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Antisemitic or Bordering on Antisemitic? Grey Areas in Romanian Fake News Discourses in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Martin Anca-Simina
Published: December 2021

Jews as a collective have long served as scapegoats for epidemics and pandemics, such as the Bubonic Plague and, according to some scholars, the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic. This practice reemerged in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when more and more fake news outlets in the US and Europe started publishing articles on a perceived linkage between Jewish communities and the novel coronavirus. What this article aims to achieve is to facilitate a dialogue between the observations on the phenomenon made by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the latest related EU reports, with a view to charting its beginnings in Romania in relation to other European countries and in an attempt to see whether Romania, like France and Germany, has witnessed the emergence of “grey area” discourses which are not fully covered by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
What’s new, Scooby Doo? Observații asupra dinamicii lexicului și a structurii gramaticale românești în subtitrarea desenelor animate
Authors: Borș Monica
Published: December 2021

An examination of the vocabulary and the current Romanian grammatical structure in the subtitling of recent cartoons identifies specific issues regarding grammatical, semantic, lexical creations, especially some extremely productive prefixes which circulate from one register of the language to another, according to the principle of communicating vessels. By analyzing the language on social networks and television channels, one can see how the same word, prefix or structure migrates from its specific area in that of everyday speech. One could transfer Pascal’s principle from physics into language sciences and re-define it as the pressure of language use transmitted from one area of the language to another, manifested in the whole mass of speakers and in all directions. A wrong word or an aberrant grammatical form approaches the verge of imposing itself when the pressure of language use pushes it into areas other than those of its specific use.
REVIEW: Mihaela Mancaș, Metafora afectivității în poezia românească
Authors: Sporiș Valerica
Published: December 2021

The book Metaphor of Affect in Romanian Poetry authored by Mihaela MANCAȘ was published in 2020 with Bucharest University Press – the second book in which the author has tackled the topic of affect in Romanian poetry. It comprises a corpus of affect transposed to metaphor which makes reference to Romanian poetry belonging to different periods, ranging from the pre-modern period, the classical one and the first half of the 20th century. Her research proves the long-lasting connection between language and literature, fields which are successfully brought together by literary stylistics.
Disclaimers
Authors: Ungurean Sorin
Published: December 2021

Disclaimers are practical expressions of either renunciation or repudiation of interest of self or other, whether they be drawn up as formal clauses or as improvisations (acceptable substitutes). We use them to regulate social interaction by making certain limitations known to parties. Diversity of situations reflects in diversity of expression and means of enforcing such limitations; therein lies disclaimers’ long and luxuriant history in virtually all cultures. Beyond their origin in the permanent need to amend things of practical relevance, their current popularity relates to the impetus of technological progress in communication and to the emerging forms of authorship and literacy.
Considerații lingvistice privind fitonimele românești care implică termenul „crăciun”
Authors: Drăgulescu Radu
Published: December 2021

Our paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistical analysis of Romanian names of plants which implicates the term Crăciun (Christmas), spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Coşeriu is not enough highlighted (given that the individual speaker became creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower. Botanical popular terminology has primarily a practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both by the ethimons to which they send back and by the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have.
Valeurs particulières des Clitiques Datifs En Français et en Roumain (exemples Empruntés Aux Proverbes)
Authors: Mihulecea Maria-Rodica
Published: December 2021

In this paper we want to make a contrastive presentation, in French and in Romanian, upon the way the unstressed pronominal forms having the function of complement in the Dative are used in proverbs. We also want to emphasize the similarities and the differences between the two languages – when we speak about the morpho-syntactic and the semantic levels. Such differences and similarities occur especially when it comes to the possession relationship. Most part of our study is dedicated to presenting some special values of the unstressed pronominal forms in the possessive Dative – including the variant of the Dative with an attributive function and the ethical Dative. We have done this research in order to establish to what extent the use of such constructions varies. We shall also emphasize the specific constructions in Romanian where the Dative has a neutral value and the analytic Dative is thought as a prepositional group in the colloquial language. In order to illustrate this phenomenon in a better way, we relied our study on a corpus of proverbs and adages which were selected from specialized collections and electronic versions of some dictionairies.
Impacto a la salud de la infodemia y de la mala información durante la pandemia por COVID-19
Authors: Alba-Leonel Adela , Papaqui-Alba Samantha , Omaña-Villagrán María Fernanda , Gracida-Morales Alejandra M´ónica
Published: December 2021

Introducción: Gran parte de los científicos están centrados en controlar la pandemia del COVID-19 desde el punto de vista biológico y muy pocos se han centrado a la pandemia de la infodemia.
Objetivo: Detectar la información falsa y como esta tiene un impacto en la salud
Metodología: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, el universo fueron las diferentes noticias o información publicada. Se busco información falsa a través de los diferentes medios de comunicación masiva durante los meses de julio y agosto de 2020 y se construyó una tabla con datos de: medio de comunicación, información falsa e impacto en la salud.
Resultados: En México se reportó un total de 28,000,000 de noticias y 12,000,000 videos. En la Ciudad de México se reportaron 17,700,000 noticias y 6,980, 000 videos de COVID-19. Falta sumar todo lo de las redes sociales. Como información falsa, se encontró el Uso de solución, tabletas de Dióxido de cloro, como medio alternativo, para prevenir, tratar el COVID-19 y su impacto en la salud: metahemoglobinemia; cambios en la actividad eléctrica del corazón; Insuficiencia hepática aguda.
 
