bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Lapisan Budaya Keris Taming Sari dalam Hikayat Hang Tuah: Pendekatan Budaya dan Semiotik
Authors:   Universiti Sains Malaysia, Abdul Aziz Sohaimi
Published: April 2021

The Keris is a short-bladed dagger considered to be the traditional weapon of the Malays. The dagger known as “keris Taming Sari” is the weapon of Hang Tuah in Hikayat Hang Tuah. This keris is not only a traditional Malay weapon but also a symbol of Malay culture. However, there have not been any systematic studies about the keris Taming Sari. Based on the cultural studies of Edgar H. Schein, Taming Sari can be seen as a cultural organization with a layered structure. Each cultural layer has a specific meaning. The first layer is the artifact layer and the second layer is the value layer; both of these are obvious or explicit. However, the third layer is hidden or unseen. For this, it is necessary to use Roland Barthes’s semiotics approach. Two codes have been selected, namely the symbolic code and the cultural code, to interpret the meanings within this third layer. This study finds that in the first layer, keris Taming Sari has a form that consists of the hilt, sheath and blade. In the second layer, the usage value is evident, as keris Taming Sari is a weapon and a gift. By using the symbolic code, this third layer of Taming Sari reveals magical and miraculous values, while the cultural code reveals that the third layer indicates two underlying beliefs: animism and feudalism. The three cultural layers together give keris Taming Sari its own identity as a cultural artifact in Malay culture
Editorial
Authors: Couros Alec
Published: April 2021

An introduction to our Autumn 2009 issue of in education, a peer-reviewed, open access journal. This is also Part I of a two-part series focusing on Social Media & Technology.
Instructional Mash-Up: Promoting Reflective Skill Development in a Virtual Environment
Authors: Dunlap Karen , Mac Gowan Tracey , Restine Keith
Published: April 2021

Classroom management (CM) research suggests prospective teachers customarily view CM skill acquisition as a fundamental component of pedagogical knowledge development (Emmer & Stough, 2001; Merrett & Wheldall, 1993). Dissemination of critical concepts has traditionally occurred in face-to-face classrooms supported by school-based field experiences. However, circumstances have fueled student demand for flexible scheduling and convenient online courses (Ellis, 2009; Fink, 2003). Professors are challenged to deliver CM instruction virtually; utilizing multiple tools for online delivery to emulate traditional and educational training experiences. This qualitative study explored emergence of reflective skills in blogs, wikis, and scaffolded assignments in an online CM course.Keywords: classroom management; pedagogy; flexibility; online courses; blogs; wikis; scaffolded assignments
Researching a Social Justice Course in a Charter School: A Duoethnographic Conversation
Authors: Lund Darren E. , Veinotte Cheryl
Published: April 2021

This paper uses a dialogic approach following duoethnography to report on a research study conducted in a charter school offering a locally designed social justice course.  This narrative approach involves a critical dialogue between two people, each of whom pushes the other to further insights and understandings.  The urban prairie school under study focused on gifted learners and was funded as a public school.  Multiple methods of data collection included document and policy analysis, field observations, and open-ended interviews with administrators, teachers and students who were directly involved with the social justice program.  The results and discussion focus on student engagement in schools on issues of human rights and social justice, inquiry-based approaches to the curriculum, and include implications for educational policy and practice.Keywords: alternative school programs; social justice; duoethnography; inquiry learning
Enhancing Student Achievement: The Importance of Second Level Educational Services in First Nation Schools in One Tribal Council in Saskatchewan
Authors: Steeves Larry , Carr-Stewart Sheila , Marshall Jim
Published: April 2021

The primary purpose of this paper is an exploration of issues related to the provision of second level (central office) services available to schools within the Yorkton Tribal Council (YTC), a First Nations educational authority located in southeastern Saskatchewan.  Research results supported the role of second level services in improving student learning and identified a shortfall in second level funding for the Yorkton Tribal Council.  Key stakeholder focus groups from within the Yorkton Tribal Council agreed with these conclusions and identified a number of additional issues such as relevant curriculum, instruction, teacher recruitment and retention, and improved leadership and governance.Keywords: second level services; governance; student achievement; First Nations educational authority; Yorkton Tribal Council
An Analysis of Research on Constructivist Teacher Education
Authors: Rainer Dangel Julie
Published: April 2021

This review of research (1990 to 2009) on constructivist teacher education synthesizes a growing but fragmented body of research and links it to practice in teacher education; it provides a guide for future research, program development, and policy and practice development which is consistent with empirical evidence.  It includes a selection of 27 studies on preservice efforts; efforts which include programs, courses, and field experiences.  First, an analysis of the research suggests a variety of effects from both short- and long-term experiences.  Effects are identified in two categories: (a) conceptual understandings (with three subcategories: understanding of content, pedagogy, and the self as learner) and (b) classroom practice.  Then, based on the findings, six mediatory experiences are suggested that facilitate preservice teachers’ growth.  Finally, the studies are assessed using a framework (Darling Hammond, 2006) to determine gaps in the research. Keywords: constructivism; Teacher Education; preservice teachers
Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Select First Nations Schools
Authors: Mueller Robin , Carr-Stewart Sheila , Steeves Larry , Marshall Jim
Published: April 2021

