bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Developing students' listening metacognitive strategies using online videotext self-dictation-generation learning activity
Authors: Chang Ching , Chang Chih-Kai
Published: February 2016

The study is based on the use of a flexible learning framework to help students improve information processes underlying strategy instruction in EFL listening. By exploiting the online videotext self-dictation-generation (video-SDG) learning activity implemented on the YouTube caption manager platform, the learning cycle was emphasized to promote metacognitive listening development. Two theories were used to guide the online video-SDG learning activity: a student question-generation method and a metacognitive listening training model in a second language (L2). The study investigated how college students in the online video-SDG activity enhanced the use of listening strategies by developing metacognitive listening skills. With emphasis on the metacognitive instructional process, students could promote their listening comprehension of advertisement videos (AVs). Forty-eight students were recruited to participate in the study. Through data collected from the online learning platform, questionnaires, a focus-group interview, and pre- and post- achievement tests, the results revealed that the online video-SDG learning activity could effectively engage students in reflecting upon their perceptions of specific problems countered, listening strategy usages, and strategic knowledge exploited in the metacognitive instructional process. The importance of employing cost-effective online video-SGD learning activities is worthy of consideration in developing students’ metacognitive listening knowledge for enhancing EFL listening strategy instruction.
Integrating Multimedia ICT Software in Language Curriculum: Students’ Perception, Use, and Effectivenes
Authors: Penner Nikolai , Grodek Elzbieta
Published: February 2016

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) constitute an integral part of the teaching and learning environment in present-day educational institutions and play an increasingly important role in the modern second language classroom. In this study, an online language learning tool Tell Me More (TMM) has been introduced as  a supplementary tool in French and German first and second-year language university classes. At the end of the academic year, the students completed a questionnaire exploring their TMM usage behaviour and perception of the software. The survey also addressed aspects of the respondents' readiness for self-directed language learning. The data were then imported into SPSS and underwent statistical analysis. The results of the study show that 1) relatively few of today's university students are open to the idea of voluntarily using ICT for independent language practice; 2) grade, price, and availability of alternative means of language practice are the most important factors affecting the students' decision to purchase and use ICT software; 3) there is a relationship between the students' decision to buy and use ICT software and their readiness for self-directed learning.
Curating and nudging in virtual CLIL environments
Authors: Nielsen Helle Lykke
Published: February 2016

Foreign language teachers can benefit substantially from the notions of curation and nudging when scaffolding CLIL activities on the internet. This article shows how these principles can be integrated into CLILstore, a free multimedia-rich learning tool with seamless access to online dictionaries, and presents feedback from first and second year university students of Arabic as a second language to inform foreign language teachers about students’ needs and preferences in virtual learning environments.
Economic Impacts and Program Involvement in Agricultural Mechanics Competition Projects in Texas
Authors: Hanagriff Roger D. , Rayfield John , Briers Gary , Murphy Tim
Published: February 2016

Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) is a well-documented, valuable, and integral part of agricultural education programs (Bryant, 2003; Cheek, Arrington, Carter, & Randall, 1994; Deyoe, 1953; Dyer & Osborne, 1996; Moore, 1988; Roberts & Harlin, 2007). Cole and Connell (1993) found that there was little research regarding the economic value of SAEs; they suggested that measuring the cost and economic benefits of SAEs would provide valuable information in communicating additional benefits of SAE programs. Hanagriff, Murphy, Roberts, Briers, & Lindner (2010) suggested economic values are best derived from measuring spending and that research should be undertaken to understand the economic value of educational programs, especially in high cost areas such as agricultural mechanics. This study found that 45% of agricultural education program are involved in agricultural mechanics show projects, which potentially relates to $5.5 million in direct spending and $10 million in economic impacts. Additionally, programs with agricultural mechanics show projects recognize greater participation in agricultural mechanic SAEs, are more active in using record books, are larger in program size, and recognize greater financial support.
Opinion Leadership Development: Context And Audience Characteristics Count
Authors: Lamm Kevan W. , Lamm Alexa J. , Carter Hannah S.
Published: February 2016

Opinion leaders have been shown to have a significant amount of influence on their peers, yet there is little research examining how individual traits of opinion leaders are related. Generally the assumption is that these individuals share characteristics consistent with the literature; specifically that leaders tend to be optimistically oriented and willing to take risks. Without specific empirical evidence to support this assumption agricultural leadership development programs may be structuring their curriculum in a manner inconsistent with the needs of their intended audience. This study examined opinion leader characteristics related to optimism and willingness to take risks in an agricultural leadership development program. The findings suggest that contrary to the assumption that an agricultural context would not influence characteristics, this context was germane and these individuals tended to exhibit a less optimistic perspective and were less willing to take risks than anticipated. Recommendations for modifying developmental and communication approaches with these individuals include framing messages in pragmatic terms (versus optimistic), and addressing items in terms of risk avoidance (versus risk taking).
First Generation College Students: Motivations and Support Systems
Authors: Irlbeck Erica , Adams Shylo , Akers Cindy , Burris Scott , Jones Stephanie
Published: February 2016

