bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Spór wokół programu gospodarczego w rządzie Tadeusza Mazowieckiego
Authors: Dudek Antoni
Published: April 2020

The Dispute over the Economic Program in the Government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

The article analyzes the discussions and disputes at the end of 1989 in the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki over the final shape of the stabilisation programme of the economy. The function of foreign advisers as well as the process of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund have been analyzed. The course of the conflict between Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz was also reconstructed, as well as the role played by the Minister of Labor Jacek Kuroń in settling this dispute.
Perception of risk and prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria
Authors: Akinwaare Margaret Omowaleola , Ejimofor Nelly Oluchi , Ojewale Lucia Yetunde
Published: April 2020

Background/Aims

An increasing prevalence rate of gestational diabetes mellitus has been recorded in developing countries including Nigeria, yet it is largely a preventable condition. There is a lack of literature on the perception of risk and prevention of gestational diabetes among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria. The aim of this study was to determine perception of risk and knowledge of preventative measures among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria. This will inform health professionals on possible improvements to the education available on diabetes and preventive measures.

Methods

A descriptive survey was used to study 182 purposively selected pregnant women. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on participants' knowledge of diabetes and their perception of the risk of developing diabetes. The chi-squared test was used to test the association between knowledge of diabetes and perception of risk.

Results

The majority (56%) of participants had poor knowledge of gestational diabetes. The majority (55.5%) of respondents thought themselves to be at low risk of developing gestational diabetes. The majority (59.9%) of pregnant women also had poor knowledge of preventive measures against gestational diabetes. There was a significant association between knowledge of gestational diabetes and perception of increased risk (P<0.000). There was a significant association between education level and knowledge of preventive measures for gestational diabetes (P=0.030).

Conclusions

There is poor knowledge of diabetes and preventive measures against it among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria. Health professionals should improve women's knowledge of gestational diabetes, predisposing factors, risks and preventive measures against gestational diabetes by including education on this subject in the antenatal education provided.
ESTRATÉGIA DE ENSINO COM FOCO NA LINGUAGEM VISUAL EM CONTEXTO MULTICULTURAL
Authors: Souza Gabriela Barbosa
Published: April 2020

Este estudo objetiva evidenciar a importância do uso do desenho nodesenvolvimento do processo de escrita de alunos do 5º ano, em uma escolabásica indígena. Foi proposta uma estratégia pedagógica utilizando-se umasequência didática com o gênero textual conto. Os alunos, interagindo em grupos,se dedicaram à escrita da produção inicial e final do gênero textual. Depois da produção inicial, foram realizadas mediações pedagógicas com foco no uso do desenho e da linguagem oral, promovendo a representação gráfica dos episódios da narrativa. Foram analisados a estrutura da narrativa e o registro de aspectos da cultura local. Ao se tratar da estrutura textual, percebeu-se que as intervenções pedagógicas, realizadas com foco no uso das linguagens oral, visual e escrita, facilitaram a ampliação das competências dos alunos, no que se refere à organização dos elementos constituintes do conto. Quanto ao registro da cultura indígena, a maioria dos grupos conseguiu construir a segunda versão das narrativas com mais detalhes culturais, em comparação à primeira versão. Nota-se que, a partir do trabalho com o desenhar e com o diálogo, os alunos foram estimulados a produzir um texto mais coeso, assim como mais rico em aspectos da cultura local.
FUSÃO PROJETUAL, MOVIMENTO BETA E ANAMORFOSE, TÉCNICAS VISUAIS PARA O VÍDEO MAPPING
Authors: Espinoza Camilo
Published: April 2020

Vídeo mapping é uma técnica de animação tridimensional, composta por outras técnicas de ilusão ótica, desenvolvidas ao longo da História da Arte. O presente artigo busca recopilar as técnicas e conceitos fenomenológicos, vinculados ao vídeo mapping, identificados na literatura, e debater aspectos epistemológicos sobre o vídeo mapping como formato de vídeo, uma vez que segundo a recente tradição do formato há elementos que se repetem e formam um padrão e uma essência dovídeo mapping.
A IMPORTÂNCIA DO DESENHO NO CALCULO ESTRUTURAL PARA A ENGENHARIA CIVIL
Authors: Baruaem Samuel de Souza Silva
Published: April 2020

Construir significa antes de tudo planejar, é preciso um projeto paraposteriormente uma execução. Toda construção necessita de uma estruturasuporte e é nesse aspecto que surge a importância de se conhecer os elementosestruturais. No calculo estrutural de uma edificação é de grande importância àutilização do desenho que deve compor o projeto estrutural: planta de cargas elocação dos pilares, desenho das formas estruturais e desenho das armações ouferragens. Este trabalho teve como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica que deusubsídio à apresentação de conceitos, etapas do calculo de estruturas e aimportância do desenho no calculo estrutural para a Engenharia Civil, com oobjetivo de apresentar os conceitos das etapas do calculo de estruturasconvencionais: viga, pilar e laje. Assim, o artigo faz uma reflexão sobre aimportância do desenho técnico no calculo estrutural para a Engenharia Civil.
Turkey and its Immediate Arab Neighbors in the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Aoudé Ibrahim G.
Published: April 2020