Historically, the inequitable funding for First Nations schools in comparison to funding for provincial schools has been an issue from the time of early day schools, to residential schools in which students worked half a day to tend to crops in order to grow food for consumption by students and staff, and to present day where band-managed schools still experience lack of funding.  Similarly, the lower salary levels for teachers in federal and today in First Nations-managed schools has been identified as a significant issue related to teacher retention. The purpose of this research was to identify current factors affecting teacher recruitment and retention in present day First Nations’ managed schools. In this paper we report on one case study comparing funding and teacher retention in one provincial school system and schools in one Tribal Council in Saskatchewan.Keywords: funding; First Nations schools; administration; teacher recruitment; teacher retention
Indigenous Principles Decolonizing Teacher Education: What We Have Learned
Authors: Sanford Kathy , Williams Lorna , Hopper Tim , McGregor Catherine
Published: April 2021

Although teacher education programs across the country are currently under significant review and reform, little attention is paid to the importance of Indigenous principles that could inform or transform them. Attention to Indigenous principles such as those presented in this paper can, we believe, serve to decolonize teacher education, offering programs that enable greater success for a wider array of diverse students, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, and address their needs and interests. The intent of this paper is to draw attention to the ways Indigenous principles offered by Lil’wat scholar Lorna Williams have influenced one teacher education program, and to share some of the ways that these principles have been enacted within the program. We offer our perspectives as narrative accounts of what we have done in our courses and in our teacher education program that reflect the principles explained in the paper. We do not feel we can express this perspective any different other than to recount shifts made and our observations as educators. These could be expressed as case studies but this would only be paying lip service to claiming a methodology that was not really followed. We offer this paper more as a sharing of narratives drawn to the indigenous principles. Authenticity comes from our common perceptions from different perspectives in the program.Keywords: Indigenous Knowledge; Teacher Education; Decolonization
Time to Play: The Difference Between Knowing and Showing
Authors: Etherington Matthew
Published: April 2021

Children’s play experiences demonstrate many benefits for learning, cognitive development, and self-awareness. Evidence reveals that children require regular amounts of play. Despite this evidence, play has been rapidly disappearing from the home, the neighbourhood, and the school over the last two decades. Curriculum reformers present empirical data to suggest that safety, health and fitness, and behaviour considerations compel a structured approach to playtime from Kindergarten through to Year 6 of primary school. In this article, I argue that one can know from personal experience that authentic play experiences are valuable and one can also show through personal experience that play is vital for learning. These two approaches defend play as a valuable learning experience for curriculum development. Keywords: childhood; play, curriculum development; knowing; showing
A Review of Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection by Robert Coles
Authors: Kolenick Paul
Published: April 2021

A Review of Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection by Robert Coles Coles, R. (2010). Handing one another along: Literature and social reflection (273 pages). T. Hall & V. Kennedy ( Eds.). New York: Random House.
The "Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework": A Case Study on its Impact
Authors: Kearns Laura-Lee
Published: April 2021

In 2007, the Ontario Government implemented the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework. Some schools and school boards have been active in piloting and supporting these initiatives. Because this is a newly implemented policy direction, I wanted to begin to assess best practices and challenges, so I asked participants at one school board and one high school what impact their participation in the Aboriginal education program initiatives had on them professionally, academically, and personally. The Aboriginal programming initiatives, like the ones in which I have participated and studied, have been found to be personally and academically/professionally transformative for administrators, teachers, and youth. As Indigenous-focused curriculum is brought into the mainstream, and as a space is created to consider and include Indigenous perspectives, there is potential for Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants to experience powerful learning opportunities, some of which may transform their perceptions of Canadian history and for contemporary Indigenous people to be valued, though many challenges remain systemically to decolonize the educational realm.
Comforting Discomfort: A Review of "Warrior Women: Remaking Postsecondary Places Through Relational Narrative Inquiry"
Authors: Brogden Lace Marie
Published: April 2021

A review of Warrior Women: Remaking Postsecondary Places Through Relational Narrative Inquiry
Seeking the Elusive Fit: What Do Educational Leaders Look for When Hiring New Teachers for First Nations Schools?
Authors: Cranston Jerome
Published: April 2021

