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Multiple-Value Governance in (German) Higher Education: a New Paradigm?
Authors: Kleimann Bernd
Published: June 2023

Shifts in governance frameworks of higher education systems as well as scholarly debate indicate that New Public Management (NPM) – this long-standing hegemonial reform framework for the public sector in general and for higher education (HE) in particular – has passed its peak. This paper will explain and justify this claim for the case of German HE. It argues in favour of the assumption that a new governance paradigm – called multiple-value governance - is on the horizon. This new governance regime partly overthrows, partly modifies and partly succeeds NPM. In order to corroborate this claim, a reflection about the organizational consequences of introducing sustainability as one of many values into the German higher education sector is outlined at the end of the paper. The latter’s intention is to lay a conceptual foundation for a research agenda that addresses the hypothesized changes in HE governance empirically and offers perspectives for further research.
Story/No Story: a narrative design exercise for shared ways of seeing
Authors: Stevens John
Published: June 2023

A case example is presented of an innovative teaching and learning experience, devised somewhat emergently for a mixed class of 30 undergraduate design students in Beijing, China. It shares the benefits of a mash-up approach drewing on fundamentals of design practice translated into an intensive five-day observation-to-animation exercise, with unexpected learning value to students of three different design-related disciplines.This paper outlines the instructions given, the process followed, the resulting designed outcomes, and student feedback gathered some three and a half years later. These testimonies evidence the lasting impact of this activity on the students despite its short duration, and specifically the value of observation, creative experiment, facilitating peer relationships, collaboration, and peer learning across the three disciplines. All of these elements were explicitly absent from other learning modules in their curriculum. The scenario provides a framework to inspire and guide similar collaborative activities across design disciplines.
Intercultural interaction modulating implicit attitudes towards disability and cultural competence in higher education
Authors: Valerievna Ludmila Tokarskaya , Li Zijun
Published: June 2023

People with disabilities (PWD) are increasingly recognized as one of the most overlooked potentials in the labor market. More and more disability inclusion strategies appear and evolve in the workplaces. Nevertheless, employees with disabilities in the work environment are still faced challenges of explicit and implicit biases. Especially, comparison with positive explicit attitude due to social expectation, implicit attitudes towards disability tend to be negatively tied with charity, inability and distrust. This present article originally proposes intercultural interaction as the solution to modulate implicit and emotional attitudes towards disability. Besides, this article highlights that intercultural interactions between people with and without disabilities could promote individual cultural knowledge. It is underlined the importance to involve schemes of cultural competences and intercultural interactions into higher education to facilitate more inclusive work environment.
Diversity in (word) meaning: Reducing the risk of bias in foreign language vocabulary teaching using prototype theory
Authors: Pichler Anna Malena
Published: June 2023

In multifaceted and pluricultural settings, foreign language teaching is facing new challenges. This paper proposes a way to bring the concept of transcultural awareness to vocabulary teaching through the theoretical framework of prototype theory within Cognitive Semantics. Selected aspects of prototype theory are used in order to find suitable points of contact that can account for diversity in meaning. This paper argues towards an awareness of diversity in semantic meaning, using the understanding of prototype theory that categories are complex and have fuzzy boundaries. Therefore, learners can be taught a different and multifaceted understanding of word meaning on this theoretical foundation. Exploring and using prototype theory in this manner could pave the way towards teaching diversity in the foreign language classroom on a lexical level.
Information skills instruction in Higher Education students using the 4C/ID model
Authors: Garcia Consuelo , Argelagós Esther , Privado Jesús
Published: June 2023

Information skills instruction continues to be a pending subject among university students despite the fact that they handle the Internet with ease, since the ability to define what is needed, to be strategic when deciding where to search, and how to select the information most appropriate and relevant and to use it properly, is not routinely taught. The purpose of this article is to show how the 4C/ID model is applied to the design of this skill, the challenges encountered in its adaptation and the improvement in self-perceived efficacy by students. The results show that the model is successful and the students felt more prepared to face this type of tasks in the future.
Let’s Experience Learning in the Metaverse
Authors: AbuKhousa Eman
Published: June 2023

The metaverse and learning experience design (LXD) are shaping the future of learning and teaching in higher education. The metaverse is a virtual extension of the physical world that frees learning from time and space constraints while LXD is a learn-centric approach to design technology-mediated learning. LXD focuses on cognitive and affective engagement of learners with the learning experience; and the metaverse promises the adaptive infrastructure and flexible design space to realize digital learning as a journey of a series of ongoing, intensively personalized, immersive, adaptive, and competency-based experiences. In this paper, we discuss and reflect on how the potentials of metaverse can expand the effectiveness of LXD to address certain aspects of learning experience such as the influence of prior experiences, emotions, motivation, and attention. The metaverse presents unique opportunities to manage these aspects and to offer more attractive environments for learning activities.
Measuring Student Development Using Points
Authors: Mandviwalla Munir , Schuff David , Miller Laurel , Chacko Manoj
Published: June 2023

