bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Epidemiology of Superficial Injury of the Hip Joint and Hip in the Republic of Kazakhstan (ICD-10, code range S70)
Authors:   Kazakhstan’s Medical University “Kazakhstan School of Public Health”,, Beisenov Bekzat , Kulzhanov Maksut ,   Kazakhstan’s Medical University “Kazakhstan School of Public Health”,, Beikutuly Nurlat ,   Kazakhstan’s Medical University “Kazakhstan School of Public Health”,, Yermekbayeva Assel ,   Kazakhstan’s Medical University “Kazakhstan School of Public Health”,, Akhmetov Ernur ,   Central City Clinic Hospital, Sukletova Alena ,   Kazakh-Russian Medical University, Salimgereeva Bagdat ,   Kazakh-Russian Medical University, Yermentayeva Zhannym ,   Kazakh-Russian Medical University, Kaketaeva Indira ,   Kazakh-Russian Medical University
Published: March 2024

The purpose of the study. This study was aimed at studying the frequency and nature of superficial injury of the hip joint and hip area in Kazakhstan.Methods. A retrospective observational comparative study included all primary patients with injuries under the S70 code in accordance with the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases in the period 2019 - 2020 according to the National Register of Traumatology Patients of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The data were obtained from the electronic register by the "Republican Center for Electronic Health Care" of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Results. An increase in the number of superficial hip and hip injuries with a maximum peak for 2018 is determined, but a sharp decrease in the number of injuries in general for 2019 is also shown. The first place is occupied by a bruise of the hip joint (S70.0) 734 cases (61.3%). The most vulnerable age group remains 10-19 years old, which is probably associated with the greatest activity of children and adolescents.Gender analysis of patients with superficial hip and hip injuries showed that traumatization prevails in the male population.Conclusion. Superficial injury of the hip joint and hip area is a serious problem in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Analysis of the data showed their significant growth. Thus, the main attention should be paid to the prevention of superficial injury to the hip joint and hip area in order to reduce the level of injury. Keywords: Hip, hip injury, epidemiology, hip joint, hip injury.
Physical Development of Children Living in the Territory of Concentrated Production Facilities of Ust-Kamenogorsk City
Authors:   Astana Medical University, Mussina Aiman , Myrzagaliyeva Alphiya ,   Astana Medical University, Sultanbekov Zeinulla ,   Outpatient Center, Suleimenova Roza ,   Astana Medical University
Published: March 2024

For the first time the physical development of children living in non-ferrous metallurgy enterprises (zinc, lead and titanium-magnesium simultaneously) and in urban areas without similar emission sources were compared, where development indexes and indices were evaluated.Research. To assess the physical development of children living in the sanitary protection zones of the Northern and Northeastern industrial zones.Methods. In the article the physical development of children living on the territory of sanitary protective zones of Northern and North-Eastern industrial centers of Ust-Kamenogorsk city is estimated. When comparing with the clean control areas it was found that the children of primary and secondary school age are characterized by accelerated growth rate, low body weight and weak type of body build.Results. Compared to the control and clean territories, the body mass deficit in the younger age is up to 83.0%, in the high school age - up to 71.2%. "Very weak" type of body build prevails in elementary school students living in the areas of JSC "Uskemen Titanium-Magnesium Plant" (63,0%), JSC "Kazmyrish" and JSC "Ulba Metallurgical Plant" (62,0%).Conclusions. Children living in the studied areas are characterized by an acceleration of the growth rate of body length compared with the control area. The estimation according to centile tables showed that children are characterized by a higher level of body weight in comparison with the control area.Keywords: sanitary protection zone, physical development, schoolchildren, environmental load.
Assessment of the Medical Professionalism of Young Healthcare Specialists
Authors:   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Abenova Nurgul , Zhamaliyeva Lyazzat ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Dilmagambetova Gaukhar ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Koshmaganbetova Gulbakit ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Begalina Dana ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Sakhipova Gulnara ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Balmagambetova Saule ,   West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this studywas to reach consensus among stakeholders in residency programs on items to be used to assess medical professionalism in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural context. These elements can form the basis for a medical professionalism assessment tool within residency programs.Methods. In this qualitative study, four 1½ h focus groups were conducted with the participation of 24 medical residents and 15 experts involved in the residency programs of the University of Western Kazakhstan, and the results were analyzed using thematic analysis. Focus group discussions were recorded on audio and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was conducted by two independent coders using a priori framework derived from Professionalism Mini Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX). Results. The results of the study confirmed the four areas of medical professionalism reflected in P-MEX: doctor-patient relationship, reflective skills, time management, and inter-professional relationship skills. Based on the data obtained, a new sub-domain "Practical Class Attendance" was introduced into the time management domain, proposed by experts to assess the professionalism of residents.Conclusion. The domains of professionalism in Kazakhstan were similar to previous studies. This study allows to form professionalism in the training of young medical specialists in a multinational state.Keywords: professionalism, medical education, residency, experts, assessment of medical professionalism
Epidemiological Aspects of Suicide in the East Kazakhstan Region
Authors:   Central Asian Institute for Medical Research, Kozhakhmetova Gulmira , Khamidullina Zaituna ,   Astana Medical University, Azhetova Zhanerke ,   Astana Medical University, Orozbaev Serikbay ,   Astana Medical University, Bilyalova Zarina ,   Central Asian Institute for Medical Research, Telmanova Zhansaya ,   Astana Medical University, Igissin Nurbek ,   Astana Medical University
Published: March 2024

