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La ciudadanía digital. ¿Ágora aumentada o individualismo postmaterialista? / Digital Citizenship. Increased agora or postmaterialism individualism?
Authors: Rendueles Menéndez de Llano César
Published: January 2024

El concepto de “ciudadanía digital” es un componente esencial de la comprensión de la tecnología de la comunicación como el vector político que está modulando de manera privilegiada las condiciones de ejercicio de la democracia. La ciudadanía digital apunta a la posibilidad de revertir tecnológicamente el proceso de desafección política característico de las sociedades de masas. Desde ese punto de vista, la tecnología de la comunicación no se limitaría a enriquecer el bagaje político precedente sino que induciría un cambio sustancial en las condiciones de posibilidad y las formas de legitimación de la intervención política democrática. Este artículo, en primer lugar, analiza y cuestiona los presupuestos que subyacen a esta hipótesis, concretamente la idea de que la tecnología digital ha inducido una profunda discontinuidad histórica que nos aboca a un escenario político y social radicalmente nuevo. En segundo lugar, vincula la tesis de la ciudadanía digital con un marco interpretativo más amplio: la teoría de la transformación postmaterialista en las sociedades occidentales, entendida críticamente como una forma de preferencia adaptativa a un contexto de individualismo expresivo y mercantilización generalizada.AbstractThe concept of "digital citizenship" is an essential component of the understanding of the communication technology as the political vector that is modulating the conditions of the exercise of democracy. Digital citizenship raises the possibility of reverse the process of political disaffection characteristic of mass societies. From that point of view, communication technology produces a substantial change in the conditions of possibility and ways of legitimation of democratic political intervention. This article, first, analyzes and questions the assumptions underlying this hypothesis, namely the idea that digital technology has induced a profound historical discontinuity that leads us to a radically new political and social scene. Second, it explores the relationship of digital citizenship with the theory of post-materialist transformation of Western societies, critically understood as a form of adaptive preference to a social context of expressive individualism and commodification.
Ciudadanía digital, activismo docente y formación de futuras maestras de educación infantil / Digital citizenship, activism and teacher education of future teachers of early childhood education
Authors: Correa Gorospe José Miguel , Aberasturi-Apraiz Estibaliz , Gutierrez-Cabello Aingeru
Published: January 2024

En este texto relacionamos la vigilancia y el control en la sociedad contemporánea con ciudadanía digital y el activismo docente. Presentaremos una experiencia de aprendizaje basada en el proyecto artístico Confessions de la artística británica Gillian Wearing desarrollada con 32 futuras maestras de educación infantil de la Universidad del País Vasco. En el proyecto Confesiones, los participantes tienen que escribir de forma anónima, un incidente crítico relacionado con su historia escolar y que consideren valioso para hacerlo visible y compartirlo. Para mantener el anonimato, ocultar la identidad y tomar conciencia de los peligros de los algoritmos de reconocimiento facial y otras formas de vigilancia y control, los incidentes se grababan en audio con distorsionadores de voz y se adjuntaba un anti-selfi. Esta experiencia ha puesto en evidencia la importancia que tiene en la formación inicial del profesorado construir un discurso que desnaturalice la neutralidad tecnológica, el control y la vigilancia en Internet, para la formación de una ciudadanía digital crítica.AbstractIn this text we relate surveillance and control in contemporary society with teaching digital citizenship and activism. We will present a learning experience based art project Confessions of British artistic Gillian Wearing developed with 32 future teachers of early childhood education at the University of the Basque Country. Confessions In the Confesiones project, participants have to write anonymously, a critical incident involving their school history and consider it visible and valuable to share. To maintain anonymity, hide the identity and become aware of the dangers of facial recognition algorithms and other forms of surveillance and control, incidents were recorded in audio with voice distorting and anti-selfi was attached. This experience has highlighted the importance of the initial teacher construct a discourse that denature technological neutrality, control and surveillance on the Internet, for the formation of a digital public criticism.
Reorganizando las fronteras del currículum entre los escenarios digitales y escolares / Reorganizing the boundaries of the curriculum between digital and schoolsettings.
Authors: Fernández Rodríguez Eduardo , Anguita Martínez Rocío
Published: January 2024

