bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La singularidad del ser humano como animal bio-cultural
Authors: Beorlegui Carlos
Published: May 2017

No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 129, 2011: 443-480
El signo de los tiempos como categoría teórica
Authors: Ribera Ricardo
Published: May 2017

No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.130, 2011: 579-518
Hacia la construcción de una nueva hegemonía anticapitalista. Tareas de nuestros gobiernos y de la organización popular
Authors: Harnecker Marta
Published: May 2017

No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.130, 2011: 643-675
El novelista que no dejó de ser poeta: la poesía completa de Manlio Argueta
Authors: Alvarenga Luis
Published: May 2017

No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.130, 2011: 677-680
América Latina: ¿Una región atractiva en momentos de crisis?
Authors: Lazo Miguel A.
Published: May 2017

El principal objetivo de este artículo ha sido identificar las principales oportunidades de crecimiento existentes en la región de América Latina, tomando en consideración los momentos de crisis de los que se ha sido testigo en los últimos años. El campo de interés está centrado en identificar las restricciones en el crecimiento económico con que cuenta la región, con el fin de determinar las de mayor relevancia. Con base al análisis de estas restricciones, el autor evalúa los escenarios y presenta los principales retos y oportunidades que se tienen, dando respuesta a la interrogante planteada. Los resultados demuestran su enorme potencial, así como los principales desafíos que deben ser superados. Indudablemente, el momento que vivimos en la economía mundial es sumamente delicado, por lo que los esfuerzos deben estar destinados a superar los retos que se tienen como región, y lograr a través de las fortalezas con que se cuenta aprovechar este enorme potencial. Cabe destacar el papel que juega el sector servicios dentro de la estructura económica, el rol de la infraestructura y su incidencia en el desarrollo de la región, así como el papel crucial que juega el comercio internacional como motor de la economía. Los datos aportados reflejan las fortalezas de la región, pero éstas se han visto mermadas por distintos elementos en los últimos años, como la reciente caída de uno de sus principales mercados emergentes como lo es Brasil, quien lucha por alzar el vuelo. Indudablemente, hay muchos factores en juego pero el reto está en consolidar nuevamente a la región como un destino atractivo para las demás economías.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.147, 2016: 45-61
Celebración del Tricentenario del Discurso del método de Descartes. Homenaje de la Universidad de El Salvador, 1937. (Segunda Parte)
Authors: Mejía Burgos Otto
Published: May 2017

En este artículo se hace un desarrollo de las últimas cuatro conferencias dictadas durante el ciclo cartesiano llevadas a cabo en la Universidad de El Salvador durante los meses de septiembre y octubre de 1937. El enfoque de estas disertaciones tuvo un tono predominantemente crítico al sistema filosófico del homenajeado, pero sin dejar de rescatar por eso los puntos más valiosos de su obra, los cuales se considera que fueron un avance o un punto de partida tanto para la filosofía como para la ciencia en general.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.147, 2016: 63-79
Narrativas Mediáticas: El mundo paralelo de la sociedad virtual
Authors: Ulin Alberto María José
Published: May 2017

El presente artículo académico pretende analizar a grandes rasgos el paradigma construido sobre la representación de la sociedad virtual en la cual conviven dos tipos de usuarios: los nativos (millennials) y los migrantes digitales. Para ello se muestra un contraste entre la publicidad global y local contemporánea de enseres y servicios tecnológicos en línea. La hipótesis de este artículo supone a la publicidad como una mediación entre la manera de entender el mundo y la manera de construirlo. Es en esta construcción de mundo que la publicidad pretende mostrar un nuevo paradigma de sociedad: una sociedad altamente tecnificada, civilizada y en ocasiones perfecta. Sin embargo, el análisis discursivo del mensaje publicitario brinda connotaciones de una sociedad cimentada en una estructura ortodoxa, conservadora y mítica, en la cual los enseres y servicios tecnológicos solamente son un elemento cosmético de la cibercultura.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.147, 2016: 85-100
Narrativas Mediáticas: El ocaso de las diosas. Las narrativas sobre la mujer contadas a partir de la figura de la estrella en el periodismo de espectáculos impreso salvadoreño
Authors: Carballo Willian
Published: May 2017

Este texto describe y analiza las narrativas sobre la mujer que son contadas en el periodismo de espectáculos de medios impresos salvadoreños. Estudia, a partir de las noticias relacionadas con las estrellas del cine, la música y la televisión, qué discursos se cuentan sobre la feminidad y sus roles en la sociedad, en contraposición a los de los hombres. Los hallazgos incluyen dos grandes categorías: primero, se analiza el reforzamiento del mito de la mujer como un ser coqueto y atractivo sexualmente, que está detrás del hombre artista exitoso en su carrera. Y segundo, se presenta y explica cómo la visión de esa estrella del espectáculo dejó de ser endiosada a través de las décadas, dando paso a figuras mundanas que con dinero pueden seguir aparentando ser bellas y felices, mientras al hombre le basta con ser borracho y tener malos modales para conquistarlas.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.147, 2016: 115-151
Los secretos de El Paraíso de Armando Salazar
Authors: Roque Baldovinos Ricardo
Published: May 2017

