bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Gabrielle Roy, prototype de l’écrivaine canadienne ?
Authors: Morency Jean
Published: December 2018

Ce texte vise à jeter les bases d’une réflexion sur la traduction des oeuvres de Gabrielle Roy dans le contexte canadien. On sait que Gabrielle Roy a toujours accordé beaucoup d’importance à la traduction de ses oeuvres en anglais, qui lui donnait accès à un vaste bassin de lecteurs. Traduits en simultané ou presque, les romans de Gabrielle Roy en sont venus à incarner une certaine idée du Canada qu’il est possible de dénoter dans trois domaines en particulier : l’expression d’un certain réalisme social débouchant sur une vision ethnique de la société francophone;

l’importance du paysage et de l’espace canadiens; l’accent mis sur la petite communauté humaine et sur le multiculturalisme. La traduction des romans de Gabrielle Roy aura ainsi contribué au « nation-building » canadien. Une seule exception à cette règle : La détresse et l’enchantement,

une autobiographie publiée à titre posthume, qui se situe en marge de cet horizon de la traduction

caractérisant l’oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy.
No Safe Place to Go - LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in Canada: Reviewing the Literature
Authors: Abramovich Ilona Alex
Published: December 2018

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are overrepresented in the homeless youth population in North America. This review brings together the literature on the topic of LGBTQ youth homelessness and provides a comprehensive overview of the unique needs of this population, as well as gaps and barriers to support. The review culminates in recommendations for support services and further research on this topic. This review should be particularly useful for youth shelter and service providers, and policy makers to respond to the needs of this population and to enhance knowledge in this area more broadly.
Leaving Home: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Mann-Feder Varda , Eades Allison , Sobel Emma , De Stafano Jack
Published: December 2018

This article presents the results of a qualitative study that examined first person accounts of the process of leaving home in Emerging Adulthood. Thirty university students aged 21 to 26, who attended a large commuter school in a Canadian city, were interviewed individually. Sixteen had already left home to live on their own, while fourteen lived with their families but anticipated leaving home. What emerged was a model of home leaving as a gradual process, which spanned months or years and represented a significant transition. Adaptation was either facilitated or impeded by external supports as well as personal attitudes and abilities. While parents played an important role in how confidently participants experienced the transition, peers appeared to have exerted a unique and important influence as sources of information and reassurance. Implications for practice and research are identified.
Growing Up in the Gay Shadow: The Impact of Heterosexual Privilege on Children with Same-Sex Parents
Authors: Lamb Christopher
Published: December 2018

Same-sex marriage is currently at the forefront of many political debates worldwide, and one of the main concerns for both sides of the marriage debate is the well-being of children being raised in same-sex families. This paper reviews various areas of research in order to discover whether or not children are at a disadvantage if they are raised in a same-sex family. Findings suggest that while children who grow up in same-sex families face unique challenges that would not occur in heterosexual families, the overall quality of life is comparable to that of children in heterosexual families. Negative attitudes toward same-sex couples raising children are related to the presence of heterosexual privilege in society.
Raining on Babies
Authors: Trowbridge Terry
Published: December 2018

Poetry
The Foster Care Systems are Failing Foster Children: The Implications and Practical Solutions for Better Outcomes of Youth in Care
Authors: Ramsay-Irving Mary
Published: December 2018

Although the foster care systems in North America are set up with good intentions for best practices for foster children, in reality these systems are failing youth in care. Many foster children experience more psychological, social, educational, behavioural, and emotional problems as compared to children who are not in foster care, and this can continue into adulthood. Attachment theory can help to explain why some children experience these problems. Professionals who work with this population need to have a good understanding of foster children’s unique experiences in order to help them as much as possible. Literature has addressed the problems that foster children have faced for decades, but there seems to be little change that happens to address and prevent these problems. There is no doubt that there is a great need for change in the current foster care systems in North America because current outcomes for many foster children are negative. This paper reviews the literature on foster care and explains the issues that foster children experience. It also addresses why the foster care system is failing youth, and gives practical suggestions for solutions.
Review of: Totten, M. (2001). Guys, Gangs, and Girlfriend Abuse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Authors: Eglinski Nikita
Published: December 2018

Reviewed by: Nikita Eglinski
Peer Support and Youth Recovery: A Brief Review of the Theoretical Underpinnings and Evidence
Authors: Barton Jessica , Henderson Joanna
Published: December 2018