En este trabajo se analizan las percepciones que alumnado y profesorado tienen acerca del papel que juegan las redes sociales en el ámbito de la escuela, identificando los diferentes sentidos y usos de los dispositivos tecnológicos en el contexto escolar. El objetivo de la investigación se centra en explorar las interacciones mutuas entre los escenarios virtuales y los escolares y los efectos que tienen ambos para el aprendizaje del alumnado, el currículo escolar y, de forma más extensa, respecto de la construcción de ciudadanía activa por parte de los jóvenes estudiantes de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Para ello se desarrolla una investigación de corte cualitativo a través del diseño y aplicación de diez grupos de discusión con docentes y estudiantes de la ESO en cinco provincias españolas en los años 2012 y 2013. Los resultados muestran cómo las relaciones entre uso de la tecnología digital y rendimiento escolar se hayan mediatizadas por condicionantes socioeconómicos y culturales, así como por la necesidad de que la institución docente resignifique el carácter lúdico, participativo y horizontal de los nuevos medios digitales en el marco de una cultura de lo público y comprometida con el conocimiento reflexivo y el aprendizaje relevante.AbstractIn this paper, students' and teachers' perceptions aboutthe role of social networks in the field of school are analyzed, identifying the different meanings and uses of technological devices in the school context. The aim of this investigation focuses on exploring the mutual interactions between virtual scenarios and school and the effects of both of the mon student learning processes, school curriculum and, more extensively, regarding the formation of the active citizenship by young students of Secondary Education. To achieve this goal, a qualitative research was developed that implied the design and implementation ten focus groups with teachers and students of Secondary Education. These focus groups were conducted in five Spanish provinces in 2012 and 2013. The results show how relationships between the use of digital technology and school performance have been mediated by the socioeconomic and cultural conditions, as well as the need for the educational institution to reinterpret the playful, participatory and horizontal nature of the new media in the context of a culture of the public and committed to reflective knowledge and relevant learning.
Indicadores para evaluar la competencia digital docente en la formación inicial en el contexto Chileno – Uruguayo / Indicators to Assess Digital Competence of Teachers in Initial Training in the Chile - Uruguay Contex
Authors: Silva Quiroz Juan , Miranda Paloma , Gisbert Mercè , Morales Julia , Onetto Alicia
Published: January 2024

El docente es un factor relevante en la inserción de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) en la educación. Es necesario que los docentes desarrollen la competencia digital docente (CDD), para usar las TIC en las mejorar las experiencias de enseñanza y aprendizaje. además de promover en las niñas, niños y jóvenes, el desarrollo de la competencia digital. Desde la formación inicial docente (FID) debe desarrollarse las CDD, de modo que el futuro profesorado pueda integrarlas con éxito en su futuro ejercicio profesional. Este artículo, presenta los resultados preliminares del proyecto “Estudio comparado de las competencias digitales para aprender y enseñar, en docentes en formación en Chile y Uruguay”. El objetivo es diseñar, validar y aplicar un instrumento para medir la CDD en FID en Chile y Uruguay, comparar los resultados obtenidos y generar recomendaciones para mejorar la formación de los futuros docentes en la materia. Esta primera etapa permitió generar la matriz de indicadores, base para la posterior construcción del instrumento. La metodología contemplada consideró la investigación documental: recopilación, organización, valoración crítica. Con esta información se diseñó y validó una propuesta de matriz de indicadores para evaluar la CDD en FID validada a través de juicio de expertos, en Chile y Uruguay. Se cuenta con un total de 14 indicadores, organizados en cuatro dimensiones con una valoración de pertinencia superior al 75%.AbstractThe teacher is a relevant factor for inserting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. Teachers are required to develop Digital Competence for Teachers (DCT), to use ICT in improving teaching and learning experiences, in addition to promoting digital competences development in girls, boys and young people. DCT should be developed from the beginning of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) for future teachers to successfully include them in the future exercise of their profession. This article presents the preliminary results of the project “Compared Study of Digital Competencies to Learn and Teach, of Teachers in Training in Chile and Uruguay.” Its objective is to design, validate and apply an instrument to measure DCT in ITT in Chile and Uruguay, to compare results and recommendations to improve training for future teachers of this area. This first stage enabled generating a matrix of indicators as the foundation to build this instrument. The proposed methodology included collecting, organizing and critical assessment as part of the documental investigation. This information was used to design and validate a proposed matrix of indicators to assess DCY in ITT validated by experts in Chile and Uruguay. It includes a total of 14 indicators in four dimensions, achieving relevance of over 75%.
Estudio sobre la fase piloto de inclusión de tablets en educación inicial y primaria en Uruguay en el marco del Plan Ceibal / Pilot phase study of tablets in early childhood and primary education in Uruguay within Plan Ceibal
Authors: Angeriz Pampin Esther , Da Silva Ramos Mónica Elena , Bañuls Gabriela
Published: January 2024

This article presents reflections and results from a study about the pilot phase developed by Ceibal Plan concerning to the inclusion of tablets in early childhood education and primary education in Uruguay (2013-2014). The research is carried out from a constructivist perspective with a socio-cultural orientation, developing an exploratory strategy. The study attempt to know school’s technologies conditions, activities with tablets, their contexts and aims from teacher’s perspective. The sample design was developed taking into account strategic approaches, building a population that involved thirty schools from Montevideo and Canelones. The results provide information on technological infrastructure and human resources, activities contexts and aims proposed by teachers. The conclusions describes school's conditions about Internet access, administrative and pedagogical uses with the technological resources, as well as activities folowing digital literacy and pedagogical goals. In general terms, there is a favorable attitude from teachers about integrating the tablets in the first grades of schooling, but also some difficulties are recognized during the development of the pilot test.
Grupos de Whatsapp en familias de Educación Infantil y Primaria / WhatApps groups in families of Preschool and Primary Education
Authors: Martínez Hernández Inmaculada , Cascales-Martínez Antonia , Gomariz-Vicente María Ángeles
Published: January 2024

