bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Lecturers’ checklist instrument to monitor students’ understanding in distance learning
Authors: Silalahi Sari Muthia , Anwar Dedy , Damanik Juli Yanti
Published: December 2022

This paper aimed at exploring the results of participant self monitoring using a checklist instrument in distance learning with flipped classroom setting. The participants were 11 lecturers of Bioprocess Engineering Study Program at Institut Teknologi Del (IT Del), Indonesia. The objective of the checklist instrument was for the lecturers to monitor their students’ understanding about the lessons given each week. The data generated from the instrument was analysed descriptively. The results found that pre-class, in-class and out-class are important parts of learning in flipped classroom setting. The data showed that 56% of students achieved good understading of the knowledge taught by their lecturers. The same idea as in-class, attendance checking and interaction between students and lecturers had a key factor in the learning process. It was found that students’ understanding increased by 20% (very good), 62% (good) and 18% (moderate) through questions and answers, discussions, and tests at the end of class. Those were the modes of interactions that had been done in class. In line with an out-class checklist, giving assignments and feedback could improve students understanding into the level of very good (61%), good (27%) and sufficient (10%). with using a checklist tool, participants in this study self-monitored their progress in a flipped classroom while taking distance learning courses online to improve the quality of their class.
Primary teachers and students’ anxiety toward online instruction during COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Phayponpruek Kanokwan , Nuangchalerm Prasart
Published: December 2022

The study explored primary teachers and students’ anxiety toward online instruction during COVID-19 pandemic, the factors affecting anxiety related to online instruction of students and teachers in primary school. This research study was designed to collect data from primary teachers and students on the factors that affect anxiety in online teaching. The informants were 127 students and 11 teachers based on the purpose of the research. Questionnaire concerning general student data, such as gender, grade level, online study equipment, and online learning channels. Factors influencing anxiety in online education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 23 items for students and 25 items for teachers. Data is collected by online inquiries with students and teachers According to the findings, the general degree of factors influencing anxiety from online instruction in primary school is at moderate level. Physical and mental elements, evaluation and course content are the categories of factors that have the most impact on students’ anxiety toward online learning. Meanwhile, the factors that have the greatest impact on students’ anxiety toward online learning are concerning about their grades and courses are extremely recorded. Students believe that online learning is more challenging than traditional classroom. At the same time, teachers are worried about online assessment, concerns about students who are unable to attend online sessions. Teachers who only use computers to teach online have less anxiety than teachers who use computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
Applying De Bono’s six thinking hats for an anti-bullying program
Authors: Manesis Nikolaos , Chatzidaki Natasha , Gialamas Marios
Published: December 2022

Bullying among school children is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted approach. De Bono’s six thinking hats technique can help effectively approach the issue of bullying. The innovation of this scenario lies in the fact that it uses De Bono’s technique to deal with bullying at school. In this way, students can gain a holistic knowledge and promote creative and critical thinking in addressing an issue by considering multiple points of view. The purpose of the paper is to present and highlight one more tool, a teaching scenario that uses De Bono’s technique to address the issue of bullying at school. The scenario was implemented in 6th grade students the school year 2021-2022 to develop skills and examine if their attitudes about bullying can be changed. Finally, the students, as they wrote in their evaluation, changed their behavior, reflected, and discussed the problem of bullying and proposed solutions.
Alertness, self-efficacy, and intention: Mediating effects encouraging students entrepreneurship behavior
Authors: Suratman Andriyastuti , Roostika Ratna
Published: December 2022

This study examined the interaction of alertness, self-efficacy, and intention in entrepreneurial behavior. This research departed from the efforts of educational institutions to produce graduates with entrepreneurial profiles. Data was collected through questionnaires distributed to 530 respondents who had taken sharia entrepreneurship classes at a university in Indonesia. The results showed that education positively affected students' alerts and self-efficacy. Alertness and subsequent self-efficacy also positively impact entrepreneurial intention and behavior. Next, the entrepreneurial intention has a positive effect on entrepreneurial behavior. Contradictory findings show entrepreneurship education does not significantly impact entrepreneurial intention, self-efficacy, and behavior. The indirect effect found that the mediating role of alertness, self-efficacy, and purpose could fully bridge the relationship between education and entrepreneurial behavior. The results implied the importance of alertness, self-efficacy, and intention to promote entrepreneurial behavior in educational institutions. The study results highlighted an important message for universities and schools to put more effort into students' self-efficacy, vigilance, and personal intention to maximize learning activities on campus. The action can support the efforts of educational institutions through the entrepreneurship curriculum to increase the profile of alums as entrepreneurs.
Islamic higher education students’ expenditure before and during pandemic in Indonesia
Authors: Juhaidi Ahmad , Salabi Ahmad , Hidayati Noor
Published: December 2022

