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Adolescents and Texts: Scaffolding the English Canon with Linked Text Sets
Authors: Wold Linda , Elish-Piper Laurie
Published: March 2024

Adolescents and Texts focuses on adolescent literacy and the teaching of reading in high school and middle school. Pp. 88-91.
EJ in Focus: Shakespearean Ruminations and Innovations
Authors: LoMonico Michael
Published: March 2024

The guest editor and retired secondary English teacher draws on his 23 years of experience with the Folger Shakespeare Library to describe the articles he selected for this issue.
“The Lash of Film”: New Paradigms of Visuality in Teaching Shakespeare
Authors: Cabat Joshua H.
Published: March 2024

How do new technologies help students to yak and rip in English class? And why would you want them to?
Shakespeare, Our Digital Native
Authors: Shamburg Craighead Christopher Cari
Published: March 2024

Shakespeare meets new technologies. Students meet new ways to interpret literature.
Innovative Writing Instruction: Sophomore Boys and Poetry
Authors: Webb Pam
Published: March 2024

Innovative Writing Instruction publishes new approaches to the teaching of writing in high school and middle school.
From the Secondary Section: Reimagining English: The Seven Personae of the Future
Authors: Burke Jim
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
EJ Extra: Literary “Two Cows” Stories
Authors: Pauls Aaron
Published: March 2024

What if “two cow” stories were written by famous literary figures?
Speaking My Mind: If You Could Give Your Students Only One Thing, What Would It Be?
Authors: Maxwell Mark
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Using Picture Books to Expand Adolescents’ Imaginings of Themselves and Others
Authors: Taliaferro Cheryl
Published: March 2024

Taliaferro uses African books for children to help her students build cultural knowledge that informs their reading of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
The Things They [All] Carried: Discovering Theme through Imagined Stories of Votive Offerings
Authors: Krajeck Amy J.
Published: March 2024

Gifts left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial inspire Krajeck’s students to imagine the stories those artifacts tell.
Weaving Imagination into an Academic Framework: Attitudes, Assignments, and Assessments
Authors: Miller Jeanetta
Published: March 2024

The “Proteus Project” and Occasional Papers give Miller’s students the time and impetus to synthesize, innovate, and lead’ important skills that require careful assessment.
Mentoring Matters: Do I Stay or Do I Go?
Authors: Bickmore Steven T.
Published: March 2024

Mentoring Matters focuses on effective ways to support new English teachers and student teachers.
Research for the Classroom: On the Ground: Applying Current Research in a High School Classroom
Authors: Mayer Melanie
Published: March 2024

Research for the Classroom publishes mini-studies of ELA classroom practices and suggests ways in which high school and middle school English teachers may study the effectiveness of their pedagogy.
Teaching Dystopian Literature to a Consumer Class
Authors: Wilkinson Rachel
Published: March 2024

Wilkinson pairs Brave New World with a contemporary YA novel Feed, to engage students in an examination of consumption.
Teaching Difficult Dramatic Texts: A Collaborative Inquiry Using Dramaturgy
Authors: Pettengill Richard , Abt-Perkins Dawn , Buckley Shannon , Babcock Katherine
Published: March 2024

A high school college collaboration assigns students as the dramaturg for Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars.
Challenging Texts: “I Just Don’t See Myself Here” Challenging Conversations about LGBTQ Adolescent Literature
Authors: Crisp Thomas , Knezek Suzanne M.
Published: March 2024

Challenging Texts explores various ways of teaching literary theory to high school and middle school students.
Visualizing Worlds from Words on a Page
Authors: Parsons Linda T.
Published: March 2024

This study involved fourth grade children as co-researchers of their engaged, aesthetic reading experience. As members of the “Readers as Researchers Club,” they documented their engagement with text--how they create, enter, and sustain the story world. The children, who self-identified as avid readers, explored the activities central to their reading experience through memory work, metaphors created as part of a visual protocol, and group discussions. Visualization was critical in their construction of and participation in the world of the story. The children negotiated three dimensions of visualizing: picturing, watching, and seeing. The qualitative difference between dimensions is in the reader’s perceived location in the world of the story and the resultant visual perspective. The richness of the children’s findings highlights the importance of validating and encouraging aesthetic engagement with story in our classrooms.
Children’s Views on Literacy: Who Are You as a Writer?
Authors: Jensen Krista
Published: March 2024

In interviews, first graders share their views on who they are as writers.
Authoring Ourselves as Readers and Writers
Authors: Kaufmann Gloria
Published: March 2024

Third grade students were asked to create symbolic representations of themselves as readers and writers using the engagement of sketch to stretch.
Literacy on Our Minds: A Student-Inspired Symposium
Authors: Albers Peggy , Cowan Kay
Published: March 2024