This article provides a brief review of the theoretical underpinnings and initial evidence regarding peer support, with a specific interest in peer support for youth with addiction and mental health illnesses. Peer support can be thought of in terms of supporting prevention of difficulties, often emphasizing naturalistic opportunities, or as a specific component of an intervention targeting individuals with identified difficulties. In addition, there are peer-led and peer-implemented treatment approaches that have been evaluated. This form of peer support involves an asymmetrical relationship whereby a trained worker, who has gone through the process of recovery, assists other individuals who are not as far along in their recovery. Interaction with peers who have lived experience is thought to offer hope and enhance motivation for individuals considering or attempting change. These different forms of peer support have all been shown to hold promise for improving clinical outcomes but the literature in general has been hampered by limitations in study methods and design. Future studies will need to address these historical challenges for the potential of peer support to enhance outcomes to be fully realized.
Former Young Carers Reflect on Their Caregiving Experience
Authors: Szafran Olga , Torti Jacqueline , Waugh Earle , Duerksen Kimberley
Published: December 2018

Using focus group methodology, this study explored the experiences of young carers from the perspective of former young carers in Edmonton, Alberta. The study findings reveal that being a young carer has a significant impact on a young person’s life that extends well into adulthood. Former young carers recalled being burdened with household responsibilities, as well as with providing direct care to a family member. They generally had negative school experiences that included being bullied and feeling that the system ignored their suffering. They felt physically and emotionally tired and stressed, lonely, and socially withdrawn. Despite their stresses, they wanted to keep their situation a secret, for fear of external interference into their family. While females recalled deriving some positive benefits from the young caregiving experience, males saw absolutely no benefits. As adults, they perceived that being a young care had affected their social development and the formation of personal relationships into adulthood. Young carers in Edmonton are a hidden and vulnerable population who appear to suffer in silence. The lack of societal recognition has impeded the development of support systems for young carers.
Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy of Solidarity
Authors: Navia Daniela
Published: December 2018

In this paper, I discuss how the (dis)placement of Indigenous youth in child welfare can be better understood through youth’s stories, voices and artwork. I will describe my approach and outline how the Uncovering Colonial Legacies research project developed, seeking to amplify the conversation about ongoing settler colonialism.
“It Makes Me Feel Good to Teach People About My Culture:” On Collaborative Research Methods with Indigenous Young People
Authors: Mack Amy , Newberry Jan
Published: December 2018

In this article we, as settler scholars, explore process as method within a community-driven, supradisciplinary project in southern Alberta called Raising Spirit. The project was a collaboration between the University of Lethbridge’s Institute for Child and Youth Studies and Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society, a nonprofit that serves Indigenous children and families in southern Alberta. The project team formed in response to Opokaa’sin’s need for a digital library of Blackfoot culture, language, and history. Here, we reflect on the methods used during this project, specifically paraethnography (Marcus & Holmes, 2008) and design studio (Rabinow, Marcus, Faubion, & Rees, 2008). Throughout, we argue that this approach produced a collective sphere (Rappaport, 2008) wherein young people and community partners, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, became collaborators throughout the process. In this space of vulnerability and potential, everyone could contribute, share, and learn.
An Exploration of the Experiences of Inter-racial Couples
Authors: Oriola Temitope
Published: December 2018

This study utilizes in-depth interviews of five interracial heterosexual couples to explore how couples live, and re/de/construct their everyday lives within a multiethnic society. I examine how couples experience public spaces, negotiate their identities, raise biracial children and confront cultural differences. The study also investigates the process of acceptance of partners by couples' respective families and the media representation of interracial relationships. This paper demonstrates that minority families are more likely to raise strong objections or resistance to their children marrying Whites. Another major finding of this study is that subjects experience gradual shifts in their identities and changes in their worldviews as a result of their relationships with their spouses regardless of whether they adopt a ‘colour-blind' or ‘colour-conscious' approach. Subjects' narratives are also laced with intermingling discourse of race and culture.
Complexity and the Culture of Curriculum
Authors: Doll Jr William E.
Published: December 2018

This paper has two main foci: (1) the history of curriculum design, and (2) implications from the new sciences of chaos and complexity for the development of new forms of curriculum design and teaching implementation. Regarding the first focus, the paper posits that there exist—to use Wittgenstein’s phrase—‘family resemblances’ between Peter Ramus’ 16th century curriculum design and that of Ralph Tyler in the 20th century. While this 400-year linkage is by no means linear, there are overlapping strands from Ramus to Comenius to the Puritans to colonial New England to Horace Mann to Ralph Tyler. What unites these strands, all belonging to the Protestant Methodization movement that swept across northern Europe into colonial America and the USA, is the concept of Method. Taylor’s ‘time and motion’ studies set the stage for Tyler’s Basic Principles of curriculum design—those starting with set goals and concluding with measured assessment. The second focus draws on the new sciences of chaos and complexity to develop a different sense of curriculum and instruction—open, dynamic, relational, creative, and systems oriented. The paper concludes with an integration of the rational/scientific with the aesthetic/ spiritual into a view of education and curriculum informed by complexity.
Curriculum Studies Based on Complexity Science
Authors: Shihui Jiang , Shaodong Guo
Published: December 2018

Complexity science is in the forefront of contemporary scientific development; its rise and development triggered the breakthrough and innovation of methodology in scientific research. Curriculum is a complex adaptive system. Complexity curriculum research also includes nonlinearity, uncertainty, self-organization and emergent properties.
On the Recursion between Teaching and Learning
Authors: Guanglu Zhang
Published: December 2018