Conclusiones:
La falsa información puede tener un impacto negativo en la salud como miedo, agresión y puede causar enfermedades e inclusive la muerte.
Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmenlerinin TÜBİTAK 4006 Proje Deneyimlerinden Yansımalar: Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri
Authors: TORUN Elif , AKPINAR Mehmet
Published: December 2021

Bu araştırmanın amacı, sosyal bilgiler öğretmenlerinin Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK) 4006 proje süreçlerine dair görüşlerini ve bu süreçte karşılaştıkları sorunları ve bu sorunlara önerdikleri çözümleri ortaya koymaktır. Çalışma nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden durum araştırması olarak yürütülmüştür. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu, amaçlı örneklemenin ölçüt ve kartopu örnekleme deseni ile belirlenmiştir. Bu bağlamda Türkiye’nin farklı illerinden 19’u erkek, 11’i kadın olmak üzere 30 sosyal bilgiler öğretmeni çalışma grubuna dahil edilmiştir. Mülakat tekniğinin kullanıldığı çalışmada veriler, telefon, internet ve yazılı form aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Çalışmadan elde edilen veriler içerik analizine tabi tutulmuştur. Öğretmenlerin sosyal bilimler alanlarındaki konu başlıklarını yetersiz bulmaları, maket -model yapımında yetersiz kalmaları, proje çalışmalarına çoğunlukla gönüllü katılmamaları, motivasyonlarının düşük olması ve öğrenci düzeyini yetersiz görmeleri çalışmanın sonuçlarındandır. Öğretmenlerin en çok dile getirdikleri çözüm önerisinin proje katılımının gönüllülük esasınca yapılması, proje konuları hakkında kendilerine rehberlik edebilecek kişilere ulaşabilme, proje çalışmaları hakkında bilgilendirici faaliyetlerin düzenlenmesidir. Öğretmenler sorun olarak sundukları durumlara ilişkin daha az çözüm önerisi getirmesi çalışmanın dikkat çeken sonuçlarındandır. TÜBİTAK 4006 proje konu başlıkları arasında sosyal bilim konularının artırılması, öğretmenleri projeye teşvik edici seminer ve çalışmaların yaygınlaştırılması ve proje çalışmalarının önemini vurgulayan faaliyetler düzenlenmesi önerilmektedir.
Yapay Zekâ Rekabeti Bağlamında Çin’in Ontolojik Güvenlik Algısı
Authors: ERDOĞDU Semih
Published: December 2021

Tarihsel olarak yaşadığı elim olaylar, Batı’nın tahayyülü ve geç modernleşme sürecinin de etkileri birlikte değerlendirildiğinde Çin’in kimlik algısında önemli izler bırakmıştır. Bu makale, ontolojik güvenlik arayışında olan Çin’in devlet rolüne odaklanmaktadır. Araştırmada ilk olarak, Çin’in, yapay zekâ teknolojisinde lider olma hedefine ulaşmak için gerçekleştirdiği eylemlerle, teknolojik üstünlük faktörüne dayalı olarak ABD’ye (Batı’ya) karşı ‘meydan okuyucu’ ve ‘büyük bir ticaret ulusu’ kimliğini güçlendirdiği ve başta ABD olmak üzere diğer devletlerle ilişki kurma rutinlerini geliştirerek ontolojik güvenlik arayışı davranışı sergilediği savunulmaktadır. Araştırmada ayrıca, Komünist Devrimle birlikte içeride başlatılan kalkınma hamlesi ve dışarıda yaşanan değişimleri takiben, Çin’in teknolojik gelişmeye dayanan büyük bir ticaret ulusu olarak nasıl ontolojik güvenlik arama çabasına giriştiği ortaya koyulmaktadır. Ontolojik güvenlik arayışı sürecini göstermek için yalnızca Çin’in yapay zekâ stratejisine odaklanılırken, Çin’in başka alanlardaki ontolojik güvenlik arayışlarını farklı şekillerde yönlendirdiği savlanmaktadır. Bu makalenin konusunu oluşturan küresel yapay zekâ rekabetinde Çin’in yerine ilişkin olarak, bu sürecin Çin’in başta ABD olmak üzere uluslararası ortamdaki diğer devletlere göre sahip olduğu konumu algılamasını güvence altına almak için hareket ettiği görülebilir.
Microwave-assisted Green Biosynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles from Eriobotrya Japonica Leaf Extract
Authors: SERDAR Gönül
Published: December 2021

In this study, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were synthesized following a bioreductive route using extract of Eriobotrya Japonica leaf. For the synthesis of gold nanoparticles, firstly, leaves of Eriobotrya Japonica were collected from the Eastern Black Sea region (Akçaabat-TRABZON) in Turkey and dried. Secondly, 20 g of dried sample was shaken in 400 mL of distilled water for 180 min. and extracted in a laboratoary microwave device at 4 minutes, 600 W and left cooling. Lastly, different volume of leaf extract was mixed with aqueous solution of HAuCl4.3H2O (0,5 mM-2 mM ) and then mixture was heated at the power of 90 W for various time intervals by a household microwave. The synthesis reaction of gold nanoparticles was monitored using by a Shimadzu UVP-1240 spectrophotometer and light-yellow color of the solution changed to purple color, indicating the formation of AuNPs.
A Computational Model of Maxwell’s Distribution for Undergraduates
Authors: Peqini Klaudio , Osmanaj Rudina
Published: December 2021