No hay resúmenes disponibles.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.147, 2016: 177-180
The Implementation of Islamic Teaching in Multiculturalism Society: A Case Study at Pesantren Schools in Indonesia
Authors: Amri Muhammad , Tahir Saidna Zulfiqar A. Bin , Ahmad Salman
Published: May 2017

The role of culture, ethnicity, race, belief and religious sects cannot be separated from the individual and social interaction and communication that often due to the conflict of thought and interest such in the political, social, and education. Thus, this study aimed at exploring how the implementation of Islamic teaching in a multiculturalism society at three of modern pesantren schools in Makassar, i.e. pesantren IMMIM, Pondok Madinah, and pesantren Darul Arqam Muhammadiyah Gombara. This study applied qualitative approach using a case study design by conducting the in-depth observation and interview to the teachers, stakeholders, and students. The data collecting were analyzed descriptively using three-stage models of Miles and Huberman. The results found that the pesantren educational policy, teaching methods, pesantrenenvironment, stakeholders and teachers’ control, and the evaluation were the dominant factors of the successful of Islamic teaching due to the strict of reward and punishment applied by pesantren to rehearse the students’ awareness earlier to be well-behaved in a multiculturalism society.
Proposing an Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model to Explain Facebook User Acceptance of Facebook Event Page
Authors: Phuong Tran Thi Kim , Vinh Tran Trung
Published: May 2017

The emergence and growth of social media today has changed the way that people communicate and interact with each other. Thus, social media has considered as an effective tool in the marketing campaign. In regard to event marketing, event planners and organizers use social media (e.g. social network sites) as an important marketing medium to increase the number of potential attendees to visit the events. However, the major challenge to event marketers is to fully understand the process of how social media marketing gain special event customers’ acceptance. This study chose Facebook event page as study context and applied the technology acceptance model (TAM) as theoretical foundation. In addition, this paper synthesizes the theoretical basis of the event marketing, emotional factors, perceived relevance and its application to social media (e.g., Facebook event page) from previous studies. The study aims to come out with a conceptual model (extended TAM) which explains fully inner-mechanism of the relationships among variables: (1) the emotions that online fansexpress on Facebook affect their acceptance of the Facebook event page as a legitimate marketing tool; (2) perceived relevance from user perspective influence their acceptance of the Facebook event page; (3) this “acceptance” mechanism has an impact on fans’ intentions to attend the event.
Analysis and Reflection on the New Trend of Development of Secretarial Science in China
Authors: Yao Yiran
Published: May 2017

Globalization, marketization, and structural reform have brought great changes to Chinese society, and have promoted transformation of the discipline of Secretarial Science in China towards internationalization, marketization, interdisciplinary, comprehensiveness at a high ranking. The thesis is aimed to present the current status of this discipline, and analyze the positive influence and possible problems brought by this new trend by comparison with foreign related experience.
Beyond Predator and Prey: Figuring Corruption through Animal Metaphoric Scenarios in the Jordanian Context
Authors: Albtoush Mohammad Abedltif , Sahuri Sakina Suffian
Published: May 2017

Combining a cognitive approach based on Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and a pragmatic approach based on Critical Metaphor Analysis, this study investigates the use of ANIMAL metaphoric scenarios to figure corruption as a relationship between predators and prey and the cultural implications in the Jordanian context. It also seeks to identify the diverse functions performed by the use of ANIMAL metaphors. Data for the study consist of 10 excerpts taken from a satire-genre discourse “sawalief.com”. My argument is that all animal metaphors in the corpus promote the contrast between the ACTIVITY of corrupters and the PASSIVITY of the citizenry and that the goal of this rhetoric is to move the PASSIVE citizenry into ACTION by shaming them into fighting corruption. This is clearly illustrated through the use of two types of ANIMAL metaphoric scenarios: ACTIVE ANIMALS representing corrupters and politicians, and PASSIVE ANIMALS representing the citizens. In addition, the use of these metaphors performs diverse functions: ideological, cognitive, and rhetorical.
Dismantling the Queer Reading of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle”
Authors: Abdul-Hamid Salman M. Salama
Published: May 2017

This article aims to prove the inaccuracy of the queer reading of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” (1903). The paper shows how the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky misinterprets the character of John Marcher as concealing homosexuality. The paper is not just affirming that there are no signs of homosexuality in the selected work, but it also transforms the argument to show how James, as a psychotherapist, treats the anxiety and fear of his male protagonist who behaves strangely in a world full of sophistication. The article concludes that the queer reading of “The Beast in the Jungle” is imprecise and provides a new psychological reading which is based on Implosion Therapy. This new reading adds strength to the perspective which refuses to sexualize everything in James’s work.
Appraising English-Speaking International University Student Attitudes towards Their Elite Second-Language Education and Status
Authors: DeCoursey C. A. , Petkov Pavel , Cherneva Nadya
Published: May 2017