Objective: To study the trends of mortality from intentional self-harm in the East Kazakhstan region.Methods. The main sources of information were the materials of the state registration of the deceased as a whole from intentional self–harm (ICD 10 - X60-84) for 2004-2013. Materials related to the East Kazakhstan region were analyzed. A retrospective study using descriptive and analytical methods of modern epidemiology was used as the main method in the study of mortality from intentional self-harm.Results. In 2004-2013, 38,276 cases of intentional injuries were registered in Kazakhstan, of which only 5998 (15.7%) suicides occurred in the East Kazakhstan region. The average age of those who died from suicide was 40.4±0.5 years. The average annual crude mortality rates from intentional self–harm among both sexes amounted to 42.2±2.40/0000 (95%CI=37.5-47.0). In dynamics, the crude mortality rate for both sexes decreased, and the average annual rate of decline was T=−5.0%. Age-sex differences in suicide mortality rates were revealed. The analysis of age-related mortality rates from intentional self-harm in both sexes in the studied region showed a unimodal increase with a peak in the age group of 30-49 years.Conclusion. The analysis of mortality from suicide showed that in the East Kazakhstan region, mortality is decreasing significantly. The data obtained make it possible to monitor trends and changes in suicide mortality. This helps to assess the effectiveness of measures to reduce the risk of suicide and adjust strategies and programs depending on changing conditions.Keywords: suicides, age and gender characteristics, epidemiology, trends, East Kazakhstan region
https://doi.org/10.32921/2225-9929-2023-2-51-4-
Authors:   Astana Medical University, Kuandyk Ulpan , Tardzhibayeva Saule ,   Astana Medical University, Shakanov Dastan ,   Astana Medical University, Tolegenova Yerkezhan ,   Astana Medical University
Published: March 2024

Purpose of the study: To study the development characteristics of metabolic syndrome and risk factors in civil servants of Astana city.Methods. The study was conducted in Astana with two groups of study, main group and control group. These groups were consist of 475 people working in civil service and people working in other fields of service aged 18 to 63.Results. To conduct the study we selected people with metabolic syndrome in accordance with the criteria of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF 2009), we also reviewed the case with prevalence of metabolic syndrome in people of studied groups. In the main group, the incidence of metabolic syndrome was 10.6% lower than in the control group and it was found that the majority of them were 53.5% men. The differences between metabolic syndrome components compared to the control group, in men: triglycerides, blood glucose level, high arterial blood pressure (p<0.05), and in women: triglycerides, high-density lipoproteins, high arterial blood pressure (p<0.05). It was noticed, that the combination of the metabolic syndrome components in both groups occurs mainly in the form of waist + glucose + triglyceride circumference. In addition, high arterial blood pressure, triglyceride and smoking were identified as the leading risk factors of this pathological condition among the respondents.Conclusions. There is a characteristic tendency of spreading the metabolic syndrome, the course of components and the accompanying situation among civil servants. It is based on risk factors that influenced. In this way, the given study results can be used as a basis for the formation of preventive measures of metabolic syndrome among civil servants.Keywords: metabolic syndrome, civil servants, prevalence characteristics, risk factors
The Main Results of Training Health Workers on Infection Prevention and Control, Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene in Medical Organizations
Authors:   National Center for Public Health, Imasheva Bagdat , Kalmakova Zhanar ,   National Center for Public Health, Alimkhanova Karlygash ,   Epidemiology with the course of HIV infection, Shakenova Zeinegul ,   National Public Health Center, Goncharova Anna ,   University Medical Center” Corporate Fund, Tekebayev Kanat ,   National Public Health Center, Yessenova Dana ,   University Medical Center” Corporate Fund,, Agazhayeva Gaukhar ,   “University Medical Center” Corporate Fund, Alimbetov Kuanysh ,   National Public Health Center
Published: March 2024