Students are experiencing difficulty with online learning because it requires infrastructure, such as internet access that needs to be purchased. This study examined whether online lectures increase or decrease family/student expenses on education using a qualitative approach. Data on education expenditures were collected by interviewing 736 students at State Islamic University (UIN) Antasari, Indonesia before the COVID-19 pandemic and 761 students during the occurrence. Also, interviews were used to collect data on opportunity costs during the pandemic. The results showed that the student/family average expenditure on education at State Islamic University in Indonesia (PTKIN) before the occurrence was IDR 20,420,708 per year. Meanwhile, during the pandemic, their expenses decreased to an average of IDR 15,788,989 per year, indicating a decline of IDR 4,631,719 or 22.68%.
The master of arts in applied linguistics graduates’ perceptions on the program and their competencies
Authors: Mangompit Rowanne Marie Maxilom , Alcisto-Augusto Cindy
Published: December 2022

This study determined and analyzed the graduates’ evaluation of the master of arts in applied linguistics program on their perspectives on the contribution of the program to the present work demands, competencies in their work to further advance career and program enhancement. This study used the quantitative-qualitative research methods by using the modified self-administered questionnaires based on Schomburg primarily and interviews. The data revealed that the graduates perceived the relevance, appropriateness, and satisfaction of their program to their work. The graduates were also trained in terms of writing and presenting reports, critical thinking, managing their time and publishing. However, the program needed to enhance the skills in publication which could be attributed to the lack of internal motivation to publish one’s research output and availability of journals for publication. Thus, this study implies that there is a need to strengthen the research agenda of the department. It is indeed recommended that the students should be required by faculty members to submit their final papers for review and publication to a selected journal and publishing the master’s theses before and after earning the master of arts in applied linguistics (MAAL) program should be encouraged, reinforced, and practiced. A scholarly journal could also be created.
Trends of virtual reality for learning empirical evidence from different fields
Authors: Sulistyaningrum Siti Drivoka , Putri Rizky Syahra , Herawati Atika , Irianto Sugeng
Published: December 2022

Virtual reality (VR) has been shown to be beneficial for educational purposes and has emerged as a prevalent topic for teaching and learning. However, there is very little that is currently known about VR in the context of learning from different fields. This research is a systematic literature review which intends to investigate the future trends of virtual reality for learning by analyzing real-world data obtained from Google Scholar, Crossref, and Google Trends; the first pertinent publication discovered in the database is included as the data of this study. In total, 451 relevant publications from Google Scholar and 999 relevant publications from Crossref have been identified by utilizing content analysis. Based on the findings, VR is an immensely new and emerging worldwide topic that involves authors and connections from various countries. Overall, the significant increase in publications on “virtual reality for learning” (as a source of knowledge) in recent years corresponds to the growing trend of Internet searches on “virtual reality for learning” (as a practical demand). These findings contribute to a reference, to promote, to adjust and re-align VR in workplace learning. This study only covers publication trends, including the number of publications per year and the source types of publications, as well as internet search trends from 2004 to 2022.
Teachers’ individual characteristics and job satisfaction in Southern Papua
Authors: Werang Basilius Redan , Leba Seli Marlina Radja , Asaloei Sandra Ingried
Published: December 2022

This study aimed to examine the possible impact of individual characteristics of teachers on their job satisfaction in the elementary schools of Southern Papua, Indonesia. To do so, two survey questionnaires were distributed to 319 respondents. Employing the SPSS software version 21, obtained data were statistically analyzed using simple linear regression. Result of the data analysis revealed a significant positive impact of the individual characteristics of teachers on their job satisfaction in the elementary schools of Southern Papua. This study provides knowledge on how the individual characteristics of elementary school teachers affect their job satisfaction within the real context of Southern Papua. Therefore, finding of this study may supposedly contribute the body of knowledge by providing the valuable extension of relevant studies in other parts of Indonesia as well as in other countries.
Understanding the concept of percent using the egg rack
Authors: Siligar E.I Pusta , Lesmana Hendra , Zabeta Mewa
Published: December 2022

This study aimed to produce a learning path that can help students understand the concept of percent using the context of an egg rack. This study used a design research method through the Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education approach which was carried out at Elementary School No. 2 Gumawang, Indonesia. Data were obtained through observation, photos, video recordings, student activity sheets, and field documentation. The result of the research was a learning trajectory consisting of three activities; first, students explore their knowledge of egg racks which are very close to students' self-life, secondly, students change the problem into a bar form based on students' knowledge of egg racks, then students change the problem into fractions and students change the fraction with the denominator one hundred, third, students solve the percent problem in a more complicated form. The activities that have been produced and tested on percent learning using the context of an egg rack, can help students to better understand the concept of percent.
Editing as an Act of Intersemiotic Translation in A City of Sadness: From Poetic Language to Cinematic Language
Authors: Chih Vivian Szu-Chin
Published: December 2022