This article analyzes regional events in the twenty-first century and identifies Turkey's relations with Arab countries, pointing out the serious deterioration that has occurred in those relations with its bordering Arab neighbors as well as Egypt and Lebanon. The article argues that Turkey's “imperatives of state,” as in the case of any other state actor, determine the foreign policy trajectory and consequently its regional and international relations. Turkey has chosen to ally itself with pro-Western regional states, namely Israel and Qatar, but not others, such as Egypt. Creating rivalry and animosity with bordering states is neither conducive to Turkey's long-term relations with those states nor to its ultimate political stability. Its NATO membership exacerbates animosity that would ultimately work against Turkey's regional influence. Consequently, Turkey's imperatives of state ironically stand in the way of achieving its regional ambitions.
Division of focal plane red–green–blue full-Stokes imaging polarimeter
Authors: Tu Xingzhou , McEldowney Scott , Zou Yang , Smith Matthew , Guido Christopher , Brock Neal , Miller Sawyer , Jiang Linan , Pau Stanley
Published: April 2020

We calibrate and test a division-of-focal-plane red–green–blue (RGB)
full-Stokes imaging polarimeter in a variety of indoor and outdoor
environments. The polarimeter, acting as a polarization camera,
utilizes a low dispersion microretarder array on top of a sensor with
Bayer filters and wire-grid linear polarizers. We also present the
design and fabrication of the microretarder array and the assembly of
the camera and validate the performance of the camera by taking
multiple RGB full-Stokes images and videos. Our camera has a small
form factor due to its single-sensor design and the unique capability
to measure the intensity, color, and polarization of an optical field
in a single shot.
Towards Monte Carlo simulation of X-ray phase contrast using GATE
Authors: Langer Max , Cen Zhenjie , Rit Simon , Létang Jean M.
Published: April 2020

We describe the first developments towards a Monte Carlo X-ray phase contrast imaging simulator for the medical imaging and radiotherapy simulation software GATE. Phase contrast imaging is an imaging modality taking advantage of the phase shift of X-rays. This modality produces images with a higher sensitivity than conventional, attenuation based imaging. As the first developments towards Monte Carlo phase contrast simulation, we implemented a Monte Carlo process for the refraction and total reflection of X-rays, as well as an analytical wave optics approach for generating Fresnel diffraction patterns. The implementation is validated against data acquired using a laboratory X-ray tomography system. The overall agreement between the simulations and the data is encouraging, which motivates further development of Monte Carlo based simulation of X-ray phase contrast imaging. These developments have been released in GATE version 8.2.
Polarization-independent angle-tolerant mid-infrared spectral resonance using amorphous germanium high contrast gratings for notch filtering application
Authors: Krishna A. S. Lal , Mere Viphretuo , Selvaraja Shankar Kumar , Raghunathan Varun
Published: April 2020

Spectral resonances in the mid-infrared region with polarization independence and angle tolerance are useful for filtering applications in infrared spectroscopy and imaging systems, when used with unpolarized light and across a wide field-of-view. Guided mode resonances are particularly attractive for this purpose due to the simple fabrication procedure to realize grating structures and the robust filter characteristics achievable through design. In this paper, the electromagnetic design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of polarization-independent, angle-tolerant mid-infrared spectral resonance using amorphous-germanium two-dimensional fully-etched high index contrast gratings on a calcium fluoride substrate is presented. The resonance, centered at 7.42 µm wavelength, exhibits polarization-independent, notch-type characteristics with minimal change across a 0 to 30° incidence angle. The angle tolerance of such dielectric high contrast grating filters is found to be intermediate between the highly angle sensitive dielectric partially etched grating structures and least angle sensitive metallic nano-aperture structures.
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry, Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott and Emalene A. Manuel (eds), Vera Manuel Kulilu Paŧki (2019)
Authors: Lee Soon Rachel K. M.
Published: April 2020

Review of: Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry, Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott and Emalene A. Manuel (eds), Vera Manuel Kulilu Paŧki (2019)

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 391 pp.,

ISBN 978-0-88755-836-8, p/bk, USD 24.95

ISBN 978-0-88755-574-9, epub, USD 25.00
Prevalence and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae in family-owned dairy herds in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Authors: Mesquita Alan Andrade , Da Costa Geraldo Marcio , Pinto Sandra Maria , Borges Jerry Carvalho , Custódio Dircéia Aparecida da Costa , Da Silva Delcio Bueno
Published: April 2020