About a third of the global population learns English as a second language (L2). L2 students routinely read English literature. Many L2 readers are members of cultures with painful colonial pasts. The English language functions in part to support western cultural and economic domination. L2 students have a complex identity, as members of their own culture, but also as elites having options in the global economy. This study used content analysis, content clusters and Appraisal analysis to explore how three cultural groups with colonial histories responded to an English-language translation of a Bulgarian poem about an elite, L2-educated character in a colonial situation. Results suggest that bilingual youth do not see themselves as elite, and that authentic literature in translation helps them perceive status and positionality.
The Effect of Blended Learning in Enhancing Female Students’ Satisfaction in the Saudi Context
Authors: LHassan Sarah Al , Shukri Nadia
Published: May 2017

The present study intended to investigate the effect of utilizing Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard® on enhancing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) female students’ satisfaction in the Saudi context. It is found that the effectiveness of utilizing the supplementary materials on Blackboard® is leading up to EFL students’ satisfaction. Since, Blended Learning (BL) model could stimulate a classroom setting with activities that are carried out under flexible and engaging manner. The sample consisted of ninety-eight students from proficiency level -104. The data of the study was collected using a questionnaire to identify students’ level of satisfaction. The results revealed that students’ satisfaction was apparent as their positive responses outweighed their negative responses mainly in terms of richness of learning resources, opportunity to interact in foreign language, appropriateness and variety of content, and ease of using Blackboard®. Based on the results, the study recommends considering the positive assets and challenges to plan the future of both teaching and learning English language effectively. The study suggested several areas to be investigated in the future such as examining the motivational behavior of both the teachers and the students and finding out the factors that will affect the environment of BL in EFL.
Anxiety in English Language Learning: A Case Study of English Language Learners in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Sadiq Jamilah Mohammed
Published: May 2017

Language anxiety as a specific aspect of language acquisition has occupied a great body of research for the past few decades. In this study, the level of foreign language anxiety among English language learners was investigated. This study was carried out with a quantitative research design using a survey methodology to collect data about the participants’ language anxiety. The sample of the study included 100 university students from the college of Education at Princess Nora University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The participants were randomly selected. For this research study, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986) was used to collect the research data. Based on the findings of the study, several implications are highlighted.
Using UAM CorpusTool to Explore the Language of Evaluation in Interview Program
Authors: Hu Chunyu , Tan Jinlin
Published: May 2017

As an interactional encounter between a journalist and one or more newsworthy public figures, an interview program is a special type of discourse that is full of evaluative language. This paper sets out to explore evaluation in interview programs from the perspective of appraisal system. The corpus software used in this study is UAM CorpusTool 3.3— annotating software that is able to automatically annotate the grammatical structure and parts of speech of the text, meanwhile allows manual annotation of linguistic features based on various schemes. The results show that the use of attitudinal resources is closely related to speaker’s communication strategies. Invoked evaluation and positive appraisal resources are most frequently used in the interview to establish alignment with the audience. As will be explained below, the design of the program process and other information are also sources of evaluation.
The Application of Problem-Based Learning Strategy to Increase High Order Thinking Skills of Senior Vocational School Students
Authors: Suprapto Edy , Fahrizal Fahrizal , Priyono Priyono , K. Basri
Published: May 2017

This research is to apply and develop a strategy of problem-based learning to increase the ability of higher order thinking skills of senior vocational schools students. The research was done due to a fact that the quality of outputs of the senior vocational schools has not met the competency needed by the stakeholders in the field, that has made the outputs difficult to get jobs, or fail to run a private business of their own. This research is a quasi experiment applying Nonequivalent Control Group Design, done at X TKR 1 class of 38 students and X TKR 2 class of 38 students of Senior Vocational School II, Kupang, NTT Province, Indonesia. The normality and homogeneity of tests were done to obtain the test of analysis requirement. T-test was done to analyze the data obtained. The results show that: (1) the use of problem-based learning strategy is superior to the conventional study; (2) the application of problem-based learning strategies capable of improving high order thinking skills of students, which is implemented in problem solving skills, teamwork, and self-confidence better. (3) in the future, the high order thinking skills will be very important in winning the job competition, find solutions to problems in the workplace and establish good cooperation with others, so it will support the success of their careers in the future.
The Effect of Peer Assessment on the Evaluation Process of Students
Authors: Alzaid Jawaher Mohammed
Published: May 2017

This study aims at finding out the effect of peer assessment on the evaluation process of students. The hypothesis underlying this study is that assessment is an integral part of the learning process, which should play an important role in the educational model. The current study will emphasize the importance of using peer assessment as a tool to engage students in the evaluation process, clarify the role of peer assessment in promoting student learning, diversify the scope of the evaluation through the frameworks of theory and methodology to get to understand the uses and limitations of peer assessment as a tool for assessment, and discuss the goals and benefits that can be achieved by the students from practicing peer assessment in accordance with scientific standards and bases, which emphasize active participation of the students in their learning and responsibility. Additionally, this study will check the credibility of peer assessments as a suitable tool in the assessment process. Findings show that there is a statistically significant relationship between the assessment of peers to each other, as well as between peer assessment and teacher assessment.
Practices of and Roadblocks to Teacher Leadership in the United Arab Emirates’ Schools
Authors: Al-Taneiji Shaikah , Ibrahim Ali
Published: May 2017