The urgency of the problem of prevention of infections associated with the provision of medical care, access to safe drinking water and sanitation, despite the development of innovative technologies in the healthcare sector, has not lost its significance.Purpose of this work. Improving competencies in the field of infection prevention and control, safe access to water, sanitation and hygiene in children's medical organizations, improving the quality of medical care, preventing the occurrence and spread of infections, and improving professional skills based on training.We used the empirical method, comparative analysis. The material was the developed educational program and 10 relevant modules for training. 29 epidemiologists and 16 senior managers underwent advanced training. Based on the results of the series of lectures and seminars, it turned out that most of the representatives of medical organizations did not even have an idea about the WASH system. Daily analysis of control and measurment tools showed an increase in knowledge among managers - 5.56%, which is 1.41% higher than that of epidemiologists.Conclusions. Based on the results of the work carried out, the importance of using the WASH system was identified as a tool for improving water supply, sanitation and promoting human and environmental hygiene, which, when used on an ongoing and regular basis, will help staff and management of medical organizations to prioritize and improve service delivery, and will also serve as an evidence base for efforts to improve the quality of care at the district, regional and national levels.Key words: infection prevention, water supply, hygiene, epidemiologists, managers, medical organizations, training.
Editorial – Continuing research in a time full of sound and fury
Authors: Danesin Maxime , Hernández-Pérez Manuel , Pellitteri Marco
Published: March 2024

Dear readers, students, fellow scholars,welcome to this eleventh instalment of Mutual Images Journal, titled “Onpolitics of visual media” after the main section of this present piece.If only we had known [...]
Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformation – Tze-yue G. HU, Masao YOKOTA & Gyongyi HORVATH (eds)
Authors: Zhan Fanhao
Published: March 2024

Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota and Gyongyi Horvath edited an impressive anthology in 2020, Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations, to examine the relationship between the concept of “the spirited” (or “the spiritual”) as part of our essence as humans and humanistic productions, especially all aspects of animation industries. T.-y. G. Hu is an independent educator and scholar-author based in Northern California with book publications such as Culture and Image-Building (University of Hong Kong Press, 2010). Her background in the healing arts programme provides [...]
Okada Toshiki and Japanese Theatre – Peter ECKERSALL, Barbara GEILHORN, Andreas REGELSBERGER & Cody POULTON (eds)
Authors: Wiesinger Justine
Published: March 2024

Since emerging on the scene in the 1990s, influenced especially by the work of Hirata Oriza, playwright Okada Toshiki has written dozens of works, a selection of which have toured throughout the world. Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre tells the reader that “he is the only Japanese theatre artist of his generation to have a significant international career and his work is known widely in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia” (1). Okada’s work encompasses colloquial yet troubled language, slowed tempos coupled with abstract physical scores, rich visual and aural designs and collaborations, and close engagement with events such as the Iraq War, precarious employment, the 2011 disasters, and post-Anthropocene modes of dramatic exploration. The book [...]
From Dungeons & Dragons to Dragon Quest: Cultural dialogue and material shifts
Authors: Mariucci Andrea
Published: March 2024

Arguably one of the most popular genres in today’s video game market is the Japanese role-playing game (JRPG). The distinguishing traits of the genre are often a matter of debate. The final decision on whether something is a JRPG usually relies more on general feelings than on rigid criteria (Mallindine 2016). However, one shared trait among the exponents of the genre is that they find its roots in Western tabletop role-playing games, such as Dungeons&Dragons (1974). As a matter of fact, Dungeons&Dragons served as an inspiration for many other role-playing games (RPGs). One such example is Wizardry (1981), which, together with Ultima (1981), was among the most successful computer role-playing games of its time (Barton & Stacks 2008). The two games served as the beginning for long-spanning series, which enjoyed wide success in Japan (Adams 1985), where the RPG genre as a whole was soon integrated, through various platforms, into the local media ecology (Steinberg 2015). Wizardry in particular was also among the games which influenced Horii Yūji (Horii 2018a. 2018b) to create Dragon Quest (1986), one of the earliest examples of JRPG. This article seeks to draw a connection between Dungeons&Dragons and the early JRPGs. First, I compare Dungeons&Dragons, a tabletop RPG, to its most well-known digital counterparts of the time, Wizardry and Ultima. By doing this, I expose the differences between ‘pen and paper’ and ‘screen and software.’ Then, I observe the differences between Wizardry, Ultima, and Dragon Quest in terms of both aesthetics and gameplay, in order to understand how Japanese developers and distributors negotiated the concept of RPG for the Japanese market. In both comparisons I consider how characters, avatar, gameplay, and narrative are mediated by the platform and the cultural milieu hosting them.
Introduction – On politics of visual media
Authors: Christopher David , Pellitteri Marco
Published: March 2024

"The visual" is the dominant social mode of modern media in what some have come to call the “post-literate age” of international mass media distribution and cultural hegemony. Media images are suffused with culturally-inflected visual meaning at both their points of production and moments of reception. But their very ubiquity, or mere “commonality”, often results in the dismissal of their political significance. In terms of [...]
Be a part of the narrative: How audiences are introduced to the “free choice dilemma” in the interactive film Bandersnatch
Authors: Zhang Hanxue
Published: March 2024