The number of first generation college students enrolling at universities is on the rise. These students often struggle with the transition into university life because of the lack of knowledge about this new environment. Some do not have support systems that are needed to be successful. Understanding how to assist these college students to improve retention is extremely important. A case study was conducted to determine the motivations and support systems of first generation college students within the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) at Texas Tech University (TTU). Nine respondents from different departments in CASNR and one representative of the TTU’s first generation college student program were interviewed. It was determined that three factors led to their enrollment: parental/family support, teacher encouragement, and self-motivation. The researchers also found most participants were involved in at least one department/college organization, religious group, or other university program. It was also determined these students depended upon three major support groups and systems, such as parents, friends, and advisers/professors. The researchers concluded the students were very satisfied with their experiences within the college and university as a whole.
Educating the Future of Agriculture: A Focus Group Analysis of the Programming Needs and Preferences of Montana Young and Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
Authors: Bailey Nikki E. , Arnold Shannon K. , Igo Carl G.
Published: February 2016

The average age of farmers and ranchers is rising and each year, there are fewer young and beginning farmers and ranchers (YBFR). Therefore, it is critical that agricultural educators and programmers provide learning opportunities that develop the knowledge and competencies YBFR need to be successful. The purpose of this study was to develop a grounded theory to identify and explain the interaction between educational drivers, educational needs, and programing preferences of YBFR in Montana, in order to develop future programming recommendations. Focus groups were utilized to gather data from a purposive sample of YBFR. A grounded theory was developed using constant comparison analysis. YBFR identified business management skills, legal knowledge, communication skills, and skills associated with technologies as educational needs. Barriers such as distance, time, and lack of awareness prevented educational event attendance. Programs were considered successful if they provided networking opportunities, relevant content, and a positive, interactive environment. YBFR utilized different delivery formats ranging from email to face-to-face. Preference was placed on longer duration events featuring a variety of information. Agricultural educators need to decrease barriers and increase positive elements to reach this audience. Agricultural organizations must collaborate to create comprehensive, impactful programs focused on developing the skills and knowledge of YBFR.
Understanding Students as Followers: Discovering the Influence of Followership Style on Self-Directed Learning
Authors: Strong Robert , Williams Jen
Published: February 2016

The leader has typically been the myopic center of studies involving leadership on the collegiate level. However, that does not give a holistic picture of leadership as a phenomenon. Understanding the relational, influential, and often-reciprocal roles of followers, known as followership, is essential in reaching organizational goals. Understanding the relationship between followership and learning will aid the leader in creating effective followers. The purpose of this study was to assess undergraduate students’ levels of followership and selfdirected learning in agricultural leadership courses at Texas A&M University. Of the respondents (n = 166), followership styles indicated students were more engaged, but less likely to be critical thinkers and the less self-directed students were more likely to be dependent followers with less critical thinking capacity. Faculty who not only understand their students as learners and followers but utilize strategies to improve their students’ learning can produce followers who will have a positive impact on agricultural organizations.
The Thornless Rose: A Phenomenological Look at Decisions Career Teachers Make to Remain in the Profession
Authors: Clark Mindi S. , Kelsey Kathleen D. , Brown Nicholas R.
Published: February 2016

Attrition among the agricultural education profession is concerning as approximately 50% of agriculture teachers leave within the first six years of teaching. Therefore, the purpose of the phenomenological study, conducted from an emic perspective, was to explore and describe secondary agriculture teachers’ experiences related to remaining in the profession past the point of retirement eligibility. Four themes emerged from the study: (a) Career teachers experienced a transformative shift in mid-career, leading to career sustainability; (b) Career teachers experienced an abundance of support from students, parents, administrators, and community; (c) Career teachers maintained a balance between work and personal life; and (d) Career teachers reduced their workload later in their careers to coincide with aging. The essence deduced from the data revealed that teachers balanced work, family, and community life, reduced known stressors, and found satisfaction that led to long-term engagement in the profession. The emergent metaphor of this phenomenon was the Thornless Rose and served as the structural framework for reporting the findings. The results of this study can serve as a transferrable means to help teachers remain in the profession.
Agricultural Education in an Urban Charter School: Perspectives and Challenges
Authors: Henry Kesha A. , Talbert Brian Allen , Morris Pamala V.
Published: February 2016