In this paper we employ a numerical approach to perform simulations of Maxwell distribution for several dimensionalities, based on the Central Limit Theorem. We show that by increasing the number of molecules of the gas N, the simulated distributions tend toward the respective theoretical distributions. Also, we observed that by increasing the model temperature n, the distribution shifted toward higher speeds, in agreement with theoretical results. The numerical simulations provide a physical definition of the concept of temperature. The codes used to perform the simulations are quite easy to construct and implement, while the results strikingly satisfy theoretical expectations. Furthermore, the actual approach makes it possible to skip the mathematical details and explain the distribution by just following the algorithm of simulations. We recommend such approach as a demonstrative tool that can be shown in a lecture class thus enriching the teaching quality and improving students’ understanding.
SCIENTIFIC INTEGRATION OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOLS
Authors: Amiruddin Moch Fahmi , Dian
Published: December 2021

This study aims to find out how the concept of integrating religious knowledge with general science is at the Nurul Huda Yaspin Islamic Boarding School and how to apply the integration of religious knowledge and general science at the Nurul Huda Yaspin Islamic Boarding School. This type of research is case study research or field research, where researchers go directly to the field to obtain data and information on the research carried out. Meanwhile, this research approach uses a descriptive approach. The results of the study show that the concept of integrating religious knowledge and general science at Nurul Huda is inseparable from the basic values (qiyam HAM) that are embedded in every step and educational activity carried out in it. Nurul Huda Yaspin cults himself as a boarding school of etiquette, etiquette is an acronym for Takwa, Tafaqquh, Khidmah and rahmatan lil alamin. Nurul Huda's three basic values serve to underlie, integrate and direct his orientation. The application of the curriculum at Nurul Huda does not distinguish between religious knowledge and general science. In terms of concepts, religious knowledge and general science are both taught in recitations at Nurul Huda, such as Sufism, logic or mantiq lectures, philosophy, interpretation studies, falaq science and so on, all organized in curriculum units according to each study program. which is in Nurul Huda.
NILAI-NILAI PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DALAM MODEL PEMBELAJARAN BUDAYA
Authors: Bayu Yunus
Published: December 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui nilai budaya Bugis dalam pendidikan Islam di perguruan tinggi Tana Luwu tepatnya di Kota Palopo yaitu Universitas Andi Djemma, IAIN Palopo. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnopedagogi. Membangun kerukunan umat beragama dalam pendidikan nilai kearifan lokal masih sangat relevan untuk diterapkan oleh seluruh mahasiswa. Hal ini, tercermin dari sikap mahasiswa melalui disiplin dan tanggung jawab. Kedisiplinan dan tanggung jawab mahasiswa untuk menjaga harga diri, martabat. Cerminan dari Pluralitas yang berfungsi sebagai ruh mahasiswa dalam proses pendidikan nilai-nilai. Konsep pembelajaran budaya dalam pendidikan agama Islam memberikan nilai-nilai penghormatan seperti Sipakatau (saling memberi informasi), Sipakalebbi (Saling Menghormati), Sipakaingge (Saling Mengingatkan), Sipakatou (Saling Berbagi). Menghargai perdamaian, senang membantu sesama, apalagi jika mereka sesama manusia. Sehingga pendidikan budaya Bugis sejalan dengan nilai-nilai Pluralitas yang tumbuh dan berkembang di Indonesia
INOVASI MANAJEMEN PENDIDIKAN DI MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH AR ROSIDIYAH BANDUNG
Authors: Husni Hamim Ahmad , Abdillah Hammam Fauzi Ibnu , Yuliati Zakiah Qiqi , Erihadiana Mohammad , Munawar Asep
Published: December 2021

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi bahwa derasnya arus informasi, hiburan dan media sosial Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui inovasi manajemen pendidikan di MTs Ar Rosidiyyah  Bandung. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian lapangan (field work research) yang meliputi aspek perencanaan, implementasi dan evaluasi. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah kepala madrasah, waka kurikulum, waka sarpras dan beberapa guru. Dalam melakukan pengumpulan data, penulis menggunakan tiga macam teknik, yaitu observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Selanjutnya penulis menganalisis dengan menggunakan model analisis interaktif Milles and Huberman, dengan alur reduksi data, penyusunan data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penilitian menunjukkan bahwa : Inovasi manajemen Pendidikan di MTs Ar Rosidiyyah  Bandung dilakukan dengan mengacu pada tiga tahapan, yaitu: Pertama, Inovasi pada tahap perencanaan yang di dalamnya mencakup proses goal, identifikasi masalah, penunjang dan penghambat, alternatif pemecahan masalah, alternatif pengambilan keputusan, dan evaluasi. Kedua, inovasi pada tahap pelaksanaan yang di dalamnya mencakup proses sosialisasi, poling, dan deseminasi. Ketiga, inovasi pada tahap evaluasi yang di dalamnya mencakup proses identifikasi masalah, membuat skala prioritas masalah, analisis masalah, solusi alternative, dan rencana tindak lanjut
MANAJEMEN PENINGKATAN MUTU PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS BERBASIS PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PBL) DI SMA NEGERI 1 CICALENGKA
Authors: Diningsih Nining , Suminar Tati , Yoseptr Ricky , Sulastin Rita
Published: December 2021