This article reports on the preliminary findings of a qualitative research study that explored the perceptions of five directors of education in Manitoba’s First Nations’ educational authorities as they assess prospective teachers for fit for both their schools and their local communities. The findings of this study illustrate that in order to meet the challenges of teaching effectively in First Nations’ schools, those responsible for hiring teachers want to find candidates who (a) contribute to the establishment of a new culture of teaching in the schools, (b) form respectful relationships with students and other members of the particular First Nation community, (c) possess a worldview that is commensurate with those held by First Nations peoples, and (d) are competent to teach academic subjects and also support students’ development as Indigenous youth. I conclude with recommendations that can support the preparation of a greater number of prospective teachers capable of teaching effectively in First Nation schools.     Keywords: First Nations education; Teacher recruitment and selection; educational leadership
The Institutional and Community Capacity for Aboriginal Education: A Case Study
Authors: Deer Frank
Published: April 2021

O’owe zagakibii’igewin da-ozhibii’igaade bezhig noomaya’ii gii-maajichigaade Anishinaabewi dago mooniyaawi-gikina’amaagewin omaa Kaanada akiing. Ogikina’amaageg gaa-wiiji’iwewaad omaa izhichigewining gii-anishinaabewiwag, gii-waabishkiiwewag gaye. Gichi-anishinaabeg gaye ningoding gii-aabadiziwag. Aaniin ji-izhi-minosegiban, awe gaa-niigaanishkang ogii-gaganoonaa’ bebakaan awiya’ gaa-gikina’amaageng zhigwa gii-ayizhaa bekish wii-zagakibii’iged. Iwe zagakibii’igewin izhisin, eniwek gii-gwaawaanjichigewag gegoo dazhiikigaadeg, wiiji’iweg ayaawaad dago awiyag gechiwaag imaa eyaawaad. Endasing ono gwaawaanjichigewinan, gegoo zenagakin zhigwa gegoon ge-wiiji’iwesegin, gikenjigaade zhigwa aaniin ezhi-gichi-inendaagwak Anishinaabewi-gikina’amaagewin aaniin gaye ezhi-zanagak oodenaang ji-dazhi-gikina’amaageng This study explored the institutional and community capacity for Aboriginal education in one urban school district in Canada that recently established a formal Aboriginal education programme. Participants in this study were Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal education professionals, as well as Aboriginal Elders directly and indirectly affiliated with the study school district. Using a qualitative approach, I conducted interviews with participants and observed in-school activities in an effort to acquire data. I found that the physical, political, human resource, and community capacities were, in varying degrees, sufficiently developed to provide Aboriginal education programming. Within each of these capacities, challenges and perceived opportunities have led to an acknowledgement of the importance of Aboriginal education as well as an appreciation of the difficulties of offering such programming in an urban educational environment.
Social Studies and Civil Society: Making the Case to Take on Neoliberalism
Authors: Orlowski Paul
Published: April 2021

The biggest threat to civil society in Canada and the United States is the economic doctrine known as neoliberalism. Sometimes referred to as the corporate agenda, this philosophy supports the deregulation of industry, the privatization of the commons, the weakening of workers’ rights, and corporate tax cuts. Acknowledging that teaching is a political act, this paper makes a case for social studies and history teachers to develop pedagogy that lifts the hegemonic veil for students. Progressive economic policies--progressive tax reform, support for workers, strengthening social welfare, and regulating industry--work in tandem to create resistance to neoliberalism. After describing the effects of neoliberalism today, the paper highlights important victories for working- and middle-class citizens based on Keynesian economics and social democratic values that have strengthened civil society in both countries. All are threatened today because of neoliberalism. The paper outlines a pedagogical approach for social studies teachers based upon ideology critique, critical media literacy, and reframing of neoliberal discourses with progressive ones. Deconstructing hegemony is the crucial component of this critical pedagogy.     Keywords: social studies education; neoliberalism; ideology critique; critical media literacy; deconstructing hegemony
Confronting Race and Colonialism: Experiences and Lessons Learned From Teaching Social Studies
Authors: Smith Bryan A. B.
Published: April 2021

Literature on teacher education and encounters with race highlight some of the difficulties that teacher candidates face when they confront their own racialized subjectivities. However, many of these projects focus exclusively on Whiteness studies, explicating how White teacher candidates come to witness their own racialized Whiteness in relation to their epistemological understandings of the world. In this paper, I diverge from this pattern of thought, exploring a subset of the tenets of critical race theory, that of silences and exclusions, pervading my own teaching in a primary/junior social studies methods class and exploring how these structured my lessons. Specifically, I look at how counternarratives, critiques against liberalism, and multiculturalism and encounters with racialized and colonial supremacy were involved in my pedagogical strategies. I conclude by suggesting that although these methods may seem daunting for the primary/junior classroom, they can provide valuable insights for teacher candidate orientations to their own pedagogies.     Keywords: social studies pedagogy; anti-racism in practice
A Review of "Qualitative Methodology: A Practical Guide"
Authors: Mulholland Val
Published: April 2021

A Review of Qualitative Methodology: A Practical Guide by Jane Mills and Belanie Birks (2014)
Poetic Inquiry and Its Lyrical Potential for Research
Authors: Shidmehr Nilofar
Published: April 2021