Bovine mastitis is the most frequent disease in dairy herds worldwide. This disease causes greateconomic losses to producers, industry and consumers, since there are direct implications in publichealth due to the zoonotic potential of some agents involved in its etiology and the presence ofantimicrobial residues in milk. Considering the multifactorial aspect of the disease and the importanceof milk production in family farming, knowledge of the agents involved in its etiology and thesusceptibility profiles to antimicrobials is of paramount importance. In this study, the prevalence ofStaphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae in herds of family farms in the Campo dasVertentes region of Minas Gerais State, and the resistance of these pathogens to the antibiotics mostcommonly used in the treatment of mastitis in livestock dairy farmers were evaluated. The studyinvolved 200 properties, covering an area of approximately 12,564 km2. The prevalences ofpathogens were carried out through microbiological analyzes of milk samples from the bulk milk tank.The modified Baird-Parker Agar medium was used for the detection of S. aureus, and the modifiedEdwards Agar medium, enriched with 5% desfibrinated sheep blood was used for the detection of S.agalactiae. Disc diffusion technique was used to evaluate resistance to antibiotics. The results showedhigh prevalence of S. aureus pathogens (71.0%) and S. agalactiae (68.0%) in the farms studied withhigh levels of resistance and multidrug resistance. The results demonstrate that there are controlfailures measures to contagious mastitis in studied herds, pointing to the need for more effectivecontrol these pathogens and the more judicious use of antibiotics aiming to minimize the problem ofresistance to them.
Link of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Epstein-Barr Virus
Authors: Sugiyanto Sugiyanto , Aryati Lina , Kusumo Fajar Adi , Hardianti Mardiah Suci
Published: April 2020

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is a cancer that occurs in nasopharynx which is associated with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). Mutation agents in nasopharyngeal neoplasms occur because of EBV infection. Transformation of B-cells due to EBV causes hormone imbalance in lymphoid cells or nasopharyngeal epithelial tissue. Rates of EBV infection have been shown to be prognostic to NPC. The basic level of EBV DNA can be used for stratification prognosis, with higher titers showing greater disease severity and worse outcomes. With mathematical models, there is a correlation between the increase in Epstein-Barr Virus and the increase in Invasive Carcinoma Cells or increase in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cells.
Antioxidant Activities of the Leaf Extract and Fractions of Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott could be Attributed to The Abundance of Polyphenol Compounds
Authors: Erhirhie Earnest Oghenesuvwe , Ilodigwe Emmanuel Emeka , Ajaghaku Daniel Lotanna , Umeokoli Blessing Ogechukwu , Eze Peter Maduabuchi , Okoye Festus Basden Chiedu
Published: April 2020

Dryopteris filix mas (D filix-mas) is wildly used in ethnomedicine for the management of rheumatoid arthritis, wounds and other diseases. We investigated the anti-oxidant activities of its leaf extract, and chromatographic fractions. The ethanol leaf extract was partitioned into four fractions; n-hexane, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and water. Ferric reducing anti-oxidant power (FRAP), 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazil (DPPH) and nitric oxide (NO) scavenging in vitro assays were carried out on the extract and fractions at 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400 and 800 µg/mL. The most active fraction (ethyl acetate fraction) was further purified using chromatographic techniques to isolate its major compound whose structure was elucidated using ID nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry. The ethyl acetate fraction produced the highest free radical scavenging activity among the other fractions. The fraction (VLC-E7) from which the bioactive compound, quercetin-3-O-αL-rhamnopyranoside, was isolated had the best FRAP and DPPH scavenging activities with EC50 and IC50 values of 88.81 ± 3.41 and 26.87 ± 0.24 respectively more than the ethyl acetate fraction. This study revealed that the polyphenol flavonoid, quercetin-3-O-αL-rhamnopyranoside could be responsible for antioxidant activity of ethno-medicinal property of D filix-mas leaf.
A Mathematical Model of the Covid-19 Cases in Indonesia (Under and Without Lockdown Enforcement)
Authors: Sugiyanto Sugiyanto , Abrori Muchammad
Published: April 2020

COVID-19 stands for Corona (CO), Virus (VI), Disease (D) and year 2019 (19), which is COVID-19 first appeared in 2019. Mathematical model of covid deployment in Indonesia under and without lockdown case uses the SIRV model, such as Susceptible, Infected, Recovery, and Virus. The results of this model state that under lockdown the spread of COVID-19 could be stopped. If it were not under lockdown it can multiply 1,276 times higher over two months.
Walking, Haunting, and Affirmative Aesthetics: The Case of Women without Men
Authors: Ceuterick Maud
Published: April 2020

Walking and ‘haunting space’ have become means of political and aesthetic resistance to the invisibility or inhospitality that women face in the public sphere. Power imbalance in spatial habitation—‘power-geometry’ in Doreen Massey’s terms— negatively affects women, just as shown in an Iranian context in Shirin Neshat’s film Women without Men (2009) and through feminist social movements such as #mystealthyfreedom. As these women wilfully assert themselves against their exclusion from certain places, they challenge the binaries public/private, men/women, and mobility/stasis both politically and aesthetically. Ghost characters and haunting narratives disrupt the linearity between dead and alive, virtual and actual (following the works of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze respectively), and open up possibilities that challenge the status quo. Through a micro-analysis of Women without Men, this article reveals that shapes, structures and lights participate to dismantling gendered norms, expectations, and power-geometries. Both the magical realism of the film and an affirmative analytical approach invite to seeing beyond the negativity of narratives and unveilalternative conceptions of space, gender and power.
Treasuring languages: an introduction
Authors: Plutino Alessia , Borthwick Kate , Corradini Erika
Published: April 2020