While higher education is effective at measuring the acquisition of knowledge, it is less successful in quantifying other types of learning such as learning to know, live together, and to be. This is a problem because it makes it difficult for institutions to implement and sustain student development programs. In this paper, we describe how to measure student development using points. Using data from 623 students over 7.5 years, we show how our points system was used to improve student development over time by focusing on the quantity,  variety, quality, and distribution of development activities. Based on our findings, we recommend avenues for additional research.
Lecturer language: EMI students’ experiences on first- and second-cycle degrees
Authors: Johnson Jane Helen , Picciuolo Mariangela
Published: June 2023

Previous research has long focussed on EMI lecturers’ English usage as an aspect which might affect lecture comprehension. Fewer studies have directly questioned EMI students about how their lecturers’ language competence affects their experiences in the classroom, and while many studies have focused on postgraduate students, less has been said about undergraduates. We aim to provide further insight into students’ views of EMI lecturer discourse by comparing the experiences of undergraduate and postgraduate students, both local and international, at an Italian university. Data for this study were collected from an online semi-structured survey of 128 students. Findings indicated that it is students’ past experience of English-taught courses as well as their familiarity with non-native English accented speech that influences students’ opinion of EMI lecturers’ language performance and their assessment of intelligibility in the classroom. The findings will serve to highlight difficulties and critical points for further development and pedagogical application.
Digital Pedagogy for the Present: An Artificial Intelligence Methodology for Curriculum Development
Authors: Rufrano Michelle Anne , Yeung Jean-Ezra
Published: June 2023

In an age of information, course creation at the university-level poses new challenges in that the constant influx of new data makes it difficult for instructors to update courses with the latest research. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), we created a curriculum that matches the contemporary experiences of students. This approach was used to help design a course on Aging and Adulthood using the life course model. We were able to create a topological map of topics and subtopics that provided the instructor with the ability to quickly understand the shape of the data, thematic connections, and data voids. Choosing from a myriad of research articles from a derived skeleton of topics, the instructor was then able to design a unique course with the most relevant research and supplement the syllabus with seminal works in the field.
Threshold Tests as a way to encourage long-term, self-regulated learners in Engineering
Authors: Solina Danica , Wong Chris , Crawford Kate , Huber Elaine
Published: June 2023

Traditionally, educators evaluate the effectiveness of a new assessment in a pre-requisite early subject via pass rates, grades and student satisfaction. It may be more appropriate to measure the impact on student results in later stage subjects. In this work we report on the impact of changing assessment, over 10 years, at a metropolitan Australian university for an initial calculus subject (Mathematics 1) on two follow-on subjects: Mathematics 2 and Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering. Earlier research found that Online Mastery Tests can harm later learning outcomes even though failure rates drop within the pre-requisite subject. Here we show that Paper Threshold Tests, requiring greater engagement, metacognitive strategies result in fewer passes in the pre-requisite subject however, they were also resulting in a major inversion of the grade distribution toward higher grades in the follow on subjects where 60% of students now obtain marks > 75%.
A Post-Covid comparison of students’ usage of an online learning platform
Authors: Phillips Robert A.
Published: June 2023

This paper explores the differences in the usage by students of an online platform for supplementary resources between a first year and final year entrepreneurship course which are traditionally face-to-face. We found a weak correlation between use of the online resources and higher marks. The average amount of time spent and other habits were identified.  We can use this data to improve the online offering element for students at university where supplementary online resources are offered alongside face-to-face teaching.
Increasing student engagement with COIL Padlet
Authors: Miller Barbara Therese , Göldi Susan , Lin Meng Hsien (Jenny)
Published: June 2023

Student engagement undoubtedly deserves attention and time of lecturers and researchers. This paper aims to showcase how to increase the engagement of international marketing students with a simple, technology-enhanced course addition based on an online bulletin board (Padlet) collaboration between two universities in different continents.This conceptual paper provides (a) for other educators a case study, detailing the efficient collaboration of two lecturers in different universities for a joint course design; and (b) for researchers some initial data of increased student engagement.
Evaluating the Impact of Strategies on Students’ Perceptions of Digital Transformation – A Case Study of a Swedish Higher Education Institution
Authors: Brink Henning , Mårtensson Ellen , Ström Hylén Carina , Packmohr Sven
Published: June 2023

Digital transformation (DT) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) affects the learning environment with digitally-enhanced teaching methods, student assistance, and administration processes. HEIs develop strategies to exploit the chances offered by DT. Our study investigates the connection between the strategic work of HEIs on DT and how students perceive the results of this work in their daily studies. We applied a case study design on a Swedish HEI to gather our results. Results show that students are somewhat positive about the strategic work but still perceive digitalization as a barrier to collaborating with peers and lecturers. Our research contributes to knowing if the time and effort spent on an HEI’s DT impact the student stakeholder group. By bringing forth ways of improvement, we generate new knowledge about DT processes in HEIs. Thus, we inspire educators and administrators in this industry by putting forward lessons learned and improvements.
The Reggio Childhood Studies PhD as a learning community
Authors: Colacino Marcella , Mineo Roberta
Published: June 2023