In the context of an imagined symposium, this article addresses the literacy practices of elementary students ranging from first through sixth grade. The arguments the students make throughout the symposium, as well as the practices they relate, are drawn from arts-based literacy research conducted by the two authors.
Review of Research: Rereading the Signs: Multimodal Transformations in the Field of Literacy Education
Authors: Siegel Marjorie
Published: March 2024

Siegel looks at what research on literacy has to say about multimodal transformations and what questions we might pursue to understand the possibilities such transformations hold for children’s learning and lives.
“Do I have to say it?” Critical Encounters with Multicultural Children's Literature
Authors: DeNicolo Christina P. , Franquiz Maria E.
Published: March 2024

The article details the transformation of one literature discussion group reading the story, Felita, by Nicholosa Mohr. The research study documented the process of implementing literature discussion groups with multicultural children’s literature in a fourth grade English language arts classroom. Through a discussion of a critical incident in the story, the authors illustrate how multicultural literature can provide readers with opportunities to examine personal beliefs and societal realities. The article brings to light the powerful conversations that arise when students read multicultural children’s literature that resonates with them.
“There’s Two Sides to Every Story”: How Parents Negotiate Report Card Discourse
Authors: Tuten Jennifer
Published: March 2024

Although report cards may seem to be a clear-cut means of communication between teachers and parents, on closer examination they reveal a more complicated interaction. Parents of fourth-graders are interviewed about their children’s report cards to learn their understandings of the language and discuss expectations for their children in school. A Critical Discourse Analysis lens was used to highlight the ways parents interpret the report card and what it says about their child. This study provides teachers and teacher educators an opportunity to gain insight into the valuable perspectives of their education partners.
Mission to Mars: Using Drama to Make a More Inclusive Classroom for Literacy Learning
Authors: Edmiston Brian
Published: March 2024

This article demonstrates how drama can be used by classroom teachers to make classrooms more inclusive for the language and literacy learning of children with disability labels by positioning children as powerful and by creating situations where the children can form identities as competent in language and literacy events and practices. The article is grounded in the analysis of teaching and learning examples from a second-grade classroom comprised of two blind and two visually impaired children who are being prepared for inclusion in a general education classroom. The article provides a definition of drama along with an analysis of some of the competing assumptions about what it means to “include” children with “disabilities” in classrooms. Further, the author shows how teachers can use drama to disrupt power relations among children and provide more focus and support to some children in order to create spaces for all children to engage in language and literacy practices.
Focus on Policy: Beyond Convictions: Interrogating Culture, History, and Power in Inclusive Education
Authors: Artiles Alfredo J. , Kozleski Elizabeth B.
Published: March 2024

Inclusive education is a laudable concept and an ambitious reform movement that promises to enhance access, participation, and outcomes for all students. A core strategy to achieve this important agenda is build communities of practice governed by inclusive principles and values. The purpose of this article is to critique several key premises of inclusive education to address culture, history, and power issues. Specifically, we argue inclusive education cannot be achieved nor sustained if it ignores enduring legacies of racial oppression and stratification in U.S. society. We also challenge inclusive education’s assumptions about community membership, identification, and identity changes. Finally, we propose inclusive education must have moral, political, and intellectual dimensions to pursue a transformative agenda that does not merely compel students to assimilate into a mainstream society that is fraught with inequalities.
Critical Inquiry and Multiliteracies in a First Grade Classroom
Authors: Crafton Linda K. , Brennan Mary , Silvers Penny
Published: March 2024

This article demonstrates the potential for critical inquiry in twenty-first century primary classrooms. The authors (two university professors and a first grade teacher) present an overview of theory/practice relationships in Mary’s (teacher) multiethnic classroom with an emphasis on critical literacy, technology and multimodal learning. Readers are invited to journey with the authors as they come together in a community of practice with the express purpose of learning together to affect change in the classroom. One extended learning engagement, “Grandma Ruth,” illustrates how multiple literacies including digital, visual, and print literacies can be used to learn about and act upon a critical social issue.
Availability and Use of Informational Texts in Second-, Third-, and Fourth-Grade Classrooms
Authors: Jeong Jongseong , Gaffney Janet S. , Choi Jin-Oh
Published: March 2024

A sharp increase in the proportion of informational text with the corresponding expansion of cognitive demands and conceptual structures is a widely held explanation for the decline inreading achievement at the fourth-grade level. In this study, differences in the proportion of informational text across the second, third, and fourth grades were examined in order to determine if this perennial explanation for the fourth-grade slump was supported. Available print materials in 15 classrooms (5 per grade) and time spent with texts in written language activities were coded and analyzed by text type following Duke’s (2000) data-collection procedures. The proportion of informational text in classrooms was slightly higher in grade 2; in classroom environmental print it was highest in grade 3, followed by grade 4 and then grade 2; in classroom written language activities it showed a marked increase from grades 2 to 3, with that increase sustained in grade 4. Total instructional time with informational text was an average of 1 minute in grade 2 and 16 minutes in grades 3 and 4. The most common instructional activities with informational text were reading to complete a worksheet and round-robin reading.
Narrative Significations of Contemporary Black Girlhood
Authors: Brooks Wanda , Savage Lorraine , Waller Ellyn , Picot Iresha
Published: March 2024