This study investigates teachers’ perceptions of their leadership practices in United Arab Emirates schools and the contextual and personal factors which support or deter them from becoming teacher leaders. The study used a mixed research design. First, a self-administered questionnaire was completed by 937 teachers in one big city in the UAE. Then, individual interviews with ten teachers were conducted. The study found that while certain leadership roles, as measured by the questionnaire items, are often practiced by teachers, other activities such as leading action research or participating in professional groups, are practiced infrequently. Interview data revealed that teachers perceive that school administrators usually encourage them to take on leading roles, but that administrators also rely heavily on “in-group” teachers to take on leadership activities. Further, school contextual factors such as lack of time, language barriers, and style of leadership; or personal factors such as teachers’ assumptions about and willingness to take on additional leadership duties are roadblocks to a full realization of the potential for teacher leadership and its associated benefits in UAE schools. Recommendations on how to foster teacher leadership on a wider scale in the UAE schools are presented.
The Factors Affecting Green Supply Chains: Empirical Study of Agricultural Chains in Vietnam
Authors: Pham Thi Mai Yen , Pham Thi Minh Khuyen
Published: May 2017

This paper aims at identifying the factors affecting green supply chain in agriculture in Vietnam currently. The literature indicates 14 factors affecting green supply chains in agriculture including: (i) manager commitment, (ii) IT system, (iii) new technology, (iv) organizational culture, (v) HR quality, (vi) energy & waste management, (vii) market & competition, (viii) political supports, (ix) knowledge & experience, (x) actors’ participation, (xi) costs, (xii) suppliers, (xiii) logistics management, and (xiv) consumer awareness. Our regression model with 14 independent variables was established to determine the factors affecting the success of green supply chains in Vietnam agriculture. The regression results show six factors affecting significantly and positively green supply chain in agriculture in Vietnam, including: (i) manager commitment, (ii) new technology, (iii) HR quality, (iv) knowledge & experience, (v) logistic management, and (vi) consumer awareness. Hence, the paper suggests some recommendations to Vietnam firms and State for improving green supply chain in agriculture.
Virtual Mentoring: Practitioner Strategies for Students Underrepresented in Industry
Authors: Figueroa Obed
Published: May 2017

Technological advancements have continued to develop over the past two decades impacting how we engage with each other. This evolvement has also influenced the way our students and instructors are acquiring and delivering information. In order to sustain the connections with our young people our engagement strategy also needs to evolve. This is especially significant for first generation minority students who are underrepresented in many academic disciplines, industries, particularly in medical education. Research continues to suggest that non-privileged minority groups are less likely to have strong support systems within their social networks and or family. This research paper will provide programmatic frameworks illustrating ways to mentor first generation minority students using virtually tools, learning development models and strategies that help produce positive measureable outcomes.
Ардын сурган хүмүүжүүлэх ухаан тогтвортой хэллэгээр илрэх нь (ямааны бэлчээрт нөлөөлөлтийн жишээгээр)
Authors: Д Мөнхтамир , С Бямбадорж
Published: May 2017

Mongolians have a pastoralism and they domesticated animals as sheep, goats, camel, cattle,horses and yak. Pastoralism (specially-goats) to affect Mongolian’s custom, making a living,culture, language and others. Pastoralism based on interaction of nature-livestock-man butrecently livestock’s increasing, cultivation, industrialization and others are effected in regressionof pasture. Mongolians are inheriting about above interaction-herding pedagogy for nextgenerations by folk pedagogy, folklore, idioms.
Гэмт хэргийн статистик зүйн онол, практикийн тулгамдсан асуудал
Authors: Б Мөнхдорж
Published: May 2017