The first major interactive film on Netflix with live-action scenes was Bandersnatch, released in December 2018. Bandersnatch offers viewers a unique viewing experience distinct from traditional cinema, as it provides the viewer with multiple choices within the narrative trajectory. Digital interactive media technologies have become increasingly popular due to public demand for interactive engagement and a democratisation of text control. There is a social desire to deprive the author of total control over the story; to co-create stories using imagination while adhering to formal limitations and structures; to play with the text as an incomplete form; for the ability to rearrange the story’s order, alter its quality, and other such things. These meet the audience-creative user’s needs and satisfaction (Cover, 2004). Where personal emotions can be invested and free choice can be exercised in cyberspace, the emergence of interactivity as a kind of audience engagement is a robust culturally rooted desire. This article attempts to understand and analyse the uses and gratifications experienced by the audience during the interactive viewing process. However, digital participation proves to have limitations. Through a case study of the interactive film Bandersnatch, this paper explores how the interactivity and the features of video games can be used to give users so-called “free choice,” but that can actually be frustrating and ultimately offer only the illusion that the audience has any significant control over the story. In the end, the decisions made by the audience offer some relevant affordances to the interactive user but eventually proceed to reinforce the ideological control from the production team.
The bias on characters’ visual traits in Japanese animation and the misconceived “transnationality” of anime
Authors: Pellitteri Marco
Published: March 2024

In the dynamics centred on East Asian cultural output, a special place is occupied by Japan’s production (namely, comics and animation, or manga and anime respectively) and the distribution and widespread consumption of this vast output around the world.

Despite the interpolations many anime series or films faced when exported, a specificity of the medium was/is usually recognised by foreign audiences. However, issues often unfold in the reception of anime’s visual codes, which entail problematical aspects in the grasping of the narratives and an underlying dimension of what I shall here call “graphic politics”. Today, the visual-narrative logics of anime characters’ physiognomies, and therefore, the motivations and intentions of their creators, are still largely misinterpreted based on culturally-inflected interpretations; this gives us clues on what the audiences of anime are, what they expect and draw from anime’s stories, and what this means for a global politics of anime as a medium of expression and a creative output. In this article, through the description of visual examples and established, or, at times controversial, scholarship in the field, I discuss the persistence of wide misunderstandings in the cultural politics of anime’s design and its impact on the reception of anime’s intentions globally.

Among the collateral effects of this misunderstanding, a technical and moral justification to call (or imply as) “anime” animations designed and produced outside of Japan by non-Japanese authors seems to be emerging in the global discourse, thus privileging a fabricated idea of anime as just a “form” over anime as also and mainly a Japanese cultural artefact, in a momentous process of progressive dilution of the Japan-embedded characteristics of the animations made in Japan.
Horror and the Cube Films: An unlikely medium for the negotiation of Nationalist-Cultural ideologies
Authors: Christopher David
Published: March 2024

Over the past several decades, scholarship has come to recognise the unexpected significance of horror cinema ventures as both culturally and politically relevant. One of Canada’s greatest horror film successes was Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 psychological thriller Cube that metaphorically explores the suffocating nature of vocational social relations under the conditions of a patriarchal military-industrial capitalism. So innovative was its premise that US interests quickly acquired the rights to produce and distribute Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and Cube Zero (2004), but they were just as quick to reformulate the most subversive critique of the original film. Two decades later, in 2021, Japanese producers released a remake of the original film (which was so popular there), although it also re-coded the thematic critique, just as the American sequels had done. With this group of films across three national production traditions arises an opportunity to “detect shifts in the ideological constellation”, as Slavoj Žižek has argued, by “compar[ing] consecutive remakes of the same story” (2011, p. 61). Following primarily Herbert Marcuse’s understanding of political repressive tolerance, this article demonstrates the way in which constructions of cultural identity are negotiated across national traditions in the age of globalisation. Cube and its follow-ups demonstrate the nationalist-inflected limits of critical expression in the way that each subsequent film attempts to re-focus and re-code the horrors of the narrative machine in order to assert their own nationalist sensibilities threatened by the cultural levelling effect of globalisation in an age of transnational cinema distribution.
Tobacco Packaging Design in China, Thailand, and New Zealand: A Comparative Study
Authors: Zhang Xiaolong
Published: March 2024