Urban school districts are viable recruitment sources for higher education in agriculture and have the ability to play a significant role in efforts to increase agricultural education program numbers at the secondary level. Secondary school increases should lead to growth in agricultural college enrollments across the country. Increasing agricultural literacy and overall enrollment at the collegiate level provides opportunities to increase minority populations pursuing higher education and careers in agriculture. Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) drove this study with qualitative methods used to explore instructional perspectives of three adults associated with the agricultural education program at an urban charter school. A phenomenological approach guided collection of qualitative data. Consensus was reported through participant belief that inclusion of agricultural education courses into curricula played a major role in breaking students’ stereotypes regarding agricultural careers and higher education opportunities. Although participants believed agricultural education vital to instruction, challenges to teaching agricultural education in urban schools led them to focus on STEM related agricultural careers as opposed to agricultural production careers.
Investigating the Linkage between Intrinsic Motivation and Project Team Satisfaction in Undergraduate Agricultural Leadership Students
Authors: Lamm Kevan W. , Carter Hannah S. , Melendez Marcus W.
Published: February 2016

Organizations have increased the amount of work that is completed by project teams over the past several decades. This trend is projected to continue into the foreseeable future. In response to this trend, the academic community has increased the number of project team based learning experiences for students in classes. The challenge has been that students do not always enjoy team projects; frequently students express a lack of satisfaction with the project as well as the project team. The aim of this research is to empower agricultural education faculty to make better pedagogical decisions regarding agricultural leadership student project teams based on student intrinsic motivation leading to increased team satisfaction. No empirical research exists evaluating the importance of individual intrinsic motivation on project team satisfaction within an academic agricultural leadership setting. The purpose of this study was to examine how undergraduate agricultural leadership students’ intrinsic motivation to complete a project influenced their project team satisfaction. Intrinsic motivation explained 49% of the variance in project team satisfaction scores. An implication of this finding is that to improve levels of satisfaction it is important to ensure the project is personally meaningful to the individual, thus increasing their intrinsic motivation.
Successful Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs as Defined by American FFA Degree Star Finalists
Authors: Rubenstein Eric D. , Thoron Andrew C.
Published: February 2016

Within school-based agricultural education, supervised agricultural experience (SAE) programs remain an integral component of the total program. However, researchers have reported that SAE programs lack focus and direction. Furthermore, SAE programs lack a current definition of successful SAE programs. This study was conducted utilizing qualitative research methods to examine American FFA Degree Star Finalists definition of successful SAE programs. The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method and found seven components of successful SAE programs. Those components were: goal planning/ learning/career planning, utilization of program partners, income from SAE program, personal satisfaction, FFA participation, awards, and degree structure, hard work/personal growth, and complete records. The researchers concluded that learners should plan personal SAE goals, involve program partners in their SAE programs, be involved in the National FFA Organization, obtain monetary benefits, and complete accurate records. Therefore, practicing agriculture teachers should examine their current SAE instructional practices to ensure that SAE programs be based on the learners interest and provide support for a learner’s personal, academic, and career goals.
Light absorption of brown carbon aerosol in the PRD region of China
Authors: Yuan J.-F. , Huang X.-F. , Cao L.-M. , Cui J. , Zhu Q. , Huang C.-N. , Lan Z.-J. , He L.-Y.
Published: February 2016

Abstract. The strong spectral dependence of light absorption of brown carbon (BrC) aerosol is regarded to influence aerosol's radiative forcing significantly. The Absorption Angstrom Exponent (AAE) method has been widely used in previous studies to attribute light absorption of BrC at shorter wavelengths for ambient aerosols, with a theoretical assumption that the AAE of "pure" black carbon (BC) aerosol equals to 1.0. In this study, the AAE method was applied to both urban and rural environments in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China, with an improvement of constraining the realistic AAE of "pure" BC through statistical analysis of on-line measurement data. A three-wavelength photo-acoustic soot spectrometer (PASS-3) and aerosol mass spectrometers (AMS) were used to explore the relationship between the measured AAE and the relative abundance of organic aerosol to BC. The regression and extrapolation analysis revealed that more realistic AAE values for "pure" BC aerosol (AAEBC) were 0.86, 0.82, and 1.02 between 405 and 781 nm, and 0.70, 0.71, and 0.86 between 532 and 781 nm, in the campaigns of urbanwinter, urbanfall, and ruralfall, respectively. Roadway tunnel experiments were conducted and the results further confirmed the representativeness of the obtained AAEBC values for the urban environment. Finally, the average light absorption contributions of BrC (± relative uncertainties) at 405 nm were quantified to be 11.7 % (±5 %), 6.3 % (±4 %), and 12.1 % (±7 %) in the campaigns of urbanwinter, urbanfall, and ruralfall, respectively, and those at 532 nm were 10.0 % (±2 %), 4.1 % (±3 %), and 5.5 % (±5 %), respectively. The relatively higher BrC absorption contribution at 405 nm in the ruralfall campaign could be reasonably attributed to the biomass burning events nearby, which was then directly supported by the biomass burning simulation experiments performed in this study. This paper indicates that the BrC contribution to total aerosol light absorption at shorter wavelengths is not negligible in the highly urbanized and industrialized PRD region.
A high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer utilizing hydronium ions (H3O+ ToF-CIMS) for measurements of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere
Authors: Yuan Bin , Koss Abigail , Warneke Carsten , Gilman Jessica B. , Lerner Brian M. , Stark Harald , de Gouw Joost A.
Published: February 2016