A City of Sadness (1989) is a groundbreaking Taiwan film classic directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. This research paper aims to comment on and contribute to academic discussions of the film by investigating the performance of Chinese poetics in Liao Ching-Song’s editing. Using an inverted sequence of the February 28 Incident as an example, this paper explores the film editor’s cultural discourse of Du Fu’s influence on his own Qi-Yun editing method that he employed to edit the sequence. Through dialogues between the ancient and the contemporary, poetics and narratives, subjectivity and objectivity, as well as the theories of Roman Jakobson, Wai-lim Yip, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and David Bordwell, this paper provides a fresh perspective for re-examining the once harshly criticised method of cinematic ellipses in the film, reaffirming the film’s aesthetic function of allowing audiences to re-access a past obliterated from modern Taiwanese history.
Identification based on morphological and molecular characters of Phassus huebneri (Geyer) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), a ghost moth feeding on blackberry in Michoacán, Mexico: its biology and parasitoids
Authors: ESQUIVEL-AYALA BLANCA A. , MARTÍNEZ ANA M. , ZAMORA NORMA , RAMOS-ORTIZ SELENE , MIELKE CARLOS C. G. , FIGUEROA JOSÉ I. , SILVA-ROJAS HILDA V. , REBOLLAR-ALVITER ÁNGEL , VALDEZ JORGE M. , PINEDA SAMUEL
Published: December 2022

Larvae of an unidentified Lepidopteran hepialid were found boring stems and crown roots of blackberry (Rubus sp.) in Michoacán, Mexico. In this study, the morphological and molecular identification of larvae and adults of this insect was performed. Preliminary aspects of biology, including information on parasitoids associated to larval stage, are also recorded. A total of 109 larvae of various instars were collected and three were reared to adult. The two females and one male were identified as Phassus huebneri (Geyer) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) following morphological characters. This identification was corroborated by comparing the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) barcode of two field-collected larvae (IIAFL1 and IIAFL2) with sequences of Phassus spp. obtained from GenBank. A Neighbor-Joining similarity analysis yielded a phenogram with two subclades. The first subclade grouped the IIAFL1 and IIAFL2 sequences with two other Mexican sequences categorized as P. huebneri, whereas in the second subclade other species belonging to the genus Phassus from Guatemala and Costa Rica were grouped together. Larval development of nine instars took about 14 months. Larvae reached a maximum length of 10 cm. The pupal stage lasted 39–41 days. Each of the two females laid over 1,000 unfertilized eggs within a period of 48 h. Larvae were parasitized by Dinera grisescens Fallen (Diptera: Tachinidae) and another unidentified Dinera sp. This study provides additional evidences on the distribution pattern of P. huebneri in western Mexico and presents the first record of this species feeding on one of the most economically important crops in Mexico.
Studies on the genus Chrysodema (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae) part II.
Authors: FRANK DAVID
Published: December 2022

The second part of the study on the genus Chrysodema Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1835 is presented. All taxa are revised based on a comparative study of extensive material including types of all described taxa. Chrysodema (Chrysodema) eximia ‘complex’ is revised and the new C. antennata species-group is established in the subgenus Chrysodema s. str. Two new species and one new subspecies are described: Chrysodema (Chrysodema) holynskii sp. nov. from Philippines: Masbate Island; Chrysodema (Chrysodema) sekerkai sp. nov. from Indonesia: Bangkai, Peleng and Sulawesi islands; and Chrysodema (Chrysodema) antennata barriesi subsp. nov. from Philippines: Palawan Island. Lectotypes are designated for the following taxa to ensure their correct application and recognition in future: C. (C.) antennata Saunders, 1874; C. (C.) hebes Kerremans, 1892; C. (C.) intercostata Saunders, 1874 and C. (C.) obsoleta J. Thomson, 1879. All herein included taxa are illustrated with colour photographs of habitus and the male aedeagus. Keys and maps of distribution to all taxa in each revised species-group are presented.
Five new species and two new records of Mycterothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Southern China
Authors: LI YAJIN , ZHANG HONGRUI
Published: December 2022

Five new species of Mycterothrips are described from Southwestern China: M. bicolor sp.n. , M. cangshanensis sp.n., M. daweishanensis sp.n., M. hani sp.n. and M. photiniae sp.nov. . The Japanese species M. grandis and the European species M. latus are newly recorded in China. Variation in M. fasciatus is discussed, and an updated key to 18 Mycterothrips species from China is provided.
A new species of scleractinian associated shrimp of the genus Palaemonella (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) with a redescription of Palaemonella orientalis Dana, 1852
Authors: FRANSEN CHARLES H.J.M. , VEER EVA VAN DER , FROLOVÁ PAVLÍNA
Published: December 2022