Packaging design has received much interest from the academic and industrial worlds. Numerous studies have shown that packaging significantly impacts purchase intent, product satisfaction, and repeat purchases. However, to some extent, tobacco packaging is not used to fulfil its consumer target’s demands or increase the repeat purchase rate. By contrast, it has the official duty to discourage tobacco use, as it is a highly regulated business. Nevertheless, tobacco manufacturers do their best to find the last opportunity to advertise on tobacco boxes because the packet is their final or only marketing or advertising tool in many countries. Thus, tobacco packaging design could be the most challenging advertising practice in many nations because two contradicting advertising contents (persuasion and dissuasion) emerge in one medium simultaneously. In this paper, I comparatively content-analysed 65 popular cigarette brands from China, Thailand, and New Zealand to find out how tobacco companies use cigarette packaging to communicate with their customers. The results suggested that Chinese tobacco packaging is highly market-oriented and emphasises the use of traditional Chinese cultural elements. Conversely, tobacco packaging in Thailand and New Zealand focuses on health communication. But warning labels in the two countries are platitudes. The results also indicate that although policy factors have had a positive impact on tobacco packaging in terms of its discouraging function and contributing to tobacco control over the past decades, there is a need for policies to be tailored to the socio-cultural context. Efforts should focus on improving tobacco packaging from the perspective of smokers’ psychology. This adjustment is deemed necessary due to the declining effectiveness of current tobacco packaging control policies in reducing smoking rates in recent years.
Theorizing Filipino Pedagogical Beliefs: Narratives of Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Before and After Teaching Immersion
Authors: Borines Maria Talitha Estrella L. , Marasigan Arlyn C.
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this paper is to examine selected preservice elementary teachers' pedagogical beliefs before and after the teaching immersion program using Calderhead's Five Aspects of Pedagogical Beliefs. It aims to uncover meaningful experiences, challenges, and factors that contributed to the change in preservice teachers' pedagogical beliefs. This study employed a qualitative narrative research design with six preservice elementary teachers. The data revealed that the preservice teachers' beliefs significantly changed after the teaching immersion program. The factors contributing to their changes were time constraints, classroom management, and pedagogical responsibilities. However, two factors transcended Calderhead’s framework. Thus, the development of an enhanced framework, Seven Aspects of Pedagogical Beliefs, to include the participants’ beliefs on school culture and mentoring practices. The results of the study provide the pedagogical beliefs, meaningful experiences, challenges, and changes in pedagogical beliefs of pre-service teachers. However, the study is limited to Bachelor of Elementary Education. The study reveals that quality education in teacher education could be furthered through curriculum changes; therefore, it is critical to investigate how pedagogical beliefs influence preservice teachers' classroom decisions. This study uses a qualitative approach to provide a comprehensive picture of preservice teachers' pedagogical beliefs. Given that their beliefs differed before and after their teaching immersion, it is vital to provide new insights into the factors causing this difference.
Incorporating Islamic Environmentalism in Approaches to Conservation in the Trans-Himalaya
Authors:   Tropicalist Trust, Kargil, J&K UT, India. Email: mmpeters@thetropicalist.press, Peters Madhavi ,   madh.swamy@alumni.utoronto.ca, Khan Zahid Hussain ,   Department of History, University of Punjab, Chandigarh, India.  Email: zahidhk99@gmail.com
Published: March 2024

Conservationists increasingly acknowledge the value of co-productive conservation efforts that incorporate the Indigenous perspective. In the Trans-Himalayan context, they have begun to incorporate the Buddhist perspective in recent interventions; yet, there is an omission of Islamic environmentalism in these conversations. This omission is even more glaring when one considers that Muslims make up a significant percentage of the Indigenous population of the Trans-Himalaya. A review of the literature reveals a considerable body of Islamic scholarship on sustainable resource management in extremely harsh climates. In fact, co-productive conservation efforts in collaboration with local Muslim communities elsewhere in the world have been very impactful. While scholarship on the history of Islam in the Trans-Himalaya is limited, historians agree that, rather than being forced upon a passive Indigenous population, the widespread adoption of Islam was an active choice by a population that had plenty of exposure to different ideas and belief systems via trade. Supplementing these findings with qualitative research at the grassroots level among the Dard-Shin Scheduled Tribe in the Trans-Himalaya, the authors find further evidence of the syncretic blending of Indigenous and Islamic beliefs, deployed in service of effective natural resource management. It is, thus, proposed that future conservation efforts in this region would be well advised to adopt a more expansive approach to the Indigenous perspective.
Formas de hacer matemáticas a través de una práctica cultural de elaboración de balones artesanales: un estudio etnomatemático
Authors: Vázquez Pacheco Mónica , Rodríguez Vásquez Flor Monserrat , Rodríguez Nieto Camilo Andrés
Published: March 2024

En la educación matemática escolar impera la necesidad de generar espacios de conocimientos multiculturales inclusivos, es decir, espacios en los cuales exista el respeto por la diversidad cultural y se valoren y reconozcan los diversos conocimientos matemáticos culturales que los estudiantes adquieren de forma natural, producto de las prácticas y actividades desarrolladas en su contexto. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar los métodos de conteo empleados en la elaboración de balones artesanales, así como el conocimiento matemático empírico e implícito en la práctica cultural, desde el enfoque etnomatemático. La investigación es cualitativa y se realizó un estudio de caso. Los participantes fueron dos productores de la comunidad de Chichihualco del estado de Guerrero en México. Los datos se recolectaron a partir del método de observación y la entrevista. Se realizó un análisis temático a los datos. Los resultados señalan que la actividad matemática universal de contar es fundamento en la constitución de conocimientos matemáticos que se relacionan con conceptos como número y con nociones geométricas.
Socio-Economic Dynamics: Traditional Mining and Community Resilience in South Kalimantan
Authors: Jumriani Jumriani , Rochgiyanti Rochgiyanti , Kanukisya Blackson
Published: March 2024