Abstract. Proton transfer reactions between hydronium ions (H3O+) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) provide a fast and high sensitive measurement technique for VOCs, leading to extensive use of proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) in atmospheric research. Based on the same ionization approach, we describe the development of a high-resolution (HR) time of flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer (ToF-CIMS) utilizing H3O+ as the reagent ions. The new H3O+ ToF-CIMS has sensitivities of 100–1000 cps/ppb (ion counts per second per part-per-billion mixing ratio of VOC) and detection limits of 20–600 ppt at 3σ for a 1-second integration time for simultaneous measurements of many VOC species of atmospheric relevance. Compared with similar instruments with quadrupole mass spectrometer, e.g. proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometers, the ToF analyzer with mass resolution (m/Δm) of up to 6000 not only increases measurement frequency of the instrument, but also expands the number of measurable species. The humidity dependence of the instrument was characterized for various VOC species and the behaviors for different species can be explained by compound-specific properties that affect the ion chemistry. The new H3O+ ToF-CIMS was successfully deployed on the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft for the SONGNEX campaign in spring of 2015. The measured mixing ratios of several aromatics from the H3O+ ToF-CIMS agreed within ±10 % with independent gas chromatography (GC) measurements from whole air samples. Initial results from the SONGNEX measurements demonstrate that the H3O+ ToF-CIMS dataset will be valuable for the identification and characterization of emissions from various sources, investigation of secondary formation of many photochemical organic products and therefore the chemical evolution of gas-phase organic carbon in the atmosphere.
Observational gridded runoff estimates for Europe (E-RUN version 1.0)
Authors: Gudmundsson Lukas , Seneviratne Sonia I.
Published: February 2016

Abstract. River runoff is an essential climate variable as it is directly linked to the terrestrial water balance and controls a wide range of climatological and ecological processes. Despite its scientific and societal importance, there are to date no pan-European observation-based runoff estimates available. Here we employ a recently developed methodology to estimate monthly runoff rates on regular spatial grid in Europe. For this we first collect an unprecedented collection of river flow observations, combining information from three distinct data bases. Observed monthly runoff rates are first tested for homogeneity and then related to gridded atmospheric variables (E-OBS version 11) using machine learning. The resulting statistical model is then used to estimate monthly runoff rates (December 1950–December 2014) on a 0.5° × 0.5° grid. The performance of the newly derived runoff estimates is assessed in terms of cross validation. The paper closes with example applications, illustrating the potential of the new runoff estimates for climatological assessments and drought monitoring. The newly derived data are made publicly available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.845725.
Uncertainties in calculating precipitation climatology in East Asia
Authors: Kim J. , Park S. K.
Published: February 2016

Abstract. This study examines the uncertainty in calculating the fundamental climatological characteristics of precipitation in the East Asia region from multiple fine-resolution gridded analysis data sets based on in situ rain gauge observations and data assimilations. Five observation-based gridded precipitation data sets are used to derive the long-term means, standard deviations in lieu of interannual variability and linear trends over the 28-year period from 1980 to 2007. Both the annual and summer (June–July–August) mean precipitation is examined. The agreement amongst these precipitation data sets is examined using two metrics including the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) defined as the ratio between long-term means and the corresponding standard deviations, and Taylor diagrams, which allow examinations of the pattern correlation, the standard deviation, and the centered root mean square error. It is found that the five gauge-based precipitation analysis data sets agree well in the long-term mean and interannual variability in most of the East Asia region including eastern China, Manchuria, South Korea, and Japan, which are densely populated and have fairly high-density observation networks. The regions of large inter-data-set variations include Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia, northern Indo-China, and North Korea. The regions of large uncertainties are typically lightly populated and are characterized by severe terrain and/or extremely high elevations. Unlike the long-term mean and interannual variability, agreement between data sets in the linear trend is weak, both for the annual and summer mean values. In most of the East Asia region, the SNR for the linear trend is below 0.5: the inter-data-set variability exceeds the multi-data ensemble mean. The uncertainty in the spatial distribution of long-term means among these data sets occurs both in the spatial pattern and variability, but the uncertainty for the interannual variability and time trend is much larger in the variability than in the pattern correlation. Thus, care must be taken in using long-term trends calculated from gridded precipitation analysis data for climate studies over the East Asia region.
Guthlac Betwixt and Between: Literacy, Cross-Temporal Affiliation, and an Anglo-Saxon Anchorite
Authors: Weston Lisa M. C.
Published: February 2016