Гэмт хэргийн статистик зүй гэдэг нь шинжлэх ухааны үндэслэлтэй зохион байгуулсан програмаар, гэмт хэргийн талаарх тоо бүртгэл хөтлөх, цуглуулах, боловсруулах, түүнд судалгаа, шинжилгээ хийж, гэмт хэргийн тоон мэдээллийг шалтгаан нөхцөл, шинж чанартай нь уялдуулан тодорхой орон зай, цаг хугацаанд судалдаг салбарын статистик гэж тодорхойлж болох юм. Үүний практик хэрэглээ нэн чухал юм. Монгол Улсад гэмт хэргийн статистикийн тогтолцоо оновчтой бус, цагдаа, авлигатай тэмцэх, шүүхийн шийдвэр гүйцэтгэх, прокурорын байгууллага болон шүүхийн гэмт хэрэг, зөрчлийн тоо бүртгэл, арга зүй уялдаагүй, гэмт хэрэг, зөрчлийн тоо бүртгэлийн аргачлал, нэгдсэн статистик мэдээлэлгүй байна. Үүнээс үүдэн гэмт явдлын тоо бүртгэл бодитой бус байгаа нь төрөөс гэмт хэрэгтэй тэмцэх бодлогод үр дүнтэйгээр нөлөөлж чадахгүй байна. Гэмт хэргийн статистикийн талаар онолын судалгаа хийж, судалгааны үндсэн дээр үзэл баримтлал, онолын үндэслэл боловсруулах, эрдэм шинжилгээний бүтээл эрхлэн гаргах, өгүүлэл нийтлүүлэх, цагдаа, авлигатай тэмцэх, прокурор, шүүх, шүүхийн шийдвэр гүйцэтгэх байгууллагын гэмт хэргийн бүртгэлийн болон статистикийн мэдээний маягтыг шинэчлэх, програм хангамж, мэдээллийн системийг боловсронгуй болгох санал боловсруулах, холбогдох баримт бичигт нэмэлт, өөрчлөлт оруулах зэрэг тулгамдсан асуудал байна.Цаашид гэмт хэргийн статистикийн үйл ажиллагааг зохицуулсан эрх зүйн орчинг боловсронгуй болгох, холбогдох хууль тогтоомжид нэмэлт, өөрчлөлт оруулах, гэмт хэргийн статистикийн үндэсний хэмжээний аргачлалыг бий болгож мөрдүүлэх, гадаадын зарим улсын эрх зүйн зохицуулалт, олон улсын байгууллагын шийдвэр, стандартыг харьцуулан судлах шаардлагатай байна. Улмаар гэмт хэргийн статистик зүй нь хавсарга шинжлэх ухаан хэмээн үзэж, түүнийг боловсронгуй болгох талаарх дүгнэлт, санал дэвшүүлэв
Chondroblastoma: An Update
Authors: Chen Wenqian , DiFrancesco Lisa M.
Published: May 2017

Chondroblastoma is a rare primary bone tumor of young people that typically arises in the ends of the long bones. Radiologic investigations show a small, circumscribed, lytic lesion. The tumor is characterized histologically by the proliferation of chondroblasts along with areas of mature cartilage, giant cells, and occasionally, secondary aneurysmal bone cyst formation. Chondroblastoma, however, may also present with atypical features, such as prominent hemosiderin deposition, numerous giant cells, or the presence of a large aneurysmal bone cyst component. Malignant entities such as clear cell chondrosarcoma and chondroblastic osteosarcoma must also be considered. Recently, immunohistochemical stains such as DOG1 and SOX9 have been described in chondroblastoma, and K36M mutations in either the H3F3A or H3F3B genes have also been identified. While generally regarded as a benign entity, chondroblastoma manifests an intermediate type of behavior, given its ability to recur locally, and rarely, metastasize.
L’art comme remise en scène de la vie quotidienne : traduire le social en esthétique
Authors: Bui Camille
Published: May 2017

Cet article explore, à travers le paradigme de la traduction, la mise en scène des interactions sociales dans Playtime de Jacques Tati (1967), Kontakthof de Pina Bausch (1978-2000-2008) et Reconstitutions d’Édouard Levé (1998-2003). Chacune de ces oeuvres témoigne du désir de traduire le social en esthétique : il s’agit de dire l’ordinaire des jeux de distance et de proximité entre les corps, par le cinéma, la danse ou la photographie. Ce geste de traduction emprunte à la logique de la re-présentation qui réifie le social, mais il ne peut s’y réduire. Car la traduction vise aussi à reconduire, sur la scène de l’art, la dynamique du lien en tant qu’adresse faite à l’autre, au risque de son échec. Penser le geste artistique comme traduction permet d’être sensible au devenir chorégraphique des situations sociales, autant qu’à la socialité qui anime des oeuvres qui nous émeuvent ou nous indiffèrent.
Traduction, re-traduction, hétérolinguisme dans la littérature postcoloniale italienne
Authors: Quaquarelli Lucia
Published: May 2017

La littérature postcoloniale italienne interroge le statut du texte tant sur le plan de son appartenance à un auteur et à une tradition ou canon littéraires nationaux, que sur le plan de l’homogénéité de la langue, des rapports de pouvoir entre les langues (et les littératures) et les stratégies de traduction. Le cas de Immigrato (1990) de Mario Fortunato et Salah Methnani, ainsi que les romans de Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Madre piccola (2007) et Il comandante del fiume (2014), nous permettront de discuter ces hypothèses.
Measuring, monitoring, and managing for productive learning? Australian insights into the enumeration of education
Authors: Hardy Ian
Published: May 2017

This article reflects upon how teacher learning is currently construed under conditions of increased measurement of student learning outcomes, and the effects of advocacy for such enumeration processes. It draws upon a broad range of literature on the practice of education, measuring learning, and its effects on teachers’ learning. To help ground the analysis, the paper analyses the meeting transcripts of an ongoing, long-term teacher learning initiative in a school in northern Queensland, Australia, and how processes of measurement influenced such learning.  These reflections reveal teachers’ practices as deeply influenced by the ways in which schooling is construed under conditions of increased pressure to enumerate learning, even as this is contested.  Processes of ‘measuring learning’ are revealed as enabling practices of ‘monitoring learning’ through students’ data profiles, and ultimately, of ‘managing learning’, particularly of lower performing students. The article cautions that while these resultant practices of ‘managing’ learning may be productive of teacher learning for substantive student learning, the extent to which this is the case under conditions of more fine-grained processes of measuring and monitoring of student learning is a contested point, and requiring much more careful analysis than currently attends support for the enumeration of education more broadly.
Institutional Functions as a Theoretical Nexus and Measurement Target in Sociology of Education
Authors: Osipov Alexander
Published: May 2017