The main objectives of this study were firstly, to know the opinions of the families of the children belonging to Early Childhood Education and Primary Education in the Region of Murcia about the usage of WhatsApp groups for families and teachers; and secondly, to analyze their opinions based on these socio-demographic variables: relationship, age, level of education, school degree, employment status and number of children at the school. To that end, a questionnaire was created consisting of 26 items based on six dimensions (usage, shared content, regulations, permissiveness, involvement/participation and educational resources) and measured against a 1 to 5 scale. The full sample was composed of 134 subjects selected through a convenient nonprobability sampling, since it was applied to those families we had access to. The results indicate that it is not useful in promoting family involvement or as an educational resource to support education, but as a place for parents and teachers to stay connected.
Análisis y evaluación de portales institucionales en España. Los casos de Canarias, Galicia y Valencia / Analysis and evaluation of institutional web portals in Spain. The cases of Canary Islands, Galicia and Valencia
Authors: Santana Bonilla Pablo Joel , Eirín Nemiña Raúl , Marín Suelves Diana
Published: January 2024

This article presents results of a wider study devoted to the analysis of a sample of institutional portals and commercial platforms which offer educational digital resources. The mentioned study is part of a R+D+I Project entitled «Digital School: the analysis of the production and use of educational digital contents in schools». The main purpose of the article is to carry out a comparative analysis of Canary Islands, Galicia and Valencia institutional portals, offering suggestion for improvement. We review literature in Spanish on evaluation of webs, educational digital materials and institutional portals and describe the research methodology utilized. Then, we synthetize the results of the analysis, and, finally, present the discussion and conclusions. The institutional portals depend on the corresponding Regional Department of Education, offer certain services and educational resources, and host resources repositories. They offer educational resources of different kind but It is not possible to identify an underlying pedagogical model. However, the way resources are organized let us to glimpse a pedagogical model linked to a fragmented curricular approach based on graduation and school subjects. The resources and services offered promote and support the exchange and collaboration between users. Improvement is needed in aspects such as: the organization of educational resources; the aural accessibility; the portals design; and the updating of different sections.
Las políticas educativas en la producción y distribución de materiales didácticos digitales / Educational policies in the production and distribution of digital didactic materials
Authors: Sanabria Mesa Ana Luisa , Nuñez Quintín Álvarez , Chacón José Peirats
Published: January 2024

This article is an essay that analyzes the changes or mutations that are taking place in the characteristics and functionalities of educational materials in the context of the digital society. It is based on the thesis that the hegemonic didactic material of the modern school (specifically textbooks) responded to the logic of printed culture characterized by packaging knowledge and a standardized and mass curriculum development model. In this S. XXI educational materials are affected by digital transformation whose mutation is described in terms of five dimensions or areas: artifactual or technological, pedagogical, teaching functionality, learning functionality, and production processes, distribution and consumption. It concludes by pointing out that the metamorphosis of the didactic material does not consist only in a change of the technological format, but it must be fundamentally of the cultural story and of the pedagogical functionality of the material.
Preguntas de comprensión audiovisual sobreimpresas: propuesta para el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas
Authors: Casañ Núñez Juan Carlos
Published: January 2024

Audiovisual comprehension activities are complex, especially in a foreign language. On the one hand, there is a conflict of visual attention between viewing a video and completing a written task simultaneously. On the other hand, paying attention to the image, the audio, and the activity at the same time can lead to working memory overload. This paper describes an innovative proposal that can help limit this complexity in the fields of teaching and testing second languages: the use of embedded comprehension questions in the form of subtitles and synchronized with the relevant fragments. The proposal is a result of a doctoral dissertation in which a multiphase mixed methods design was employed. Participants were researchers in teaching Spanish as a Second Language (SSL), Spanish linguistics and/or the use of educational technologies, and SSL university teachers and students. Overall, informants had positive opinions about this methodology. Quasi-experimental studies revealed that imprinted questions did not have a statistically significant effect on SSL students’ audiovisual comprehension test performance. However, imprinted questions did increase the amount of time that test-takers watched the video in a statistically significant way. The latter suggests that this technique reduces the conflict of visual attention between viewing the video and completing the task.
Metodologia da problematização na educação à distância sobre sepse: um curso com o apoio do Arco de Maguerez
Authors: Silva Rafaela Costa , Cazella Silvio César , Caregnato Rita Catalina Aquino
Published: January 2024