New curriculum reform looks at the relationship between teaching and learning from new perspectives. Contrary to the traditional linear view of instruction, teaching and learning encourage ongoing recursions in the perspective of complexity theory. The recursion is embodied in different aspects: in essence, it is mutual understanding between teacher and student. As a result, it leads to the continuous transformation of the roles of teacher and student. In this sense, the relation between teacher and student becomes dynamic, while the teacher’s authority becomes relative.
Beyond Teaching Methods: A Complexity Approach
Authors: Ricca Bernard
Published: December 2018

A complexivist perspective to teaching critiques the commonplace teaching "methods" and illuminates alternative approaches to teaching and teacher preparation. Focusing on system growth, the mutual influence of systems on one another, and nonlinear connectedness of systems, this paper defines four important components to teaching: A need for mutual influence among teachers, students, the content being taught and the curriculum; enculturation into a scholarly community; reflection on the part of teachers and students; and a need for teacher improvisation. The implication of these components for teacher preparation is then examined.
Winter Counts as Transformative Inquiry: The Role of Creative Imagery as an Expression of Adaptive Change
Authors: Stanger Nicholas R.G. , Tanaka Michele T.D. , Tse Vanessa V. , Starr Lisa J.
Published: December 2018

Pre-service teachers face a complex educational context and Transformative Inquiry is a useful approach for negotiating this terrain. We interpret the movement of students via the adaptive cycle put forth in panarchy theory as they engage in the inquiry process through ‘winter counts’, a Plains First Nation tradition, as expressions of their understanding. These image-based expressions demonstrate the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical movement students have made within their inquiry. Panarchy theory moves beyond interpreting systems using simplistic equilibrium models and acknowledging the more complex and dynamic set of equilibria that describes transformation in ecological, social, and economic systems and considers the multiple complexities of systems thinking while providing insight into how change occurs as a constantly adaptive cycle process. Used sparingly within social sciences until recently, we argue it as particularly relevant for seeing Transformative Inquiry through Indigenist and interconnected lenses.
Toward a Common Structure in Demographic Educational Modeling and Simulation: A Complex Systems Approach
Authors: Guevara-Chaves Porfirio
Published: December 2018

This article identifies elements and connections that seem to be relevant to explain persistent aggregate behavioral patterns in educational systems when using complex dynamical systems modeling and simulation approaches. Several studies have shown what factors are at play in educational fields, but confusion still remains about the underlying mechanisms driving observed outcomes and therefore more guidance is needed. The framework suggested here throws some ideas in that direction stressing the relevance of nonlinear complex interactions via feedbacks between education systems’ transition rates ─ intake, repetition, dropout, and promotion ─ and schooling outcomes. Schooling outcomes reciprocally influence transition rates in the system generating aggregate patterns that continuously change (and are changed by) the inputs that endogenously determine them. Furthermore, this paper underscores practical and theoretical limitations of traditional quantitative models that can be addressed with a complex systems analysis and suggests future lines of investigation. Specifically, this article advocates a complexity approach ruled by the laws of thermodynamics to help detect corrupt practices in education systems and improve accountability and governance in such systems.
Getting Out of the Way: Learning, Risk, and Choice
Authors: Barney Lee S. , Maughan Bryan
Published: December 2018

Students learn best when teachers get out of the way. Unfortunately, university classrooms continue to be intensely teacher-centric, are driven by the teacher’s agenda and calendar, and embrace simple models rather complex alternatives. These simple types of learning environments frustrate students’ development of the risk-taking and choice making confidence they need in the workplace. Bain (2004) makes the point that environments embracing choice as a priority, welcoming risk taking, and nurturing students who make mistakes, are better at preparing students for professional success. In this paper, we intend to provide context to the conversation about how learning-risks and agency impact and promote the individual growth of the student when the teacher gets out of the way.Combining a Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) (Beebe, 2001) informed by Action Research (AR) (Stringer, 2007; Schön, 1983; Argyris, 1993) we devised an experiment to determine if a university course would invite more student growth when the environment changed from being teacher-centric with highly structured assignments and critical assessments, to one that embraces the tenets of complexity theory. The purpose of this approach was an attempt to challenge the status quo; to show how complex interactions between risk-taking, agency, learning culture, teacher-facilitator-mentors, peers, coursework, and outcomes are important to students’ preparation for successful professional work. To accomplish this we experimented within a software development course at a large university in the northwestern United States and found students appeared more prepared to move on to the professional workplace when they had experienced risk taking and agency in a learning environment based on complexity theory precepts.
Using a Complexity Approach to Study the Interpersonal Dynamics in Teacher-­Student Interactions: A Case Study of Two Teachers
Authors: Pennings Helena J. M.
Published: December 2018