Guthlac's saintly “career” saw his transformation from aristocratic warrior to monastic visionary. It saw him move physically from a warrior's secular hall to a monastic community and then to an anchorite's cell. Beyond this, however, even the ways later generations came to know—and perhaps be stimulated to emulate—Guthlac move betwixt and between. That is, they involve repeated translations, movements between languages, between genres, between reading contexts. Felix's original Anglo-Latin vita must itself be triangulated among a variety of previous textual models. That Latin text was variously re-created as it was translated from Latin into multiple Old English texts. The Old English prose translations, vita and sermon, situate and invoke a significantly different Guthlac from that readable in the two (or perhaps three) extant devotional poems. Multiply liminal, Guthlac—the man and the textual memory—offers his readers an exemplar through whom they engage in the reconstruction of monastic identity and literary subjectivity.
Textually Enclosed and Marginally Open: Medieval Revelations and Early Modern Readers
Authors: Rogers William
Published: February 2016

Serenus Cressy's XVI Revelations of Divine Love, his 1670 imprint of Julian's Long Text, is a curious text, maintaining much of the slightly modernized Middle English of the Long Text tradition. Throughout, Cressy includes glosses for the Middle English, and his choices, far from accidental or obvious, present a view of what the reader might know or not. More important, as an editor, Cressy re-creates Julian's own role, as her expansion of the Short Text into the Long involves both added material and added explanation, a kind of in-text glossing. Cressy's editorial activities not only follow Julian's example but also anticipate a modern scholarly agenda that reads and interprets many of the same topics and portions of her textual tradition. This essay explores the connection between Cressy's glossing of the servant-Lord exemplum, found in chapter 51, and his two prefaces to readers.
A Social Contract and Rules of Practice for the Fed
Authors: Feldmann John D.
Published: February 2016

A previous essay by John D. Feldmann entitled “The Fed as a Moral Enterprise” argued that monetary policy inextricably involves moral issues and further, that monetary policies must be properly justified morally. That article focused on the inadequacy of act consequentialism as a moral framework. Under act consequentialism the Fed does not properly take into account the potential consequences and thus lacks the structure for proper moral assessment. This essay takes the critique of consequentialist thinking into the rules versus discretion debate, arguing that the rule of thumb concept advanced in contemporary rule-based arguments is only part and not a fully adequate basis for a rule-based system for monetary policy. It argues that definite boundary-setting rules for central bank policy are needed, what the author calls rules of practice after John Rawls, if rules are again to be at the center of central bank thinking. The article then goes on to propose a source for rules of practice in the monetary policy writings of John Locke.
Plato and the American President: Thirty-five as the Age of Eligibility
Authors: York Neil
Published: February 2016

The thirty-five year minimum age requirement for U.S. presidents was set late in the Constitutional Convention. The reasons for that choice must be inferred because so little survives from the contemporary record. The only source attaching significance to thirty-five that the Founders had access to was Plato's Republic. The Founders did not want to be governed by Plato's guardians, but they did expect their presidents to possess some of the guardians' attributes. Simply put, however much they looked ahead to the future, they were still anchored to the past. It is difficult to say much more than that because so much of the Founders' intellectual world eludes us—a reminder, as Laurence Tribe put it, that there is more to the Constitution, and to the men who wrote it, than meets the eye.
Strategic Thinking: Intelligent Opportunism and Emergent Strategy — The Case of Strategic Engineering Services
Authors: Pattinson Steven
Published: February 2016

This case study focuses on strategic thinking and opportunistic approaches to business growth and diversification. It begins by examining the recent purchase of ‘Quickcover’, a remote-controlled sports pitch covering system, by engineering company Strategic Engineering Services and the company's current dilemma – whether to continue to develop this type of product, or sell it and concentrate on its existing engineering services business. In recent years, Strategic Engineering Services has moved away from traditional heavy engineering and diversified into related areas such as engineering services, oil and gas industry recruitment, plant and equipment hire, instrument calibration and project management. The case considers the relationship between strategic thinking and entrepreneurial approaches to opportunity recognition, exploring the concept of intelligent opportunism as an approach that enables entrepreneurs to develop emergent strategies and take advantage of new opportunities. It explores these concepts in the context of the current dilemma of Strategic Engineering Services.
Entrepreneurship Orientation in Policy Making
Authors: Nielsen Pia Schou
Published: February 2016