Yang melatarbelakangi penelitian  ini adalah Masalah proses pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris dalam meningkatkan mutu pembelajaram ( Studi  Kasus Tentang Speaking di SMA Negeri 1 Cicalengka dan SMA Negeri Cikancung   Kabupaten Bandung ) proses pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris selama ini cenderung terpusat pada guru, umumnya guru menyampaikan pembelajaran di kelas dengan metode konvensional dan berdasarkan hasil wawancara dengan guru Bahasa Inggris aspek Speaking Skill tidak mencapai Kriteria Ketuntasan sehingga berpengaruh terhadap kualitas pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris tidak terlepas dari peran manajemen pembelajaran dimana guru merencanakan, melaksanakan dan mengevaluasi berbagai tindakan yang dilakukan dalam melaksanakan kegiatan pembelajaran termasuk memanfaatkan berbagai media dan metode pembelajaran yang memudahkan siswa dalam mencapai tujuan pembelajaran terutama belajar Bahasa Inggris pada Aspek Speaking. Untuk mengatasi hal tersebut yang dapat dilakukan guru adalah menyiapkan pembelajaran dengan menerapkan manajemen pembelajaran. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tentang perencanaan pembelajaran menggunakan metode Project Learning dalam meningkatkan aspek speaking merekomendasikan bahwa metode Project Learning dapat menjadi satu dari metode pembelajaran pilihan dan menerapkannya untuk meningkatkan berbicara Bahasa Inggris siswa.
PENERAPAN PLATFORM GOOGLE CLASSROOM DAN EDPUZZLE UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMANDIRIAN BELAJAR DAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN JARAK JAUH PADA MATERI SEJARAH ISLAM
Authors: Syarif Hidayat Evi , Umam  Bisri M. Rais , Basri Hasan , A. Heris Hermawan
Published: December 2021

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakngi oleh rendahnya kemandirian belajar dan hasil belajar peserta didik dalam aktivitas belajar mengajar Pendidikan Agama Islam pada pembelajaran jarak jauh. Berdasarkan studi pendahuluan, diketahui masih ada sekitar 40 persen dari rata-rata tiap kelas, peserta didik yang tidak berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Pada penilaian akhir semester, diketahui masih ada 50,43 persen peserta didik yang memperoleh nilai dibawah kriteria ketuntasan minimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan platform google classroom dan edpuzzle pada mata pelajaran PAI pada pembelajaran jarak jauh. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif jenis studi eksperimen dengan bentuk kuasi eksperimen model nonequivalent pre-test and post-test control group design. Populasi penelitian ialah kelas XI IPA SMAN 4 Sukabumi dan sampelnya ialah kelas XI IPA 5 kelompok eksperimen dan kelas XI IPA 4 kelompok kontrol. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan berupa angket sebanyak 45 butir soal, tes sebanyak 25 item soal, observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan uji statistik.  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan penerapan platform google classroom dan edpuzzle dapat terlaksana dengan baik sesuai dengan tahapan perencanaan pembelajaran. Kemandirian belajar siswa dengan penerapan platform google classroom pada kategori baik dengan rata-rata skor pretest  59,25 dan rata-rata skor posttest 79,20 yang mengalami peningkatan sebesar 20,05 persen, sedangkan skor kemandirian kelas dengan menggunakan metode ceramah pada kategori cukup dengan rata-rata skor pretest 57,55 dan skor posttest 67,85, mengalami peningkatan sebesar 10,29 persen. Hasil belajar kognitif siswa dengan penerapan platform google classroom dan edpuzzle pada kategori sangat baik dengan rata-rata nilai pretest 77,03 dan rata-rata nilai posttest sebesar 84,67, mengalami peningkatan sebesar 7,64 persen, sedangkan hasil belajar kelas dengan menggunakan metode ceramah pada kategori baik, dengan rata-rata pretest 77,43 dan rata-rata nilai posttest sebesar 79,51 dan mengalami peningkatan sebesar 2,08 persen
MODEL DAN STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN
Authors: Indriawati  , Buchori Imam , Acip  , Sirrulhaq Sekarmaji , Solihutaufa Encep
Published: December 2021