In the present study, complex dynamic systems theory and interpersonal theory are combined to describe the teacher-student interactions of two teachers with different interpersonal styles. The aim was to show and explain the added value of looking at different steps in the analysis of behavioral time-series data (i.e., observations of teacher and student behaviors) that are described by Warner (1998): (1) the general level and overall coordination, (2) the presence of linear, quadratic and cubic trends in behavior, (3) the coherence and phase in cyclical trends that are superimposed on the linear, quadratic and cubic trends, and (4) the residual fluctuations, when studying the fit between teacher and student interpersonal behavior. Interactional fit is conceptualized, and described in each step of the time-series analysis, using the principle of complementarity (e.g., Kiesler, 1996). Results showed that the teacher-student interactions of the teacher with the most desirable interpersonal style largely followed the complementarity principle, whereas the interactions of the teacher with the less desirable interpersonal style did not. These results are discussed in light of the hypotheses and limitations of the study.
Design Considerations for Education Scholars Interested in Complex Systems Research
Authors: Marchand Gwen , Hilpert Jonathan
Published: December 2018

As complex systems approaches to research gain a foothold in educational research, educational researchers may be faced with unique study design challenges. Studies that do not target appropriate levels of analysis or do not capture variable change over time at a fine enough granularity run the risk of missing complex, dynamic, and emergent properties that are the hallmark of complex system behavior. By taking into account context, multiple levels of analysis, and change over time complex systems approaches generate evidence for dynamic processes in education. This paper draws upon three example areas from educational psychology to illustrate important design considerations for conducting complex systems research in education. We discuss how complex systems designs can generate new insight for areas of study such as how psychological constructs influence learning, classroom dynamics, and teacher-student interactions.
Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
Authors: Che S. Megan
Published: December 2018

A review of Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies, by Frans B. M. De Waal and Peter L. Tyack, editors, 2003. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 616pp. ISBN 0674009290. $49.95 USD. Hardcover.
Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition
Authors: Stanley R. Darren
Published: December 2018

A review of Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition, by Francisco J. Varela, 1999 (L. Gius & R.B Figli, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 85pp. ISBN 0804730334. $13.95 USD.
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
Authors: Nelson Charles
Published: December 2018

A review of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System, by Alicia Juarrero, 2002. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 300pp. ISBN: 0262600471. $27.00 USD.
Response to Semetsky: Thinking of(f) the Deep End: Semetsky and the Complicated Conversation
Authors: Whitson James Anthony
Published: December 2018

An astonishing array of theoretical discourses appear woven together seamlessly in Semetsky’s rationale for using Tarot practice as a tool for education, drawing from theoretical traditions that range from Jung’s and Pauli’s theories of archetypes and synchronicity, to chaos and complexity or complex systems theories, to C.S. Peirce’s semiotic pragmaticism, to natural law, to hermeneutics, and to the phenomenology of human subjects and life‐worlds. This response considers some of those traditions in relation to each other, with particular concern for issues of language, meaning, knowledge, thinking, and human agency. The priority of Semetsky’s concern for individuation and integration of the human subject within their meaningful life‐world is observed as having paramount importance for her project.
In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind
Authors: McCall Bradford
Published: December 2018

A review of In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, by Bernard J. Baars, 1997. New York: Oxford University, xiv + 193 pp. ISBN 0195102657. $45.00 USD.
Thinking in Complexity: A New Paradigm for Learning
Authors: Mainzer Klaus
Published: December 2018

A Response to Ton Jörg’s Programmatic View
Languaging, Irony and Bottomless Bottoms
Authors: Davis Brent
Published: December 2018

A Response to Ton Jörg’s Programmatic View
The Imposition of Boundaries
Authors: Ricca Bernard
Published: December 2018

A Response to Ton Jörg’s Programmatic View
Revisiting Educational Research Through Morin’s Paradigm of Complexity
Authors: Alhadeff-Jones Michel
Published: December 2018

A Response to Ton Jörg’s Programmatic View
Complex Responsive Processes: An Alternative Interpretation of Knowledge, Knowing, and Understanding
Authors: Stanley Darren
Published: December 2018

This paper offers as an alternative theoretical perspective to the growing collection of commentaries on and studies of certain complex dynamical phenomena—human knowledge and knowing. Specifically, this is an introduction to another complexity‐related theoretical framework known as “complex responsive processes” (CRP). CRP draws upon certain conceptual ideas from the complexity sciences as a source domain for analogies with particular characteristics of human interaction. The central concern is for how individual and collective identities arise, how such identities are related, and how they change. In this paper, an overview of certain key conceptual ideas from the complexity sciences in relation to CRP will be reviewed to situate CRP on the larger theoretical landscape of complex dynamical phenomena. In the end, this paper will examine some implications for such a framework on the ways in which certain aspects of human knowledge and knowing might relate to contexts of pedagogy: in particular, this paper examines the place of knowledge, knowing, and understanding in terms of the CRP structure of gesture‐and‐response or “effect” as opposed to “affect.”
Response to Stanley: Expanding Complexity: A Meditation
Authors: St. Julien John
Published: December 2018