Including both discursive and lyrical inquiry as complementary sides of research and education, educational poetics is a way of re-imagining education that creates greater critical awareness of and ethical responsibility for our learning processes and inspires learners to employ their human potential for imagination and critical thinking to revise and remake "common sense."Keywords: education; educational poetics; pedagogy; poetic inquiry; the lyrical
School-Linked Services: Practice, Policy, and Constructing Sustainable Collaboration
Authors: Salm Twyla
Published: April 2021

In Saskatchewan, many of the provincial practices and policies addressing health and social issues including, poverty and social exclusion in multi-service schools are informed by an integrated services policy called SchoolPLUS. This study explores how SchoolPLUS discourse has shaped and continues to produce the collaborative integrated services landscape and impact wider social strategies even though it is no longer considered government policy. Three factors are suggested as reasons for SchoolPLUS’s decline. First, SchoolPLUS practice became edu-centric and marginalized other professions in blatant and subtle ways. Second, the level of collaborative competencies needed to perform collaboration is often underestimated—for SchoolPLUS too much might have been expected too fast—and finally, there was a daunting complexity factor at the macro level. Data was collected by analysing academic publications and public documents, including government newsletters and the provincial teacher’s newspaper. A practice policy paradox is revealed, suggesting that the concept of SchoolPLUS emerged organically from the vernacular of practice and continues to produce, and be reproduced, in this domain regardless of the current, official interprofessional policy.        Keywords: multi-service schools; policy; integrated services
Learning to Be: Emerging Discourse in Awakening Transformation in Education
Authors: Tse Vanessa V. , Monk David F.
Published: April 2021

This paper explores the disconnection between knowledge of social and environmental injustices and actions to right them. Through our discussion, we consider possible reasons for this disconnection, whether a lack of knowledge, personal accountability and responsibility, or a fear of being swallowed up in the depths of the suffering in the world. We then critically reflect on our role and the role of education to broach this gap. We adopt O’Sullivan’s (2002) transformative learning theory as a guide and suggest that disruptive dialogues, like the one that has guided this paper, can challenge habits of mind, shift perspectives, and lead to action for a better, more equitable world. Ultimately, we conclude that such conversations are organic and ever changing and are integral to education.Keywords: Social justice; critical discourse; transformation
Thinking Together: A Duoethnographic Inquiry Into the Implementation of a Field Experience Curriculum
Authors: Seidel Jackie , Hill Laurie
Published: April 2021

This paper examines the experiences of two colleagues working in close collaboration over several years to create, implement, and assess an innovative and integrative cohort-based, preservice-teacher, field-experience curriculum in a new Bachelor of Education program. Engaging a duoethnographic narrative approach, this paper both inquires into the experiences of the authors and traces the complex interrelational work and personal work that was required to do "good" work together on behalf of preservice students and partners in the "field."Keywords: field experiences; duoethnography; teacher education; curriculumchange
Standpoint Theory in Professional Development: Examining Former Refugee Education in Canada
Authors: Braun Vanessa
Published: April 2021

On September 2, 2015, a toddler was photographed on an unnamed Turkish beach in a position reminiscent of a baby sleeping in his crib. Alan Kurdi would instantly become the poster child for an entire nation that had no other alternative but to run and risk their lives on inflatable dinghies. On the open expanse of the Mediterranean Sea, the rate of survival was much higher than staying in Syria. On December 11, 2015, the newly elected Canadian Liberal majority government opened up Canada’s borders to Syrian refugees, and the Canadian education system is now grappling with how to adequately address the needs of their former refugee students. This article examines how deficit discourse affects academic excellence of all English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners, including former refugee students, and how professional development offers a cost-effective solution to the effects of deficit discourse on former refugee students, while equipping teachers with reliable skills and tools to use in diverse classrooms. In addition, this article investigates how standpoint theory can be used as the foundation for professional development programming for teachers of all students, including those who were refugees. Keywords: education; deficit discourse; standpoint theory; refugee
My Junglee Story Matters: Autoethnography and Language Planning and Policy
Authors: Khanam Rubina
Published: April 2021

The present paper discuses the value of autoethnography as a research methodology in the area of language planning and policy in investigations of language, power, and identity. Traditionally, research methodology in the area of language planning and policy focuses on language, power, and identity from a sociopolitical perspective at the national level. These methodologies do not easily examine how the issues of language, power, and identity are related to the lives of individuals. Therefore, this paper argues for the use of autoethnography as a research methodology in language planning and policy research because it systematically analyzes personal experiences in order to understand the researcher’s cultural experience regarding her or his perspectives, beliefs, and practices of language as a language user. This paper also argues that autoethnography can be combined with traditional research methods such as historical-structural analysis and ethnography of language policy to make language planning and policy research more diverse and critical.Keywords: Language planning and policy; autoethnography; research methodology; power; identity
Examining the Organization of a Second Grade Classroom: An Action Research Analysis Using Human Resource and Structural Frames
Authors: Capraro Karen
Published: April 2021