Upaya peningkatan kualitas pembelajaran diperlukan adanya perubahan-perubahan positif, untuk dapat mengelola pembelajaran secara efektif dan efisien seorang pendidik membutuhkan pengetahuan tentang model dan strategi pembelajaran. Oleh karena itu, dalam reformasi pembelajaran yang seharusnya dilakukan adalah bagaimana merubah pola kegiatan pembelajaran yang dapat mewujudkan suasana belajar dan proses pembelajaran terasa lebih menarik. Strategi pembelajaran yang berkualitas merupakan salah satu bentuk usaha untuk merubah pola model pembelajaran yang selama ini digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Keseluruhan kegiatan pendidik dan peserta didik dalam mewujudkan proses pembelajaran yang efektif terbentuk dalam paduan antara tahap-tahap kegiatan, metode, media pembelajaran serta waktu yang digunakan dalam kegiatan pembelajaran terangkum dalam strategi pembelajaran. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui model dan strategi dalam proses pembelajaran. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian kepustakaan. Sumber data penelitian ini berasal dari buku, jurnal dan artikel ilmiah terkait model dan strategi pembelajaran. hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa strategi pembelajaran yang tepat akan membina peserta didik untuk lebih kreatif dan mandiri. Pemilihan model dan strategi pembelajaran yang tepat akan dapat membina peserta didik ntuk dapat berpikir kreatif, mandiri dan adaptif terhadap berbagai situasi yang terjadi dang mungkin akan terjadi. Pendidik memikirkan dan mempersiapkan model dan strategi pembelajaran yang tepat agar peserta didik mampu menerima dan memproses informasi yang disampaikan oleh pendidik.
The empowerment of Latin American women in politics
Authors: Moscoso Paucarchuco Ketty Marilú , Sandoval Trigos Jesus Cesar , Beraún Espíritu Manuel Michael , Ordóñez Gómez Jhoys Leylaura , Romero Girón Hilario
Published: December 2021

The book untitle: “The empowerment of Latin American women in politics” is integrated by three chapters. The first one covers elements related to female empowerment in politics, especifically the topics related to feminist theory and political representation. The second one deals with empowerment and political participation of women in Latin America; it highlights the status of women and their political participation as well as the influencing factors in women’s political participation. The third one transactions with neutrosophical evaluation of the political participation of women candidates and elected officials of the provincial municipality of Huamanga.
Designs for research of the High Dilutions in animals models: an update
Authors: Alecu Adrian , Brezeanu Romeo , Marcus Gabriela , Cojocaru Adriana , Alecu Mariana
Published: December 2021

This article discusses the series of tests on animal experimental models carried out by our group to evaluate the effect of homeopathic preparations selected according to traditional criteria of pathogenetic similarity. Our overall experience indicates that it is not difficult to carry out experimental studies assaying homeopathic medicines in randomized placebo-controlled tests returning statistically analyzable results. The basic requirement for this purpose is to select validated experimental models. The simplest and most reliable ones are the ones arising from common daily clinical practice or those taken from classical pharmacological studies modified as to fit the goals of a homeopathic assay. By proceeding in this way it will be possible to build a sound body of evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions.
Germination and vigor of lettuce seeds (Lactuca sativa L.) pelleted with homeopathic preparations Alumina and Calcarea carbonica subjected to toxic levels of aluminum.
Authors: Bonfim Filipe Pereira Giardini , Rodrigues das Dores Rosana GonÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â§alves , Martins Ernane Ronie , Casali Vicente Wagner Dias
Published: December 2021

Background: aluminum toxicity is the most important factor limiting the growth of plants in acid soils, whereas current treatments are unfeasible. For this reason, alternatives are sought for, among which homeopathic treatment. Aims: this study aimed at evaluating the influence of homeopathic preparations Alumina 6cH, Alumina 12cH, Calcarea carbonica 6cH and Calcarea carbonica 12cH on the germination and vigor of lettuce seeds subjected to toxic levels of aluminum in paper-solution. At the same time, it was sought to develop a new procedure to apply homeopathic preparations in plants (pelleting). Methods: the statistical design was entirely randomized (CRD) with 6 treatments and 4 repetitions. Treatments included: 1) pelleted seeds/talc + Alum 6 cH; 2) pelleted seeds/talc + Alum 12cH; 3) pelleted seed/talc + Calc 6cH; 4) pelleted seeds/talc + Calc 12cH; 5) pelleted seeds/talc + distilled water; 6) non pelleted seeds (control). Variables evaluated were: germination percentage (GP), germination speed index (GSI) and radicle length (RL). Results: there was significant difference in GSI and RL ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ variables that reflect the vigor of seeds - between the samples treated with homeopathic preparations and the controls Conclusions: homeopathic preparations Alumina 6cH and 12cH and Calcarea carbonica 6cH and 12cH had significant effect on the vigor of lettuce seeds subjected to stress conditions.
The poetry of survival: The shifting landscape of poetry in the Australian publishing industry
Authors: Fox Candice J
Published: December 2021

It has been repeatedly claimed – even before the global financial crisis – that literary publishing is entering a shaky chapter. Opportunities for established writers are narrowing, and opportunities for new writers are scarce. This article explores the state of poetry in the Australian publishing industry. It argues that far from being a spent force in publishing, poetry is surviving better than many writers imagine. It argues that reinvention and adaptation are crucial if poetry is to use advances in technology to survive.
Writing white, writing black, and events at Canoe Rivulet
Authors: McKinnon Catherine
Published: December 2021