This article examines how Black girlhood is constructed through fiction. The following research question guided this study: How do writers represent the heterogeneity of urban teenage girls in school-sanctioned African American young adult literature? Five popular narratives that exemplify the contemporary lives of urban African American female pre/teenage protagonists represent the data. Utilizing a Black feminist epistemological framework coupled with a complementary theory of adolescent identity development, we analyze the symbolic textual representations along with the protagonists’ decision making and situational depictions. We argue that the protagonists’ textual heterogeneity manifests across the texts through four enactments of identity: intellectual, physical, kinship, and sexual. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications for educators and researchers alike.
Of Literary Import: A Case of Cross-National Similarities in the Secondary English Curriculum in the United States and Canada
Authors: Skerrett Allison
Published: March 2024

This study compares and contrasts the selection and distribution of literary texts in the English programs of two diverse secondary schools, one in Massachusetts, USA, the other in Ontario, Canada. Analysis of the departments’ curriculum documents, state/provincial curriculum policies, and teacher interviews indicated that at both schools, Eurocentric and Anglo-centric literature dominated the curriculum of advanced courses. Analysis further demonstrated that texts of U.S. origin permeated the curriculum of advanced courses at both the U.S. and Canadian schools. A number of reasons for the similarities in the selection and distribution of literary texts across the two schools are considered, as well as the practical, cultural, and political implications of these curricular patterns. I argue in conclusion for a literature curriculum that reflects the historical and contemporary conditions of the transnational communities to which students belong. Educational stakeholders in local schools, policy makers, and teacher educators may contribute to the development and implementation of such a curriculum.
Navigating Tensions in the Process of Change: An English Educator’s Dilemma Management in the Revision and Implementation of a Diversity-Infused Methods Course
Authors: Gort Mileidis , Glenn Wendy
Published: March 2024

In response to growing concerns among faculty regarding the lack of attention to the bilingual student population in our pre-service teacher education program, the authors engaged in a shared self-study of the process of revising and implementing a secondary English methods course with explicit attention to the special needs of bilingual/bicultural learners. The paper describes how the second author, an English educator, with support from the first author, a mentor/colleague in bilingual education, identified and negotiated tensions and dilemmas that arose in a process of curricular transformation toward culturally and linguistically responsive teacher education practice. The study highlights several points of disjuncture, or critical turning points, experienced by the English educator and the ways in which she navigated the contradictions that resulted at these points of disjuncture through conversation with her mentor. Our documentation and articulation of this process may assist content area teacher educators in negotiating new knowledge and creating strategies for managing the dilemmas in practice that arise in the design and implementation of revised course curricula aimed at supporting culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
What ‘Hard Times’ Means: Mandated Curricula, Class-Privileged Assumptions, and the Lives of Poor Children
Authors: Dutro Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of third graders’ experiences with a unit from their district-mandated commercial reading curriculum in which the children made strong connections between a fictional account of a Depression-era farm family’s economic hardships and their own 21st century lives in a city with one of the highest childhood poverty rates in the United States. The language of the curriculum revealed class-privileged assumptions and an instrumental, competency-based approach to literacy that provided no official space for resonance between reader and text around the issue of poverty. Employing depth hermeneutics, a form of critical discourse analysis, I discuss analyses of three texts: the literature selection, the children’s written responses, and the teacher’s edition for that unit. Implications for research and practice include the importance of analyzing complex interactions between curriculum, policy, and the material realities of children’s lives; the need to hold commercial curricula accountable for recognizing and engaging the experiences of children living in poverty; and the academic and moral imperative to include the lived knowledge of students and the emotional dimensions of response in what counts as successful literacy engagement.
Developing Academic Identities: Persuasive Writing as a Tool to Strengthen Emergent Academic Identities
Authors: Carbone Paula M. , Orellana Marjorie Faulstich
Published: March 2024

This paper examines how writing samples produced by middle school students reveal their emerging academic identities through their rhetorical choices in writing. Analyses of two texts produced by each student revealed students’ implicit understandings of the requirements of academic voice. Through comparisons of each student’s texts, strategies for taking up academic voices become more transparent. We provide analytic tools with which to reframe how student essays that may not conform to expected conventions of academic writing might be read by teachers, and we suggest that instructional intervention to fill gaps in students’ written expression can facilitate students emergent academic identities.
Student Microtransformations in English Classrooms
Authors: Wolfe Paula
Published: March 2024