Indonesia has abundant natural resources, including valuable diamonds, greatly impacting its mining industry, economy, and other environmental and societal sectors. This research, conducted in Sungai Tiung Village, Cempaka Sub-district, Banjarbaru City, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, explores how the use of natural resources, economic activities, and community resilience are interconnected by examining the enduring traditional mining practices in South Kalimantan, focusing specifically on diamond panning. Using qualitative research methods, this research collected comprehensive data through observations, interviews, and documentation involving key stakeholders such as miners, local communities, and government representatives. The analysis, which incorporates triangulation and expanded observations, reveals three key aspects of traditional mining patterns: the equipment used, the complexities of the work system, and how mining outcomes are shared. The findings highlight the resilience embedded in the traditional mining practices of diamond prospectors in South Kalimantan, showing how these practices influence work methods and reflect traditional community life, characterized by a cooperative and tolerant approach. As a result, this research deepens our understanding of diamond panning. It provides valuable insights into the relationship between traditional practices and the resilience of local communities on a broader scale.
Fostering Character: Embracing Local Wisdom through Mamanda Theater Arts for Collaborative Learning
Authors: Kaspul Kaspul , Budimansyah Dasim , Pasani Chairil Faif , Somad Momod Abdul , Francis Garuzooka John
Published: March 2024

This research explores the integration of character education, specifically focusing on drawing inspiration from the abundant cultural wisdom embedded in Mamanda theater—an invaluable cultural asset in South Kalimantan. The central aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of utilizing Mamanda’s theater arts as a catalyst for collaborative character-building within the realm of education. The collaborative characters, symbolic of the harmonious dynamics inherent in the learning process, undergo evaluation through the implementation of a Likert scale. The research encompasses a cohort of 83 students, all actively engaged as respondents. The outcomes highlight the notably high effectiveness of incorporating Mamanda’s theater arts to facilitate the collaborative character-building endeavor. Beyond its immediate findings, this research contributes substantively to the ongoing academic dialogue surrounding character education. Moreover, it serves as a valuable resource for educators and lecturers, offering insights into the practical application of local wisdom, specifically through Mamanda theater, to instill character traits firmly rooted in cultural richness and educational excellence.
THE SCIENCE EDUCATION TOOLS AND WAYS OF PRODUCING THEM IN THE COOPERATION PROCESS
Authors: Lamanauskas Vincentas
Published: March 2024

The content of natural science education gives a chance to the dynamics and structure of the educational process. However, the adaptation of natural science knowledge system depends on both the teacher (choosing and applying teaching methods and forms, etc.) and the pupil (the methods of learning, motivation, general abilities). The diversity of teaching and learning content, forms and methods, activities are typical of natural science education. All that makes the educational process effective: develop intellectual knowledge and skills, set out conditions for intense pupils’ activities, shape thinking, foster aesthetic feelings, etc.
THE ROLE OF METACOGNITION IN EVERYDAY PROBLEM SOLVING AMONG PRIMARY STUDENTS IN KENYA
Authors: Aurah Catherine M. , Koloi-Keaikitse Setlhomo , Isaacs Calvin , Finch Holmes
Published: March 2024

Metacognition is an important dimension of problem solving because it includes problem-relevant awareness of one’s thinking, monitoring and regulation of cognitive processes, and application of heuristics. This study investigated the effect of Metacognition on problem solving among 150 students at Muraka Primary School, Kenya in June 2010. Students answered a 25-item self-report Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI), and a 1-item multiple choice Problem solving questionnaire (PSQ). Data were analyzed using linear regression and ANOVA. Results indicated that metacognition is a good predictor of problem solving ability. Students showed significant differences in problem solving based on grade. There was also a significant difference in metacognition level based on grade. These results imply that metacognitive ability develops with age, such that the higher the grade levels the higher the metacognitive ability. Therefore, understanding the role of metacognition in children’s everyday problem solving may lead to the development of more effective instruction, by teachers, which incorporates metacognitive skills to help children improve in their problem solving skills and overall academic achievement. Key words: cognition, metacognition, problem solving.
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTIVES IN DISTANCE EDUCATION IN INDIA IN THE 21st CENTURY
Authors: Panchabakesan Sadhasivam
Published: March 2024