This response offers a meditation on education’s understanding of complexity theories. It explores a way of relating education and complexity theories that is occasioned by a reading of Darren Stanley’s “Complex Responsive Processes: An Alternative Interpretation of Knowledge, Knowing, and Understanding.” In that article Stanley lays out the characteristics of “Complex Responsive Processes” (CRP) as a framework for understanding identity formation and, as such, as a useful analogy for educators interested in “human knowledge and knowing.” This response will suggest that what Dr. Stanley has begun to uncover is more powerful than analogy; it is, in fact, a back door to reconsidering a powerful and still living strand of thought on education in light of the burgeoning power of complex explanations of our shared world.
Recursive Readings: Chaos, Curriculum, and Walt Whitman in “Specimen Days”
Authors: DeGravelles Karin H.
Published: December 2018

In his 2005 postmodern novel “Specimen Days,” Michael Cunningham reads and re‐envisions
Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” through three different stories in different genres, time periods, and landscapes. Each story, however, involves a set of repeating details, including character names and attributes, locations, a curriculum (of one kind or another) of “Leaves of Grass,” and the pedagogical figure of Walt Whitman.

This article focuses on the process of reading and interpretation at work in Cunningham’s novel, modeled after Whitman’s own recursive processes in writing and editing “Leaves of Grass.”Poems, Whitman writes, “grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary” (1889/1973, p. 565). Whitman’s poems resist linearity and closure, employing contradiction as well as repetition: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes)” (1891/1973, lines 1324‐1326). In “Specimen Days,” Cunningham also presents three visions of a non‐linear Whitman curriculum, often yielding strange and unpredictable results because of the poems’ resistance to fixed meanings. Cunningham’s recursive readings of Whitman through “Specimen Days” suggest possibilities for nonlinear interpretive practices and for viewing reading as a recursive process, a repeated search for meaning that in fact generates meaning in its iterations rather than finding it.
When Royalty Steps Forth: Role Drama as an Embodied Learning System
Authors: Fels Lynn
Published: December 2018

The article explores the interplay between complexity theory, performative inquiry and learning as the author shares her experience in role as a tinker in a role drama designed and facilitated by four pre‐service teachers in her drama in education course. The reader is invited to consider role drama as an embodied learning system. Using the role drama as her example, the author identifies five conditions of a complex learning system as identified by complexity in education theorists Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, and Elaine Simmt in their 2003 article, Complexity and Collectivity: On the Emergence of a Few Ideas. The author and her conspirators in role engaged in the overthrow of the monarchy are startled when the king suddenly announces his presence. What learning emerges when the king steps forth, and the tinker, alone, is faced with saving a fledging democratic movement?
A Review of “Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation,” by Ralph Stacey.
Authors: Norman Cameron D.
Published: December 2018

A review of Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation, by Ralph Stacey, 2001. London, UK: Routledge, xii + 243 pp. ISBN 0‐415‐ 24918‐8. $56.95 USD
Interpreting Embodied Mathematics Using Network Theory: Implications for Mathematics Education
Authors: Mowat Elizabeth , Davis Brent
Published: December 2018

Working from the premise that mathematics knowledge can be described as a complex unity, we develop the suggestion that network theory provides a useful frame for informing understandings of disciplinary knowledge and content learning for schooling. Specifically, we use network theory to analyze associations among mathematical concepts, focusing on their embodied nature and their reliance on metaphor. After describing some of the basic suppositions, we examine the structure of the network of metaphors that underlies embodied mathematics, the dynamics of this network, and the effect of these dynamics on mathematical understanding. Finally, implications for classroom teaching and curriculum are discussed. We conjecture that it is both instructive and important to use the network structure of mathematical knowledge to shed light on both cognition in mathematics and on mathematics education.
Your Metaphor or My Metonymy?
Authors: Mason John H.
Published: December 2018

A Response to Elizabeth Mowat & Brent Davis
The Value of Complexity
Authors: Cilliers Paul
Published: December 2018

A Response to Elizabeth Mowat & Brent Davis
High Class Prostitution is the New Black
Authors: Cervantes Diana
Published: December 2018

This paper attempts to dissolve the issue of prostitution, which is still framed as a radical feminist issue pertaining to gender inequality and the vulnerability women face in such a career; rather, the idea post feminists (pro-prostitution feminists) hold believe prostitution, and more specifically, high class (call girl) prostitution is an empowering, positive and liberating occupation that women should be freely allowed to enter without stigmatization. We look at numerous women who have provided positive accounts of their lives as high end prostitutes, even when beholding university educations and Ph.Ds. After extensive secondary data collection to support these women’s experiences, we find high end prostitution can in fact empower, build confidence in, and gratify women.
Content Analysis of Research Articles in Information Systems (LIS) Journals
Authors: Davies Karen
Published: December 2018