This paper examines how the orientation of local governments towards entrepreneurship influences the organization and adaptation of local entrepreneurship policy. Entrepreneurship policy has long been investigated; however, the organizational aspects of policy delivery efforts seem to have gone unnoticed. Adaptability and collaboration are two organizational factors that are central to the configuration of local entrepreneurship support systems. However, as hypothesized in this paper, the level of collaboration and adaptability depends on the entrepreneurship orientation of the local government. In contingency theory, strategy is a determinant of organizational structure, and the entrepreneurship orientation of governments is such a strategy. Based on a survey of 86 (out of 98) municipalities in Denmark, the paper concludes that the more positively oriented the local government is towards entrepreneurship in its policy making, the better the adaptability and collaboration in the entrepreneurship support system.
Apuntes sobre la polémica institucionalista-marxista en torno a la cuestión sobre la mediación histórica del Estado
Authors: Montoya José Ernesto
Published: February 2016

No abstract available.  Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.140, 2014: 229-246
Perspectiva de la teoría del valor de la fuerza de trabajo acerca del mercado laboral de El Salvador
Authors: Del Cid Hazell , Iraheta Esmeralda
Published: February 2016

No abstract available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.141, 2014: 437-475
Editorial No.142
Authors: El Editor
Published: February 2016

No abstract available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.142, 2014: 503-504
El papel de la universidad en el pensamiento de Ignacio Ellacuría: lecciones y actualidad
Authors: Henrich Nathalia
Published: February 2016

No abstract available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.142, 2014: 571-576
Una Docencia Pertinente para la Sociedad del Conocimiento
Authors: Quintanilla Martha Leticia
Published: February 2016

No Resumen.UNAH INNOV@ No.2 2013: 4-5
El Telecentro UNAH CUROC- Gracias, una práctica innovadora para la equidad educativa universitaria
Authors: Quiel Pedro Antonio , Quintanilla Martha Leticia
Published: February 2016

Desde el año 2010, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), al amparo de la política de redes educativas, el modelo de educación virtual, y bajo los principios de equidad, pertinencia y calidad, puso en marcha el proyecto de innovación educativa “Los Telecentros Universitarios”.En el año 2011, el Centro Universitario Regional de Occidente (CUROC), se incorpora a este proyecto en el marco de su compromiso social de atender las demandas educativas de todos los jóvenes de la red educativa de occidente, dando vida al Telecentro de la UNAH en la ciudad de Gracias, Lempira, con un oferta en modalidad en línea de las carreras de licenciatura en Pedagogía y técnico en Microfinanzas.Actualmente cerca de 100 estudiantes aprovechan esta oportunidad educativa y han iniciado sus estudios universitarios encaminando sus esfuerzos a culminar con su carrera profesional superior.La experiencia de innovación educativa y tecnológica de la comunidad académica del CUROC y de la comunidad de Gracias, Lempira se plasma en este artículo.UNAH INNOV@ No.2 2013: 23-29
Competencias de la docencia universitaria para la sociedad del conocimiento: la visión de tres académicos
Authors: Calderón Rutilia , Martínez René Noé , Euceda Armando
Published: February 2016

UNAH INNOV@ No.2 2013: 36-38
La Universidad y la nueva generación de estudiantes: los nativos digitales
Authors: Quintanilla Martha Leticia
Published: February 2016

UNAH INNOV@ No.3 2014: 3
АНАЛИЗА БУЏЕТСКОГ ДЕФИЦИТА И ЈАВНОГ ДУГА У РЕПУБЛИЦИ СРБИЈИ
Authors: Trklja Milan
Published: February 2016

У многим развијеним земљама и земљама у развоју постоји тренд раста фискалног дефицита. За привредни раст и његову  одрживост у будућем периоду од великог значаја је ефикасно управљање јавним дугом и буџетским дефицитом. Буџетски дефицит представља окидач како унутрашње тако и спољне неравнотеже. Један од циљева фискалне политике у будућем периоду јесте свођење дефицита на одрживи ниво. Јавни дуг представља укупну задуженост државе који она бележи како према домаћим тако и према инострамим повереницима у одређеном временском периоду.  Заправо, јавни дуг представља комулирани буџетски дефицит, јер држава повећава јавни дуг када су у буџету остварени већи расходи од прихода. С тим у вези, у  раду аутор се бави анализом дефицита и јавног дуга Републике Србије.
АМЕРИЧКИ ИНВЕСТИЦИОНИ ФОНДОВИ – НАЈВЕЋИ ИНВЕСТИЦИОНИ ФОНДОВИ НА ФИНАНСИЈСКОМ ТРЖИШТУ
Authors: Jovović Marina , Cvetković Kristina
Published: February 2016