There are few courses in distance education today that implement active methodologies directed at health professionals. The objective of this paper was to build a course about sepsis developed on the Moodle platform based on the Problematization Methodology, and to apply this course as means of providing permanent education to better qualify healthcare professionals. The study is exploratory in design, uses qualitative and quantitative approach and is applied in nature. The research was conducted by the end of the second semester of 2016 at the Moodle platform of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and was completed by 12 health professionals. The results show that 91.67% of the participants were females, their average age was 31.66 years and 75% were nurses. The quantitative analysis allowed to classify the answers given by the participants into three categories and subcategories: 1. Healthcare professional (i) the assumed role and ii) the depreciation of the theme ‘sepsis’); 2. Everyday experience (i) workflow organization, ii) training process and iii)learning process and awareness of the results); and 3. Plans of action as a means of improvement (i) in service and ii) at the professional level). We concluded that distance learning methods that use active methodologies can be of great value when applied to courses in the healthcare area. The positive contributions that emerged aggregate knowledge applicable to healthcare practice of the professionals that participated at the course, to the people working in the education area and in the healthcare area, and show that the course can enable the resolution of problems inherent to the necessities of the services.
Evaluación de un videojuego educativo de contenido histórico. La opinión de los estudiantes
Authors: Martínez Soto Juan Manuel , Egea Vivancos Alejandro , Arias Ferrer Laura
Published: January 2024

Although the research about educational video games is abundant, the examples are scarce if the attention is focused on those studies that assess the effects of educational video games in the teaching-learning process. It is also difficult to find studies that deals with the opinion of the own students/gamers about the influence of a video game in their learning. But students are the key in the teaching and learning process and without them, we lost a key aspect in the assessment of such recource, their own perception. This paper presents the results of an evaluative research about a VR game. This game is based on a historical topic and setting, and it is played with Oculus Rift. To assess the perception of the students about this specific game it was designed ad hoc an instrument with 28 items about its content and pedagogical value. The answers of the 34 Secondary Students (average age 15.4 years) that participate in this study were analysed with a mixed methodology. The results show a positive reception and perception of the students about the use of VR games in the classroom, not only because of the historical contents of the plot and setting but also because of the motivation they provide.
Análisis del impacto de los talleres formativos desarrollados por el FabLab de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) de Costa Rica
Authors: Bustillo-Bayón Jon , Zamora-Sanabria Ana-Carolina
Published: January 2024

The rapid technological-industrial development, has highlighted the need for a technological literacy that allows people to understand, manipulate, and develop physical or digital creations. This work introduces a training proposal made with different groups at the fabrication laboratory Kä Träre of the UNED of Costa Rica. Ten training workshops were held on the use of open technologies, with a total of 106 inexperienced participants. In all of them, a constructionist methodological proposal linked to the manifesto makers was followed. For the evaluation of the impact of the workshops, a semantic analysis of a open question was used, which was given at the end of each workshop. The results show that more than 70% of the participants were able to imagine new applications adapted to their environment of interest, using the open technologies learned in the workshops. However, only 32% indicated how the proposal would be developed. Considering that each group participated in only one workshop, we considered that the training model is valid, but we noted the need for other deeper workshops to address the developments proposed by the participants. This type of proposal could not only be extended to educational centres, but could also be developed in non-formal educational environments, facilitating the technological empowerment of people who are no longer of school age.
La Competencia Digital ante contextos de exclusión: un estudio de caso en Educación Primaria
Authors: Fraga-Varela Fernando , Rodríguez-Groba Ana
Published: January 2024

The results of an investigation that focus on the study of Digital Competence from the analysis of a case study are presented in this article. The unfavorable context of a 12-year-old child (economic, social and cultural), with a family situation with high levels of destructuring, is described to analyze the influence of the different agents involved in his education, in depth in the Formal spaces, in the school environment, as informal at the family level and the potential group of equals. Large gaps are identified and emerge by contrasting the developed skills of the case with the research that analyses the proposed dimensions for Digital Competence. The results uncover that the development of them is scarce and focus mainly on processes related to communication and collaboration and related to the search for information. The research also highlights the difficulties that emerge from the school institution in order to work on this type of learning and act as a true compensatory agent. We mainly identify two limiting areas when it comes to working with digital skills: the oversizing of the curriculum of content in subjects of Primary Education and the search for low levels of conflict with families by conditioning the processes of educational innovation.
Análisis de la transmisión cultural de los libros de texto de música en Educación Primaria
Authors: Martínez-Delgado Clara
Published: January 2024