This article analyses the origins and data collection methodologies of research articles published in three Information System journals (Information Systems Research; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - JAMIA; and MIS Quarterly) between 2005 and 2007. A coding sheet was utilized to collect the relevant data for content analysis. Most articles were written by multiple authors based in the USA. Over 80% of the articles published in JAMIA were funded with over 40% for the other two journals. The data collection methodologies were diverse, but the most popular for all three journals was the questionnaire. A variety of statistical packages were used to analyze quantitative data while coding was the most popular method for analyzing qualitative data. These journals published more mixed methodological approach studies compared to previous research in this area.
Exploring information experiences through phenomenography
Authors: Yates Christine , Partridge Helen , Bruce Christine
Published: December 2018

Phenomenography is a qualitative research approach that seeks to explore variation in how people experience various aspects of their world. Phenomenography has been used in numerous information research studies that have explored various phenomena of interest in the library and information sphere. This paper provides an overview of the phenomenographic method and discusses key assumptions that underlie this approach to research. Aspects including data collection, data analysis and the outcomes of phenomenographic research are also detailed. The paper concludes with an illustration of how phenomenography was used in research to investigate students’ experiences of web-based information searching. The results of this research demonstrate how the phenomenographic approach yields insights into variation, making it possible to develop greater understanding of the phenomenon as it was experienced, and to draw upon these experiences to improve and enhance current practice.
Systematic Reviews in Theory and Practice for Library and Information Studies
Authors: Phelps Sue F , Campbell Nicole
Published: December 2018

This article is about the use of systematic reviews as a research methodology in library and information studies (LIS). A systematic review is an attempt to gather all of the research on a given topic in order to answer a specific question. They have been used extensively in the health care field and have more recently found their way into the social sciences, including librarianship. Examples of the use of systematic reviews in LIS illustrate the benefits and challenges to using this methodology. Included is a brief description of how to conduct a review and a reading list for further information.
The collection and analysis of job advertisements: A review of research methodology
Authors: Harper Ray
Published: December 2018

An increasing number of research studies in LIS use job adverts as a data source to analyse and track changes to job skills and the employment market over time. This review of 70 research studies in LIS aims to provide an overview of key characteristics of existing research methods, and to suggest improvements which could be made to methods. The researcher analysed different aspects of each study using a quantitative approach, and noted salient features of each study’s methodology. The review found that studies of job adverts in LIS are characterised by: large sample sizes often collected using purposive sampling; a lack of full pilot studies and ethical assessments; minimal use of inferential statistics and automatic text analysis; and minimal use of complementary empirical methods. Studies of job adverts could be improved by: fuller preparation of research methods, more sophisticated methods of analysis, and greater use of secondary empirical methods.
"Permeating all community activities"?; comparing events and programming in Westminster and Tower Hamlets public libraries
Authors: Ship Meredith , Robinson Lyn
Published: December 2018

A comparative study of events and programming in two London public library services, Westminster and Tower Hamlets, is reported. The two services offer the same proportion of 'engagement' programming. Tower Hamlets operates a novel service model, though one with long antecedents, integrating library, learning and cultural services. Its extensive programmes of educational and special events have led to a great increase in visitors, though not to a corresponding increase in use of core library services.
I Don’t Live Here – But I Will Tell the Story (A Cultural Poetic Approach to I Live Here by Mia Kirshner)
Authors: Popescu Alexandra
Published: December 2018

In 2001, Mia Kirshner, actress and writer turned journalist, embarks on a seven year quest to compile stories (read experiences) from areas of conflict. I Live Here, a 2008 publication, is an anthology of little narratives, some fiction, others non-fiction. Following the cultural poetic approach, this article illustrates that the nature of anthology I Live Here asks for an analysis that puts the personal in the foreground, as each segment – be it fiction or non-fiction – was inspired by a direct contact with the issue discussed. The project is capturing a glimpse of the Western mentality mirrored in the stories told in the anthology. The arrays of voices, those that belong to the Western world, are extracted as a result.
CHOCQUIBTOWN: Young Voices Shattering Afro-Colombian Invisibility
Authors: Gaviria-Buck Sandra M.
Published: December 2018

In the past two years an Afrocolombian hip-hop band from the Pacific region of Colombia has been getting a lot of attention in the media, especially after winning a Latin Grammy Award in 2010 and being nominated to several categories of the Grammy Music Awards in 2011 and 2012.  In their lyrics, they claim to represent the black population of the Pacific coast, people of African descent who have traditionally lived in marginalized conditions of poverty and exploitation of different sorts.  By borrowing some insights from African American criticism, the afrocentricity in Choquibtown's songs is explored.  Additionally, through a postcolonialist approach, this band's musical production is analyzed as a voice of widespread racism and as means of resistance to political and cultural oppression.
“I Long For My Mother’s Bread”: Poetry as Integrative, Historical Practice in the Palestinian Context
Authors: Eldridge Aaron Frederick
Published: December 2018

