribution mapping or other data analysis. Social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr can be used as platforms for the public to share their photos of species and for scientists to aid in identification. In this article, we show how social media groups can be used to generate data on species distribution of myxomycetes.
Microplastics, Marine Copepods & Freshwater Cladocerans
Authors: Goddard Kathryn
Published: April 2022

Microplastic particles (MPs) less than 5 mm in size swirl and bob in freshwaters and seas around the world. To familiarize college biology students with the pressing issue of microplastic pollution and designing their own experiments, I assigned investigatation into whether marine copepods (Tigriopus californicus) or freshwater cladocerans (Daphnia magna) ingest MPs in the laboratory.

Groups of students produced a title, hypothesis, and annotated bibliography. They developed their experiments in a project planning table. They carried out three weeks of experiments. Students wrote papers or gave poster presentations. They wrote reflections that revealed expected gains, such as recognition of the importance of sample size, and more nuanced gains, such as developing personal views on working with live organisms.

The students found that 20 μm of blue MPs could be seen within the digestive tract and released fecal pellets of Tigriopus californicus within 24 hours. And, 20 μm of red MPs accumulated in the digestive tract of Daphnia magna within two days. The ingestion did not increase death rates over controls (in keeping with much published research on this topic). Students had the opportunity to see and reflect on the direct interaction of organisms with plastic pollution.
An Ecological Succession Lesson from a Beaver’s Point of View
Authors: Schmidt Hannah , Heinrich Kaleb K. , Reynolds Jennifer , Howeth Jennifer G.
Published: April 2022

Ecological succession explored at the secondary and postsecondary level is often limited to terrestrial ecosystems. The emphasis is traditionally placed on how deforestation leads to ecological succession. However, aquatic ecological succession is just as important and allows for many connections to be made with other ecological concepts. Succession initiated by beavers (Castor canadensis) in particular links both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems over time. We present a guide to an inquiry-based lesson for AP Environmental Science and undergraduate ecology courses that explores the effects of aquatic and terrestrial ecological succession initiated by deforestation and beavers. Specifically, the focus is ecological succession and its effects in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In this lesson, students (1) engage with a preassessment and broad overview of ecological succession, (2) explore authentic research data representing secondary succession in beaver ponds, (3) explain data using detective activities, (4) elaborate with a mystery pond, and (5) evaluate their new understanding by comparing a pre- and postassessment. This lesson plan meets the objectives for AP Environmental Science Biology courses as well as the core concepts and competencies for undergraduate biology education from the Vision and Change report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.
Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived
Authors: Watts Galen
Published: April 2022

More than thirty years ago, in their best-selling Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah and his colleagues coined the phrase “Social Science as Public Philosophy” (SSPP). They proposed it as an alternative to the “professional sociology” they believed had become increasingly hegemonic; too many sociologists, they contended, mistakenly embraced an ideal of social science modelled on the natural sciences. Instead, they championed a vision of sociology in which “the boundary between social science and philosophy was still open”—a vision they traced back to the classical works of Tocqueville, Durkheim, and others. Though rhetorically tantalizing and rich with critical potential, unfortunately SSPP remains undertheorized and thus neglected. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to systematically reconstruct, refine, and ultimately revive the sociological vision underlying SSPP. This vision consists of five pillars: (1) a rejection of the dualist aspiration to separate facts from values, in favour of an interpretive-cum-normative conception of social science; (2) a view of sociology as grounded in, and motivated by, specific traditions of ethical and philosophical inquiry; (3) transparency regarding the sociologist’s theoretical and normative commitments, and a willingness to subject them to public scrutiny; (4) an immanent conception of social criticism, which values identification rather than detachment; and (5) a commitment to democracy, substantively conceived. I contend that SSPP remains a vital resource for sociology today.
Chad after Idriss Déby
Authors: Scheele Judith
Published: April 2022

On April 20, 2021, as he was preparing to commence his sixth term in office, it was officially announced that Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno had died on the battlefield. He was immediately and unconstitutionally replaced by his son, General Mahamat Idriss Déby, at the head of a fourteen-strong transitional military council, to great international acclaim. This contribution attempts to spell out what this series of events and Déby’s career can tell us about current Chadian politics and the nature of the Chadian state more generally.
Disability Rights and Wrongs in Uganda
Authors: Zoanni Tyler
Published: April 2022