A new species of Palaemonella, P. rubrolineata sp. nov., is described on the basis of material collected from pocilloporid corals in Indonesia and Vanuatu. The new species is most closely related to P. orientalis, another tropical Indo-West Pacific species usually found in association with pocilloporid and acroporid corals. The new species can be distinguished from P. orientalis based on the presence of a hepatic spine, the more slender rostrum, body and longer appendages, the pleura of the fifth abdominal segment having a posteroventral tooth, the absence of distal rows of long serrate setae on the fingers of the first pereiopods, and in having the cutting edges of the second chela as well as the joints of the pereiopods dark red colored.
Larval description of Theloderma albopunctatum (Liu & Hu, 1962) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Northern Vietnam, with comparison between the North-Vietnamese and North-eastern Thai clades
Authors: GINAL PHILIPP , SCHMITZ LISA M. , RÖDDER DENNIS
Published: December 2022

The mossy frogs of the genus Theloderma Tschudi comprise 28 described taxa (Sivongxay et al. 2016; Frost 2022), which are distributed from north-eastern India and Myanmar to southern China, across the peninsula of Indochina and Malaysia, to Indonesia (Poyarkov et al. 2015; Frost 2022). Theloderma albopunctatum is a small-sized taxon that is assigned to the T.-asperum species complex (Poyarkov et al. 2015, 2018; Sivongxay et al. 2016; Dever 2018). For long time, it has been believed to be a synonym of T. asperum. However, genetic analyses revealed that both taxa show significant differences. Currently, populations south of the Isthmus of Kra (southern Thailand, Malayan peninsular) are assigned to T. asperum, while populations north of it (southern China, northern and central Vietnam, adjacent Laos, south-eastern Cambodia) are assigned to T. albopunctatum. In addition, this species complex might contain further cryptic species (cf. Nguyen et al. 2015; Poyarkov et al. 2015) and according to Chunskul et al. (2021) four genetic groups do exist: group A comprises T. albopunctatum from southern and central Vietnam, Laos, central and north-eastern Thailand; group B is composed of populations from northern Vietnam and China; group C ranges from north-western Vietnam to northern Thailand and Myanmar; and group D is distributed in northern Vietnam (Thanh Hoa).
‘Sanskritisation’ as Appropriation of What Was Denied: A View from the Sree Narayana Guru Movement in Kerala
Authors: Abraham Janaki
Published: December 2022

In this article, I argue that the study of Sree Narayana Guru’s praxis forces us to question the popular understanding of ‘sanskritisation’ as mere imitation or emulation of ‘upper-caste’ rituals and practices for the purpose of seeking caste mobility. Given that the practice of caste has fundamentally been about exclusivity and denial, sanskritisation needs to be seen as a process that involved appropriating what had been denied due to exclusive caste privileges and the working of caste power. Sree Narayana Guru’s movement then, indicates that sanskritisation should be seen as a political act, which sought to challenge caste rules of the time.
Women Beedi Workers of Cooch Behar, West Bengal: Accessibility of Welfare Programmes
Authors: Barman Narayan , Sarkar Badsha
Published: December 2022

The labour market in India is largely unorganised in character, employing 93 per cent of the country’s labour force. India is a country where female work participation rate is very low, yet some specific sectors like beedi manufacturing have an overwhelming female work participation. Today, beedi manufacturing is a traditional and largely home-based industry in India in which 98 per cent of beedi workers are females. This article attempts to capture the accessibility of labour welfare programmes by female beedi workers in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. As a welfare state, the Government of India, along with the state government of West Bengal, has enacted several welfare schemes to protect the basic social needs of these women workers. But their backwardness, illiteracy combined with poverty, and a lack of administrative transparency appear to be major constraints in female beedi workers having any access to welfare programmes.
Disappearing Ethics in Contemporary Governance
Authors: Saxena K. B.
Published: December 2022

Amitabh Rajan, Ethical Dimensions of Administrative Power, SAGE Publications, 2021, 228 pp., ₹550. ISBN 9789391370008 (Paperback).
Territorial Nationalism, Confessional Islam and the Conundrum of State-Making in Early Postcolonial Pakistan
Authors: Sanjeev Kumar H.M.
Published: December 2022

The interplay of the question regarding the nature of postcolonial citizenship and the limits of religious belief considerably moulded the processes of the structuring of the political community in the early years of Pakistan’s history. Such an interplay manifested in the form of a normative contest between two distinct conceptualisations of nationalism. One was based on the notion of fixity of political territoriality that was defined in terms of the cartographic identity of Pakistan, and the other was premised upon the phenomenon of confessional Islam which tended to interpret the political identity of the Pakistani state in terms of the religion of Islam as a faith. This article is an attempt at mapping as to how such a contest strongly underpinned the competing public discourse on the modes of structuring of the political community in early postcolonial Pakistan. By doing this, the article discusses how this kind of a public discourse factored deeply in shaping the circuitous course of the processes of state-making in the initial years of the country’s creation.
Book review: Bidyut Mohanty, A Haunting Tragedy: Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of Orissa
Authors: Acharya Pritish
Published: December 2022