The objective of this paper is to use psychoanalytic theory to examine how attempts at critical teaching in two English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms related to changes in student subjectivity. The research critiques critical pedagogical assumptions regarding transformation and empowerment through a Lacanian perspective. More specifically, the persistent problem in critical pedagogy research “that it does not explore the effect of critical practices on student actions and beliefs” is examined. Based on a two-year study in ESL classrooms in the Southwestern U.S., this report uses case studies to outline types of changed comportments, or microtransformations, that students exhibited. Microtransformations are defined as instances in which small events triggershifts in student practice and consciousness in ways that counter critical pedagogical narratives but are consistent with Lacanian theoretical perspectives.
Teaching Visual Rhetoric in the First-Year Composition Classroom
Authors: Welch Kristen , Lee Nicholas , Shuman Dustin
Published: March 2024

First-year composition students engage with visual rhetoric via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment.
What about the “Google Effect”? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students
Authors: Corbett Patrick
Published: March 2024

This article presents a consideration of how students’ existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools.
Not Just a Matter of Fairness: Adjunct Faculty and Writing Programs in Two-Year Colleges
Authors: Klausman Jeffrey
Published: March 2024

A survey of and follow-up interviews with adjunct faculty working with a writing program administrator or a similar person or committee reveal that adjunct faculty working conditions create more than a sense of unfairness; rather, they create a very real energy that works against the movement necessary to build a writing program out of a collection of writing classes, to develop the sense of a “we” moving toward a common goal.
“The Expression of Wise Others”: Using Students’ Views of Academic Discourse to Talk about Social Justice
Authors: Kurtyka (New Voice) Faith
Published: March 2024

This article describes a process of building on students’ views about academic discourse to talk about issues of privilege, access, and the banking concept of education, thus providing a constructive and organic approach to making social justice issues relevant for students’ lives.
Next Steps in the Journey: Literacy and Neuroplasticity: Transforming Our Perspectives and Ourselves
Authors: Wilhelm Jeffrey D.
Published: March 2024

Wilhelm applies two of his core beliefs—that anyone can learn the next appropriate concept or process if they are provided with a meaningful situation and proper assistance, and that literacy and the kinds of texts we call literature provide a unique and powerful way of knowing and of transforming the self—to a look at how recent research on the brain can affect how we teach.
Student to Student: Mirrors and Windows
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

Here are student reviews of books that serve as “mirrors”—when we see ourselves in characters and familiar situations—and “windows”—when we look out into the unfamiliar and wonder. From classics to recent releases, every student will find a mirror or a window in these favorites.
Technology Toolkit: Making the Shift: YA Lit 2.0
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

After a quick walk through the short history of Internet use in education, Hayes opens a treasure chest of websites that offer online book clubs, wikis, book reviews, book trailers, podcasts, fan information and creativity, and author and publisher sites. With this wealth of resources, teachers can launch any number of classroom discussions, activities, and products.
Making the Most of Talk
Authors: Gilles Carol
Published: March 2024

Research supports what many teachers have long known: talk is a valuable tool for learning. But how can we incorporate talk and still keep students on task, thinking collectively and deeply? Gilles offers a solid theoretical foundation for incorporating talk throughout the curriculum, and then provides practical help for implementing it, with criteria for successful talk, ways around the most common challenges, and advice on making the process visible to students.
Creating Video Games in a Middle School Language Arts Classroom: A Narrative Account
Authors: Oldaker Adam
Published: March 2024

This article describes the author’s experience co-facilitating a project for which seventh-grade students designed and created original video games based on Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. The author provides an overview of recent literature on video game implementation in the classroom and explains how the project was designed and facilitated, how student engagement changed over time, and how learning outcomes (both expected and unexpected) were assessed. He also reveals how students were encouraged to reflect on the learning process through writing a narrative essay and completing a survey, and concludes with a call for more quantitative research on the topic of using game play for learning purposes.
Books for Young Adolescents: They Go Together—Teenagers, Technology, and Reading
Authors: Bird Shawn , Giles Vickey M.
Published: March 2024

Students read. What, why, and how may change with technology, but reading is here to stay. And so are the ups and downs that are part of teenage life. Books reviewed this month cover some common teenage issues, including death, divorce, illness, and changing relationships. Add to the spring mix a couple of books about baseball, and there’s something here for everyone!
Technology Toolkit: Author Visits: The Sky(pe)’s the Limit
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

The time has come when authors our students love or authors who write in genres our students love can come into our classrooms and discuss their books, describe their writing process, and answer students’ questions. Through these visits made possible by Skype, even the most reluctant of readers can be inspired to read and, just maybe, inspired to write.
حجرات نبوی ﷺ کی دینی اور دنیاوی اہمیت عصر حاضر کے تناظر میں
Authors:   PHD Scholar, MY University Islamabad, Sanaullah Hafiz Muhammad , Hashmi Dr. Najamuddin Kokab ,   MY University Islamabad
Published: March 2024