This paper is an adaption of a longer investigation of the relationship between politics and poetry in the Palestinian context, focusing on the work of Mahmoud Darwish. For this selection, I have adapted the sections pertaining to the efficacy of poetry in the context of historical events–specifically the traumatic history of the Palestinians. It is my argument that artistic practices like poetry act primarily as a means of narrative creation that skillfully integrate the experiences of the poet and thus negotiate the experiences of the listeners in order to create new meaning. This dialogue between audience and poet creates a persuasive and novel movement within the conceptual field; thinking about something in terms of something else (metaphor). This has the effect of making the poet an intractable source of historical meaning. The questions of the past, a dizzying array of dissonant occurrences, fractured experiences, and selected memory, find cogency within the poetic form. This artistic formation only gains this cogency through a precise system of cognitive faculties, which are shared by both poet and audience. The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish acts as a means of understanding history in the context of the present; creating an integrated narrative-history, which has important implications on experience, implicating present action through a ‘reading’ of the past.
Derin Öğrenme ile İnsansız Hava Aracı Görüntülerinden Yaya Tespiti
Authors: TORAMAN Suat
Published: December 2018

Bu
çalışmada, insansız hava araçlarından (İHA) elde edilen görüntüler kullanılarak
yaya tespitine yönelik bir uygulama gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bunun için, elde
edilen İHA görüntülerinden, derin öğrenme yöntemi yardımıyla özellik çıkarımı
yapılmıştır. İHA’lardan alınan görüntülerin işlenmesinde karşılaşılan zorluklardan
biride, büyük veri kümelerinin sınıflandırmasıdır. Bu çalışmada, bu zorluğun
üstesinden gelmek için Evrişimsel Sinir Ağları (ESA) kullanılmıştır. Bir diğer
zorluk ise bazı veri türlerinin azlığından dolayı kaliteli bir eğitim sürecinin
gerçekleştirilememesidir. Bu nedenle, eğitimin etkinliğini artırabilmek için
resim çoğaltma yöntemi uygulanmıştır. Önerilen yöntem ile İHA’dan elde edilen
yaya, bisikletli, araba, ağaç ve sokak lambası resimleri istenen boyutlarda
ayarlanarak ESA modellerinden AlexNet ve VGG16’ya giriş verisi olarak verilerek
özellik çıkarımı gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çıkarılan özellikler Destek Vektör
Makinesi (DVM) ile sınıflandırılmıştır. Sınıflandırma işlemi sayesinde hem yaya
ile diğer öğelerin ayrımı gerçekleştirilirken hem de AlexNet ile VGG16’nın
performansları karşılaştırılmıştır. Sonuçlar, geliştirilen yöntemin yayaları
belirlemede kullanılabilecek faydalı bir yöntem olabileceğini göstermiştir.
Effectiveness of Twist Morphing Wing on Aerodynamic Performance and Control of an Aircraft
Authors: KAYGAN Erdoğan , ULUSOY Ceren
Published: December 2018

In this paper, effectiveness of twist varied wing
configurations for aircraft control and performance is described. The primary
variables investigated involved changing wing twist angle of a comparable
Airbus A320 wing structure by identifying the ideal angle of twist. The
aerodynamic performance and control of the morphing wing is characterised in
AVL (Athena Vortex Lattice Method). In order to better understand the
aerodynamic performance and control of twist morphing wing for diverse flight
regimes, predetermined values of twist (-8°< ϕ <8°, in steps of ±2°) were
examined. The results from this work indicate that if morphing wings were
employed on aircraft, performance benefits could be achieved.
Analysis of Patent Technology Transfer in China
Authors: Zhi Liping , Li Yanyan
Published: December 2018

Taking the status of China's patent technology transfer as the research goal, select the representative Guangdong Province as the research object, Using the incopat innovative intelligence platform as a data source, 157,178 related content were retrieved, And from patent technology transfer trends, technology ownership, applicants, geography, legal and operational status, patent agents and other aspects of analysis. Research shows that the development of China's patent technology transfer is strong, but there are some problems, in particular, the transfer of patent technology in research institutes and research institutions needs to be strengthened, and there is a large gap in regional patent technology transfer. Therefore, it is necessary to create a favorable environment for patent licensing and technology transfer and transformation policies, and actively guide the industrialization of patent technology in universities and research institutions, Strengthen the transfer of scientific and technological achievements to the market, train and expand the technical transfer of professional talents and so on, further promote the integrated development of science and technology and the economy, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into actual productivity. China's patent technology research has certain reference value for other countries.
Community Awareness on Earthquake and Assessment on Earthquake Risk Reduction Practices in a Philippine Municipality
Authors: Dacanay Jerose M. , Mauro Ma. Gladys B. , Sandoval Jimmuel A. , Lualhati Genalyn P.
Published: December 2018