How a community imagines the past contributes to the shaping of its present culture; influences that community’s vision for the future. Yet much about the past can be difficult to access, as it can be lost or hidden. Therefore, when retelling first contact stories, especially when the documentary information is limited to a colonial perspective, how might a writer approach fictionalizing historical Indigenous figures? ‘Will Martin’ (2011), a tale written as part of my practice-led PhD, is a fictional retelling of the eighteenth century sailing trip,taken along the New South Wales coast, by explorers Matthew Flinders, George Bass, and Bass’s servant, William Martin. This paper traces my attempts to discover how to approach fictionalizing the historical Indigenous figures that Flinders met. Examining how some non-Indigenous writers have appropriated Indigenous culture and investigating what some writers have said about non-Indigenous writers creating Indigenous characters, provided me with some guidelines. Interviews with Indigenous elders, and other members of the Illawarra community, helped me imagine the gaps in knowledge. In the fictional retelling, using unreliable narration to suggest there may be multiple stories around a single historical event, some of which we may never get to hear, became a useful narrative strategy.
The poet-paradox: A model of the psychological moment of composition in lyric poetry
Authors: Caldwell Grant , Brophy Kevin
Published: December 2021

This paper attempts to develop a psychological model of the act of composition for a lyric poet. From reviewing a range of descriptions of the experience of poetic composition and creative states of mind, we address a major paradox for this kind of creative expression: on the one hand the lyric voice is a person alone, while on the other such writing seems to demand a turning-away from the personal ego. This paper takes its impulse in part from TS Eliot’s dictum that the best poetry must be impersonal, and extends this to the question of how such a position for the poet might be described psychologically. We suggest that a mental state somewhere between intention and the unconscious, a state of ‘unintention’, can be cultivated and in fact has been cultivated by lyric poets. We explore some aspects of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to further detail both the paradox at the core of lyric poetry and the possible mental positioning of the poet. We take a poem by Frank O’Hara to show how the balancing-act of this state of mind is expressed in this lyric poem, especially in its opening stanza.
Forewarned is forearmed: The brave new world of (Creative) Writing online
Authors: Andrew Martin
Published: December 2021

Online Writing courses, including Creative Writing programs, have been delivered in Australia for more than a decade. While most providers of online writing programs offer units in either a flexible or blended transmission model or with a choice of online or face-to-face (F2F) modality, there is pressure on universities to increase the proportion of programs delivered using e-learning. With this trend in mind, I investigate some of the germinal theoretical and pedagogical ideas impacting on the online delivery of Writing in a Master of Arts program taught at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. These concepts include the social constructivist notions of community of practice and imagined community. In narrating my story of developing and teaching units for online delivery, I draw on my empirical studies (2009, 2010) for narratives from tutors and students. Here, their voices become part of my narrative enquiry: their insights inform the story of what I learned from engaging in teaching and learning (Creative) Writing online. I consider thepost-structural notion that writers’ identities are motivated by desire, in flux and sites of struggle. This applies to all people enrolling in writers’ programs, whether online or F2F. They are seeking increased agency in their desires to be and become more accomplished writers. It is as important for an online delivery to realise this as a F2F one. I also issue a challenge for (Creative) Writing programs to consider more deeply the pedagogical potential of online workshopping while acknowledging it can only be an emulation of F2F environments. I conclude that for a creative discipline like Writing, course designers and educators need to look beyond schematic social constructivist models of learning where learners experience linear trajectories to one which allow narratives of being and becoming that more fully understand the investment of people enrolling in Writing programs.
Terra (in)cognita: Mapping academic writing
Authors: Sturm Sean
Published: December 2021

Students and teachers alike bemoan the sorry state of academic writing, as both readers and writers. Nonetheless, they are loath to venture beyond what they take to be the well-known territory of the academic (read: expository) essay for fear of going astray, or unsettling their readers. Here I aim to map the academic essay as it is practised for the most part … but also as it might be practised. I offer a cartography – and something of a history – of the ‘point-first’ and ‘point-last’ essay. The former dominates the academy, but the latter is truer to the origin of the essay. Point-first essays allow writers to show what they know, to negotiate known territory (terra cognita), hence their dominance in the academy; point-last essays enable writers (and thereby readers) to find out what they think, to navigate unknown territory (terra incognita), where lie dragons … or riches.
Missiles and missives: Toward a Nuclear Criticism, or How I learned to stop worrying and love this dangerous writing
Authors: Abblitt Stephen
Published: December 2021

Generically unstable as it shifts between literary criticism, writing memoir, and frustrated meta-theoretical conflagration, this paper advances a workable description of nuclear criticism, obliquely responding to Derrida’s ‘The Time ofa Thesis’. It charts an uneasy course through an array of material related directly or tenuously to the author’s critical-creative PhD thesis. Presented as aseries of possibly apocalyptic imagistic missiles and missives, performative post-critical experiments written dangerously otherwise, it ventures to inhabit the critical institution in a certain way to question notions of acceptability and legitimacy, asking just what it is to be submittable when faced with the nuclearn on-event and writing’s unbounded potentialities.
Secrets and ‘eloquent episodes’: The power of telling the buried story
Authors: Joseph Sue
Published: December 2021

There is often a moment or moments during an interview where a subject’s deeply personal experience intersects with the narrative process; ‘an eloquent episode’ on which the central significance of an entire story resonates.