This research paper attempts to introduce the problems and prospective in Distance Education System in India. This paper begins with the definition of distance learning and then proceeds to tell about the types of distance learning. It discusses and analyses the synchronous and asynchronous of distance education delivery system and emphasizes that the asynchronous method is more flexible than synchronous instruction. It also emphasizes that the instructional design, technology and support are the elements which are of paramount importance to any successful distance education program.
The history of distance learning narrates the development of distance learning and discusses how it found an alternative method to the then existing effective system which brought the students together to one place and one time to learn from one of the masters. It reveals how the pioneers of distance education used the best technology of their days to open educational opportunities to people who were unable to attend the regular conventional institutions. It also lists and discusses the problems such as lack of student’s co-ordination, conducting examinations, publishing results and other related problems. Further, it attempts to converse on the origin, salient features, and the technologies used in distance education in India. It also brings out the four themes of distance education system and their prospective. Finally, it summarizes and suggests solutions for the problems faced in distance education and also widens the scope of any researcher to further research on the problems and prospective in distance education and to improve the values in distance education system of learning in India.
Key words: distance education, definition and types, technology, problems and prospective.
CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE AT LESSONS OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AT SCHOOLS PROVIDING GENERAL EDUCATION OF LATVIA
Authors: Gavrilina Margarita
Published: March 2024

This article is devoted to the possibilities of usage lingvoculturology experience in the process of teaching mother tongue (Russian) in the conditions of diaspora, and in Russian language textbooks for the pupils of national minority schools of Latvia. These textbooks were developed by the author of the article.
In the introduction, the author proves the necessity of the development of cross-cultural skills of pupils in the process of their mother tongue studies, analyses the problems in cross-cultural capacity of school-leavers.
In the second part of the article, the author describes the intra-cultural and cross-cultural dialogues, which are actualized in the contents of educational course “Russian language” and in the textbooks of Russian (the necessity and didactic possibilities of development for diaspora pupils the ability to create a dialogue with facts and values of their own culture and other peoples’ cultures).
The focus of author’s attention is the development of cross-cultural competence of students with the help of using cross-cultural tasks as a special type of educational exercises. The author describes the principles taken as a cross-cultural task-forming basis, and cross-cultural task types:
- cross-cultural tasks aimed at the development of pupils’ cultural tolerance;
- cross-cultural tasks aimed at the development of pupils’ cultural mutual understanding;
- cross-cultural tasks aimed at the development of pupils’ cultural unity.
The author describes the didactic possibilities of the use of cross-cultural tasks at the lessons of Russian.
In the conclusion, the author highlights that the experience, which has been gained in the process of using cross-cultural tasks at the lessons of Russian, allows
- to expand the culturological outlook of diaspora students,
- to teach students to notice likenesses and distinctions between speech behavior of different cultures representatives and deal with them,
- to teach students to think in a comparative aspect, to determine lacunae in their own knowledge, to escape stereotypes, to be able to take the position of an interlocutor – the representative of another culture, to evaluate the world from position of their value orientations;
- to improve purposefully and successfully not only cross-cultural skills of students but also their communicative, language and educational abilities.
Key words: sociocultural competence, cross-cultural dialogue, cross-cultural task, studying mother tongue in diaspora.
PROBLEMS INDUCED BY AMALGAMATION OF PEDAGOGICAL PROGRESSIVISM AND EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY: ORAL EXAMS WITH PRIOR PREPARATION TIME IN NORWEGIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Authors: Elstad Eyvind , Turmo Are , Guttersud Øystein
Published: March 2024

The progressive movement in Norwegian education has had the hegemony among civil servants, politicians and major groups of teachers. However, during recent years the assessment system has moved towards increased educational accountability based on performance measures (exams and national tests). At the same time, progressivistic inspired assessment has remained: oral exams with prior preparation time. The pupils are typically given the topics 48 hours in advance and have the opportunity to prepare at home or at school. They may take the exam individually or in groups. The teacher, who also asks the questions during the exam, defines the topics. The grades are assigned by an external evaluator, but the subject teacher should also take part in the assessment. This amalgamation of pedagogical progressivism and educational accountability induces major challenges in education.
Key words: educational accountability, progressive school philosophy, oral exam, assessment.
KNOWLEDGE GENERATION IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA UNIVERSITIES
Authors: Lekena Liile L. , Bayaga Anass
Published: March 2024

The objective of this study was to investigate forms of knowledge generation in educational research in South Africa in the periods 1995-1999 & 2000-2004. The study was a quantitative by approach. Data from the universities in Gauteng region (South Africa) was extracted from 2340 bound theses database. The results revealed that there are twelve sectors (forms) that have been identified for knowledge generation in educational research.
Key words: educational research, knowledge generation, postgraduate research, South Africa
ASSESSMENT OF PARTICIPATION OR MUSICALITY: PILOT STUDY AMONG ESTONIAN MUSIC TEACHERS
Authors: Mõistlik Marit , Selke Tiina
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this study was to analyse what Estonian music teachers assess in music lesson and to what extent is it connected with their notion of musicality. A questionnaire was used to collect the data, which was compiled by the authors of the current study, the results of which were quantitatively analysed. Altogether 61 music teachers from all over Estonia participated in the study. It was found that music teachers primarily consider characteristics of musicality: sense of rhythm, ability to sing, and other traditional musical skills and their development. In addition, creativity is highly appreciated, but treated more like a slogan and in fact teachers do not know what they are assessing under the banner of creativity. It is also important to notice that music teachers assess visible musical activities as output giving evidence of musicality (“I assess what I see”). That means that receptive musical activities (i.e. listening to music) and general responsiveness to music are left aside when assessing pupils’ musicality. The current study proved the necessity to understand musicality more widely in socio-cultural context than solely musical skills and highlighted the need for harmonising the assessment criteria and notions among teachers.
Key words: assessment, classroom activities, music lesson, music teacher, notion of musicality.
FIGHTING FOR PEACE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CLASSROOM: PEACE EDUCATION THE MISSING LINK?
Authors: Msila Vuyisile
Published: March 2024