Bidyut Mohanty, A Haunting Tragedy: Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of Orissa, Manohar, 2022, 422 pp., ₹2095, ISBN 13:9789390729630 (Hardcover).
Autonomy to Perpetual Dependence: Changing Occupational Patterns of Adivasis in India
Authors: Kujur John
Published: December 2022

The study delves into the occupational precariousness among adivasis and scrutinises the issues of adivasi migrant labour which have been reflected in the Disha Foundation’s report on Tribal Livelihood Migration in India (2021). The study disseminates that while land alienation has engendered livelihood insecurity among adivasis, the politics of identity and dominant pedagogical paradigm have intensified their occupational vulnerability which eventually turned a large section of them into precarious labour. These three factors together explain the increasing migrant labour among them in different states. Unless these three major issues are addressed, the problem of the employment crisis among them may not be mitigated as these are the factors that not only affect their economic life but also the socio-cultural life which plays a major role in their preference for occupation.
The Stickiness of Tea Garden Workers’ Situation in Assam, India
Authors: Spires Bob , Joseph Lissamma , Tost Jeremy
Published: December 2022

Tea garden workers in Assam, India continue to face precarious living and working conditions which have led to recent protests by workers’ unions and student organisations in Assam. This study examines a survey of over 3,000 tea garden worker respondents in three locations across Assam to understand the material realities of these workers and their families. The authors employ a concept that they term ‘stickiness’, drawing on the work of James C. Scott (1976) and Anna Tsing (2005), to describe the theorised interplay between the living and working conditions of plantation life and the vulnerability of the workers. Empirical findings are organised and presented using descriptive statistics around problem areas that provide a broad understanding of the living and working conditions of tea garden workers in Assam. The study also identified a rise in trafficking amongst tea garden families. This study concludes with recommendations from the researchers and partner organisations, as well as intentions for future inquiry.
Social Responsibility of Higher Education
Authors: Tilak Jandhyala B. G.
Published: December 2022

Recognising that the concept of ‘social responsibility of higher education’ can be interpreted in two intricately related ways, viz., responsibility of higher education institutions to society and responsibility of society to higher education, which mutually reinforce each other, this article largely focuses on the former. While social responsibility is an important function of universities, this remained implicit for a long period. As universities tend to increasingly ignore this function and concentrate on teaching and research, the need to explicitly recognise and take up social responsibility as a major function of universities is highlighted. The article highlights how the social responsibility role is intricately related to the other two functions of higher education—teaching and research. Reviewing the efforts of the Government of India in this regard, the article underscores the need to send a message to the entire academic community and society that society values the contribution of higher education to social progress. This also needs to be given proper weightage in the assessment of performance of universities and students.
Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking Behaviour in India
Authors: Deb Surajit
Published: December 2022

The present contribution makes the fifteenth part of the Social Change Indicators series. We have deliberated on several social and economic issues in the previous editions and the topics included vulnerable households across social classes, poverty and migration, living conditions, social protection networks, displacement of rural labour, health and morbidity conditions for older adults, and women’s time-use patterns. In this part, we examine intimate partner (or spousal) violence and help-seeking behaviour across the states of India. We provide state ranking on spousal violence based on the percentage of ever-married women aged 18–49, who have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence. Subsequently, we provide statistics on attitudes towards wife-beating, frequencies of spousal violence by several background characteristics, and also the help-seeking responses of women who have experienced physical or sexual violence.
Undoing Historical Injustice? Critical Reflections on India’s Forest Rights Act, 2006
Authors: Hebbar Ritambhara
Published: December 2022

It has been fifteen years since the passing of The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, popularly known as the Forest Rights Act (FRA), but the discussion around this Act does not seem to die down. Intended to regularise illegal land holdings in forests across India and remedy the situation of numerous forest dwellers who live in perpetual fear of being evicted from their land, the Act has been attributed with transformative possibilities. This article critically engages with the optimism associated with the Act by presenting a synoptic analysis of research conducted at various points and over the last two decades among tribes in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and south India. I argue that while the FRA admits to the historical injustice committed against tribal forest dwellers, it does not validate their experiences or delineate the institutional processes and practices responsible for their marginalisation. This stonewalling of longstanding issues, particularly between the forest department and forest dwellers, indicate posturing rather than an act of contrition for the historical injustice committed against forest dwellers.
Migration, Informality and the Growing Precarity of Work
Authors: Srivastava Ravi
Published: December 2022