This paper presents an examination and analysis of the restructuring of the organization of a second grade classroom housed in a laboratory school setting. During the 2014-2015 academic year, the traditional power structure of teacher as ultimate authority with students positioned as subordinates was explored. Using action research and the application of frame theory the organizational structure of the second grade classroom is considered using human resource and structural frames.     Keywords: organization; power, elementary; structure; human resource
The Light to the Left: Conceptions of Social Justice Among Christian Social Studies Teachers
Authors: Orlowski Paul
Published: April 2021

This article describes a study that took place in Saskatchewan, Canada, during 2013-2014. Ten practicing high school social studies teachers who self-identified as Christian answered an unsolicited invitation to participate in a qualitative study about the ways in which they think about social justice. Almost evenly split between Catholic and Protestant, female and male, and urban and rural, most participants were very progressive in their thinking about important economic and social issues. For example, all supported paying taxes and the social welfare state, and almost all supported gay rights and feminism. As well, an important emergent theme arose: The majority spoke about breaking from the teachings of their church if the teachings did not fit with contemporary society. All of them claimed that their faith influenced their thinking about social justice. The study challenges some secular notions about the values held by Christian social studies teachers. Situated in Canada, the study challenges American research findings about the political ideology and values of Christian social studies teachers.            Keywords: social studies education; teaching for social justice; controversial issues; teacher beliefs; Christian teaching
Borderlands of Possibility: Exploring the Construction of Professional Identity With Intern Teachers
Authors: Allan Sharon L.
Published: April 2021

Students enrolled in Bachelor of Education degree programs engage in academic study and field experiences that both validate and challenge their existing understandings of who they are and who they are becoming: their professional identity. This interpretive case study explored the ways in which four intern teachers constructed professional understandings during the 15 weeks of their culminating field experience: a borderland space. Ecologically defined as an ecotone, this time in between—of being a student and becoming a teacher—is a zone of transition, a crossroads of being and becoming. Using a series of conversational interviews where the researcher and the participants explored the experience of living on the borderland, this study revealed the challenges of constructing a professional identity as well as the ways in which these intern teachers gradually assumed the subject position: teacher. Four essential aspects of this experience were distilled from the findings of this inquiry and arranged into a conceptual framework to assist teacher educators as they craft curriculum capable of engaging student teachers in the consideration of who they are becoming as teachers. By contributing to our growing understanding of the ways in which preservice teachers view themselves as emerging professionals, this inquiry suggests deeper investigation of the mentor-mentee relationship is needed in order to better support student teachers on the borderlands of their final field experience.            Keywords: professional identity; borderland space; intern teachers; field experience; interpretive case study
A Review of The Way of the Teacher: A Path for Personal Growth and Professional Fulfillment by Sandra Finney and Jane Thurgood Sagal
Authors: Leggo Carl
Published: April 2021

A Review of The Way of the Teacher: A Path for Personal Growth and Professional Fulfillment by Sandra Finney and Jane Thurgood Sagal"I enthusiastically commend Finney and Thurgood Sagal for their thoughtful, hopeful, and inspiriting book which ought to be adopted as a core text in all Bachelor of Education programs as well as professional development plans for teachers." Carl Leggo
Out of the Shadows: A Review of Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea by Young Chun Kim
Authors: Mulholland Val
Published: April 2021

A Review of Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea by Young Chun Kim. London: PalgraveMacMillan, 2016.
Editorial
Authors: Lewis Patrick J
Published: April 2021

Editorial for the Autumn 2018 issue
Exploring Teachers’ Experiences of Participating in Teacher Inquiry as Professional Learning
Authors: Gillis Eleanor , Mitton-Kukner Jennifer
Published: April 2021

Teacher inquiry is the intentional and methodical reflection on one’s praxis that leads to action, and the resulting adjustments to one’s teaching practice. While scholars identify the importance of supports to be in place to sustain engagement in teacher inquiry, the specifics of the supports have remained somewhat unidentified, and there is little documentation about what teachers experience as they engage in teacher inquiry as part of a school-wide professional learning initiative. This paper explores the experiences of three middle school teachers participating in a year-long, guided teacher inquiry as part of a school’s professional learning plans. It is approached from an ethnographic, emic perspective. The challenges and supports teachers experienced when engaging in the inquiry process, as well as what they felt allowed honest dialogue, emerged as important aspects informing the results of this study. Participants identified that feeling safe influenced their ability to engage in teacher inquiry, and their willingness to address challenges associated with conducting research.            Keywords: teacher inquiry; teachers as researchers; school-based professional learning
Editorial
Authors: Lewis Patrick J
Published: April 2021

The Editorial for the Autumn 2019 issue of in education
Understanding Meaningful Exchanges: Mathematics Discourse Analysis and Complexity Thinking
Authors: Throop Robinson Evan
Published: April 2021

The focus in this paper is on the analysis of student-centered discourse through applying a discourse analysis tool that I developed to analyze data from an elementary mathematics classroom. The purpose of the analysis tool is to understand the impact of the complex learning system on the emerging classroom discourse. The minimum conditions for complexity created an invitational space for students that allowed interactions and meaningful exchanges to flourish through exploration of mathematical concepts and collective participation in classroom discourse. The analytic lens provides the teacher with a tool to understand more clearly the dynamics of meaningful exchanges identified as sharing, building, exploring and blocking.

