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Popular Cultural Texts (Film, Tv Shows) in Shaping Language Learners' Identities and Attitudes Towards the Target Language Culture: an Approach to Advancing SDG 4 - Quality Education
Authors: Son Nguyen Duc 
Published: December 2024

Objective: This study is to investigate the ways in which popular culture texts (film, television shows) shape language learners’ identities and attitudes towards the target language culture. The study aims to explore how movies and television shows influence and shape language learners' identities and attitudes toward the target culture.

Theoretical Framework: The main concepts and theories are based on Geert Hofstede’s Onion Culture Model. This model provides a solid basis for understanding the context of the investigation.

Methods: This study uses a qualitative research approach, using secondary content analysis to build a model of learners’ attitudes and identities, and then presents the results obtained from the analysis of this model.

Results and Discussion: The findings indicate that target cultural values have a significant impact on learners’ attitudes, resulting in both favorable and unfavorable impacts on cultural immersion. These findings highlight the important role of popular culture texts in motivating language learners and shaping their attitudes and identities.

Research implications: This study investigates the influence of films as well as television shows on culturally relevant foreign language teaching and learning activities. Popular culture texts play a crucial role in promoting cultural awareness and molding the attitudes and identities of learners. It contributes to revealing an approach to advancing SDG 4—Quality Education.

Originality/Value: The study confirms that popular culture materials in language instruction can enhance learners’ cultural awareness and the overall language acquisition process. This study also demonstrates the use of popular culture texts in shaping language learners’ cultural and identity.
Fintech and Regtech as Tools of Financial Digitalization and the Regulatory Framework in Achieving Sustainable Development Insights from Albania
Authors: Spaho Mateo , Beleraj Iris 
Published: December 2024

Objectives: This study endeavors to scrutinize the development of e-banking services, which represent the most recognized and utilized form of digital finance in the nation with respect to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG9).

Method: This research employed an online survey in conjunction with a SWOT analysis to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to FinTech and RegTech within Albania.

Results: The key finding derived from the questionnaire suggests that the predominant form of smart technology recognized and utilized by Albanian consumers is e-banking. The SWOT analysis delineates the evident strengths of FinTech, including near instantaneous and efficient transactions, minimal transaction fees, and continuous access to checking accounts. However, the study found that consumers possess limited familiarity with FinTech services and RegTech.

Research implications: The study highlights the imperative for Albania to adopt an activity-based regulatory approach that applies consistent rules regardless of the legal status of the entity or the level of technology employed. Specifically, it is essential to formulate a regulatory structure that facilitates the entry of new market participants, thereby enhancing competitive dynamics in the market and modernizing the delivery of traditional financial services.

Originality/Value: This research contributes to the ongoing discourse regarding the advancement of FinTech and RegTech in developing nations and provides salient recommendations for policymakers, regulators, and financial institutions in leveraging digital technologies within an emerging market context such as Albania.
Análisis de la autoeficacia y competencias de profesores de educación física chilenos para la inclusión de niños con discapacidad
Authors: Muñoz Hinrichsen Fernando Ignacio , Socias Marfan Macarena , Pérez Contreras Jorge , Vega Lagos Isidora , Grassi Roig Mauro , Pérez Tejero Javier 
Published: December 2024