The paper is devoted to methodological aspects of the study of institutional functions of education as one of the basic theoretical constructs of contemporary sociology of education. The author argues that the elaboration into the function problem also provides a direction for social-practical outputs of this branch of sociology, conceptual ground for its own theoretical, revitalizing its connection with general sociology. Without such elaboration, the author assumes, most of theoretical and empirical studies and measurements conducted by sociologists are doomed to thematic fragmentation, have slim chances to contribute to a shared sociological vision of education, delineate the area of institutional responsibility of education in society, improve educational politics, resist the neoliberal «Trojan horses» in education. The author brings a set of criteria to define the institutional functions of education, including the empirical measurability of each function, and a hypothetical model of functions detailed by four major areas of society: economic, social, cultural and political.
The Performance Evaluation of Polytechnic Higher Education Institutions: tensions and reconfigurations resulting from the adoption of specific metrics
Authors: Gonçalves Saúde Sandra Isabel , Santana Lopes Sandra Cristina , Lopes Borralho Carlos Manuel , Rodrigues Góis Féria Isidro Lourenço
Published: May 2017

Aligned with the binary structure of the higher education system in Portugal, divided into universities and polytechnics, the Government acknowledged, in 2014, the need to identify distinct performance indicators/metrics aiming at a more accurate assessment of the effect and quality of the action developed by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). For the Polytechnic Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) it was necessary to define "(...) performance indicators that address the production, transfer and diffusion of knowledge" (FCT, 2014:1), aiming to measure“(…) the applied research and the cultural production activities as well as their impact on the region where they [PHEIs] are located (…)"(FCT 2014:1). Founded on the presentation of specific indicators to be considered when evaluating the performance of PHEIs (developed under a research project funded by FCT: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology), we now focus our reflection on the tensions, reconfigurations and gains for the organizational and educational management that these new metrics can induce. By successive aggregation, the proposed evaluation indicators allow for the typification and characterization of the separate performance (faculty member / Department / HEI) at the level of applied research, knowledge transfer, population qualification and contribution to the territorial dynamics, which account for the distinct profile of Polytechnics.
Competências de Estudo dos Estudantes Universitários: Estudo comparativo entre uma universidade portuguesa e brasileira
Authors: Fonseca Rubia Salheb , Escola Joaquim , Carvalho Amâncio , Loureiro Armando
Published: May 2017

Para se compreender as competências de estudo e autorregulação no ensino superior, há que se colocar o estudante como centro do seu processo de aprendizagem. Neste estudo analisou-se a relação entre o perfil de competências de estudos, dos estudantes de universidades de dois países (Brasil e Portugal). Trata-se de um estudo comparativo, transversal, de abordagem quantitativa, com 1240 estudantes universitários, aos quais foi aplicado um inquérito por questionário. O tratamento de dados foi efetuado com recurso ao SPSS.
Quantitative Research in Psychology of Religion in Brazil
Authors: Gomes Esperandio Mary Rute , August Hartmut
Published: May 2017

Although in Brazil Psychology of Religion historically has a tradition in qualitative research, in recent years it has been possible to observe a significant growth of quantitative publications. Thus, this paper aims to present an analysis of quantitative studies in Psychology of Religion in Brazil, published in Portuguese. For this, we surveyed indexed studies in the CAPES Bank of Theses and Dissertations (Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Training) and ScieLO Journal Portal (Scientific Electronic Library Online), using several search terms such as “psychology and religion”, “psychology and quantitative research”, “religion and validation”, “religion and scale”, “religiosity and scale”, “spirituality and scale”, “spiritual/religious well-being scale”, “spiritual/religious coping scale”, “psychiatry and religion”, “psychiatry and quantitative research”, “psychology and validation” and “psychiatry and validation”. We selected 70 studies for analysis. The results show that studies on “Psychology and religion” come from different areas of knowledge, raising the question of the specificity of “Psychology of Religion”. The quantitative research indicates a trend of growth, especially in the use of scales. Studies indicate the need for further reflection on the role of religiosity and spirituality on health, on meaning construction and meaning in life processes, on feelings of spiritual well-being and promotion of mental health. Considering that these issues have been addressed from diverse fields, in order to strengthen Psychology of Religions a field of knowledge, we suggested the conduction of studies of qualitative and quantitative nature in the theoretical and empirical perspective of this discipline itself.
Psicologia religiosa: psicologia da religião/ espiritualidade, ou psicologia e religião/espiritualidade?
Authors: De Freitas Marta Helena
Published: May 2017