Uganda’s disability story is justly celebrated. The country has ratified some of the most progressive disability laws and policies in the world, and it is home to a robust disability activist movement. Disability is also highly visible in mass media and public life. At the same time, however, these laws, activism, and publicity have not significantly changed the lives of most disabled Ugandans. Uganda’s story is important in its own right, but it also illustrates some of the possibilities and limitations of the rights-based paradigm that now dominates disability activism and politics around the world.
Migrant Insubordination
Authors: Bracamontes Damian Vergara
Published: April 2022

Hunger strikes in detention centers across the nation have captivated media and scholarly attention. This article examines hunger strikes as signs of the development of both alliances and collective consciousness. Based on migrant testimonies, this article centers migrants in detention as critical social analysts who are crafting life affirming relationalities and launching staunch critiques of detention. This essay posits queer migrant kinship as a lens to interpret migrant sociality in detention. Queer migrant kinship reveals the centrality of care practices and witnessing as key elements politicizing migrants. Through this interdependent sensibility, migrants perform acts of radical care such as sharing resources, promoting well-being, and providing advocacy. Through these acts, this essay argues, migrants are challenging detention as a space of death and neglect into one of insubordination.
Why Bother with Asian American Studies? Reflections on a Documentary Research Project
Authors: Sy Cherry Lou , Ho Annie , Johnson Niara , Leonard Joshua , Lopez Amanda , Squitire Bridge
Published: April 2022

This document catalogs the reflections of a team of students and one faculty member who researched the history of demands for an Asian American Studies program at Brooklyn College. The authors explain their initial interests in the Asian American Studies Program project, describe their learning process as well as the research methods used. They discuss how their commitment to the project transformed during the research process, as well as their reactions to the final documentary video product, Why Is There No Asian American Studies Program at Brooklyn College.
Singing Webern, Sounding Webern: Bethany Beardslee, Grace-Lynne Martin, and Marni Nixon, 1950–1957
Authors: Miller David H.
Published: April 2022

Anton Webern’s vocal music has long been overshadowed by the aphoristic miniatures and rigorously organized twelve-tone works—both largely instrumental genres—for which the composer is best known. Yet over half of Webern’s output consists of vocal works. During the 1950s, as composers and intellectuals celebrated the “instrumental” Webern, an alternative view of the composer was emerging through the performances of three soprano soloists. Bethany Beardslee gave posthumous premieres of three of Webern’s works in New York and recorded his Four Songs op. 12 for Dial Records. On the other side of the country, Grace-Lynne Martin and Marni Nixon performed works by Webern at the Evenings on the Roof in Los Angeles, and collaborated with Robert Craft on Columbia Records’ Anton Webern: The Complete Music. Beardslee, Martin, and Nixon adopted a variety of approaches to learning Webern’s famously difficult works, and their work paid off: all three sopranos earned praise for weathering the extreme technical challenges of Webern’s soprano lines while also delivering musically satisfying performances. Yet these performances have been largely forgotten in the decades since, as a consequence of changing attitudes toward postwar performance practices as well as the sometimes sexist views of male music critics. Nevertheless, the performances of these sopranos constituted a crucial step toward perspectives on Webern that are now current among contemporary performers and scholars, and understanding their contributions is essential to understanding the vocal side of Webern.
Does Incumbency Matter?
Authors: Benjamin Andrea , Carr Sydney L.
Published: April 2022

During the 2018 House of Representatives elections, the United States saw a larger influx of minority candidates than elections in recent years. Many of these candidates were non-incumbents who ran successful campaigns against long-standing incumbents. Using the 2018 Cooperative Election Study data (CCES), we analyze the likelihood of Black voters to support White candidates over minority candidates, with a focus on incumbency status. Previous research has found that Black voters tend to display a larger affinity to support minority candidates due to theories such as group identity and racial voting. Given what is known from the literature about Black voting patterns, our study sets out to determine the extent to which incumbency matters for Black voters in the 2018 Congressional House of Representative (HOR) elections. The findings of our analysis reveal that Black voters are significantly more likely to support Democratic POC candidates, and significantly less likely to support Democratic white incumbents as compared to white voters. The findings of our study illuminate that both the affinity to support minority candidates and incumbency matter to Black voters.
Assessing Students During Online Learning: A Case Study on a Linguistic Subject Teacher’s Experience
Authors: Aji Aulia Adilla , Basthomi Yazid
Published: April 2022