Keywords: Classroom discourse; mathematics education; complexity
Editorial
Authors: Lewis Patrick J
Published: April 2021

The Editorial for the Autumn 2020 issue of in education
An Implementation of K-NN Classification Algorithm for Detecting Impersonators in Online Examination Environment
Authors: Izu-Okpara I. O. , Nwokonkwo O. C. , John-Otumu A. M.
Published: April 2021

The online examination platforms also known as computer-based testing (CBT) platforms for conducting mass-driven examinations over computer networks to eliminate certain issues such as delay in marking, misplacement of scripts, monitoring, etc., associated with the conventional Pen and Paper Type (PPT) of examination have also been bedeviled with the issue of impersonation commonly associated with the PPT system. The existing online examination platforms rely on passive mechanisms such as the CCTV system and the human invigilators for monitoring the examination halls against cheating and impersonation. The proposed model integrates some level of intelligence into existing online examination prototype by designing and developing an intelligent agent service that could assess students against impersonation threat in an online examination environment using the K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) machine learning classification technique considering the level of accuracy and response time in answering the questions. A total of 3,083 dataset was downloaded from an online repository; 80% (2,466) of the dataset was used for training the model, while 20% (617) dataset was used in testing the model to enable the model detect unseen data correctly. Results showed that the developed model has a 99.99% accuracy rate, precision, recall and f-score.
An Integrated Model for Monitoring Nodes in Computer Networks
Authors: Okafor O. J. , Nwokonkwo O. C. , John-Otumu A. M.
Published: April 2021

Monitoring complex computer network environment is now a very challenging task for network administrators despite the various existing monitoring applications for networks that are faced with the issues of centralized monitoring, which causes network traffic, reduces network bandwidth, and are unable to concurrently run two or more network services. This research paper was designed to tackle the problems exhibited by the existing network monitoring application by integrating different network monitoring services in a single model using the power of agent’s distributed processing and monitoring services. Data about the existing and proposed model was gathered using key informant interview approach, and observation of the existing software. Iterative software model was adopted as the software development life cycle based on its strengths and suitability. The proposed model was developed using use-case and sequence diagrams. Suitable programming languages and development environment such as Java, JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor, Hypertext markup language and MySQL were used in coding the software prototype. The functionality of the proposed system was tested and results showed that the proposed system has 100% anomaly network intrusion detection rate and better functional features as compared to the existing network monitoring applications observed.
UU rings
Authors:   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY KOGALNICEANU 1, 400080 CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA E-mail address: calu@math.ubbcluj.ro, CALUGAREANU GRIGORE
Published: April 2021

A new class of rings is studied: rings all whose units are sums 1 + n, for a suitable nilpotent element n. These are called UU rings.
On the geometry behind a recurrent relation
Authors:   SIMION STOILOW INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY P.O. BOX 1-764, BUCHAREST 70700, ROMANIA E-mail address: cristian.cobeli@imar.ro, COBELI CRISTIAN , ZAHARESCU ALEXANDRU ,   SIMION STOILOW INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY P.O. BOX 1-764, BUCHAREST 70700, ROMANIA E-mail address: zaharesc@illinois.edu,   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA -CHAMPAIGN 1409 WEST GREEN STREET URBANA IL 61801, USA E-mail address: zaharesc@illinois.edu
Published: April 2021

We consider a certain linear recursive relation with integer parameters and study some of its algebraic and geometric properties, with the purpose of estimating the number of chains of valences in the Farey series.
Some examples of division symbol algebras of degree 3 and 5
Authors:   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY BD MAMAIA 124, 900527, CONSTANTA, ROMANIA E-mail address: cflaut@univ-ovidius.ro, cristina flaut@yahoo.com http://cristinaflaut.wikispaces.com/, FLAUT CRISTINA , SAVIN DIANA ,   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY BD MAMAIA 124, 900527, CONSTANTA, ROMANIA E-mail address: savin.diana@univ-ovidius.ro, dianet72@yahoo.com, http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/math/
Published: April 2021