The research paper shows, from the analysis of the musical education textbooks for primary education, the values, stereotypes, mental schemes and meanings that are transmitted in the curriculum not always in a conscious or regulated way. The objective is to analyse what cultural models are transmitted, what are the spaces of silence, what absences and on the contrary what presences are reinforced and transmitted with the use of these curricular materials. The article consists, first of all, of an introduction to the state of this field of research showing the relevance and opportunity of this problematization of the curriculum. It is a qualitative research that uses content and discourse analysis as methodological tools. Secondly, the results of the category Cultural Representations are presented. This category is organized in the following subcategories: gender, Eurocentric gaze, popular cultures and traditions and relationship with the environment. The analysis of textbooks alerts us to the dominance of androcentric cultural hegemony and the reproduction of Eurocentric views that have not overcome colonialism and patriarchy, making a distant an exotic treatment of minority cultures and popular cultures closers to children's environment. This paper concludes with the relevance of this type of research to understand the cultural effects implicit in the presentation of the curriculum in the materials used in the classroom.
Co-diseño de prácticas educativas abiertas en una universidad a distancia
Authors: Acuña-Sossa Mildred , García-González Iolanda
Published: January 2024

This paper focuses on the analysis of a co-design process of open educational practices (OEP) for the development of transversal competences in a distance university. Through the active participation of teachers, students and researchers, the aim is to facilitate the curricular design of OEP, which favors the development of students’ transversal competences. The study is part of a broader research that applies the model of design-based research (DBR). Specifically, this paper deals with the analysis of the design phase, with a qualitative approach, by using participant observation and the analysis of the design products elaborated in the co-design process. The study aims to answer the following research questions: How is the co-design method carried out and how does it contribute to the design of OEP for the development of transversal competences? What kind of contributions do participants make and what role do they assume in the co-design process? The results reflect the dynamics of the co-design process, the type of contributions and roles assumed by each participant and the effective contribution of the co-design method for the design of the PEA, considering on one hand the degree of understanding and incorporation of the relevant concepts in the designed scenarios and, secondly, the usefulness of the design instruments used.
Educando para la ciudadanía global a través de las tecnologías. Análisis de una experiencia de formación de futuros docentes
Authors: Fernández-Díaz Elia , Rodríguez-Hoyos Carlos , Calvo-Salvador Adelina
Published: January 2024

This paper presents the results of a research process developed in a project focused on improving university teaching in technologies in Education studies from an approach based on Education for Critical Global Citizenship. Through a qualitative research process, in which each teacher is accompanied by a «critical friend», data from the whole process has been collected and analysed. The training experience was developed in the subject «ICTs applied to education» in the Infant Education degree, where students are encouraged to produce a transmedia narrative to denounce a relevant social problem. The results show the level of significance that each student gave to the subjects studied within the framework of their initial training and the main facilitators and barriers they faced during the development of their work. Following analysis of these findings, lines of work for introducing both pedagogical and methodological improvements in class have been identified as well as the need to continue working from a Critical Education approach which allows us to understand the world from this perspective and view the work of teachers as that of an intellectual committed to social change.
La percepción de los docentes de Primaria sobre los materiales didácticos digitales musicales
Authors: Vicente-Álvarez Rosa María , Cores-Torres Antía , Rodríguez-Rodríguez Jesús
Published: January 2024

This article presents the most relevant results of a work focused on the perception of perception of Primary teachers about digital musical didactic materials. The study, of a descriptive and interpretive character, is developed through the application of a semi-structured interview to a sample of teachers who teach in primary education in five Galician educational centers of different ownerships. The dimensions under analysis refer to: assessment and teaching use regarding digital musical didactic materials. The results show, on the one hand, the need to improve the quality of didactic and musical materials in order to take full advantage of the potential related to image, music and movement to help students become the protagonist of the process teaching-learning, and on the other hand, the lack of initial and continuous training of teachers on the use of digital musical didactic materials. The teaching staff highly considers the creation of communication networks and exchange of experiences and musical digital didactic materials. The research also includes some recommendations about the educational measures to be taken by institutions and professionals involved in the process of designing and using digital materials.
Heparin and Tocilizumab in Patients with Severe COVID-19: The HEPMAB Randomized Clinical Trial v1
Authors: Trindade Cantú Ribeiro Lucas
Published: January 2024

Clinical presentation of severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated to an intense inflammatory response and thrombogenesis. The benefits of the association of interleukin-6 receptor blockade (tocilizumab) and therapeutic-dose anticoagulation remains unclear. We aimed to assess whether heparin and tocilizumab could effectively reduce inflammation and thrombogenesis in severe COVID-19 patients. This is an open-label, multicenter, randomized, clinical trial, involving patients with severe COVID-19 infection. Eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1:1:1 ratio to receive either therapeutic or prophylactic anticoagulation with heparin, with or without an intravenous single dose of tocilizumab. The participants in the study were assigned to one of the four distinct arms: 1) therapeutic anticoagulation; 2) prophylactic anticoagulation; 3) therapeutic anticoagulation plus a single intravenous dose of tocilizumab; and 4) prophylactic anticoagulation plus a single intravenous dose of tocilizumab. The primary outcome was clinical improvement at day 30, defined as a composite of hospital discharge and/or a reduction of at least 2 points of the modified ordinal scale of 7 points recommended by the World Health Organization. Thus, the investigators hypothesized that the use of heparin and tocilizumab could potencially reduce inflammation and thrombogenesis in patients with severe COVID-19 infection, improving patients outcomes and survival.
ecumenical framework in Mbiti’s African theology
Authors: Mbaya Henry
Published: January 2024