Online learning has caused major shifts, including the assessment process inside the English Language Teaching classroom. Through a series of in-depth interviews and thorough observations, this study explored a Linguistic Subject teacher’s experience in implementing an online assessment using a Learning Media System (LMS) application called Microsoft Teams. The use of the Microsoft Teams Application helped to improve efficiency in uploading the files of students’ assignments, correcting and giving feedback to their works. However, based on the interviews, some obstacles were found during the teaching, learning and evaluation process. These include network problems, shorter time of classes and massive collusion among students make the students’ performance in doing their assignments do not always reflect their understanding and ability. While network problems and shorter face to face interaction often hinder the teaching and learning process as well as the assessment of students’ active participation, the use of blended learning in the school required teachers to be more creative and assertive in the assessment process.
Using Praat for EFL English Pronunciation Class: Defining the Errors of Question Tags Intonation
Authors: Larassati Anisa , Setyaningsih Nina , Suryaningtyas Valentina Widya , Cahyono Setyo Prasiyanto
Published: April 2022

Expecting students to be able to speak English with proper pronunciation and intonation like native speakers is not an easy thing. So far, teaching English at the school level has focused on mastering grammar without focusing on language pronunciation (Silalahi, 2016, p. 163). Students in English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Dian Nuswantoro are required to take English Pronunciation course in their first semester. Based on the researchers’ teaching experience, one of the most common pronunciation errors was found in the intonation for question tags. This research aims to investigate students’ question tag pronunciation errors by using Praat software. It also tries to get the students’ perspective on the use of Praat as a teaching and learning aid for English Pronunciation course. This research employed qualitative descriptive method and used Dehe and Bettina (2013) research on English question tags as the analytical framework. The results showed that errors commonly occur on the pronunciation of down tags, both in conversation and sentences (68% and 53%). Meanwhile, the up tags errors were relatively lower (43%). It is most probably because the students were influenced by the intonation of Bahasa Indonesia, where questions were pronounced with rising intonation. However, after the students were introduced to Praat, the errors decreased significantly i.e., 7% for down tag in conversation, 13% for down tag in sentences, and 3% for up tags. The questionnaire reveals that students gave positive evaluation on the use of Praat in the classroom as it helped them evaluate their own pronunciation.
Needs Analysis Research in the Arab World (2000 – 2019): Contexts and Data Collection Instruments and Sources Triangulation
Authors: Mohammed Abuelgasim Sabah Elsaid
Published: April 2022

This study aimed at reporting the contexts of interest in needs analysis research (NAR) in the Arab World (2000 – 2019) and describing the adoption of triangulation in data collection instruments and data sources. A purposive sample of 48 published NAR was subjected to content analysis. Results revealed that needs analysis studies (NASs) in the Arab World (2000 – 2019) are interested in EAP context more than other contexts such as English for Medical Purposes (EMP) and English for Occupational Purposes (EOP). In addition, most of the NASs adopted one data collection tool and consulted outsiders as sources of data. In addition, the study found that there is lack of method and/or source interaction. In general, NAR in the Arab World suffers from several shortcomings. Based on these results, the study recommended that NA researchers in the Arab World should pay more attention to other ESP contexts. In addition, they need to address issues related to triangulation to lend reliability to their data.
I am my Own Voice: The Analysis of Imagery, Sound and Sense and Self-Culture from EFL Mindful Poetry
Authors: Piscayanti Kadek Sonia
Published: April 2022