In this paper we provide an algorithm to compute the product between two elements in a symbol algebra of degree n and we find an octonion algebra (in general, without division) in a symbol algebra of degree three. Moreover, using MAGMA software, we will provide some examples of division symbol algebras of degree 3 and of degree 5.
Existence of three solutions for a three-point boundary value problem via a three-critical-point theorem
Authors:   JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, XUZHOU, JIANGSU 221116, P. R.CHINA E-mail address: linxiaojie1973@163.com, LIN XIAOJIE
Published: April 2021

In this paper, we study the existence of at least three solutions for a three-point boundary value problem. By constructing and showing an appropriate separable and reflexive Banach space, a new multiplicity result of the three-point boundary value problem is established. Our main tool is based upon variational method and three-critical-point theorem.
Fixed point results for multivalued operators with respect to a c - distance
Authors:   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY KOGALNICEANU 1, 400084 CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA E-mail address: Enrique.Llorens@uv.es, LLORENS-FUSTER ENRIQUE , URS CRISTINA ,   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY KOGALNICEANU 1, 400084 CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA E-mail address: cristina.urs@math.ubbcluj.ro
Published: April 2021

In this paper we present a fixed point theorem for contractive type multivalued operators in cone metric spaces by using the concept of c-distance.
A new approach to fixed point theorems for multivalued contractive maps
Authors:   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS 71450 YAHSIHAN, KIRIKKALE, TURKEY E-mail address: g.minak.28@gmail.com, MINAK GULHAN , OLGUN MURAT ,   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SCIENCE 06100 TANDOGAN, ANKARA, TURKEY E-mail address: olgun@ankara.edu.tr, ALTUN ISHAK ,   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS 71450 YAHSIHAN, KIRIKKALE, TURKEY E-mail address: ishakaltun@yahoo.com
Published: April 2021

In the present paper, considering the Wardowski’s technique we give many fixed point results for multivalued maps on complete metric space without using the Hausdorff metric. Our results are real generalization of some related fixed point theorems including the famous Feng and Liu’s result in the literature. We also give some examples to both illustrate and show that our results are proper generalizations of the mentioned theorems.
Fixed point theorems for correspondences with properties weaker than lower semicontinuity
Authors:   DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST ACADEMIEI 14, 010014 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA E-mail address: monica.patriche@yahoo.com, PATRICHE MONICA
Published: April 2021

In this paper, we study existence of fixed points for correspondences having weak continuity properties. The obtained results extend or improve the corresponding results present in literature. We use continuous selection technique and also well-known KKM principle in order to establish our fixed point theorems.
Population de Caffa génoise à la lumière des livres comptables des années 1423‐1424 et 1461‐1462
Authors: Khvalkov Evgeny A.
Published: April 2021

Abstrait: Cet article est consacré aux migrants du royaume français et de certaines terres voisines (comme le duché de Bourgogne) vers les colonies génoises de la mer Noire. Il est en quelque sorte la continuation d’un certain nombre de mes
essais précédemment publiés sur la migration des Allemands,1 des Catalans, des Valenciens et des autres Espagnols,2 ainsi que d’une personne de la Gascogne,3 aux colonies génoises. Je reprends ainsi le thème abordé
dans mon article sur le Gascon Antoine et examine plus en détail la population «française» de Caffa au XVe siècle.Keywords
Resemblance and Identification in Personal Devotion: The Images of St. Ursula Commissioned by Anne of Brittany*
Authors: Nissim Dafna
Published: April 2021

Abstract: Anne of Brittany commissioned three images of Saint Ursula, and I utilize these to develop a case study to demonstrate that a sense of familiarity with a holy figure was a factor in a worshipper choosing to engage with a particular saint. The iconography of Ursula’s
portrayals in the Grandes Heures and Saint Ursula’s Nef reflects a likeness between Anne and the image toward which she directed her piety. I argue that they were commissioned by the queen to help her intensify her initial sense of identification with the saint. Queen Anne,
a pious Christian and an educated woman, was familiar with patterns of thinking that enabled comparison and association while reading and contemplating on the vitae of saints. There were three points in Ursula’s vita that might have evoked a sense of kinship with the saint:
they were both born in British lands, linked to a royal family, and were faced with marriages to foreign princes. These aspects received significant artistic attention in the portrayals of Ursula under discussion. However, the artists created the images with an interplay between the saint’s
likeness to Queen Anne and a slight divergence, an approach that promoted identification with the saint but at the same time could motivate the celebrant to translate the saint’s virtues into her own life. Through an interdisciplinary perspective on the artworks and a survey of the relevant
contemporary texts, this study demonstrates that the intimate and internal process of selecting a patron saint and the resulting worship with the aid of images enabled a devotee to negotiate a whole range of aspects linked to his/her self-identity and to promote religiosity and construction
of secular aspects of his/her personality.
Perbandingan Model Transfer Function Dan Model Neural Network Untuk Prediksi Banyak Kasus Demam Berdarah Di Kota Malang
Authors: Nanta Sigit  , Ida Ayu P K
Published: April 2021