The personality of the Holy Prophet ﷺ is perfect and complete by following whom a person can be successful in this world and the hereafter. Today personal life has been shattered due to doubts and lack of trust. All those joys and happiness were present in these small houses which have almost disappeared in this advanced age. In these rooms of the Holy Prophetﷺ where life was full, the revelation of Allah was also revealed, and they performed the duty of divine worship and education of the Ummah. The reason for choosing this topic is that the domestic life of the Holy Prophet and his wives may be covered in simple words and to explain that the peace of life is not in the acquisition of material things but in the guidance of the Prophet ﷺ and the mothers of the believers.
غزوات النبیﷺسے متعلق اشکالات اور ان کے جوابات (ایک تحقیقی جائزہ)
Authors:   Muslim Youth University, Rubbani Muhammad Aslam
Published: March 2024

The creator of the universe blessed mankind with a great and noble personality like Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ. Since the early days of Islam, thousands of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars have written on the Prophet's biography. Disagreement arose from these scholars in describing the events and the history, which has caused many doubts and confusion in the human mind. For example, the age of Sayyida Ayesha and Sayyida Khadijah at the time of marriage, cancelation of relevation, the event of Miraj, as well as the events that happened in the wars, etc. However, in this paper, only the issues raised in relation to the defensive wars of the Holy Prophet and their possible answers will be examined.
تکریم ِانسانی اور مثلہ کی ممانعت:شرعی و قانونی جائزہ
Authors:   Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Adil Dr. Muhammad , Rahmani Dr. Ziaullah ,   International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Published: March 2024

Allah Ta'ala has made the "Man"- the highest creations among all creations and has given him such sanctity and dignity which is not limited to life but continues after death. That's why in Islamic Shari'ah, clear orders have been given regarding the respect of the human body and it has not only been forbidden to do any kind of harm to it, but it has also made it obligatory to bury it with dignity and respect. Even the desecration of the dead body of a criminal who has committed the worst crimes and who has fought on behalf of the enemy in war is prohibited. But regrettably, in the recent past, both in peace and in war, there have been continuous incidents of desecration of human corpses, so the need was felt that in the life of a person, while giving death penalty for a crime or killing and after death, a Shari'a and legal approach based on honoring and respecting the human body should be brought forward. Keeping this need in mind, these three aspects have been examined in this Article under review, especially by mentioning the Quranic verses, Ahadith and the syings of Fuqaha, the Shariah ruling has been explained. Along with this, the current legal status of "Musla" has also been discussed in terms of international humanitarian law and other international laws.
معطلاتِ عقل کی معاصر صورتوں کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ
Authors:   PHD Scholar, Riphah International University, Zahra Fatima Tuz , Ghayas Dr. Muhammad ,   Riphah International University Islamabad
Published: March 2024

Intellect is the best gift of Allah to man, and this is the blessing due to which a man has been distinguished from other creatures. That is why Allah has been emphasized in the Islamic Shari'ah for the protection and nourishment of the human intellect. The Shari'ah has prohibited all such things which can suspend and affect the intellect of man and affect the understanding of man and spoiling the ultimate end. For instance, following other religions, illusions and superstitions, anger, anxiety, suspicion and self-desires are prohibited. Similarly, the excessive use of the Internet also negatively impacts the human intellect. The Internet is just like an addiction and is embedding speedily in this modern age which is directly affecting the human ability of prudence and contemplation. Reduction in the wisdom causes the reduction of research skills of human beings. This article discusses those aspects that are directly or indirectly affecting human intellect and are suspending abilities and reducing the power of intellect. This research is conducted with descriptive and analytical methods.
An Analytical Study of Pakistani Law Regarding Assurance of Halal Production and Consumption
Authors:   NUML, Shah Dr. Noor Wali , Akhtar Dr. Nisar ,   Iqra University, Karachi
Published: March 2024

The term Halaal is booming day by day. The entire world is in competition to boost it in order to add in the economy of their countries. Pakistan is an Islamic country and has designed its constitution in the light of Shariah. Halaal laws were first adopted by Thailand a non-Islamic country and Malaysia. After the formation of PSQCA in 1996 Shariah Standards for slaughtering were drafted by government. Then they were reviewed in 2010. Since then more than ten halal standards are approved by NSC PSQCA. In 2015 a bill by the name “Pakistan Halaal Authority PHA 2015” was approved by National Assembly and Senate, and now it has started working for the last some years. In this paper first we will review local laws regarding food before introduction of the term Halaal in Pakistan and then will have a detail glance on Pakistani laws regarding Halaal food from 1996 till date. We will discuss the status of Halaal standards finalized by Halaal food technical and National committees PSQCA, the status of various government bodies working for Halaal, acts and laws approved by Government in the field of Halaal and then will give some recommendations to the government in the light of research.
An Islamic Response to Capitalism: A Study of Mawdūdī’s Writings on Islamic Economics
Authors:   HITEC University, Taxila Rab Nawaz, Razzaq Zain , Nawaz Rab ,   HITEC University Taxila
Published: March 2024