Drawing on a sequence of interviews with subjects telling deeply hidden, long held secrets, this paper will examine a series of micro moments within each account, both for their narrative power as well as their fundamental consequence to the narrative or macro process. Many of the buried stories in this paper are of traumatic memory, circulating around sexuality, or sexual and violent secrets. Attendant to this is the ethical management of such moments at the time of interview, as well as their subsequent reduction to written words by the interviewer. Incorporating a reflective practice into the text in combination with the undertaking of an ethical practice is an attempt to increase the power of the story. By focusing on ‘the eloquent episode’ or micro moment, and expanding its bounds, it is the intention of this paper to highlight it as a literary device that reinforces the power of the telling of the story, authenticating not just the voice of the primary storyteller but the narrative.
Transforming creative writing postgraduate and supervisor identities: Ways of becoming professional
Authors: Kroll Jeri , Finlayson Katrina
Published: December 2021

In the twenty-first century, research higher degree students in Australia do more than simply research (DIISR 2011a:24, ACER 2011). They might teach or be employed as research assistants or administrators. These jobs prepare RHD (aka HDR) students for transition to the workforce; they inhabit, therefore, multiple identities. Supervisors in the twenty-first century also face the challenge of multiple identities. They act as employers as well as mentors to induct their cohort into a discipline’s professional life. Mentorship, we argue, is not the same as supervision. The mentorship role is especially important in emerging subject areas where the concept of research itself and appropriate methodologies are developing; both supervisor and student might be working as ‘reflective practitioners’ (Schön 1987), each helping the other to refine and theorise practice. This is particularly true of the flourishing but still relatively young discipline of Creative Writing (Brien 2004, Dibble & van Loon 2004, Woods 2007, Harper & Kroll 2008). Some supervisors have always performed a variety of roles, but aspects of the postgraduate experience have been increasingly professionalised, affecting an academic’s access to promotion and offering them another research area – the pedagogy of supervision. This paper explores the nature of these complex relationships focused on the Creative Writing doctoral experience and considers how they impact on the student overall.
A live event, a life event: The workshop that works
Authors: Cowan Andrew
Published: December 2021

In certain recent critiques, the term ‘workshop’ has been used to describe almost every aspect of our discipline’s pedagogy. The various models might be arranged along a horizontal axis that has as one pole the wholly taught, exercise-based class for beginners and at the other the wholly discursive workshop for advanced students, with a vertical axis that begins with recreational or high-school classes and ascends through the BA to the MA and MFA, and then on to the elite MA and MFA programmes exemplified by the likes of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Alternative axes might calibrate the extent to which a programme is publication- or research-oriented, or to which the pedagogy is premised on a formalist or a ‘sociological’ poetics. This paper attempts a defence of the peer-review workshop by first distinguishing it from other forms of Creative Writing pedagogy, and concludes by offering an understanding of the workshop as an advanced and necessarily formalist pedagogy whose encounter with the work-in-progress requires an openness to its ‘singularity’ and a resistance both to instrumental readings and to prescriptive instruction.
The Hidden Adult and the Hiding Child in Writing for Children?
Authors: Melrose Andrew
Published: December 2021

Anyone who works in the field of children’s literature as an academic discipline or in the field of writing for children will be all too well versed in the (im)possibility of producing child-centred writing and culture. This is aligned closely with the fact that the entire process of writing for children is problematised by a very simple truism, which is that children who read rely on stories written for them and rarely by them, and indeed written by almost anyone but them. And curious as it may seem, this presents us with an immediate ethical problem.
Frameworks of grief: Narrative as an act of healing in contemporary memoir
Authors: Brennan Bernadette
Published: December 2021

In his recent review of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (2011), critic and writer Andrew Riemer admitted to feeling uneasy. While acknowledging that many readers would respond differently, he noted that reading about Didion’s grief over the loss of her daughter made him feel ‘like an intruder into very private sorrow’. Riemer questioned the ethics of writing about the death of a child for publication. Asserting that grief was essentially mute, he argued that Didion should have stayed silent in the face of her extraordinary losses. At a time when memoirs about bereavement and loss are enjoying unprecedented popularity, Riemer’s suggestions raise important issues for writers and readers of memoir. In this article I offer close readings of two recent memoirs of bereavement, Virginia Lloyd’s The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement (2008a) and Maggie MacKellar’s When it Rains (2010), in order to explore some of the narrative strategies at work and to suggest that it is the very act of writing, specifically of crafting and shaping a narrative for publication, that enacts healing.
A Freirian reading of online writing workshops
Authors: Bolland Craig
Published: December 2021

Online writing workshops provide educational spaces within which writers can learn and refine their craft. In order to better understand the dialogic mechanisms behind that learning, this paper examines ways in which online writing workshops might be described as functioning in manners akin to Freirian culture circles. This paper identifies several key characteristics that define Paulo Freire’s concept of the culture circle. It compares these characteristics to the structure of and interactive practices within an online writing workshop. It unpacks some of Freire’s ideas about codification and decodification of situated problems and about achieving critical consciousness, and examines how exemplars of this can be found in online writing workshops.
‘First catch your Weka’: A tasting plate of recent New Zealand food writing
Authors: Brien Donna Lee
Published: December 2021

This article surveys a range of recent food-related books and food writers from New Zealand, in order to identify and describe a variety of sub-genres, content and writing styles. Coming from a range of backgrounds, including culinary, literary, scholarly, journalistic and other areas, these contemporary New Zealand food writers range across a diverse variety of subject matter from all aspects of culinary matters to politics and environmental sustainability, history and human relationships as well as the many other aspects of social and cultural life that can be addressed under the broad umbrella of food as a topic. Although cookbooks are not included in this investigation, many of these books include recipes. It also identifies and describes a number of associations, institutions and publishers that support this sector of the writing and publishing industry in New Zealand