Exploring visions and methods to pursue high level education means to study how each person is allowed to develop new intellectual, aesthetic, and operational perspective, as well as  grasp new insights for growth and enrichment of one’s understanding of the world. The authors present the pilot phase of an analysis of the first industrial doctorate in Reggio Chilhood Studies, organized by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in collaboration with the Reggio Children Foundation: its socio-constructivist matrix is highlighted. In fact, constructing a community of learners allows cross-fertilization among diverse disciplinary knowledge and many cultures.  The study hereby presented explores the variables of such learning community, through the analysis of in-depth interviews of the PhD fellows. Results show factors and variables that can affect and challenge the existence of the community. Recommendations are made to continue exploring the doctoral community, bringing in the picture all the stakeholders involved.
A Framework for Developing Mathematical Tasks for Automatic Formative Assessment in Higher Education
Authors: Körner Andreas , Horvath Clara , Medo Lana
Published: June 2023

Mathematics education in STEM studies poses a challenge that students must practice the methods they learn to use them accurately. The mapping of teaching exercises is an important step towards creating a more engaging, interactive learning experience for students. An automatic assessment system can support such a process and help overcome obstacles towards a better learning environment for students. Developing effective support in form of high-level mathematical tasks for this type of assessment is challenging and requires careful consideration of the goals, objectives, and content of the task. With this paper, we aim to provide practical insights and references for teachers looking to develop various mathematical tasks that can provide meaningful feedback and support learning, while taking into account the limitations of automatic assessment in higher education. Additionally, this paper addresses the possibilities and challenges that arise in this educational process and provides examples of different applications.
Financial literacy decision tree game: A system development exposé
Authors: Lotter Melany , Okoro Chioma
Published: June 2023

Poor financial literacy has significant economic implications, with limited savings, insufficient retirement provisions and higher dependency on debt. Concerns about the level of financial literacy among the youth or young graduates motivated this study. The study describes the design of a game to educate young graduates while imbibing life-long personal financial management skills. A system development approach was used to present the information. Scenarios and decisions were developed to guide the student (player) in planning and making decisions about their budget with real-life events or cases. The study will be beneficial to university students to transition smoothly into the workforce and take control of their finances. University authorities and stakeholders can also implement the game design to assist students in gaining financial education before venturing into the working world.
Should we be afraid of open book exams? Our experience
Authors: Alegre-Martínez Antoni , Martínez-Martínez María Isabel , Alfonso-Sanchez José Luis
Published: June 2023

This study reports our first experience introducing open-book exams in the Anatomy subject at a medical school. Students were authorized to bring study material to the exam and consult books, atlases and their own notes. Our objective was to check whether the test scores were significantly higher or lower compared to the rote tests taken before it. After statistical analysis, there are no differences in the mean, median, range, minimum score, or maximum score. These results are consistent with the consulted bibliography. We can conclude that there is no need to be afraid of implementing this type of exam in the future.
How University Teachers Can Support the Linking of Theory and Practice in Lesson Debriefings with Student Teachers
Authors: Ladehoff Christine , Pfetsch Jan , Ophardt Diemut
Published: June 2023

Considering professionalism as a paradigm of higher education in university settings, it seems crucial to establish supportive spaces in which reflection, regarded as a mediating process between theory and practice, can be initiated. Within the conceptual framework of UntAdFoKo supervision, developed and tested in pre-service teacher education, N=10 lesson debriefings of university teachers and student teachers in the practical semester of teacher training were qualitatively analyzed to find out how and to what extent reflection can be initiated by connecting practical teaching situations with theory-based principles of learning-effectiveness and dimensions of teaching quality. First results indicate that in lesson debriefings using the conceptual UntAdFoKo supervision, linking of theory and practice occurred twice as often as the description of teaching situations and that university teachers are the main initiators of the linking process. These findings give insights into the effect of conceptually linking theory and practice on reflection processes.
Enhancing Online Teaching: Addressing the Challenges Faced by Early-Career Academics at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Authors: Thuong Le Thi , Huy Nghiem Xuan , Hoai Tran Thi , Ba Nguyen Thai , Trang Tuan Thu
Published: June 2023

This study was conducted to evaluate the current state of online teaching at the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) by surveying 804 early-career academics who are teaching at the institution. The findings indicate that the lecturers have a clear understanding of the advantages of online teaching and hold a favorable perspective towards it. However, the challenges of lacking proficiency in the utilization of new teaching technologies and the lack of motivation among learners pose difficulties for online teaching. This study proposes five practical solutions aimed at enhancing the quality of online teaching for early-career academics at VNU, based on the research results.
Cybersecurity education in European higher education institutions
Authors: Salminen Mirva , Candelin Niko , Cullen Kaisa , Latvanen Sari , Lindroth Marianne , Matilainen Teemu
Published: June 2023