We view the impact of three decades of rapid growth and structural change in India on the lives of the working poor in terms of the growing precarity of work. The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020 and the ensuing crisis exposed the vulnerability of informal workers, particularly circular migrants, and resulted in the largest ever urban exodus of migrants. The crisis was a result of changes that had systematically increased the magnitude and scope of informal employment in the industrial and service sectors, and created a cheap, flexible and pliable workforce. Circular migrants, a product of uneven regional development, form an ever-growing segment of this flexible, informal workforce. Largely excluded from urban citizenship and civic rights, they lead a precarious existence, oscillating between town and country, and carrying out tasks that preserve gender and social hierarchies.
Book review: Manindra Nath Thakur, Gyan ki Rajniti: Samaj Adhyayan aur Bharatiya Chintan [Politics of Knowledge: Social Studies and Indian Thought]
Authors: Wankhede Harish S.
Published: December 2022

Manindra Nath Thakur, Gyan ki Rajniti: Samaj Adhyayan aur Bharatiya Chintan [ Politics of Knowledge: Social Studies and Indian Thought], Setu Prakashan, 2022, 360 pp., ₹350, ISBN 9789393758415 (Paperback).
Book review: Papia Sengupta (Ed.), Critical Sites of Inclusion in India’s Higher Education
Authors: Dey Sayan
Published: December 2022

Papia Sengupta (Ed.), Critical Sites of Inclusion in India’s Higher Education, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 204 pp., EUR 109.99, ISBN 978- 981-16-8255-1 (Hardcover).
Book review: Zoya Hasan, Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Polarization and the Growing Crisis of the Congress Party (2009–19)
Authors: Muralidharan Sukumar
Published: December 2022

Zoya Hasan, Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Polarization and the Growing Crisis of the Congress Party (2009–19), Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2022, x+205 pp., ₹1495, ISBN 978-0-19-286341-6 (Hardback).
Technology and Education Today
Authors: Kumar Krishna
Published: December 2022

This essay probes the delusion that technology and education commonly tend to generate by projecting visions of transformation. Recognising that the total change they promise needs to be examined through extended social categories, the essay uses Ursula Franklin’s idea of the ‘real’ world of technology and investigates the implications of digitally-led education. Three spheres—work, knowledge and ethics—are identified for a focussed enquiry so as to obtain a critical view of the relationship between technology and education today. This enquiry enables us to grasp the political economy of technology-led educational planning. A brief attempt is made to indicate how the pervasive promotion of digital devices in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced institutionalised education.
Book review: Kalpana Kannabiran, Bettina Hollstein, Florian Hoffman (Eds.), Discourses on Corruption: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives
Authors: Sathe Putul
Published: December 2022

Kalpana Kannabiran, Bettina Hollstein, Florian Hoffman (Eds.), Discourses on Corruption: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives, New Delhi, Sage | Spectrum, 2022, 308 pp., ₹795, ISBN 978-93-5479-015-7 (Paperback).
From National Revolutionism to Marxism: A Politico-historical Narrative of Origins of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI)
Authors: Deb Bikash Ranjan
Published: December 2022

The national revolutionaries of India while in detention in the first half of the 1930s came in contact with Marxist literature. Imbibed by the Marxist view of social change, they gave up ‘terrorism’ after coming out of jails/camps. However, a sharp debate developed among them on the perception of the Comintern, its colonial policy in general and the policy with respect to the Indian freedom struggle in particular. Instead of joining any of the existing Marxist political parties, these revolutionaries formed their own parties. The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) are two such parties. The RSP was formed in 1940. However, a group of young revolutionaries who were with the RSP dissociated themselves and formed a ‘Platform of Action’ as Socialist Unity Centre (SUC) in 1946 and then gave birth to yet another political party, SUCI, on the Marxist–Leninist lines in 1948. The process of formation of SUCI has been analysed in this article.
Determinants of Green Consumer Behaviour among Indian Consumers: An ISM Approach
Authors: Fatima Zainab , Siddiqui Mohd Abdul Moid , Farooqi Rahela
Published: December 2022

The dynamic changes in the environment and the global market scenario, has also changed the way consumers approach a product. In the recent past, it has been observed that consumers are getting more inclined towards green purchases. This has resulted in the emergence of a new field of research called ‘green consumerism’ or green consumer behaviour. Many researchers have highlighted the reasons, patterns, barriers and enablers of green consumer behaviour. With the help of previous literature and expert opinions, 11 key determinants of green consumer behaviour have been identified operating in the Indian market. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) has been used to develop a framework to show the interrelationship among the identified determinants and how it affects the customer’s green purchase behaviour.
Teachers’ Perceptions and Educational Practices on Sustainable Nutrition in Cyprus
Authors: Maliotou Maria Neocleous , Liarakou Georgia
Published: December 2022