This volume collects selected papers from the 9th annual conference in the Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University series (InnoConf), which was hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton on the 28th of June 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Treasuring languages: innovative and creative approaches in Higher Education (HE)’. The conference aimed to address the consistent decline in recent years in applications to study languages at UK universities by igniting discussions and seeking innovative and creative approaches to raising awareness about the value of learning languages.
Treasuring and preserving languages: how the inclusive design in MOOCs might help
Authors: Borthwick Kate
Published: April 2020

This paper reflects on the inclusive design features of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how these might support and encourage language learning. It considers what inclusivity in the context of MOOCs means, and some of the features of MOOCs which might be inherently inclusive and of value in supporting languages. It presents an example of inclusive design from a MOOC created at the University of Southampton: English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) for Academics, a professional development course for teachers. It shows how this course was particularly designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible, and indicates how this might be relevant in language learning contexts. It considers the challenges of creating inclusive open content, and how MOOC design encourages the treasuring and preserving of languages through global reach and low barriers to access.
Impaired Motor Recycling during Action Selection in Parkinson’s Disease
Authors: Fritsche Matthias , van der Wel Robrecht P. R. D. , Smit Robin , Bloem Bastiaan R. , Toni Ivan , Helmich Rick C.
Published: April 2020

Behavioral studies have shown that the human motor system recycles motor parameters of previous actions, such as movement amplitude, when programming new actions. Shifting motor plans toward a new action forms a particularly severe problem for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), a disorder that, in its early stage, is dominated by basal ganglia dysfunction. Here, we test whether this action selection deficit in Parkinson’s patients arises from an impaired ability to recycle motor parameters shared across subsequent actions. Parkinson’s patients off dopaminergic medication (n = 16) and matched healthy controls (n = 16) performed a task that involved moving a handheld dowel over an obstacle in the context of a sequence of aiming movements. Consistent with previous research, healthy participants continued making unnecessarily large hand movements after clearing the obstacle (defined as “hand path priming effect”), even after switching movements between hands. In contrast, Parkinson’s patients showed a reduced hand path priming effect, i.e., they performed biomechanically more efficient movements than controls, but only when switching movements between hands. This effect correlated with disease severity, such that patients with more severe motor symptoms had a smaller hand path priming effect. We propose that the basal ganglia mediate recycling of movement parameters across subsequent actions.
(Re)mapping the Yanggongju and the Camptown in Shin Sang-ok's Hellflower
Authors: Reizman Laura Ha
Published: April 2020

The Korean War (1950–53) changed the material and affective landscape of the Korean peninsula and ushered in a new era ruled by a military dictatorship dependent on US military power. With bases dotting the South Korean peninsula, former agricultural villages became camptowns that catered to the needs of American soldiers. This article focuses on the South Korean melodrama Chiokhwa (Hellflower, 1958), directed by Shin Sang-ok, which narrates a love triangle between two brothers and Sonya, a camptown prostitute or yanggongju. It examines the role of the postwar environment in constructing the spaces of the subject. Using the yanggongju figure as a technology of postwar memory, this work reevaluates the ecology of ruination left in the wake of the Korean War—as portrayed through Sonya, scenes of the city, the camptown, the base, and the surrounding fields and marshes—to explore the sense of loss and displacement of this period.
Is Culture a Problem for Social Psychology?
Authors: Kashima Yoshihisa
Published: April 2020

Culture has been regarded as an anathema to psychology as an empiricist research tradition. Despite the explosive growth of research on culture and psychology over the last decade of the 20th century and its importance in Asian social psychology, the ontological and epistemological tension between psychology as a science and psychology as a cultural/historical discipline introduced in the writings of the thinkers of the Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment still lingers on in the contemporary discourse of psychology. Clifford Geertz once ominously suggested that cultural psychology may have chewed more than it can. In this paper, the interpretive turn in social science as exemplified by writings of Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur is reviewed and discussed how it may impinge on the practice of Asian social psychology as an empirical science in methodological, epistemological, and ontological respects. It is argued here that the current practice of Asian social psychology is largely, though not entirely, free of the challenges mounted by these theorists, and that Asian social psychology has an advantage of not encumbered by this traditional tension due to a monist ontology that is prevalent in Asia.
Qualitative Inquiry between Scientistic Evidentialism, Ethical Subjectivism and the Free Market
Authors: Kvale Steinar
Published: April 2020

A critical analysis of the uses to which qualitative inquiry is put in marketing and management research is offered. The naive romantic belief that qualitative qualitative is inherently liberating and empowering is also criticized. The relationship between positivism, qualitative inquiry and the audit culture is analyzed.
Home as a Site of Theory
Authors: St. Pierre Elizabeth Adams
Published: April 2020

This paper explores the possibilities of doing and theorizing research in our home places rather than avoiding those sites. It considers how we may feel right at home in a place we've never been and, further, how we may inhabit many homes. Home becomes a site of theory, a site of identification, a site of rupture.
Experience and “I” in Autoethnography
Authors: Jackson Alecia Y. , Mazzei Lisa A.
Published: April 2020