This research is aimed at looking at poetry as a soul of society. It brings about the representation of selfculture in the poet’s life. It is the representation of mindfulness within the poet’s process of writing. In this specific article, I want to see how poetry can be seen as a soul of poetry from at least three perspectives, firstly from the imagery, secondly from sound and sense and thirdly from the self-culture. The method used in this research is narrative inquiry and the instruments used are interview guide and poetry writing rubrics. The result shows that the poets in this research used imagery, sound and sense and self-culture in their poetry as the voice of their own. At the same time they also feel that their voice matters, as the part of society.
Needs Analysis of English for Medical Purposes: A Student Perspective
Authors: Rinawati Rinawati , Trisnadi Setyo , Murwantono Didik
Published: April 2022

English has been integrated into medical curriculum in higher education in countries where English is not the official language of instruction. For medical students—non-English department students—English has been taught to meet specified academic and professional needs of learners in so-called English for specific purposes (ESP). To ensure that English program is relevant to the learner’s needs, a need analysis is required. This study aimed to investigate the English needs of the first-year medical students taking a compulsory program of English for academic purposes at Faculty of Medicine, Sultan Agung Islamic University. The data were collected using a questionnaire to assess the medical students’ purpose of learning English, the importance of learning English, language learning needs of major language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) and their preference of assessment type. The data were descriptively analyzed. Forty-five students consisting of 67 % female and 33% male completed the questionnaire. Most students (76%) used English when studying. All students agreed on the importance of English. The most important sub skill included reading technical article in medicine, listening to audio and listening oral presentation, giving spoken presentation, writing medical prescription. Individual achievement was the most preferred type of assessment. The medical students agreed on the importance of English specific purposes. The interpretation of findings will be useful for the design of English for specific purposes in the study setting.
Indonesian and Thai EFL Learners’ Extensive Listening through Podcasts: A Self-Directed English Learning
Authors: Andini Intan Ambaria , Burhanuddin Ahmad
Published: April 2022

When language learners regulate self-improvement activities in their spare time, a broader space for exploration emerges. The purpose of this paper is to present a narrative study of two young adult EFL learners from Indonesia and Thailand who routinely schedule extensive listening through podcasts for their self-directed English learning. Data for this study were gathered through the use of learners' learning diaries and interviews. They were also subjected to thematic analysis. The researcher claims that this study will provide empirical insights into the lived experiences of independent English learners while also clarifying that learning outside of the classroom is no less meaningful or beneficial than learning in the classroom. Some of the factors that motivated learners to engage in this learning practice were the variety, multitasking, and flexibility of podcasts, as well as personal preferences for auditory learning, opportunities to learn other things besides English, and an unwavering future goal toward study and work advancement. Vocabulary enrichment, speech pace and accent recognition, fluency and pronunciation improvement, as well as a stronger knowledge of pragmatic skill and natural dialogues were highlighted as six major areas of their practice that had an influence.
Procesos de auto-evaluación y co-evaluación en Educación Física. Una revisión sistemática
Authors: Cañadas Laura
Published: April 2022

El objetivo de esta investigación es revisar sistemáticamente la evidencia existente sobre la utilización de procesos de auto-evaluación y co-evaluación en contextos formativos de Educación Física. En abril del 2020 se realizó una revisión de la literatura en cuatro bases de datos (WOS, SCOPUS, Sportdiscus y ERIC) hasta 2020. Se obtuvieron 365 resultados. Tras la aplicación de los criterios de selección, 11 artículos fueron incluidos en la revisión sistemática. Se analizaron: (a) autor/a y año; (b) objetivo; (c) nivel educativo; (d) forma de participación; (e) formación; (f) metodología; (g) instrumentos; (h) participantes; y (i) resultados. Los resultados de esta investigación muestran que los estudios se centran de forma mayoritaria en el nivel universitario, utilizan principalmente la co-evaluación, únicamente 3 de los estudios mencionan formación previa a la realización de estos procedimientos, predomina la investigación cuantitativa, se utilizan diversidad de instrumentos, el número de participantes es muy variable, y los resultados muestran que la aplicación de procesos de auto-evaluación y co-evaluación que hay bastante coincidencia entre la evaluación en tiempo real y tras el visionado en vídeo, que a mayor edad mayor precisión en la evaluación, y efectos positivos sobre el aprendizaje, el ámbito cognitivo y el social.