This research paper presents some of the findings of an ongoing Cyber Citizen Initiative project (2022–24), which benchmarked civic cybersecurity education and training in all European Union (EU) member states. The research paper focuses on cybersecurity education in higher education. The study concluded that cybersecurity education varies across the EU. Whereas some countries have dozens of higher education institutes providing education in cybersecurity, some others have only a few institutions and educational programmes for the topic. In general, the educational programmes tend to be specific and focus on technical skills. A wider understanding of cybersecurity as a societal concern, civic cybersecurity skills, and discipline geared cybersecurity competence building may be lacking from curricula.
Quality Management in Italian Universities: A Case Study in the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Authors: Colamatteo Ilenia , Bravo Ilenia , Cappelli Lucio , Papetti Patrizia
Published: June 2023

This paper examines on a wider scale, quality management in Italian higher education institutions, and then progresses to focus specifically on the case of the Master Course in Global Economy and Business (GLEB), held in the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. An analysis of the way in which the University of Cassino manages quality is undertaken to identify the responsibilities of those accountable for quality assurance. A preliminary study was carried out through the completion of a digital survey distributed to GLEB graduates, to monitor the success of the course. The results obtained highlight that this course is quite appealing to students, and what also emerges is how innovation and improvement are the foundation of quality education. Being only the first step towards a more exhaustive evaluation, this analysis must be extended by collecting more data, to compare the results with similar courses in other universities through a benchmarking process.
Globalisation vs diversity in national languages in HE context: Case of Estonia
Authors: Nemvalts Peep , Roosalu Triin , Roosmaa Eve-Liis , Lemendik Helena
Published: June 2023

Given the rapid globalisation since the 1990s and the rising support of a culture of internationalisation in higher education across Europe, the position of national languages in academia deserves more attention. The “Strategy for the Internationalization of Estonian Higher Education 2006–2015” has diminished the role of Estonian by removing the requirement of the existence of Estonian-medium education from doctoral education. In 2011–2012 we surveyed Estonian doctoral students’ opinions and stances about their usage of academic languages. Only a minority of doctoral students claimed to be always unrestricted in their language choice, and many veered towards using primarily English. Recent strategies in education, research and language aim to advance Estonian-medium HE, and in 2022 we conducted a re-survey to see how the situation has changed. This paper presents some results and implications of our two studies, discussing the current academic language situation and policies.
A comparative study of paediatric endotracheal tubes available in the Indian market – a bench study
Authors: Arul Harshan , Shenoy Anitha , Kaur Jasvinder
Published: June 2023

Introduction: A variety of paediatric endotracheal tubes (ETT) are available in India. Aim: Comparison of paediatric cuffed and uncuffed ETT with respect to dimensions, depth markings, cuff characteristics and cost. Methods: 65 cuffed and 38 uncuffed paediatric ETT (3.0-7.0 mm ID) from 12 different manufacturers were evaluated. The outer diameter, position of depth markings, length and position of cuff, largest diameter of cuff inflated at 20 cm H2O of the ETTs were measured and compared with dimensions of trachea. Results: Outer diameters of similar ID ETTs varied between manufacturers and between cuffed and uncuffed ETTs from the same manufacturer. 26 tubes studied did not have a depth marking. In many tubes the distances from depth marking to tube tip were greater than half the age-related minimum tracheal length. If the tube tips were placed in midtrachea, many cuffs were placed within the larynx. If cuffs were placed 0.5 cm below cricoid level, many tube tips lay too close to the carina. Diameters and cross-sectional area of the cuff at 20 cm H2O pressure mostly covered maximal internal age related tracheal diameters and cross sectional areas. Conclusion: Most paediatric ETTs are poorly designed. ETTs from Kimberly Clark and Parker tubes for children suit paediatric tracheal dimensions. All cuffed tubes including Kimberly Clark tubes need close cuff pressure monitoring.
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test
Authors: Koutra M , Curtis R , Rao Baikady R
Published: June 2023

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) allows the objective measurement of patients’ exercise capacity. In contrast to traditional and static investigations for limited exercise tolerance, CPET can provide a global and dynamic evaluation of both cardiovascular and respiratory systems and their functional interactions. There is increasing literature to support the use of CPET in various clinical settings. Its role has been established for the evaluation of chronic heart failure especially for prognosis, measurement of response to treatment and assessment of suitability for heart transplantation. CPET has also been used for assessment of patient’s suitability for lung resection. There is currently a lot of interest in the use of CPET as a tool for the preoperative evaluation of patients for noncardiac surgery. Poor fitness levels as measured by CPET variables are shown to be associated with perioperative morbidity and mortality. It can therefore be very useful in risk stratification, preoperative optimisation, patient informed consent process for surgery and allocation of healthcare resources. In this article we review the basic physiological principles behind its use and the conduct of testing. We also summarise the latest evidence relevant to its current clinical applications, with emphasis on management of chronic heart failure, assessment of patient’s suitability for lung resection and preoperative stratification of surgical risk.
A rescue technique for LMA Classic insertion in unanticipated limitation of mouth opening
Authors: Krishna Handattu Mahabaleswara , Shenoy Laxmi
Published: June 2023