Considerando-se a diversidade terminológica bem como as frequentes e decorrentes polarizações que caracterizam, na contemporaneidade, o campo da psicologia que se volta para os temas da religião, religiosidade e/ou espiritualidade e, neste ensaio, nos ocupamos desta questão. Iniciamos com um breve histórico sobre os estudos da religião e da espiritualidade no âmbito da psicologia e as terminologias empregadas no decorrer de sua evolução, até chegar aos dias de hoje. Em seguida, discutimos as tendências conceituais contemporâneas e suas principais implicações para o contexto brasileiro. Elaboramos, então, com algumas proposições concretas de alternativas conceituais, para se evitar incorrer em problemas éticos e mesmo epistemológicos, especialmente para que se possa atender adequadamente aos princípios de um país oficialmente laico, mas que abriga uma grande diversidade religiosa e uma população que valoriza significativamente o religioso em suas vidas.
Aspectos histológicos dos músculos da região da escápula e do braço de anta - Tapirus terrestris – Perisodactyla, Tapiridae
Authors: Gonçalves Pereira Saulo , Silva Borges Daniela Cristina , Quagliatto Santos André Luiz
Published: May 2017

O objetivo foi descrever os aspectos histológicos do cíngulo escapular e braço de Tapirus terrestris - Linnaeus1758. Utilizaram-se quatro animais doados ao Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Animais Silvestres daUniversidade Federal de Uberlândia, após óbito sem trauma. Tapirus terrestris é um mamífero encontrado naAmérica do Sul, e em quase todos os biomas brasileiros, porém com ínfimas informações literárias acerca de suamorfologia macro e microscópica. Desse modo, justifica-se a escolha desta espécie para o estudo, baseando-se emseus aspectos macro e micro morfológicos que, notadamente, são fundamentais para o conhecimento biológicodas espécies. Foram realizados os procedimentos usuais de histologia e as colorações foram: Hematoxilina eEosina - HE; Orceína, Reticulina e Tricômio de Masson. Histologicamente os músculos seguem o mesmo padrãodos demais mamíferos, o padrão histológico subsidia a relação entre estrutura corpórea: fibras musculares maisdensas e fortes dão suporte para o deslocamento em longas distâncias e para o nado eventual. Este tipo depesquisa muito colabora com dados sobre esta espécie que é, ainda, pouco estudada.
Emergency Health Care Professionals’ Understanding of the Costs of Care in the Emergency Department
Authors: Hoffman Kevin A. , Mancini Michelino
Published: May 2017

Background

Efficiency and fiscal responsibility are important to the equal, safe, and effective delivery of care in the emergency department, where all presenting patients must be evaluated for emergent conditions. Health care professionals’ understanding of the costs of care is a first step to developing rational approaches for the efficient distribution of the finite resources hospitals and emergency departments have at their disposal to reduce costs to patients and health care systems.

Objective

To determine emergency department health care professionals’ knowledge of the costs to patients of routine care delivered in the emergency department.

Methods

An internet-based survey of currently practicing emergency medicine health care professionals with various levels of training (physicians, residents, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners) was conducted to evaluate their ability to identify the cost of care for 3 common presentations to the emergency department: abdominal pain, dyspnea, and sore throat.

Results

Four hundred forty-one emergency medicine health care professionals participated. In the 3 cases presented, correct costs were determined by 43.0%, 32.0%, and 40.1% of participants, respectively. Geographic region was not related to cost determination. Larger institution size was related to greater cost chosen (P=.01). Higher level of training was significantly correlated with perceived understanding of cost (P<.001); however, it was not related to accurate cost assessment in this study.

Conclusion

Emergency medicine health care professionals have an inadequate understanding of the costs associated with care routinely provided in the emergency department.
Bridging the Gap: An Osteopathic Primary Care–Centered Approach to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Authors: Carls Christopher , Krajacic Predrag
Published: May 2017

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a deadly and incurable disease typically diagnosed in early childhood. Presently, the delay between a caregiver's initial concern and the primary care physician obtaining creatine kinase levels—the most important screening test—is more than a year. It is imperative to diagnose DMD as soon as possible because early treatment has the potential to double the patient's lifespan. In addition, because of geographic and economic disadvantages, multidisciplinary DMD treatment centers are not readily available to all patients. Therefore, the challenge of early diagnosis and treatment coordination rests with the primary care physician. The present review provides osteopathic primary care physicians with current and relevant information regarding DMD diagnosis and management.
Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk
Authors: Aijón Oliva Miguel A.
Published: May 2017

Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profiling of the direct participants. This study analyzes the frequencies with which speakers index themselves, as well as the syntactic functions they preferably accord themselves when doing so, in a corpus of Spanish radio discourse where a range of textual genres and speaker socioprofessional identities are contemplated. The analysis is restricted to central syntactic functions, i.e. those with the capacity to establish agreement with the verb. A dichotomy is proposed between subject and (accusative or dative) object self-encoding, based on the different morphological means through which verbal agreement is carried out in this language, namely verbal endings and clitics. Both the statistical patterning of variation and the discursive-pragmatic motivations of particular choices are subsequently examined. The selection of a specific syntactic function for the encoding of the speaker is found to often serve communicative goals related to the textual genre and to the kinds of socio-professional identities speakers intend to develop within it. Significant correlations are obtained between higher percentages of self-encoding as subject and higher rates of discursive self-indexation altogether, although speakers presenting themselves as political representatives diverge from this tendency for particular communicative reasons. The results are interpreted as being parallel to a discursive-cognitive continuum between subjectivity and objectivity that underlies speaker interactional self-profiling and discourse construction.
A note on the locus and function of formal gender
Authors: Picallo M. Carme
Published: May 2017