Sayyid Abul A‘lā Mawdūdī (1903-79) is recognized as one of the foremost scholars and religious revivalists of the twentieth century. Mawdūdī is widely famous for his views on Islamic economics as he is for his discourses on the Islamic state. He was not a professional economist but a reformer who proposed the foundations of an Islamic state economy in keeping with the central objective of Sharī‘ah rather than systemizing a scientific discipline. He mostly wrote on Islamic economics in the context of his discussion about dīn and the Islamic state. It may be said that in the Indian subcontinent, he played a leading role in developing the economic system of Islam as a distinct discipline. This paper aims to analyze the economy of the Islamic state vis-à-vis capitalism, employing Maududi's writings as primary sources. This paper is divided into three sections, the first section of which deals with Mawdūdī’s conception of capitalism. The second section of the paper examines Mawdūdī’s critique of capitalism to identify the flaws of the capitalist economy. The final section section involves identifying the principles of Islamic economics proposed by Mawdūdī as an alternative to capitalism.
Localized nodal solutions for semiclassical Choquard equations with critical growth
Authors: Zhang Bo , Zhang Wei
Published: March 2024

In this article, we study the existence of localized nodal solutions for semiclassical Choquard equation with critical growth $$ -\epsilon^2 \Delta v +V(x)v = \epsilon^{\alpha-N}\Big(\int_{R^N} \frac{|v(y)|^{2_\alpha^*}}{|x-y|^{\alpha}}\,dy\Big) |v|^{2_\alpha^*-2}v +\theta|v|^{q-2}v,\; x \in R^N, $$ where \(\theta>0\), \(N\geq 3\), \(0< \alpha<\min \{4,N-1\},\max\{2,2^*-1\}< q< 2 ^*\), \(2_\alpha^*= \frac{2N-\alpha}{N-2}\), \(V\) is a bounded function. By the perturbation method and the method of invariant sets of descending flow, we establish for small \(\epsilon\) the existence of a sequence of localized nodal solutions concentrating near a given local minimum point of the potential function \(V\).
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Syair Kristologi Tentang Ke-Allah-An Yesus Dalam Filipi 2:6-11
Authors: Rouw Julian Frank , Sugiono Sugiono
Published: March 2024

The Christology poem in the language of Philippians 2: 6-11 is one of the passages. This basic truth in the poetry of Christology states that the person and work of Jesus said that He truly was God in His essence (morphe) of pre-existence. Jesus God who became incarnate as a true human is the scheme of true humans. Recognition of Jesus' divinity over the universe as the basis of faith, that is, on the basis of death and change, Jesus has elevated and held a position full of humanity, both living and the dead (Rom. 14: 9). The acknowledgment of Jesus as God, because Jesus has essentially met and God of all gods and other gods, whether real or imaginary (1 Cor. 8: 5-6). This is what is confirmed in this poem of Christology. Syair Kristologi dalam Filipi 2:6-11 adalah salah satu perikop kunci ajaran mengenai ke-Allah-an Kristus.  Kebenaran dasar dalam Syair Kristologi ini yang menyatakan pribadi dan karya Yesus bahwa Dia adalah sungguh-sungguh Allah pada hakikat-Nya (morphe) pra-eksistensi-Nya.  Yesus Allah yang berinkarnasi menjadi manusia sejati (dalam bentuk schema) adalah manusia sejati.Pengakuan ke-Tuhan-an Yesus atas semesta sebagai pokok iman, yakni bahwa melalui kematian dan kebangkitan, Yesus telah diangkat dan menempati kedudukan yang penuh kekuasaan atas seluruh umat manusia, baik yang hidup dan yang mati (Rom. 14:9).  Pengakuan Yesus sebagai Tuhan, karena Yesus pada hakikatnya telah diangkat dan adalah Tuhan atas segala tuhan dan ilah lain, baik yang nyata atau hanya khayalan (1 Kor. 8:5-6).  Inilah yang ditegaskan dalam syair Kristologi ini.
Lingkungan Proses Pembelajaran Yesus
Authors: Karnawati K , Hosana H , Darmawan I Putu Ayub
Published: March 2024

The learning environment has an important role in the learning process. The environment can be a medium, a place, and also a direct part of the learning process. In the context of Christian education, Jesus is the figure of the Great Teacher who is an example and inspiration in carrying out learning, so the author conducted research to understand the learning environment of Jesus. The research approach used is literature research that seeks various information related to the teaching process of Jesus. The results of the study show that Jesus did His teaching in a political environment, related to geographical location, community environment, culture, and education. In carrying out the teaching process, Jesus used various environments effectively, so that the learning environment of Jesus is an environment that allows meaningful learning to occur. Lingkungan pembelajaran memiliki peranan penting dalam proses pembelajaran. Lingkungan dapat menjadi media, tempat, dan juga bagian langsung dari proses pembelajaran. Dalam konteks pendidikan Kristen, Yesus adalah sosok Guru Agung yang menjadi teladan dan inspirasi dalam melaksanakan pembelajaran, oleh sebab itu penulis melakukan penelitian untuk memahami lingkungan pembelajaran Yesus. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian studi pustaka yang mencari berbagai informasi terkait dengan pembelajaran yang Yesus jalankan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada Yesus melakukan pembelajaran di lingkungan politik, terkait dengan letak geografis, lingkungan masyarakat, kebudayaan, dan pendidikan. Dalam melaksanakan proses pembelajarannya, Yesus memanfaatkan berbagai lingkungan secara efektif, sehingga lingkungan proses pembelajaran Yesus adalah lingkungan yang memungkinkan terjadinya belajar bermakna.
Pedagogi, Andragogi, dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen
Authors: Gaol Nasib Tua Lumban
Published: March 2024