Sustainable nutrition, an important aspect of sustainable development, has a number of dimensions in the sustainable food system. Worldwide many schools in the form of gardening activities attempt the incorporation of sustainable nutrition into their educational practices; however, further development of the topic is required. This study carried out in Cyprus aimed to observe how primary school teachers perceived the concept of sustainable nutrition and how they incorporated it into their teaching practice. Twelve primary school teachers with training in education for sustainable development (ESD) were interviewed. Findings show that the interviewed primary school teachers were only partly aware of the multiple dimensions of sustainable nutrition, and that the health component is stronger than the sustainability component in their teaching. Difficulties faced in incorporating sustainable nutrition in the educational process include teachers’ training-knowledge, curriculum, school management and parent support, as well as economic and practical issues.
Measuring Financial, Personnel and Material Resources for Education for Sustainable Development in the German School System: A Proposal for the German Educational Monitoring and Reporting
Authors: Labanino Rafael Pablo , Lude Armin , Winter Marc , Mainka Steven , Hemmer Ingrid , Bagoly-Simó Péter , Hartmann Johanna , Ullrich Mark
Published: December 2022

In this article, we present our proposal for a set of resource indicators measuring financial, personnel and material resources for education for sustainable development (ESD) in the German primary and secondary education. As resource indicators are an understudied area in ESD indicator research, the present article fills in an important research gap. We constructed an indicator set using a systematic literature review and a three-step validation process. As a result, we propose a comprehensive set of financial, personnel and material resources indicator set for ESD implementation based on both quantitative and qualitative data tailored to the German National ESD Action Plan. A smaller set of resource indicators were also identified, which are all based on relatively easily accessible quantitative data sources. Furthermore, using Germany as an example, the article highlights and addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges of resource indicator development in highly decentralized education systems.
Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship for 6-12-year-olds in Montessori Education
Authors: Gynther Per , Ahlquist Eva-Maria Tebano
Published: December 2022

The aim of this article is to understand how Montessori education, according to Maria Montessori, will enable 6–12-year-olds to meet future challenges and to care for and contribute to the wellbeing of society and the planet as a whole. This article reports on a qualitative content analysis of four books written by Maria Montessori. The analysis shows how the structure in Montessori´s curriculum for these ages lays the foundation to cultivate an understanding of the interdependence of living and non-living elements in the ecosystem and the collective responsibility for human coexistence. Further, the analysis shows how children are provided with an emotional tie to the universal approach she advocates and opportunities to develop a sense of empowerment. The topicality of Montessori education is discussed in relation to different teaching traditions. We argue that Montessori education constitutes a concrete example of a teaching tradition whose democratic mission is evident.
Exploring Sustainable Food Education as Multi-professional Collaboration between Home Economics and School Food Catering
Authors: Janhonen Kristiina , Elkjaer Bente
Published: December 2022

This article explores microprocesses and transactions during 7 months of collaboration for sustainable food education involving two teachers of home economics and a school food manager in a Finnish secondary school. Data sources included interviews and multi-professional meetings, the professional reflections of participants and a researcher’s diary. Leaning on previous literature, we revisit and develop the concept of shared food sense (joint understanding, collective application, redefinition of co-action) as a tool for analysing the learning outcomes of collaborative multi-professional work. Accordingly, the outcomes were conceptualized as context-bound decisions and compromises that were collaboratively reached after the emergence of tensions in the process. The results highlight the need to acknowledge the complex relationships among systemic, institutional, interpersonal and intrapersonal tensions in multi-professional work, as well as to conduct a critical review of the work division, the professional motivations and the opportunities for mutual communication among participants in such alliances.
Demand-Side Obstacles to Publishing Economics Research: A View from the South
Authors: Ronconi Lucas , Kassouf Ana Lúcia
Published: December 2022

We discuss obstacles that researchers located in developing countries face to publish in economics journals. We group obstacles into two categories. ‘Supply-side’ obstacles include lack of funding, networking and certain elements of research capacity. ‘Demand-side’ obstacles arise from the practices of many journals’ editors. It is these less well-recognized obstacles that are the focus of this commentary. This set of practices combines to make it less likely that southern authors will get their work published. Significantly, the practices include a preference for manuscripts with highly reliable results (which usually require randomized controlled trials) over creative papers that confront questions that can only be imperfectly answered with the best methodologies available. This ranking discourages southern researchers from participating in journals and is a constraint for cumulative scientific progress.
Salivary Aspartate Aminotransferase, Alanine Aminotransferase and IgA as biomarkers for Type I Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
Authors: Mohandas Rahul , Ramani Pratibha , Mohapatra Subhashree
Published: December 2022

Introduction:

Type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by absolute insulin deficiency, which is caused by progressive destruction of the β-islet cells of the pancreas. Aminotransferases participate in the interconversion of amino acids and oxalic acids by transfer of amino groups. Organ damage leads to leakage of transaminases into the blood. IgA is the only immunoglobulin that is found in saliva and forms the first line of defense. Alteration in the levels of secretory IgA often indicates a local or systemic disease. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the role of salivary aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and IgA as biomarkers for T1DM patients.