This study discusses the theological framework of John Mbiti’s African theology. It has identified Konrad Raiser’s “Ecumenical paradigm” as a framework within which to conceptualize and understand Mbiti’s theological works, approach, and perspectives. The study argues that Mbiti works with an ecumenical paradigm and framework of African religion(s) and culture. Raiser’s metaphor of “One Household of Life”, is an important theological conceptual tool to try to grasp Mbiti’s approach and methodology. Taking an ecumenical approach, Raiser argues the importance of religions and faith confessions of engaging in dialogue and communication. Behind dialogue, lies the more critical question of the authority of the local context and religions, in relations to Western Christianity. Mbiti wrestles with the question: what authority does African Tradition Religion (ATR) have in relation to Western Christianity, and other religions? Further the study, highlights that there are two principles that are at work in Mbiti’s theological framework and approach, namely, the local in relation to the universal, and the normative in relation to the relative, which can also be understood as the absolutizing in relation to the relativizing.
Relacje między znaczeniami modalnymi i znaczeniami aspektowymi w języku polskim. Odpowiedzi z badania korpusowego
Authors: Wiemer Björn , Socka Anna , Wrzesień-Kwiatkowska Joanna
Published: January 2024

Tematem artykułu jest relacja między aspektem, akcjonalnością i modalnością. Stawia on pytanie o czynniki decydujące o preferowanej interpretacji modalnej konstrukcji złożonych z czasownikowego operatora możliwości i bezokolicznika. Na materiale Narodowego Korpusu Języka Polskiego przeprowadzono badania mające na celu ustalenie, czy czynnikiem ważniejszym jest aspekt, czy raczej akcjonalność wyrażenia bezokolicznikowego. Badania te wykazały, że negacja w połączeniu z bezokolicznikami aspektu niedokonanego wyraźnie sprzyja interpretacjom deontycznym, podczas gdy bezokoliczniki aspektu dokonanego wyraźnie preferują interpretacje okolicznościowe (‛dynamiczne’) niezależnie od negacji. Podstawowa dychotomia nie polega na opozycji interpretacji deontycznych i epistemicznych, lecz raczej dotyczy różnicy między znaczeniami deontycznymi a okolicznościowymi. Ważne jest przy tym staranne odróżnianie aspektu zarówno od znaczeń (a)telicznych, jak i od innych cech istotnych dla akcjonalności.
Koło Trzech Króli każdy się w kożuch tuli. Przysłowia związane ze świętem Objawienia Pańskiego w polszczyźnie
Authors: Popławski Emil
Published: January 2024

W artykule zaprezentowano i opisano 24 przysłowia kalendarzowe (wraz z wariantami) w polszczyźnie, odnoszące się do święta Trzech Króli. Wiele z nich wiąże się z kategorią czasu. Przede wszystkim wskazują na stopniowo wydłużający się dzień. Sporą grupę paremii tworzą jednostki dotyczące pogody. Zawierają one zwykle krótko- i długoterminowe prognozy w odniesieniu do aury, jaka panuje 6 stycznia. Przedstawione przysłowia świadczą o tym, że w polszczyźnie (literackiej i dialektalnej) święto Objawienia Pańskiego pozostawiło dość liczne ślady. Niniejszy opis potwierdza wyraźną obecność na różnych polach kultury i sztuki tego jednego z najstarszych świąt chrześcijańskich.
Aplicativos de Apoio à Educação sobre a Segurança do Paciente Hospitalizado: Uma Prospecção Tecnológica
Authors: Mendes Léia Arcanjo , Antunes Clarissa Costa , Manzo Bruna Figueiredo , Alves Thais Favero
Published: January 2024

Objetivo: Investigar os aplicativos móveis que foram desenvolvidos com a finalidade de orientar os profissionais, os pacientes e seus acompanhantes quanto às ações de segurança do paciente no contexto de hospitalização. Método: Prospecção tecnológica realizada nas lojas virtuais App Store® e Google Play® e na ferramenta de busca da Google, cujo critério de inclusão foi aplicativos voltados para segurança do paciente no contexto hospitalar sem limitação de recorte temporal. Resultados: Foram incluídos e analisados no estudo 25 aplicativos. A maioria dos aplicativos eram móveis, desenvolvido em inglês, com ênfase para os profissionais de saúde. Ademais, tiveram como limitação, fragilidades relacionadas ao design e características lúdicas. Conclusão: O estudo pode contribuir para desenvolvimento de novos aplicativos para educação sobre a segurança do paciente, promovendo o aumento do engajamento nas ações de prevenção de erros.
Named Multipath Depth-First Search: An SDN-based Routing Strategy for Efficient Failure Handling and Content Delivery in NDN
Authors: Yassine Sembati , Najib Naja , Abdellah Jamali
Published: January 2024