The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the “researcher as subject” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000) imperative in authoethnography in order to confront the limits of a reliance on experience and a narrative voice in the genre. We use poststructural theories of experience and language (i.e., voice) to analyze the assumptions of each and how these constructs are employed in autoethnography. We argue that in an attempt to engage the crises of representation by transgressively blurring genres and writing against the disembodied voice of objectivism, autoethnographers run the risk of simply replacing one privileged center with another, making similarly narrow claims to truth, authority, and authenticity as objectivism: autoethnography has exchanged transcendency for transparency. To keep autoethnographic practices “vigilant,” as Spivak (1984–85) would have us do, we explore ways in which experience and the narrative “I” may be reconstituted in narrative research.
Decentering Voice in Qualitative Inquiry
Authors: St. Pierre Elizabeth A.
Published: April 2020

This paper deconstructs the concept voice, situating it in the same discursive formation as other concepts that organize conventional, interpretive qualitative inquiry, including presence, narrative, and experience. The author suggests that the overturning of an epistemology and methodology grounded in phonocentrism enables an inquiry that may no longer be recognized as “qualitative.”
The Evidence Business
Authors: Learmonth Mark
Published: April 2020

Business schools have attracted a growing number of more critical scholars, especially in the last few years. However, in ways that are analogous to other social sciences, the critical scholarship produced in business schools may be coming under threat from evidence-based practices — in this case, “Evidence-based Management” So this essay reflects on the implications of evidence-based management and suggests some ways in which its threats might be resisted.
Sharing in Community While Interviewing “Outlaws”
Authors: Cramer Renee Ann
Published: April 2020

This article examines the issue of gaining access while doing interpretive work, when the participants sought desire to remain hidden from public view, are not elites, nor outspoken social movement activists, and are not living in a geographically cohesive community. It grows from my research on homebirth midwifery, which has brought me into contact with a group of women who call themselves (some proudly, others sheepishly), “outlaws” and “underground.” Reciprocal relationships, self-reflexivity, community building and entering into friendships — though not conventional within my disciplinary training in political science — were instrumental in helping me find study participants who had a rational and determined interest to remain “under the radar” of scholars and police. My research methods also contribute to the creation of vibrant democratic communities, and in this way, mirror my ideological commitment to creating a more just society through community building.
“Mission Civilisatrice”
Authors: Koro-Ljungberg Mirka , Gemignani Marco , Chaplin Shane , Hayes Sharon , Hsieh Ivy Haoyin
Published: April 2020

In this paper, we take issue with the supposed superiority of specific epistemologies, methodologies, and research practices, as well as the neocolonialist practices of discovery, development and interpretation of evidence. Furthermore, we illustrate how the colonization of evidence is enacted through discourses of domination, subjectivication, and civilization. We maintain that these practices and discourses intend to establish more unified, narrow, and easily controlled fields of science. In reaction, we argue that the dismantling of systems of domination and hegemony may result from the scientists' commitment to cross the political and methodological boundaries of their practice. Evidence is not about a particular type of data or knowledge, but about how researchers consciously and responsibly operate in various epistemological, methodological, and empirical spaces. Thus, evidence cannot be defined; it can only be described within specific cultural and epistemological contexts.
Telling Tales on Neighbors
Authors: Ellis Carolyn
Published: April 2020

Focusing on the ethics of writing about others in ethnographic and autoethnographic tales, this article provides excerpts from stories about neighbors in a mountain community that show differences and conflicts about religion, gender, ethnicity, and race. The author provides a dialogic representation of the debates that occurred in her mind about the process and ethics of writing these stories. These introspective conversations reveal the vulnerable, muddy, and ambivalent process of making ethical decisions in qualitative research. These complex decisions require integrating our own moral positions with society's call for scholarship that contributes to social justice; readers' demands for truthful and multifaceted accounts; and research participants' and characters' desire for privacy, positive representation, and control over the stories of their lives. The author encourages open dialogue about the ethical quandaries experienced in doing qualitative research.
Writing like a Guy in Textville
Authors: Goodall H. L.
Published: April 2020

This narrative explores the idea of “narrative seduction.” Though an autoethnographic account the author shows how he learned to read and think about the masculine qualities of prose associated with “writing like a man” in the academy, and how this insight led him to locate his ethnographic voice in opposition to it. The narrative includes some stylistic observations about the author's own “seductive” prose and its relationship to intimate listening.
Performing to/Against Anti-Intellectual Discourses in Higher Education in the U.S.
Authors: Bhattacharya Kakali
Published: April 2020