Sudden unanticipated limitation in mouth opening can cause serious problems in airway management. We report a case in which mouth opening became restricted after induction of anaesthesia resulting in inability to insert LMA Classic by standard insertion technique. An alternative technique consisting of LMA insertion without intraoral manipulation was used in this case as a rescue technique and LMA could be inserted successfully.
Gestão do esporte universitário: o caso da Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Authors: Viana Meneses Neto Ebio , Eduardo Artiaga Paula Carlos
Published: June 2023

O estudo objetivou analisar a percepção dos praticantes de atividades esportivas sobre a gestão do esporte da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, a luz do contexto histórico, do processo de gestão dos atores públicos, dos financiamentos e das atividades competitivas, recreativas e educacionais. Para este trabalho foram distribuídos 82 questionários entre a comunidade acadêmica para coleta de dados primários e ainda foi feita pesquisa documental como dado secundário. Para análise dos dados utilizou-se de estatística descritiva para tratar as questões objetivas e as questões abertas foram interpretadas a partir de Análise de Conteúdo, usando o software de análise lexical Iramuteq. Foi possível observar a UFV dispõe de atividades e projetos esportivos para a sua comunidade acadêmica, viabilizando também o espaço físico para a prática esportiva. Os respondentes consideram a UFV pouco transparente, mas em contrapartida não utilizam suas cadeiras nos colegiados. Por fim, os respondentes consideram a gestão do esporte da UFV regular, com pontos positivos e negativos. O trabalho contribui para discussões acerca da gestão na Administração Pública trazendo contribuições teóricas sobre o esporte universitário, sobre o planejamento institucional de uma Universidade Pública e sobre a participação da comunidade acadêmica no processo de controle social. O presente artigo se apresenta ainda como um importante trabalho empírico que visa descrever a gestão do esporte universitário a partir da percepção dos praticantes esportivos, trazendo características da autonomia universitária.
A educação como instrumento de mudança de país e de vida: o percurso migratório de estudantes imigrantes das universidades federais do sul do Brasil
Authors: Peres Luise Bittencourt , Airton da Rosa Cerqueira-Adão Sebastião , Freddo Fleck Carolina
Published: June 2023

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a trajetória migratória dos estudantes imigrantes haitianos em universidades brasileiras. O estudo foi desenvolvido a partir de abordagem qualitativa, usando investigação narrativa através da técnica Delphi. A coleta de dados se deu a partir de um roteiro que circulou duas vezes entre treze estudantes imigrantes de três Universidades Federais da região Sul. Com os resultados desenvolveu-se as seguintes categorias de análise: os processos migratórios vivenciados pelos estudantes, a educação como fator decisório e o acesso a emprego, moradia e saúde: dificuldades no Brasil. Como alguns resultados principais tem-se que o fator decisório para o deslocamento migratório foi a oportunidade de estudo no Brasil, aliada a melhores condições de vida. Contudo, as condições vivenciadas pelos estudantes imigrantes não diferiram muito daquela no seu país de origem, como por exemplo dificuldades na busca por emprego, moradia e acesso a saúde. Esta pesquisa contribui para as universidades que recebem imigrantes e refugiados, bem como em implicações teóricas e sociais que evidenciam os efeitos da etnia e do gênero nas trajetórias migratórias, gerando imobilidades entre os/as imigrantes. Este estudo está vinculado ao Observatório de Gestão Universitária para a Inclusão e Desenvolvimento Social do Pampa.
Engajamento universitário: uma experiência de protagonismo interdisciplinar no curso de administração
Authors: De Lima Reis Araújo Adriana , Ferreira Aboud de Andrade Amanda
Published: June 2023

O objetivo geral de nossa pesquisa é analisar uma experiência interdisciplinar no curso de Administração da UFMA a partir da visão dos estudantes com base nas dimensões de engajamento estudantil de Veiga (2013, 2016). Consideramos a abordagem qualitativa dos dados, com fins exploratórios e descritivos por meio de estudo de caso. A coleta de dados se deu com a aplicação de um questionário online junto aos estudantes matriculados nas disciplinas em pauta e o levantamento bibliográfico sobre as DCN do curso de Administração, interdisciplinaridade e engajamento estudantil. O questionário foi aplicado via ferramenta online, uma vez que as disciplinas foram ofertadas de maneira remota no primeiro semestre de 2022, com todos os estudantes inscritos, sendo retornados 51 respondidos, o que representa uma amostra de 74% dos matriculados. Realizamos a análise quantitativa, verificando média e frequência entre as respostas e para as questões abertas foi feito análise textual dos discursos apresentados, a partir da fala dos estudantes e sua categorização pelas variáveis identificadas em engajamento e interdisciplinaridade. Os resultados revelaram um perfil dos estudantes mais cognitivo e comportamental com certo envolvimento emocional, entretanto menos agenciativo. O trabalho em equipe se destacou como ponto de atenção pelas respostas controversas apontadas. Na percepção dos estudantes, a experiência interdisciplinar realizada foi exitosa.
Informal Caregivers’ Perceptions of Facilitators of Successful Weight Management for People With Spinal Cord Injury
Authors: Pedersen Jessica Presperin , Ehrlich-Jones Linda S. , Heinemann Allen W. , LaVela Sherri L.
Published: June 2023

Importance: Informal caregivers have valuable insights that occupational therapists can use to prevent and manage problems that may arise in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) because of a lack of physical activity and poor nutrition.