The post-apartheid education in South Africa is based on the Constitution of the Republic (Act 108 of 1996). Among its aims are to heal the divisions of the past and improve the life of all citizens. The policy is also intent on preparing the learners to live in a free non-racial and democratic country. This curriculum is ideal; with learner-centred approaches, learners are expected to act in the interests of a society that respects human dignity and morality. Schools are seen as institutions that could instill the democratic ideals in a country that is still trying to address the past ills left behind by the apartheid damage. However, years after the attainment of the democratic society, there are a number of challenges that schools face: drug abuse, sexual violence and hate crimes are among these. Recently, South African children have witnessed widespread xenophobia meted by society against black African foreign nationals.
This article explores Peace Education, an aspect that the current system is hardly emphasizing. Effective Peace Education goes beyond building peaceful citizen; it yearns to develop citizens that can enhance democracy and social justice. There is a need to create proactive citizens who will be creative peace soldiers, who manage conflicts effectively, showing respect for fellow human beings. Teachers and schools can play a vital role in the creation of these future citizens. Some critics perceive Peace Education as a contentious and value-laden approach; however, the society needs strategies to act against the threat of violence that has brought the culture of learning and teaching almost to a standstill in many schools.
Key words: peace, peace education, human rights, Ubuntu
ILLITERACY AND VULNERABILITY TO HIV/AIDS: THE CASE OF IGUEBEN WOMEN IN NIGERIA
Authors: Ovbiebo Matthew Osaigbovo
Published: March 2024

It is believe that Knowledge is power and if literacy has to do with knowledge, then to be illiterate means one lacks power. Since most women lack reading and writing skills in this area, they are powerless when it comes to accessing written information, and this could make them vulnerable to the spread of HIV/AIDS. In this study, the findings supported the literature that women’s vulnerability is strongly influenced and tied to illiteracy. Women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS is real and needs to be addressed for there to be any positive progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS. If HIV vulnerability (illiteracy) is not acknowledged and fought, women will continue to succumb to the disease overwhelmingly and Igueben will eventually disintegrate as it will be full of sick people intensifying underdevelopment. This study sought to explore the relationship between illiteracy and the spread of HIV/AIDS infection among rural women. Fifteen (15) illiterate women were purposively selected from the area to participate in this explorative study. The research approach was qualitative. The research was undertaken within an interpretavist framework in the sense that it is a communal process, informed by participating illiterate women, and sensitive to the role of context (Alvermann, D.E., & Mallozzi, C.A. 2010). The design type used in this study is a case study. Data was collected by means of interviews. The interview schedule consists of 10 open-ended questions focusing on various aspects of their views on how illiteracy contributes to their vulnerability of HIV/AIDS. The interview was tape recorded and transcribed verbatim, and the analysis was done by means of constant comparative method (Merriam 1998).
Key words: HIV/ADS, illiteracy, vulnerability, knowledge, women, relationship.
ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN DAYA TAHAN V02 MAX PEMAIN SEPAK BOLA DI KLUB ANDESKAL FC KOTA BENGKULU
Authors: Ravenzo Zachen , Apriansyah Dolly , Banat Azizatul
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Kemampuan Daya Tahan VO2 Max Pemain Sepak Bola di Klub Andeskal Fc Kota Bengkulu. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Sampel penelitian berjumlah 25 orang. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Bleep Test/Multi-Stage. Dimana Hasil Kemampuan Daya Tahan VO2 Max Pemain Sepak Bola di Klub Andeskal Fc Kota Bengkulu dalam penelitian ini menunjukkan pada klasifikasi “Tinggi” hingga “Rendah”. Kemudian dimana hasil dari akhir Tes kemampuan Daya Tahan VO2 Max Pemain Sepak Bola di Klub Andeskal Fc Kota Bengkulu, sebagai berikut: kategori Cukup sebesar 64% (16 pemain) dan kategori Sedang sebesar 28% (7 pemain) dan kategori Rendah sebesar 8% (2 pemain). Berdasarkan hasil tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa Kemampuan Daya Tahan VO2 Max pemain Sepak Bola di Klub Andeskal Kota Bengkulu yang dilakukan oleh 25 pemain Klub Andeskal Kota Bengkulu dalam kategori Cukup yakni sebanyak 16 pemain atau dengan persentase sebesar 64%.