In this paper the author critiques the ways in which anti-intellectual discourses discipline qualitative inquiry in higher education in the U.S. Written through multiple embodied performative narratives, the author presents de/colonizing possibilities informed by transnational feminism and critical pedagogy. By focusing on the historicity of particular moments, the author demonstrates how she works and plays with methodological and substantive implications to identify spaces beyond victim narrative that are complicit in and complicated with de/colonizing possibilities. Moreover, the author demonstrates her own de/colonizing moves and the ways in which she attempts to negotiate subversive moves and resist co-optation. The author offers methodological, substantive, and praxis-oriented suggestions to work with/against/at the boundaries of colonial and hegemonic discourses in higher education that discipline knowledge.
Identify This…
Authors: Bloom Leslie Rebecca , Reynolds Amanda , Amore Rosemary , Beaman Angela , Chantem Gatenipa Kate , Chapman Erin , Fitzpatrick Jan , Iñiguez Alicia , Mozak Alysa , Olson Danielle , Teshome Yalem , Vance Nicole
Published: April 2020

Readers theater productions are meaningful expressions of creative pedagogy in higher education. This article presents the script of a readers theater called Identify This… A Readers Theater of Women's Voices, which was researched, written, and produced by undergraduate and graduate students in a women's studies class called Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Section one of the article reproduces the script of Identify This that was based on life history interviews with a diverse selection of women to illustrate intersectional identities. Section two briefly describes the essential elements of the process we used to create and perform Identify This.
Quantitative Vessels
Authors: Watts Nicky S.
Published: April 2020

Quantitative data seems so clean and clear. On the face of it numbers give you facts that you cannot argue against. This paper explores my experiences as a fieldworker in the business of collecting for these numbers. It gives an account of my thoughts and feelings while undertaking a brief to act as a “vessel” an inanimate object, whose sole purpose is to collect the messy debris of human data and facilitate the processes of transforming them into a numerate form. Drawing on Fine's “working the hyphens” (Fine 1994) it challenges the notion of objectivity and the prospect of producing accurate quantitative data without some qualitative input. It questions the ethics of placing monetary constraints on the sharp end of research, and asks whether some data collection methods are as transparent as they purport to be. Finally it asks whether any funded body can live up to claims of neutrality.
Emancipatory Acts
Authors: Davis Amira Millicent
Published: April 2020

Emancipatory Acts is a performance piece that explores the experiences of racialized mothering, social memory and collective agency from my situatedness as a Black woman and mother in the United States. Emancipatory Acts suggests that the historic trauma inflicted upon Africa signifies the rapability and violability of her daughters whose reproductive labors were impressed into the service of Empire. Emancipatory Acts challenges the selectivity of social memory, the mythologizing of iconic figures and the literature of deviance that incarcerates Black female reproduction. It argues that, ultimately, Black women self-emancipate through remembering, reconstituting and redefining their existences through motherline stories that trace back to elder-women, through the ancestral world to the metaphysical Mother. Through movement, poetry, narrative, rhythm, and visual texts, this piece explores the material, socio-political, cultural and spiritual domains of Black woman-motherhood in the United States and seeks to resurrect traditions of hope, survival and self-actualized living.
“Messy Texts”, or the Unexplainable Performance
Authors: Denison Jim
Published: April 2020

Following global efforts to impose an orthodoxy on knowledge generation that is above all, evidence-based, a number of social science scholars have begun to question the very ground on which evidence has been given its cultural and canonical purchase (e.g., Denzin & Giardina, 2008). For coach educators, this debate raises a number of relevant questions. For example, how should evidence be represented when researching coaches' effectiveness? Or, how should evidence be used to help coaches identify and solve problems? Further, what implications does the evidence-based movement have for the development of ethical coaching practices? In this paper, I present two narratives that show how these questions played out in two coaching contexts—one in the field and one in the classroom. I conclude by problematising various apparatuses of knowledge and evidence present in sport that define the conditions of acceptable coach education scholarship (Foucault, 1980).
Verge of Collapse
Authors: Garoian Charles R.
Published: April 2020

In this article I will explore prosthesis as a metaphor of embodiment in art-based research to challenge the Utopian myth of wholeness and normality in art and the human body. I will discuss the historical origins of “prosthesis,” its use as a rhetorical augmentation of language and technological augmentation of amputated bodies, to suggest that the visual language of art disrupts and extends beyond the dialectical closure of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis through the divergent interconnectivity of prosthesis.
When “You” Become One of “Them”
Authors: Padilla-Goodman Allison
Published: April 2020

Negotiating and utilizing the researcher's stance and agenda is always an important, yet tricky, process. This process is even more complicated when researching within one's own community, especially when you and that community are working through a recent trauma. In this paper, I reveal some of my own anxieties in doing so as I am preparing to design my research project in post-Katrina New Orleans, my hometown.
PAR on the Couch
Authors: Benish-Weisman Maya , Torre María Elena
Published: April 2020

The discipline of psychology covers many fields under its professional umbrella (e.g., cognitive, social, clinical, neuropsychological). Too often discussions of research and theory are conducted in one field with almost no connection to any of the other fields. While this strategy creates specialization and expertise, it leaves little space for reevaluation or reexamination of basic assumptions inside a particular field. This paper wishes to challenge this tradition by creating a conversation in which participatory action research (PAR) is looked at from the perspective of clinical psychology.
Sans Souci and the Pedagogical Experience
Authors: Reinertsen Anne
Published: April 2020