Materials and Methods:

An electronic literature search was conducted by two independent reviewers using PubMed, Medline and Google scholar without any date filter. The inclusion criteria included case control and cross-sectional studies. Publications in languages other than English, review articles, letters to the editor, and studies done on animal models were excluded from the review. The difference in the levels of salivary AST, ALT, or IgA in T1DM patients and in healthy individuals were compared. Risk of bias assessment was done using the ROBINS-I tool.

Results:

A total of eight relevant articles were assessed, out of which three studies showed elevated salivary AST and ALT levels and five studies showed elevated salivary IgA levels in patients with T1DM.

Conclusion:

Our review reflected that salivary AST, ALT, and IgA were elevated in T1DM patients, and they can be used for monitoring these patients. Further studies are needed to establish the diagnostic accuracy of these parameters for clinical application.
What Happens After Graduation? The Post-Law School Experiences and Reflections of Aotearoa, New Zealand Law Graduates
Authors: Taylor Lynne , Sotardi Valerie , Cheer Ursula , Brogt Erik , Baird Natalie
Published: December 2022

From 2014 to 2019, a national, longitudinal study followed a group of self-selected law students enrolled at four of the six Aotearoa New Zealand law schools. This paper presents study participants’ self-reported post-law school reflections and experiences. These provide insight as to how participants’ time at law school served them after graduation. Reported data include participants’ work experiences, future career plans and reflections on their law school experience. The data is unique in that it captures the postgraduation experiences and reflections of a cohort which includes not only those who are employed in the legal profession but also those who are not. Key findings are largely positive self-reported post-law school outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand law graduates, but that Aotearoa New Zealand law schools have work to do review and/or improve the delivery of the learning and teaching experiences leading to those outcomes. The reported data give law teachers, law schools and universities new information to consider and use in course and programme development and reviews. It will also be of interest to prospective and current law students and their families, employers of law graduates and the legal profession.
Depressed Classes: The True Unmarriageables Within the Hindu Social Order
Authors: Siddharthar A. B. Karl Marx
Published: December 2022

To dispel all the needless interpretations and confusions about the caste and to compel all the scholars, academicians, legislators, politicians and even the masses not to deviate themselves from the precise definition of caste in the matters of annihilation of caste, emancipation of Depressed Classes, reservation, etc. is what this article aims to achieve.

The concept of ‘unmarriageability’ and the nomenclature of ‘unmarriageables’ introduced in this article is merely an extended reinterpretation of Dr Ambedkar’s finding in his Doctoral Thesis that caste is nothing but the mechanism of endogamy. Hence, it became inevitable to quote the writings of Dr Ambedkar for the better understanding about caste and untouchability—the premises based on which the entire article is constructed.

The article justifies why the concept of ‘unmarriageability’ should be specifically considered in the context of Dalits. While a careless interpretation would make each caste unmarriageable to the rest, it is established that the Depressed Classes (Dalits) are the true unmarriageables within the Hindu social order. Also, the term ‘unmarriageables’ for the Depressed Classes is introduced in this article.
The Assertion of Identity: A Research on Meches, Rabhas, Totos and Garos of North Bengal
Authors: Banerjee Ushasi
Published: December 2022

Anil Kumar Sarkar, Tribes of Sub-Himalayan Region: Meches, Rabhas, Totos and Garos New Delhi: Mittal Publications,, 2021, 178 pp, ₹700. ISBN: 978-8194936084.
Book review: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (Eds), Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance
Authors: Debnath Kunal
Published: December 2022

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (Eds), Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance. Permanent Black, 2022, ₹1495, x+605 pp. ISBN: 9788178246512 (Hardback).
Role of Women and Commercial Sex Workers in the Indian Freedom Struggle
Authors: Mitra Atanu
Published: December 2022

Medinipur was one of the leading districts of India in the annals of struggles against British colonialism. These struggles began with the violent Adivasi rebellion, popularly known as Chuar Bidroha or Choar Bidroha in 1776 to the non-violent Quit India movement called by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 including the communist party led peasant movement ( Tebhaga) of the 1940s. The role of women in general and commercial sex workers in particular of erstwhile Medinipur in the Indian freedom struggle have been discussed in this article. Commercial sex workers dedicatedly participated in the nationalist movements knowing it fully well that their profession would be harmed. It may be mentioned that almost no study has been done so far to discuss particularly the active role of commercial sex workers of Medinipur in the Indian freedom struggle. Their sacrifice was not recorded so far by our nationalist historians till the beginning of platinum jubilee celebration of Indian Independence. This article depicts the crucial role played by these women against the ruthless atrocities perpetrated by the British Raj.