Objective: To assess caregiver-identified facilitators of weight management in people with SCI.

Design: Descriptive qualitative design using semistructured interviews and thematic analysis.

Setting: Regional SCI Care Model System and Veterans Health Administration.

Participants: Informal caregivers (n = 24) of people with SCI.

Outcomes and Measures: Facilitators of successful weight management in care recipients with SCI.

Results: Four themes were identified as weight management facilitators: healthy eating (subthemes: food content, self-control, self-management, and healthy preinjury lifestyle), exercise and therapy (subthemes: occupational and physical therapy, receiving assistance, and resources for exercise), accessibility, and leisure activity or activities of daily living, the latter described as a source of activity (because of required energy expenditure) to facilitate weight management for people with more severe injuries.

Conclusions and Relevance: These findings can inform the development of successful weight management plans by occupational therapists by incorporating feedback from informal caregivers. Because caregivers are involved in many of the facilitators identified, occupational therapists should communicate with the dyad about sourcing accessible places to increase physical activity and assessing in-person assistance and assistive technology needs to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Occupational therapists can use informal caregiver–identified facilitators of weight management to help prevent and manage problems for people with SCI secondary to limited activity and poor nutrition.

What This Article Adds: Occupational therapy practitioners provide therapeutic intervention to people with SCI; this includes attention to weight management from the time of initial injury throughout their lives. This article is novel in the presentation of informal caregivers’ perceptions about successful facilitators of weight management among people with SCI, which is important because caregivers are intimately involved in the daily activities of people with SCI and can be a liaison for occupational therapists and other health care providers about ways to facilitate healthy eating and physical activity.
Investigating a Telecenter’contribution to Community Economic Development: An Experience of Buayan, Sabah Malaysia
Authors: Saat Gusni , Chee Wyai Gary Loh
Published: June 2023

eBuayan is one of the community telecentre established by ISITI-CoERI, is started to serve the community in 2009 with two main objectives to be reached, (i) to bridge digital divide between rural and urban inhabitants; and (ii) to promote economic development of the communities. The first objective is the prerequisite to achieve the second objective. A pertinent question is to what extent the telecentre was served as a catalyst for socio-economic development of concerning community? Investigating such question means the paper uncovered issues that constrained the the role of the telecentre as instruments to upgrade economic development of the community. The aim of this paper is to investigate and discuss the eBuayan achievement based on it objectives. Based on a constructed conceptual framework of “informative and marketing community” issues underscored the effectiveness of the telecentre in struggling it objectives are discussed. This paper argued that the dialectic relationship between community informative domain and community marketing domain in order to achieve eBuayan objectives were remain less successful. Local products that can be promoted through the telecentre by using the internet were yet to be developed by the community. It was due to the following factors: (i) the community members were ignorance about how to market their local products via the telecentre; and (ii) a potential local products that can be marketing via the internet is remained not been developed; (iii) the informations circulation on internet marketing within the community nationally and globally were remain too small. The first and second issues were resulted by less participation among the community’s member to the telecentre project. With regards to the third issue, it was due to the users were limited to a small numbers of youths with no regular usage. Inability the community to utilise the telecenter as the marketing means because it is a new innovation for them. In order to be able to cope with the telecenter as economic development centre the community should participate actively in terms of training, local product innovation and also get fully supports from external stakeholders.
Radio Malaysia Sabah dan Radio Brunei Darussalam: Satu Tinjauan Format Penerbitan dan Siaran
Authors: Jamal Mahat
Published: June 2023

Radio Malaysia Sabah dan Radio Brunei Darussalam merupakan stesen radio awam berperanan sebagai media komunikasi rasmi kerajaan. Dimensi tujahan utama kedua-dua stesen ini termasuklah mempromosi dan membuat liputan dasar, program dan aktiviti-aktiviti kerajaan khususnya dalam bidang sosioekonomi, budaya dan perpaduan selaras dengan aspirasi visi negara masingmasing. Makalah ini menyingkap kaedah format penerbitan dan siaran Radio Malaysia Sabah dan Radio Brunei Darussalam dalam mengartikulasikan strategi meuar-uar, mempromosi dan membuat liputan Wawasan 2020 untuk Sabah Malaysia dan Wawasan 2035 bagi Negara Brunei Darussalam. Lima saluran Radio Malaysia Sabah menggalas tanggungjawab sebagai pemangkin liputan Wawasan 2020 di mana Malaysia berhasrat muncul sebagai negara maju berpendapatan tinggi mengikut acuan sendiri menjelang tahun 2020. Negara Brunei Darussalam juga menggunakan lima saluran radio sebagai wadah liputan Wawasan Brunei 2035 berkonsepkan Melayu Islam Beraja (MIB) di mana menjelang tahun 2035 Negara Brunei Darussalam berhasrat dapat menghasilkan modal insan berpendidikan, berkemahiran tinggi, ekonomi yang dinamik dan berdaya tahan. Data diperlolehi melalui kajian perpustakaan, soroton literatur dan analisis kandungan jadual siaran kedua-dua stesen. Dapatan menunjukkan banyak persamaan rangkaian strategi ke atas format penerbitan dan siaran mesej pembangunan negara di samping beberapa perbezaan dari segi niche audiens yang menjadi faktor dominan saluran radio berdasarkan falsafah penyiaran negera masing-masing.
A Possible Resolution to Hilbert’s first Problem by Applying Cantor’s Diagonal Argument with Conditioned Subsets of R, With That of (N,R)
Authors: Iyer Rajah
Published: June 2023