This study determined the level of awareness on earthquake and assessment on earthquake risk reduction practices in a Philippine municipality which covered 150 household heads from 15 barangays of Malvar. The study used the descriptive method of research and used self-made questionnaire to gather the necessary data. For analysis, weighted mean and Pearson r were used. In the light of the significant findings revealed in the study, the following conclusions were drawn: the respondents were aware of the occurrence earthquake and the earthquake risk reduction practices of the Municipality were good. It was found out that there is no significant relationship existed between the respondents’ level of awareness and their assessed risk reduction practices. The findings of the study afforded the researchers in drawing various suggested activities to strengthen the implementation of earthquake risk reduction practices in the Philippines. Based on the conclusions formulated in the study, the following recommendations were offered. The officials of the municipality may provide funds in order to supply the basic needs and facilities of the community. The officials of the municipality may improve their way of warning the public especially by providing visible signages that would be a great help for them to become aware of the different hazards present to the locality. The officials of municipality may provide map of evacuation in every barangay that could help the community to easily find their route after such dilemma. The officials of Malvar may improve the trainings and activities that would help the Search and Rescue teams to respond quickly when a phenomenon happens. This will decrease the possibility of an injured person in critical condition.
Vulnerabilidad corporal, coalición y la política de la calle
Authors: Butler Judith
Published: December 2018

Desde una postura feminista, el artículo aborda el tema del activismo político a partir del tema de la vulnerabilidad corporal y la movilización de cuerpos en las prácticas de resistencia. El enfoque que utiliza, parte del reconocimiento de la vulnerabilidad como una condición precontractual de las relaciones humanas que señala la interdependencia social. A partir de algunos ejemplos de movilización social contemporáneos, resalta la importancia de reconocer la precariedad compartida y luchar en alianza contra ésta, como forma de construir vidas dignas de vivir, frente al tipo de poder que desecha ciertos cuerpos y poblaciones.
Pensar en tiempos de crisis: ¿cómo dialogar con la vida?
Authors: Guevara-Aristizábal Juan Felipe , Eschenhagen María Luisa
Published: December 2018

Nuestra propuesta, en consecuencia, parte del concepto de crisis civilizatoria Ante la crisis civilizatoria que atravesamos, expresada en diversos problemas socioambientales, se hace necesario plantear formas de pensamiento diferentes cuyo punto de partida, en nuestro caso, se encuentra en la vida, ya sea como concepto científico o como forma de habitar el planeta. Ello nos permitirá cuestionar las bases epistemológicas de un modo de hacer ciencia que ha contribuido a la crisis, al tiempo que nos ofrece alternativas para pensar con la ciencia y salir al encuentro de otras tradiciones, como es el caso del sumak kawsay.
Plan de vida yukpa: relaciones entre el territorio y el buen vivir
Authors: Oliveros Fortiche Diana Esperanza
Published: December 2018

Este artículo presenta el pensamiento y la experiencia del grupo indígena Yukpa, asentado en la Serranía del Perijá en Colombia, alrededor de la constitución de su plan de vida. Desde esta vivencia, busca comprender la definición del buen vivir, concepción originada en la filosofía de los pueblos indígenas latinoamericanos en contradicción con el desarrollo. La metodología de trabajo se basó en la práctica de la investigación acción participante (IAP). Las conclusiones muestran la particularidad del sentido del buen vivir para este grupo y la relevancia del territorio como base fundamental de su identidad, vida y trasegar.
Una apuesta por la vida: ética y estética en formas colectivo-solidarias
Authors: Heras Ana Inés , Miano Amalia , Pagotto María Alejandra
Published: December 2018

El artículo se inscribe en una investigación etnográfica realizada en Argentina con organizaciones orientadas por la autonomía como proyecto. Desde el marco conceptual del análisis institucional y las economías comunitarias, presenta una metodología que permite analizar prácticas, discursos y significados en tres experiencias autogestionarias. Analiza los modos que asumen el trabajo, la propiedad y la subjetividad en estas experiencias y concluye que: 1) su quehacer funda una propuesta ética y estética ligada al sostenimiento y disfrute de la vida y 2) sus formas de producir la existencia interpelan los sentidos del capitalismo actual.
Por una ética de la existencia en la escritura de profesor universitario
Authors: Ortiz Naranjo María Nancy
Published: December 2018

El artículo parte de constatar que los criterios de publicación en las humanidades dependen de una academia vinculada con el dispositivo tecnocientífico. Así, la tecnología del desarrollo plantea al profesor universitario como un empresario de sí que se capitaliza a sí mismo y a su corporación por medio de la publicación de artículos, desde una perspectiva competitiva. Concluye que la narración emerge como una de las formas discursivas de resistencia posible a este funcionamiento, a partir de la cual los textos dejan de constituirse como artefactos de datos para adquirir la condición de cuerpos vivos, tensionados por una ética de la existencia.