Learning approach is the important part of Christian Religious Education that needs to pay attention seriously in order to achieve the aim of learning. This study is purposed to explore the concept of pedagogy and andragogy, and then analyze them with Christian religios education. Pedagogy and andragogy approach are very necessary for educator in learning process. Therefore, the future study should be conducted for supporting the betterment practice of Christian education.
Perkawinan Beda Agama di Tengah-Tengah Masyarakat Plural Berdasarkan Kajian Teks 1 Korintus 7:12-16
Authors: Rusmanto Ayub , Anastasia Gracia , Angella Shearen
Published: March 2024

Interfaith marriage in the midst of a plural society has become a major influence in the life of Indonesian society. Indonesian society which is plural with different values, traditions, cultures, beliefs and religions makes it possible for interfaith marriages to occur. This paper will describe interfaith marriages in the midst of a plural society by examining the text of 1 Corinthians 7:12-16. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative approach. Analyze and explain specifically the social events that occur in a plural society. The results of this study found out the opinions of Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian religious leaders regarding interfaith marriages. In addition, after learning about interfaith marriages, the researcher examines the text of 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 as a basis for Christian theology on how to react to it, as well as the relevance of the text of 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 for today's Christians.AbstrakPerkawinan beda agama di tengah-tengah masyarakat plural menjadi sebuah pengaruh besar dalam kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia. Masyarakat Indonesia yang plural dengan nilai, tradisi, budaya, keyakinan dan agama yang berbeda-beda mengakibatkan perkawinan beda agama dimungkinkan terjadi. Tulisan ini akan menguraikan perkawinan beda agama di tengah-tengah masyarakat plural menelisik teks 1 Korintus 7:12-16. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dengan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Menganalisis dan menjelaskan secara spesifik peristiwa sosial yang terjadi di masyarakat plural. Hasil penelitian ini mengetahui pendapat para tokoh-tokoh agama Islam, Kristen, Katholik, Hindu, Budha dan Khonghucu tentang perkawinan beda agama. Selain itu, setelah mengetahui perkawinan beda agama, peneliti menelisik teks 1 Korintus 7:12-16 sabagai dasar teologi Kristen bagaimana menyikapinya , serta relevansinya teks 1 Korintus 7:12-16 bagi umat Kristen masa kini.
Penggembalaan Berdasarkan Yohanes 10:1-18 Serta Implikasinya Bagi Jemaat Masa Kini
Authors: Suleman Richard , Budiyana Hardi
Published: March 2024

Pastoral care plays an important role in the life of the church and congregation. Shepherding is part of Practical Theology and if its implementation is carried out in accordance with the Bible, it will produce congregations that have a good standard level of faith, so that with this good level of faith the congregation can have the ability to recover themselves when problems and struggles come. Using a descriptive qualitative method with a literature study approach, it can be concluded that congregants who have been shepherded and taught based on Jesus' teaching about the Good Shepherd will have faith and loyalty to their local church as a place to start discipleship, so that the congregation grows in their local church. So the true task of a shepherd is to be a teacher for his congregation. Teaching can be done by giving a living example or through biblical guidance that can grow the believing faith of the congregation, so that they can stand firm on their belief until the end, and they are found to remain faithful in Christ.AbstrakPastoral atau penggembalaan berperan penting di dalam kehidupan bergereja maupun berjemaat. Penggembalaan termasuk di dalam bagian dari Teologi Praktika dan jika pelaksanaannya dilakukan sesuai dengan Alkitab, maka akan menghasilkan jemaat yang memiliki standart level iman yang baik, sehingga dengan level iman yang baik ini warga jemaat dapat memiliki kemampuan pemulihan diri pada saat masalah dan pergumulan datang. Mengunakan metode kualitatif deskritif dengan pendekatan studi literature maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa warga jemaat yang telah digembalakan dan diajar berdasarkan pengajaran Yesus tentang Gembala yang Baik akan memiliki iman dan kesetiaan terhadap gereja lokalnya sebagai wadah dalam awal dimulaianya pemuridan, sehingga warga jemaat tersebut semaking bertumbuh di gereja lokalnya. Maka sejatinya tugas seorang gembala adalah menjadi pengajar bagi warga jemaatnya. Mengajar dapat dilakukan dengan memberikan teladan hidup maupun melalui bimbingan Alkitabiah yang dapat menumbuhkan iman percaya warga jemaat, sehingga mereka dapat berdiri teguh di atas kepercayaan mereka sampai akhir, dan mereka didapati tetap beriman di dalam Kristus.
The Implications for Inequality of Economic and Monetary Union
Authors: Maschke Andreas , Kerschbaumer Florentin
Published: March 2024