ABSTRAK

Kota Malang adalah salah satu kota yang dinyatakan sebagai daerah endemis demam berdarah. Pada tahun 2015, jumlah penderita demam berdarah sebanyak 1629 kasus dengan jumlah kematian 13 orang. Ada banyak faktor yang berkontribusi menyebabkan penyakit, begitu juga dengan penyakit demam berdarah. Faktor-faktor tersebut berasal dari individu sendiri maupun dari lingkungan. Beberapa faktor yang terkait dalam penularan demam berdarah antara lain kepadatan penduduk, mobilitas penduduk, kualitas perumahan dan sikap hidup. Sedangkan faktor yang dapat memicu terjadinya demam berdarah adalah faktor lingkungan yang termasuk di dalamnya perubahan suhu, kelembaban udara, dan curah hujan yang mengakibatkan nyamuk lebih sering bertelur dan virus dengue berkembang biak dengan cepat. Parasit dan pembawa penyakit (nyamuk) sangat peka terhadap faktor iklim, khususnya suhu, curah hujan, kelembaban, permukaan air, dan angin. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan suatu model yang  sesuai untuk peramalan demam berdarah dikota malang berdasarkan Transfer Function dan ANN. Data yang digunakan adalah Data demam berdarah tahun 2014 sampai 2019. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai RMSE, MAPE, dan SMAPE yang terkecil dari kedua model tersebut adalah model Artificial Neural Network.

 

Kata Kunci : Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Transfer Function, dan Demam Berdarah
Hubungan Regulasi Emosi Dengan Resiliensi Pada Mahasiswa Tingkat Akhir
Authors: Sekarini
Published: April 2021

ABSTRAK

Mahasiswa tingkat akhir merupakan periode mahasiswa menghadapi tekanan di dalam mengerjakan tugas akhir. Agar mahasiswa mampu menyelesaikan tugas akhir secara baik dan sesuai dengan waktu yang ditentukan, maka mereka membutuhkan kemampuan untuk dapat menyesuaikan diri, bertahan dari tekanan hingga bangkit dan berjuang kembali dari kondisi yang sulit selama mengerjakan tugas akhir yang disebut sebagai resiliensi. Oleh karena itu resiliensi sangat penting bagi mahasiswa tingkat akhir agar dapat menghadapi dan menyelesaikan hambatan-hambatan selama mengerjakan tugas akhir tersebut. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui adakah hubungan antara regulasi emosi dengan resiliensi pada mahasiswa tingkat akhir STIKes Kepanjen.

Desain penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah korelasional dengan pendekatan Cross Sectional. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 45 orang dengan teknik pengambilan sampling Proportional Stratified Random Sampling. Teknik analisis data menggunakan korelasi Pearson.

Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa 37 responden (82%) memiliki regulasi emosi cukup, 6 responden (13%) dengan regulasi emosi baik dan 2 responden (5%) dengan regulasi emosi kurang baik. Sebanyak 29 responden (64%) mempunyai resiliensi yang baik dan 16 responden (36%) dengan resiliensi cukup baik. Nilai p-value < α yaitu 0.009<0.05 dengan nilai (r 0.385 > 0.01), yang bermakna bahwa ada hubungan antara regulasi emosi dengan resiliensi pada mahasiswa tingkat akhir STIKes Kepanjen dengan arah hubungan positif.

 Kata Kunci : Regulasi Emosi, Resiliensi
High Quality CPR Pada Alumni Keperawatan STIKES dr. Soebandi Jember
Authors: Feri Ekaprasetia  , Eky Madyaningtyas
Published: April 2021

ABSTRAK

High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation sangat dibutuhkan dalam menambah angka harapan hidup pasien dengan henti jantung. Pemantapan materi High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation di kuliah menjadi dasar pengetahuan dan ketermapilan  mahasiswa ketika sudah bekerja di tatanan klinik untuk melakukan High Quality CPR . Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana pengetahuan tentang High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation pada alumni keperawatan STIKES. Dr. Soebandi Jember. Desain penelitian ini adalah deskriptif analitik Sampel penelitian ini melibatkan 48 responden. Metode pengambilan sampel dengan menggunakan teknik accidental sampling selama 1 bulan. Teknik pengambilan data dengan menggunakan google form. Hasilnya adalah 100% responden pernah mengikuti pelatihan kegawatdaruratan, 77,1% responden bekerja di klinik/rumah sakit, 81,3% responden pernah melakukan CPR pada pasien dan pengetahuan responden tentang High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation masih di bawah nilai 100, yaitu rata-rata pengetahuan dengan nilai 75,83. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah pengetahuan tentang High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation perlu ditingkatkan dengan pemantapan materi pada saat tahap kuliah di program sarjana keperawatan.

Kata Kunci  : High Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Henti Jantung, Alumni Keperawatan