This paper examines some aspects of nominal inflection. It focuses in particular on noun classification with evidence drawn mainly from Spanish where noun classification surfaces as formal Gender. Under a minimalist lens, this feature is a puzzling grammatical element because it seems uncongenial to the idea of optimal design. I examine some syntactic evidence to assess the syntactic locus of Gender features in nominal structures, and conjecture that noun classification simply externalizes some basic properties of the linguistic system in the functional domain. I motivate my conclusions on the basis of empirical evidence and recent theoretical proposals that argue for the adoption of a much more abstract conception of syntactic constructs than those we have generally been considering.
Structuralism and King Oedipus
Authors: Ferdous Mafruha
Published: May 2017

Structuralism is a way of decoding and studying aspects of human conduct, tradition, and love that relates factors of a conceptual system that reflects patterns underlying a superficial range. King Oedipus is King Laius’ biological son who he neglects at birth to prevent a prophecy by the Oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He is adopted by a royal family in Corinth but later returns to Thebes and fulfills the prophecy mystically. He later finds out and pops his eyes out and his led out of the city by his daughter The French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss applied the structuralist outlook to cultural phenomena like mythology and kinship relations. To interpret the Oedipus myth, he placed the specific story of King Oedipus within the context of the whole cycle of tales connected with the city of Thebes. Concrete details from the narrative are seen in the framework of a wider structure and the overall system of elementary dyadic bigger structure is seen as pairs with obvious symbolic, thematic and archetypal resonance.
A multimodal analysis of conventional humorous structures on sensitive topics within rural communities in Romania
Authors: Rus Violeta Ioana
Published: May 2017

When it comes to humour, performing humorous structures means not only producing amusement, but also implies the ability of perceiving the comical, ludicrous or absurd in human life. In this paper, I consider humour as a way in which people in the rural community express themselves freely, without boundaries or constraints. Therefore, the interest of the present article is to identify and analyse sensitive humorous topics in Romanian rural communities. In conducting the study, the following steps were taken: I videotaped people from the Upper Valley of the river Mureș (selected with sociolinguistic criteria such as gender, age, occupation), I transcribed the audio-video records and I divided the data into thematic categories: jokes, traditional shouts and funeral songs or dirges with humorous structures. Starting from these methodological steps, I attempt to perform a multimodal analysis, which consists of analysing both the text and the audio-video record. In the first part of my research, the analysis of the text focuses on specific structures of conventional humour performed in jokes, traditional shouts and dirges by the main theories of humour: superiority, release and incongruity theories of humour. In analysing the audio-video stimuli, I dwell upon identifying the degree of influence of the psycho-sociolinguistic parameters (gender, occupation and context) on the performance of humour, concentrating on markers of humour such as intonation and visual cues. After analysing the humorous sensitive topics in Romanian rural communities through a multimodal perspective, my conclusion is that speakers combine linguistic and non-linguistic elements in order to make a text humorous.
High or low? Comparing high and low-variability phonetic training in adult and child second language learners
Authors: Giannakopoulou Anastasia , Brown Helen , Clayards Meghan , Wonnacott Elizabeth
Published: May 2017

Background

High talker variability (i.e., multiple voices in the input) has been found effective in training nonnative phonetic contrasts in adults. A small number of studies suggest that children also benefit from high-variability phonetic training with some evidence that they show greater learning (more plasticity) than adults given matched input, although results are mixed. However, no study has directly compared the effectiveness of high versus low talker variability in children.

Methods

Native Greek-speaking eight-year-olds (N= 52), and adults (N= 41) were exposed to the English /i/-/ɪ/ contrast in 10 training sessions through a computerized word-learning game. Pre- and post-training tests examined discrimination of the contrast as well as lexical learning. Participants were randomly assigned to high (four talkers) or low (one talker) variability training conditions.

Results

Both age groups improved during training, and both improved more while trained with a single talker. Results of a three-interval oddity discrimination test did not show the predicted benefit of high-variability training in either age group. Instead, children showed an effect in thereversedirection—i.e., reliably greater improvements in discrimination following single talker training, even for untrained generalization items, although the result is qualified by (accidental) differences between participant groups at pre-test. Adults showed a numeric advantage for high-variability but were inconsistent with respect to voice and word novelty. In addition, no effect of variability was found for lexical learning. There was no evidence of greater plasticity for phonetic learning in child learners.

Discussion

This paper adds to the handful of studies demonstrating that, like adults, child learners can improve their discrimination of a phonetic contrast via computerized training. There was no evidence of a benefit of training with multiple talkers, either for discrimination or word learning. The results also do not support the findings of greater plasticity in child learners found in a previous paper (Giannakopoulou, Uther & Ylinen, 2013a). We discuss these results in terms of various differences between training and test tasks used in the current work compared with previous literature.