We present herein a new approach to the Continuum hypothesis CH. We will employ a string conditioning, a technique that limits the range of a string over some of its sub-domains for forming subsets K of R. We will prove that these are well defined and in fact proper subsets of R by making use of Cantor’s Diagonal argument in its original form to establish the cardinality of K between that of (N,R) respectively
Appeasing Workers without Great Loss: Autocracy and Progressive Labor Legislation
Authors: Wang Hsu Yumin
Published: June 2023

Under what conditions do dictators enact pro-worker legislation? Conventional wisdom suggests that heightened mass discontent motivates dictators to make policy concessions to defuse revolutionary threats. However, a more protective labor law may decrease elites' economic benefits-and
thus loyalty to the regime. I argue that limited judicial independence helps dictators control the distributional outcomes of the law and therefore better respond to the twin challenges magnified by labor reforms. To test this argument, I conduct a cross-national analysis of sixty-eight autocracies
from 1970 to 2008. I then examine an illustrative case-China's 2008 Labor Contract Law-to illuminate how a non-independent judiciary gives autocrats more leeway to balance the interests of elites and the masses. This article contributes to our understanding of authoritarian survival strategies
amid distributive tensions.
Fikih, Ushul Fikih dan Qawaid Al-Fiqhiyyah dalam Lintasan Sejarah
Authors: Zaki Muhammad
Published: June 2023

Fikih merupakan seperangkat aturan hukum atau tata aturan yang menyangkut kegiatan dalam kehidupan manusia dalam berinteraksi, bertingkah laku dan bersikap yang bersifat lahiriah dan amaliah, bersumber dari hasil penalaran dan pemahaman yang mendalam terhadap syariah oleh para mujtahid. Sedangkan ushul fikih merupakan metodologi perumusan hukum Islam dari sumbernya. Hasil perumusan tersebut menghasilkan hukum Islam (fikih), yang kemudian dipergunakan oleh umat Islam sebagai norma dan aturan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Adapun qawaid al-fiqhiyyah merupakan dasar-dasar atau asas-asas yang berkaitan dengan masalah-masalah atau jenis-jenis fikih. Fikih sudah terbentuk sejak masa Nabi Muhammad Saw. dan berkembang pada saat masa sahabat serta para mujtahid sesuai dengan kondisi dan perkembangan kehidupan umat Islam. Objek utama dalam pembahasan ushul fikih ialah dalil-dalil syariat yang merupakan sumber hukum dalam ajaran Islam. Ushul fikih memiliki kedudukan yang sangat penting dalam memahami kandungan Alquran dan hadis dan dalam menetapkan hukum, karena melalui ilmu inilah dapat diketahui kandungan dan maksud setiap dalil syariat sekaligus cara menerapkannya.
Efeito Bolsonaro na educação: análise crítica
Authors: Rodrigues Marli de Fátima
Published: June 2023

Uma observação casual sobre a Educação no Brasil nos mostra a enormidade de problemas históricos que preocupam pesquisadores, políticos e os mais diversos setores da sociedade. A Educação brasileira, historicamente, vive um quadro crônico de falta de aporte econômico; sofre com a falta de profissionais qualificados; apresenta baixa qualidade na aprendizagem; observa alarmantes níveis de desinteresse e abandono pelos estudantes; não consegue incluir adequadamente os estudantes com necessidades especiais e ainda apresenta um grande distanciamento das comunidades das quais fazem parte. Além desses problemas crônicos, nos últimos anos pesquisadores e sociedade viram-se perplexos com os novos ataques à educação, capitaneados pela extrema direita e que encontraram condições propicias às suas reivindicações no governo de Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Esses setores não se apresentaram para propor soluções às demandas da Educação no Brasil. Pelo contrário, acusam a escola e os professores de poluir mentes jovens com ideias e ideologias que contrariam os bons costumes e que levariam à degenerescência moral e à indisciplina estando portanto, em desacordo com os melhores interesses das famílias brasileiras. Assim, somando-se aos problemas estruturais, a Educação no Brasil encontra-se em um momento em que precisa discutir e enfrentar um conflito, que em última análise centra-se na busca da liberdade e emancipação humana e a defesa dos princípios básicos da democracia: formação de pessoas autônomas e com pensamento crítico. A presente obra, Efeito Bolsonaro na Educação, é uma proposta corajosa e bem-vinda. Sua proposta, bem-sucedida, é debruçar-se sobre os principais problemas deixados pelo governo Bolsonaro na Educação Brasileira; problemas esses que se não forem enfrentados rápida e adequadamente, causarão sérios prejuízos, não apenas aos nossos aprendizes, mas à toda população.
Apontamentos sobre a política nacional de alfabetização
Authors: Martiniak Vera Lucia , Souza Elaine Constant Pereira de
Published: June 2023