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Migrating from nonfiction to fiction – a practice-led approach drawing on a literary journalist’s notional tool-box
Authors: Banks Glenda , Andrew Martin
Published: December 2021

This paper reflects on a literary journalist’s practice-led approach to migrating from nonfiction to fiction and the decision to situate a narrative about the challenges and achievements of women in Victoria’s mid-19th century goldfields in a novel in the subgenre of historiographic metafiction. It addresses the lacuna in the traditionally masculinised history of the gold rush era, opening a window onto the ‘herstory’ of the period, describing the courage of women who overcame poverty, isolation and the limited gender-based expectations of the time in which they lived to set the pattern for the social infrastructure we take for granted today. The first author’s doctoral novel ‘A Respectable Married Woman’ embodies this migration and is informed methodologically by both journalistic and creative strategies. The study focuses on the role of site visits in practice-led research as it applies to literary journalism to create a sense of ‘being there’. The interlocutory reader (Widdowson 1979) is drawn into a narrative construct which hangs evidence-based ‘fictionised truths’ in a factual framework in order to facilitate a greater understanding of a critical period in the growth of Victoria and, in particular, the contribution of women. Drawing on literary theorists including Hutcheon (1998) and Kundera (2000) and referencing writers Ricketson (2006), Sedgwick (2004) and Quindlen (2004) among others, this paper aims to encourage other nonfiction writers to make use of the literary journalist’s notional ‘tool-box’ to take an imaginative leap into the world of credible historiographic metafiction.
Killing the conceptual: Knowing, research, and poetry for children - A conversation between Michael Rosen and Jen Webb
Authors: Webb Jen , Rosen Michael
Published: December 2021

Michael Rosen and Jen Webb met in London on 21 June 2011 to talk about the relationship between poetry and knowing. Michael’s poetry is written for young readers, and his understanding of what he is doing, and why, and with what underlying ontological and axiological premises, is explicated in this discussion. Central to the conversation is Michael’s perspective on how poetry can be put to work as a generative and genuinely educative domain for school children. Whether we invite them to write poems, read poems or discuss poems, Michael shows, we can use approaches, attitudes and techniques that open up a space in which young people can find their lives, their experiences and their thoughts validated. This can be a way to intervene in the established ways of understanding individuals and groups, in schools and in society more generally, and to open up new ways of knowing. We began the conversation with a brief tangent on technology and mythology, motivated by the Livescribe Smartpen being used – a product put out by the Echo group.
Teaching writing process
Authors: Neave Lucy
Published: December 2021

A fiction writer will often begin writing a manuscript in a rough and fragmentary manner, and over time transform these early attempts into what is hoped will be a publishable manuscript. Yet there is little in the creative writing literature on the practical aspects of writing process as utilised by writers, and/or on how writing process might be taught. Using writing process theoretical research, and accounts by writers of their processes, I look at how process, and in particular revision, can be taught in the undergraduate fiction writing workshop. I argue that effective student learning about revision occurs in response to assignments which ask students to re-enter the fictional world they have created, and make substantive changes.
‘The recounting of a life is a cheat’: Unreliable narration and fragmentary memory in historical fiction
Authors: Kon-yu Natalie
Published: December 2021

It is well known that fiction can be used to narrate the lives and experiences of those who have been marginalised within, or by, historical discourse. However, is revealing or recuperating the past the most authentic way to write narratives about those people whom history has forgotten? As writers, how can we use fiction to tell the lives of those people whose stories have effectively been lost, silenced or omitted from public archive and personal recollection? And, more personally, how can we write stories about people in our own past if we have been prohibited from telling them? This paper examines ways in which fiction can illuminate the presence of loss in ways which historical discourse cannot. Drawing on the creative componentof my PhD, as well as from the work of novelist Carol Shields and theorist Nicola King, I will suggest that we can write about the past in ways which prompt readers to

reflect upon why certain traumatic or shameful details might be withheld within a fictional text. In my own creative work, ‘The Other Side ofSilence’ (Kon-yu 2009) my protagonists’ refusal to remember the past in a complete or coherent manner suggests that while some suppressed histories cannot ever be told, the effect that they have on the characters can still be clearly shown within the text.
Writing the self into research: Using grounded theory analytic strategies in autoethnography
Authors: Pace Steven
Published: December 2021

Autoethnography – a qualitative research method that combines characteristics of

ethnography and autobiography – is gaining momentum within the creative and

performing arts as a research tool, partly because of the opportunity it provides for

writers, artists, performers and others to reflect critically upon their personal and

professional creative experiences. In recent years, ‘analytic autoethnography’ has been

proposed as an alternative to traditional ‘evocative autoethnography’ for researchers

who want to practise autoethnography within a realist or analytic tradition. However,

questions remain about how this alternative method should be applied in practice. This

article takes some steps toward answering those questions by exploring how

autoethnographers in the creative arts can employ analytic strategies from the grounded

theory tradition in their work. This methodological discussion might benefit artistresearchers

who identify themselves as autoethnographers, but who want to use analytic

reflexivity to improve theoretical understandings of their creative practice.