This is about the pedagogical experience ahead of or beyond any pedagogical activity or action. It is therefore about perfectibility and/or dealing with something both theoretically and existentially. It is about inclusion and dialogue, but in an indirect manner, and school as a low threshold institution: heterogeneity, pluralism and multiculturalism as the primary characteristics of a modern school in a modern society. This makes school an institution important to life and knowledge. The need for a pedagogy created through a strong scientific orientation through practice or as I prefer; realism, urgent: Pedagogy framed by a good, relevant and strong understanding of context. This makes demands on teachers' competence. It demands more than possessing pedagogical scientific competence. A certain extent of double(d) competence and more is demanded both about what happens in science and about what happens in society and openness always through language and critical thinking or philosophy. This is about becoming teacher in/and for the fractured future and about what we might “give” (student) teachers in addition.
I Heard the Call, but He Wasn't Actually There
Authors: Ballard Robert L.
Published: April 2020

Beginning with the moment when he heard the call of the son he hopes to adopt without ever having actually seen, met, or heard him, the author traces the journey of the adoption process. This autoethnographic work explores ways of communicating “otherwise than being” (Levinas, 1998) in “metaphysical,” sacred, phenomenological encounters (Levinas, 1969) suggesting there is more to human relationships and communication than language or non-verbals and that the “more” is, for lack of a better term, a “spiritual” and sacred experience. This essay touches on communication ethics, interruption, spirit, infinity, the trace, and conscience in the realm of human interaction opening up the possibility for communication to connect us in unseen ways.
Science, Health, and Nationhood
Authors: Kuntz Aaron M.
Published: April 2020

In this article I invoke the productive potential of critical irritation to disrupt and intervene within contemporary discourses regarding educational research. Utilizing George Canguilhem's (1991) theorization of the normal and the pathological, I interrogate the discursive positioning of educational inquiry on two levels: the national context as seen in President Obama's 2009 address to the National Academy of the Sciences and the more local context as represented by language invoked by students in my qualitative inquiry classes. I end by suggesting that critical qualitative inquiry must necessarily run the risk of becoming pathological.
Sentimental Journey
Authors: Richardson Laurel
Published: April 2020

This autoethnography is an example of “immersion memoir,” a writing genre in which the writer actually revisits a past place/experience and discovers something new about herself/himself. In this piece, I go to Chicago's Senn High School's 50th reunion and visit my old neighborhoods, still class-divided, but now ethnically splintered. I relive—re-experience—the “Jewish/Gentile” divide that characterized my high-school life, and come to terms with the interplay of historical, cultural, and familial features of my growing-up. Discovering the intersections of my biography with history grants me a serenity that had eluded me.
Writing through the Memories
Authors: Poulos Christopher N.
Published: April 2020

This autoethnography is about writing through the sometimes difficult or traumatic memories that show up in my life from time to time. It is about narrative healing and transformation through the practice of autoethnographic writing.
Writing the Journey
Authors: Russell Larry E.
Published: April 2020

This reflection on writing is set in motion by an analogy between the images of a researcher at his desk and a man freefalling into space. I ruminate through my story of discovering autoethnography and consider how I had to negotiate my personal history, reluctant body, and sexual orientation in order to fully participate in the healing pilgrimage I chose to study. My encounter with the intensity of the gesture of suffering in a crucifix taught me about the emotional risk of this kind of work. Later, I learned how to immerse myself in the scene as I rewrote the narrative until I could finally realize in my life the humility of listening to my experience.
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA POP-UP BOOK BERMUATAN NILAI BUDAYA PESISIR PADA PEMBELAJARAN TEKS FABEL UNTUK PESERTA DIDIK SMP
Authors: Lestari Anggar Tri , Subyantoro Subyantoro , Syaifudin Ahmad
Published: April 2020

Abstrak

Teks fabel merupakan salah satu jenis teks yang banyak mengandung pesan moral bagi pembaca. Hampir setiap cerita fabel memiliki nilai-nilai yang dapat diterapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah pengembangan media pop-up book pada pembelajaran teks fabel untuk peserta didik SMP. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menghasilkan sebuah produk prototipe media pop-up book bermuatan nilai budaya pesisir pada pembelajaran teks fabel. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan desain penelitian research and development (R&D). Prototipe media berdasarkan struktur isi meliputi bagian awal media pop-up book, lembar kegiatan peserta didik, bagian berbentuk tiga dimensi yang terdiri atas pengantar, materi teks fabel, teks fabel, serta berdasarkan struktur penyajian meliputi bentuk, kebahasaan, penulisan, tampilan/visual, dan grafika. Hasil penilaian ahli memeroleh skor 71,23 dengan kategori baik.

Kata Kunci: fabel, pengembangan media pop-up book, nilai budaya pesisir.