O texto discute no âmbito da formulação da política educacional, a formação de professores alfabetizadores e as diretrizes definidas para a alfabetização das crianças brasileiras, a partir da Política Nacional de Alfabetização, instituída em 2019. A PNA baseia-se em evidências científicas, contrariando os estudos e pesquisas que se centram na alfabetização na perspectiva do letramento. Tem como princípios básicos a cooperação entre os entes federativos; fundamentação nas evidências das ciências cognitivas; adoção de referenciais de políticas públicas exitosas, nacionais e estrangeiras; integração entre as práticas pedagógicas de linguagem, literacia e numeracia; igualdade de oportunidades educacionais, e por fim, a família como um dos agentes do processo de alfabetização. No PNA defende-se a alfabetização a partir da consciência fonêmica e da instrução fônica. O estudo, de natureza qualitativa, foi realizado por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica a partir de discussão fundamentada em autores como Saviani, (2011), Mortatti (2019), Martins (2010), dentre outros. Também foi utilizada a pesquisa documental por meio da análise das fontes primárias que norteiam a política de alfabetização brasileira. O texto tece considerações a respeito da formulação e implementação de programas e políticas para a educação brasileira a partir do respeito à diversidade cultural, geográfica e social em que os brasileiros vivem, sem desconsiderar o contexto da escola pública e seus profissionais, sua estrutura administrativa e autonomia pedagógica.
Disciplina, ordem e pensamento aprisionado: a lógica das escolas cívico-militares
Authors: Boutin Aldimara Catarina Brito Delabona , Flach Simone
Published: June 2023

O texto teve por objetivo analisar os fundamentos que dão sustentação ao Programa Nacional das Escolas Cívico-Militares, criado pelo Decreto 10.004, de 2019, durante a gestão federal de Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Para tanto, discute-se como a ascensão de um governo de extrema direita deu guarida ao conservadorismo e fez emergir defesas educacionais que cerceiam o desenvolvimento do pensamento de crianças e jovens, por meio da defesa de ordem e disciplina; apresenta o compromisso governamental com o resgate das forças militares enquanto organizadoras da ordem social e, consequentemente, da formação dos estudantes, na qual a força hierárquica de determinados grupos precisa ser valorizada enquanto que aos grupos subalternos resta apenas a subserviência e o conformismo com lógica que rege a atual forma de sociabilidade. A análise do Programa Nacional das Escolas Cívico Militares é feita sob a luz do materialismo histórico e dialético, especialmente a partir do pensamento de Antonio Gramsci. Ao final conclui-se que o Programa analisado reafirma a condição de subalternidade da classe trabalhadora e contribui para uma sociedade desigual e injusta.
Investigation of factors influencing non-compliance with procurement practices : a case study of head office supply chain management directorate and hospitals within eThekwini District, KwaZulu-Natal
Authors:   , Mkhize Sithembile Gadiosa
Published: June 2023

Regardless of the reforms and the employment of Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a strategic tool, South Africa still faces immense challenges in its procurement practices. Non-compliance with public procurement guidelines cannot be ignored because it has a significant cost to the government and the public as taxpayers. This study investigated the factors influencing non-compliance with procurement practices within the Kwa-Zulu Natal Department of Health. The Auditor General’s reports for the financial year 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 confirmed that this Department had received qualified audit opinions for two consecutive years for incurring irregular expenditure on procurement and contract management following non-compliance with procurement guidelines. A mixed-method of data collection was employed on this study to gather information from the relevant decision makers including officials in finance and SCM components. The results of this study demonstrated that unavailability of SCM staffing norms, shortage of staff, lack of supervision, shortage of skills, unavailability of E-procurement system, and negligence are major determinants for non-compliance. These findings have relevance for the Kwa-Zulu Natal Department of Health and also for the South African Public Sector as it strives to achieve clean audits on procurement and contract management. Furthermore, this study acknowledges the policies and the guidelines on public procurement and contract management. However, it argues that policies and guidelines alone cannot prevent irregular expenditure. Public procurement and contract management policies and guidelines need to be complemented by human resources, appropriate skills, updated technologies, implementation of consequences management, and monitoring and evaluation. Furthermore, this study presented the researcher’s proposed model for addressing non-compliance with procurement and contract management policies, as shown in Figure 4.2. Moreover, this model could play a crucial role in reviving and supplementing the public procurement and contracting objectives thus enhancing compliance.