Information-centric networking (ICN) architectures, such as named data networking (NDN), have emerged as potential solutions for efficiently retrieving and delivering content. However, challenges remain regarding routing scalability, resilience, and caching efficiency. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers opportunities to optimize NDN implementations through centralized control and programmability. In this paper, we propose Named Multipath DFS, an SDN-based routing and caching scheme for NDN networks. NMDFS leverages a centralized controller to pre-compute multipath routes and implement coordinated caching. We evaluate NMDFS on an emulated topology testbed against default NDN and Named-data link state routing. The results demonstrate significant improvements with NMDFS, reducing overhead signalling costs by 94% and 78%, respectively, compared with other schemes. Round-trip latencies for content retrieval were reduced by up to 98%. The SDN controller’s global network view and control are leveraged to optimize content caching through packet loss-driven adaptation and eliminate redundant messaging, leading to substantial performance gains.
Historical Context of Selected Collocations in the Croatian Language
Authors: Baer Magdalena
Published: January 2024

The aim of the paper is to present the analysis of selected verb-noun collocations with the node ‘odluka’ – ‘decision’. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the 19th century newspaper articles published in Croatian newspapers from the period 1850–1899, collected in a digitalised format on the Stare hrvatske novine website. Historical forms are compared with the modern ones, excerpted from the HrWac Croatian language corpus. The second part of the 19th century is the time when Standard Croatian was being formed and the press was flourishing. This gave rise to the creation of the journalistic style which, alongside the administrative one, is believed to contain the greatest number of collocations, hence the choice of those two sources of data. The analysis of historical and modern forms has shown that there exist grammatical, orthographic, contextual, semantic and formal differences and these do not hinder the understanding of the text. The differences are negligent and stem from the evolution of the Croatian language, especially the shaping of the norm of the standard language.
Optic disc drusen: new hypotheses on systemic calcification
Authors: Jiao Yuanzhang , Gale Jesse
Published: January 2024

Optic disc drusen (ODD) are acellular calcified deposits within the optic nerve head. They arise early in life, usually remain asymptomatic with a benign prognosis, and they are most often clinically relevant as they can be mistaken for papilloedema, can result in asymptomatic optic nerve thinning resembling glaucoma, or can have complications such as anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy with sudden loss of vision. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the pathogenesis of ODD, and prognostic factors for vision loss in the long term. The strongest association of ODD is with pseudoxanthoma elasticum, a condition of systemic ectopic calcification. Understanding the shared biochemical pathways underlying pseudoxanthoma elasticum and other conditions with the same phenotype, highlights pyrophosphate as an important factor in ectopic calcification and a potential therapy.
Arthrodesis following persistent periprosthetic knee infection using femoral condyle allograft: a case report and review of literature
Authors: Vaz Pinto Goncalo , Marques Luís Nuno , Ribeiras Cabral João , Vale Mario , Telles de Freitas Ricardo , Varatojo J. Ricardo
Published: January 2024

Periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) of the knee are difficult to treat and can require costly and prolonged hospital stays, weeks or months of antibiotic therapy, and multiple surgical procedures. Knee arthrodesis is considered a last resort for persistent knee joint infections and provides stability and pain relief by fusing the knee joint. The authors describe a case of a persistent and difficult to treat periprosthetic total knee arthroplasty (TKA) infection, subjected to multiple surgeries and revisions, where an arthrodesis was performed as a last resort. The arthrodesis was performed using a femoral-tibial endomedullary nail with interposed femoral condyle allograft. Complete graft integration and consolidation was achieved without complications. The patient performed well post-operatively and is currently ambulatory with walking aids and has no knee pain. The removal of well-fixed metaphyseal sleeves in TKA can be challenging and associated with complications such as damage to the surrounding bone and soft tissue during the removal process. Taking special care and not rushing this step can present an extremely meaningful difference in the final outcome. In cases with large bone defects, especially after sleeve removal, allograft usage can be extremely useful for managing dead space and limb-length discrepancies while promoting faster bone healing. When successful, as was the case described, arthrodesis using allografts can have beneficial outcomes with high patient satisfaction and deliver function to previously very unhealthy joints and limbs.
Evaluation of extreme flow characteristics in the Casamance watershed upstream of Kolda using the IHA/RVA method
Authors: Sadio Cheikh Abdoul Aziz Sy , Faye Cheikh
Published: January 2024