Versprechen von wirtschaftlicher Konvergenz und größerem materiellen Wohlstand haben den Prozess der wirtschaftlichen Integration Europas stets begleitet. Dessen Auswirkungen auf die Einkommensverteilung innerhalb von einzelnen Ländern haben in der akademischen Forschung jedoch bisher vergleichsweise wenig Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Dieser Artikel ergänzt die bestehende Literatur, indem er die Folgen der wirtschaftlichen Integration Europas auf nationale Einkommensverteilungen mittels der synthetischen Kontrollmethode (engl. "synthetic control method") schätzt. Diese Schätzmethode mildert gängige Bedenken in  ökonometrischen Paneldatenanalysen bezüglich der Identifikation von Effekten. Signifikante Effekte der Euroeinführung – der bisherige Höhepunkt der wirtschaftlichen Integration – werden aus einem Sample von acht Ländern für Deutschland und Spanien  erfunden. Von den verschiedenen Wirkungsmechanismen, die in der Literatur diskutiert werden, unterstützen diese Ergebnisse die Wachstumsregime-Perspektive.
Observation of the neoliberal influence of the leading countries of the West and the decline of such a concept, especially from the point of view of real business
Authors: Lutovac Jelena
Published: March 2024

The neoliberal interpretation in the terminological sense arose after the mention of the German economist Alexander Ristov in a meeting that took place in 1938 in Paris as part of a gathering of European intellectuals of that era. However, the rapid rise of this concept happened after the establishment of the power of Margaret Thatcher in Britain, essentially after 1979, and then the coming t o power of Ronald Reagan in 1981 in the USA. The application of the thesis of NEO-liberalism is linked to the formation of the economic policy that was mainly implemented by Great Britain and the USA. With the formation and adoption of Mont Pelerin's ideas, an international society of economic theorists was created, which evidently had an impact on economic theory and the formation of attitudes related to the liberal concept of influence on other countries. NEO-liberalism at the time of its emergence represented basically the ideas of the transnational bourgeoisie. However, the application of this concept has a drawback, which is manifested in the existence of insufficient connection with social structures within national societies.
Employee innovation in the context of strategic change implementation in the service sector
Authors: Erić-Nielsen Jelena , Vidosavljević Julija , Bošković Nikola
Published: March 2024

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine whether variables - managerial support for innovative ideas, work autonomy, rewards/reinforcements, time availability, organizational barriers, and specific parameters of organizational climate, have an impact on the organizational performance of employees in the service sector of the Republic of Serbia. Additionally, the study will investigate whether there are differences in the perceptions of employees depending on their positions within the organization. Methodology - The sample consists of 105 participants. The study applied reliability analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and the T-test for two independent samples. Findings - Results indicate that managerial support, work autonomy, time availability, organizational barriers, and specific parameters of organizational climate positively influence the organizational performance of employees in companies that have undergone an organizational change process, while rewards/reinforcements do not have an impact. Implications - Meetings should be held to outline how innovations will be assessed, given the significant impact of management support on organizational performance. To enhance employee performance, it is advisable to align the reward system with innovative behavior by offering additional rewards for successfully implemented innovations. Moreover, establishing an ― innovation budget‖ can provide employees with the necessary resources, thereby nurturing a culture of innovation within the organization.
A Case Study on Metaverse Fashion Marketing of Global Fashion Luxury Brand
Authors:   Art·Design Research Institute of Kyung-Hee University, Kim Dong Hyun , Lee Jin-Hwa
Published: March 2024

This study began with the development of the 4th Industrial Revolution technology and interest in metaverses. The purpose of the study is to find out marketing through the convergence of fashion luxury brands and metaverses. In addition, the purpose is to study new types of communication about metaverse marketing by studying marketing cases by brand.
Therefore, research was conducted through literature, previous studies, and press releases of domestic and foreign media. Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Dolce & Gabbana, who have released a number of virtual fashion products and are actively engaged in meta-bus marketing, were analyzed. As a result of the study, various brands that used traditional marketing and communication were conducting new ways of marketing.
Gucci has released Gucci Villa in Geppetto, various digital collections and games. Louis Vuitton has released a game commemorating the 200th anniversary of Louis Vuitton's birth. The story of the brand was naturally melted into the game, and NFT items were also released.
Burberry introduced Burberry's characters to the game and released NFT items. Dolce & Gabbana has released an NFT collection that can be used in the real world and in the meta-bus virtual reality. Based on these research results, fashion luxury brands were expanding their marketing and communication areas more diversely.
It can also be expected that new communication can be developed in the future.