Fable text is one type of text that contains many moral messages for readers. Almost every fable story has values ​​that can be applied in everyday life. The problem in this study is the development of pop-up book media in fable text learning for middle school students. The purpose of this study is to produce a pop-up book media prototype product containing coastal cultural values ​​in fable text learning. The design of the study uses Research and Development (R&D). Media prototypes based on content structure include the initial part of the pop-up book media, student activity sheets, three-dimensional sections consisting of introductory material, fable text material, fable text, and based on the presentation structure including form, language, writing, display/visual, and graphics. The results of the expert assessment obtained a score of 71.23 in the good category.
Keefektifan Model Quantum Teaching dengan Media Video Animasi dalam Ketrampilan Menulis Teks Cerita Pendek pada Siswa Kelas XI SMA Negeri 5 Purwokerto
Authors: Mukaromah Azizah , Doyin Mukh
Published: April 2020

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah 1) mendeskripsikan keefektifan model quantum teaching dengan media video animasi pada kelompok eksperimen dalam keterampilan menulis cerpen siswa kelas XI, 2) mendeskripsikan keefektifan model konvensional dengan media video animasi pada kelompok kontrol dalam keterampilan menulis cerpen siswa kelas XI. Desain penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu desain Nonequivalent Control Group dengan metode eksperimen semu. Sampel penelitian ini yaitu siswa kelas XI MIPA 4 dan siswa kelas XI MIPA 5 di SMA Negeri 5 Purwokerto. Data yang digunakan dalam peneliian ini yaitu pretest dan posttest masing-masing kelas. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa 1) model quantum teaching dengan media video animasi efektif digunakan dalam keterampilan menulis cerpen dengan sig. 0,000 <0,05, 2) model konvensional dengan media video animasi efektif digunakan dalam keterampilan menulis cerpen dengan sig. 0,097 >0,05. Media video animasi lebih efektif digunakan apabila bersamaan dengan model quantum teaching karena menunjukkan signifikansi 0,000 < 0,05 yang berarti Ha diterima, Ho ditolak terdapat perbedaan.

Kata kunci: keterampilan menulis, teks cerpen, model quantum teaching, media video animasi.

 

ABSTRACT

This study is aimed to 1) describe the effectiveness of quantum teaching model by using animation video as media to experiment group in the writing skill of creating short story for students grade XI, 2) to describe the effectiveness of conventional model by using animation video to control group in the writing skill of creating short story for students grade XI. The present study was categorized as quasi-experiment with Nonequivalent Control Group. The sample of the study was the students of grade XI MIPA 4 and students of grade XI MIPA 5 in SMA Negeri 5 Purwokerto. The data employed in the study was the score of pre-test and post-test of each class. The result showed that 1) Quantum teaching model by using animation video was effective to be used on writing short story  by sig. 0.000 <0.05, 2) Conventional teaching model by using animation video was effective on writing short story by sig. 0.097 >0.05, 2. Animation video as media is more effective when it is used along with quantum teaching model for it shows the significance of 0.000 < 0.05 which means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.

Keywords: writing skill, short story text, quantum teaching, animation video.
PENGEMBANGAN BUKU KOMIK KEBUDAYAAN SEBAGAI MEDIA MENGIDENTIFIKASI NILAI DAN ISI CERITA HIKAYAT
Authors: Aini Irmayanti Nur , Nuryatin Agus
Published: April 2020

Media merupakan perantara untuk membantu proses pembelajaran di kelas. Media pembelajaran berfungsi sebagai alat menyampaikan materi, mengatasi keterbatasan indera, ruang dan waktu, serta menambah motivasi belajar siswa. Buku komik dapat digunakan sebagai alternatif media pembelajaran di kelas. Hal ini disebabkan ilustrasi dalam komik dapat meningkatkan pemahaman mengenai peristiwa yang pernah  terjadi dan belum tentu dapat dipahami jika dibaca menggunakan buku teks biasa. Buku komik yang dikembangkan tidak hanya berfokus pada materi saja, tapi terdapat muatan nilai kebudayaan dalam masing-masing cerita. Sehingga diharapkan tujuan pendidikan yang didapatkan tidak hanya berupa pengetahuan saja tetapi pendidikan moral. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian pengembangan. Penelitian ini menggunakan langkah-langkah Borg and Gall yang direduksi menjadi lima tahapan, yaitu (1) potensi masalah, (2) pengumpulan informasi, (3) desain produk, (4) validasi desain, (5) revisi desain. Tahapan tersebut akhirnya dapat menghasilkan buku komik sebagai media mengidentifikasi nilai-nilai dan isi cerita hikayat untuk kelas X SMA.

Kata Kunci: buku komik, cerita hikayat, nilai kebudayaan

Abstrack: Media is used to help the learning process in the classroom. The learning media function as a means of conveying material, overcoming the limitations of sense, space and time, and increasing students motivation. Comic books can be used as an alternative media for learning in the classroom. Because illustration in comics can increase understanding of events that have occured and may not be understood if it was read using ordinary textbooks. The comics books developed are not only focused on the material, but loads of cultural values in each story. So it is hoped that  the educational goals got by students will not only knowledge but moral education. This research uses research and development method. This study uses Borg and Gall steps which are reduced to five stages, here are (1) potential problems, (2) collection of information, (3) product design, (4) design validation, (5) design revision. They are finally able to produce comic books as media to identify the values and contents of storybooks for 10 grade.

Keyword: comic books, storybooks, cultural value