Understanding water availability is essential for the development and management of water resources, as well as for designing interventions for river health. Climate change/variability impacts the hydrology of a river system, which subsequently affects human and ecological health by altering the structure and function of the aquatic ecosystem. This study therefore aims to assess water availability and river health according to current and future climate scenarios in the Casamance watershed upstream of Kolda. Climate change is expected to increase hydrologic alterations from low (currently) to high (in the future), as revealed by the Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) tool. Average annual water availability decreased, varying seasonally, and seasonal trends followed annual trends under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) scenarios. In the basin, negative developments in minimum and maximum annual conditions are generally decreasing over the future period, compared to the reference period (1985-2014), with the exception of the minimum flow rate over 7 and 30 days on SSP 126 and the minimum flow rate over 30 days and the maximum flow rate 1, 3 and 7 days on SSP 585. In this SSP 585 scenario, the Mann Kendall test on the minimum flow rate and the flow rate maximum indicate the most significant downward trend with a risk of error of 0.05, with a Kendall tau varying from -0.45 m3/s/year to - 0.05 m3/s/year. For the minimum flow parameters, Kolda station shows negative Hydrological Alteration (HA) values for the high RVA category, which results in a decrease in low flow.
Fiscal decentralization, energy security, economic growth, and tourism nexus: Evidence from big six economies
Authors: Ul-Haq Jabbar , Mushtaq Shahzad , Visas Hubert , Hye Qazi Muhammad Adnan , Rehan Raja
Published: January 2024

The travel and tourism industry contributes significantly to economic growth, global connectivity, and quality of life. We investigate the relationship between fiscal decentralization, energy security, economic growth, and tourism for the leading-six economies (namely China, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the USA) from 1995 to 2018 and examine the existence of the Kuznets curve (KC) between TR and FDC. Feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and Panel corrected standard errors (PCSE) are employed for empirical examination of the liaison between the said variables. In the leading six economies, we find evidence for the N-shaped Kuznets curve. Fiscal decentralization (FDC), economic growth (EG), and energy security (ES) promote tourism. Other controls, such as tourism development and urbanization, are also included in the core model to check the robustness of the results. Our findings are insensitive to the integration of the other controls and econometric models. We find a positive relationship between urbanization, tourism development, and tourism, emphasizing the importance of tourism development and urbanization. The policy implication is that the top six economies can achieve sustainable growth in tourism by decentralizing their fiscal policies, boosting their economic growth, and ensuring their energy securities.
Students' Response to Case-based Learning Methods Based on E-Learning in Pancasila Education Course (Survey Method Approach)
Authors: Aco Agus A. , Umar Firman , Sailan Manan , Amin Muhammad
Published: January 2024

Pancasila education is very important to shape students’ attitudes and thoughts, especially in today’s technological era. Pancasila education faces a number of major problems. These include inconsistent learning across different programs, a limited number of teachers, and an increasingly sharp trend of programs, which reduces student interest. The purpose of this research is to address these issues by incorporating an e-learning case study approach into the Pancasila Education course. The study involved 84 Pancasila and Citizenship Education students from the Pancasila Education Department. The results showed that e-learning case study learning can encourage students to study and discuss cases related to Pancasila values. Not only did they gain a better understanding of the material, but this method also improved their ability to think critically and work together. This research found that the Pancasila education curriculum in higher education should use a case-based learning approach. Therefore, it is expected that Pancasila education will become more interesting and useful for students. It will also ensure that students understand Pancasila values deeply and can be applied in daily life and in the digital era.
Keywords: case-based learning, higher education
The Sultanate of Palembang Based on Digital Storytelling As a Learning Media of Local History in Palembang
Authors: Suriadi Aan , Akhyar Muhammad , Agung S Leo
Published: January 2024

This study aimed to create a thrilling and interactive learning experience for students using digital media (including audio, videos, photographs, and animations) while analyzing the history of Palembang Sultanate. College students must be invited to participate in ancient adventures and experience the ecosystem of the Palembang Sultanate. This learning media may be designed with the aid of students and by using the currently available digital era. Story content can be developed using thrilling narratives, creative visuals, and animations that bring ancient events to life. Moreover, student interplay with the content can be endorsed via questions, sports, and demanding situations that are incorporated into the tale. The current study examines the learning media by testing it on a set of college students in Palembang and measures its effectiveness in raising interest, understanding, and appreciation of the history of the Palembang Sultanate. The results of the assessment could be used to enhance and optimize the knowledge of media so that it is extra effective and per the needs of college students. It is hoped that using virtual storytelling-based knowledge of media can grow students’ interest in gaining knowledge of neighborhood records, support their sense of cultural identification, and broaden their knowledge of the journey of the Palembang Sultanate. This study media can also be a beneficial reference supply for instructors in teaching neighborhood records in Palembang.
Keywords: Palembang Sultanate, digital storytelling, learning media, local history, Palembang