Са 15 билиона $ у активи индустрија заједничких фондова САД остала је највећа на свету на крају 2013. године чинећи половину од 30 билиона $ имовине светских заједничких фондова. Укупна имовина  је порасла за близу 2 билиона $  у односу на крај 2012. Главно учешће у имовини отворених фондова САД  имају дугорочни фондови. Акцијски фондови чине 52% активе отворених фондова САД на крају 2013. године. Процењује се да је 96 милиона индивидуалних инвеститора  задржало 90 одсто власништва  у укупним средствима заједничких фондова. Све у свему 56,7 милиона домаћинстава или 45 процената од свих домаћинстава у САД има сувласништво у  заједничким фондовима.
Toponyms with the base *baz
Authors: Nikić Biljana
Published: February 2016

During the research, it has been considered which toponyms on the Balkan Peninsula are named after the plant elder (Proto-Slavic base *baz). Using etymology dictionaries, as well as the list of settlements of the Republic of Serbia, we have found twenty-three such toponyms. All the places named by them are situated in the mountain region, which is exactly the area where the elders grow. Phonetic variations which exist among the except toponyms are differently interpreted by etimologists. Most of the settlements are very old, which confirms the Proto-Slavic origin and refutes the interpretation given in the folk tales. Trojan/Trajan is associated with the elder - in the story about the emperor with the goat's ears, the elder reveals the secret about the emperor's oddness. In the research, the emperor Trojan/Trajan is associated with Triglav, the Slavic god symbolized by the elder.
Psychoanalytic reality of prose
Authors: Todorović Milorad
Published: February 2016

Scientific methods of a particular field of knowledge can not be freely applied to a different field without any adjustments or reservations. Openness to a different approach is detrimental here. According to Nothrop Frye, psychonalysis in literature tends to 'blur the lines between methods' (Frye 1979: 383) thus increasing openness. Therefore, the anxiety that exists between the theory of psychonalysis and the practice of psychoanalytic therapy will follow the application of psychoanalysis to other scientific fields. Solid grasp of the theory of psychoanalysis is incomplete without understanding its practical implementation in the domain of pain as its priviledged source of truth. Even Jacques Lacan emphasized this by distinguishing between understanding and knowing Jacques Derrida's psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary activity, valued today as an important aspect of research, cannot be accomplished by simple confrontations between various specialized branches of knowledge. According to Roland Barthes, interdisciplinary work is not a peaceful operation: it begins effectively when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down to the benefit of a new object and a new language, neither of which is in the domain of those branches of knowledge that one calmly sought to confront (Barthes 1986b:181). Mirjana Lončar Vujnović proposes, following Barthes logic, to substitute the term psychoanalysis with the term 'experimental mysticism' (Lončar Vujnović 2014: 46). Her proposition has no semantic justification (and not only for its failed attempt at oxymoron) let alone scientific. The exploration of the unconscious psyche which is unknown and irrational - designated under certain circumstances as the exploration of the mystical as a hidden, secret part of a man's soul - was scrutinized in psychoanalysis by employing a rigorous scientific method in reverence to the methods of the natural sciences. Furthermore, due to the nomothetic-ideographic and discursive nature of psyche, psychoanalysis also included the hermeneutic method pertinent to the research of various symptoms and sintomas, as well asgenesis and telos.
Students' perception of marriage, family and parenthood in the light of religious identity and religious tolerance: A comparative perspective
Authors: Petrović Jasmina , Zaharijevski Dragana
Published: February 2016

In a comparative perspective, the paper shows students' attitudes towards family, marriage and parenthood obtained in an empirical study entitled 'Cultural orientation of actors/students, interethnic relations, national identity and the culture of peace in the Balkans' on the samples from the University of Bitola, Veliko Tarnovo and Niš. It analyzes findings from the three subsamples, and tests the hypothesis that students' religiousness and the firmness of their religious beliefs predicate their attitudes towards fami­ly, marriage and parenthood, irrespective of the country where they study. It is expected that the student youth in all subsamples shows preference for the individualistic model of partnership, symmetrical parenting, egalitarian partner and family relationships, but also that the choice of some attitudes clearly indicates the presence of traditional value patterns. At the same time, it is assumed that respondents who identify themselves as firm believ­ers, and those who express a lower level of religious tolerance towards other religions, largely follow traditional patterns in the notion of marriage, fami­ly and parenthood.
Europe is dead on the philosophy of liberation of Enrique Dussel
Authors: Knežević Višnja
Published: February 2016

This paper discusses the idea of the Other in the works of the leading theo­retician of the philosophy of liberation, Enrique Dussel. Although the philosophy of liberation is an authentic thought that establishes its princi­ples in contrast to the fundamental propositions of European reflexive culture, the wider audience outside Latin America is little acquainted with it. It is a philosophy that analyzes the Other in a scope of dialectics of the center and periphery, relating the civilized and developed world to the idea of the first, and the rest of the world to the latter, for which the 'first' one shows a direct and concrete interest. The practical sphere is brought into connection with the ontological one: the enslaved and exploited Other is marginalized to the periphery of being; in fact, he is made into non-being. His destruction is effected: as the one who is not me (multitude), the Other is at first made second-rated and thus less valuable (hierarchy) by the mere accidence of non being European (paradigm), only to be then easily thrown into non-existance, evened with nothingness (annihilation). Such an atti­tude implies an uncritical philosophy of domination, a particular imperial ontology, which is articulated as a hegemonic speech of (European) being and represents the theoretical completion of practical attitude toward the downtrodden Other. (Dussel accepts the Levinasian concept of the imperial character of Western thought). A special place is given to the fundamental subject of Modernity, the ego cogito, which on a practical level turns into an aggressive and annihilating ego conquiro of real historical and cultural oppression, being politically profiled through Homo homini lupus, and onto­logically through polemos pater. Its certainty is self-certainity of the conquistador, the winning side in war, Lord the Other is the pueblo, people. Resolution of the conflict, however, lies in the preference of neither the center nor the periphery, but in their dialectical mediation. However, according to Dussel's opinion, this neither should nor could prevent the articulation of an authentic voice and action of the Other, who autono­mously creates his history and, in the place of Nietzsche, declares.Europe is dead.
Historical approach of contemporary understanding of school in globalization
Authors: Parlić-Božović Jasna
Published: February 2016

Intercultural education respects and promotes diversity in all areas of human life. This phenomenon indicates that people naturally and spontaneously develop different lifestyles, different customs and worldviews. These differences need to be considered as a wealth of life. When we talk about education, and school as a narrow concept, in which the differences are usually promoted, we have a vision of a community that provides equal opportunities, opposes injustice and discrimination, and strives for the values which equality is being built on. Especially, this phenomenon is being pointed out in our conditions, when we are still adapting to the reforms of globalization. In the Contemporary World, promoting the democracy becomes a key goal of education, as well as the whole society. Therefore, in the education system it should be taken into account the multicultural character of the society that tends to actively contribute to a peaceful coexistence and positive interaction between different cultural groups. Traditionally, in this sense, there are two approaches in education: multi­cultural education that strives to provide the acceptance and tolerance of other cultures through learning about them. On the other side, we have the intercultural education that aims to overcome the passive coexistence and achieve developed and sustainable way of living together in a multicultural society. This is achieved through the construcive process of understanding, mutual respect and dialogue among groups of different cultures, then, ensuring equal opportunities and combating discrimination.
Some features of a typical house as perceived by native speakers of English and of Serbian
Authors: Dilparić Branislava
Published: February 2016

The paper reports findings from one of the two differently-designed surveys conducted among groups of both native speakers of English and native speakers of Serbian with a common general objective to obtain a picture of better candidates for a role of the whole (to be analyzed into its constituent elements) in the contrastive study on the lexical field a house and its parts in English and Serbian. The specific objective of the survey presented here, however, was to build up the target picture with some of the features of the ideal example of the house category, such as the shape of the house, the key materials its principal structural elements (foundations, walls, a roof) are made of, the number of residential units in the house and the type of the household that occupies it, the number of the house levels, the minimum of its interior spatial components and their functions, the types of systemic parts in the house, the status and position of the house relative to surround­ing buildings, etc. Also, taking into consideration that the demographic profiles of the survey participants reflected various cultural backgrounds (which significantly influence the formation of mental images of a typical sample of the category), the survey aimed to compare the similarities and differences between the 'English' and the 'Serbian' typical house, that is the features assigned to a typical house by most of the surveyed representa­tives of Anglo-American and by those of Serbian culture. Judging exclusively by the features observed and the results obtained, the study concludes that the 'English' and the 'Serbian' typical house look very similar in many aspect and that the two different cultures are not as distant as they may seem.
Teaching English grammar: Efficiency of inductive and deductive approaches students' perceptions
Authors: Nešić Ivana , Hamidović Kimeta
Published: February 2016

This paper is aimed at investigating students' attitudes towards inductive and deductive approaches to teaching grammar of English as a foreign language. The study includes 134 students of Business School of Applied Studies in Blace. The research was conducted through a questionnaire which consists of 15 items concerning teaching English language, which students rated according to the Likert scale. At the beginning, different approaches to teaching grammar of a foreign language inductive and deductive are presented. Namely, it has been a constant debate whether grammar rules should be explicitly explained and then practiced through numerous examples, or whether the acquisition of foreign language gram­mar is more efficient when students are exposed to a foreign language and, based on context and everyday situations, they induce the rules by them­selves. According to the results of the questionnaire, over 70% of the students preferred the deductive approach to teaching English grammar, whereas over 40% of them acknowledged that the implicit approach is also important for grammar acquisition. Another conclusion indicates that the efficient acquisition of English grammar occurs when these two approaches are combined.