Introducción: La autoeficacia de los profesores de Educación Física parece ser un factor clave para la inclusión exitosa de estudiantes con discapacidad en clases regulares. A pesar de esto, muchos profesores afirman que no están lo suficientemente preparados para implementar sesiones de Educación Física inclusivas con estudiantes con discapacidad.
Objetivo: El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar los efectos de un programa de formación continua de profesores, denominado Deporte Inclusivo en la Escuela, sobre sus competencias y autoeficacia como determinantes del proceso de inclusión de niñas, niños y adolescentes en entornos educativos chilenos
Metodología: Un total de 76 profesores fueron reclutados para participar voluntariamente en este estudio. Se adoptó un diseño cuasi experimental sin grupo control y medidas pre y post test.
Resultados: Los resultados mostraron un aumento significativo en las subescalas de Autoeficacia para la inclusión de estudiantes con Discapacidad intelectual p<.001, física p=.002 y visual p<0.001. También diferencias en competencias respecto a uso de tareas p=.006, adaptación de especificaciones curriculares p=.029, fase pre-activa de la sesión p=.024 e interacción en la sesión p=.041
Discusión: Estos hallazgos muestran que la formación del profesorado de Educación Física podría ser determinante en el proceso de inclusión de niños y adolescentes con necesidades educativas en las clases de educación física.
Conclusiones: Esto vislumbra más oportunidades para seguir impulsando programas de formación, así como conseguir incorporar esta temática en los currículos de las escuelas que aspiren a seguir políticas educativas en materia de inclusión.
Enhancing Occupational Therapy Interventions by Integrating the Multiphase Optimization Strategy Framework
Authors: Rosenfeld Meirav , Goverover Yael , Guastaferro Kate 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
As occupational therapy research advances and the body of evidence supporting effective interventions continues to grow, there is a need to expedite the transfer of research findings into practice, and the use of intervention development frameworks becomes increasingly essential. In this column, we introduce the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST), an engineering-inspired framework for the development, optimization, and evaluation of multicomponent interventions. MOST allows for the systematic development and evaluation of optimized interventions that prioritize effectiveness within constraints like affordability, scalability, and efficiency. Using MOST while developing an intervention may reduce the delay between intervention development and real-world implementation. Moreover, adopting MOST will bolster the use of rigorous research designs in occupational therapy studies and foster shared terminology with other disciplines that have successfully applied this framework across a range of health priorities and conditions. Thus, we advocate integrating MOST into occupational therapy intervention development research.
Natural Law & the Secular Mythos
Authors: Morgan Gregory M. W. 
Published: December 2024

This book argues that natural law – when construed as an epistemological and trans-culturallingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary “secular” discourse – has failed.
Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophical-theological tradition, namely, John Finnis, Jean Porter, and John Milbank, the text illuminates the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural.
Morgan explores how new horizons open up for natural law if the theological “unsaid(s)” are allowed to surface and the disremembering power of the secularmythosis overcome. The final chapter(s) of the book addresses one such horizon— that the theoretical fulcrum of the natural law lies not in its perceptual self-evidence or in its immanent secularity; but rather in its subtle provision of an immanent eschatology.
Islam and Statecraft
Authors: Hoffman Jon 
Published: December 2024

Instead of religion influencing political outcomes, this analysis examines how politics influences religious outcomes.Dominant analyses examining the utilization of religion as a tool of statecraft in the Middle East remain overwhelmingly fixated on how Islam influences the foreign policies of different state actors – not how political considerations often influence the forms Islam assumes and how religion itself is often molded according to strategic considerations of political elites. That Islam, due to its “unique” or “exceptional” relationship with politics, drives political outcomes at the international level in the Middle East is a myth this book shatters by demonstrating how the political considerations of ruling elites – specifically, the intersection of domestic and foreign threats – influence and constrain the kinds of religious soft power strategies adopted by states in the region.
This book develops a comprehensive analytical framework for the notion of “religious soft power” capable of incorporating power-based, identity-based, and ideational variables to examine how states couple religion with their broader foreign policy conduct. This framework is applied to the Middle East through the specific examination of three countries - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates - in the period following the Arab Uprisings to demonstrate how specific religious narratives, identities, histories, and ideologies are constructed by political elites in the Middle East for the advancement of what are inherently political objectives, namely the imperatives of regime preservation and power projection.
Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)
Authors: Redmond Geoffrey 
Published: December 2024

The 3,000 year oldI Chingis the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic.Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)incorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how theZhouyi(the ancient textual layer of theI Ching) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted compendium of divination responses.
In this book Geoffrey Redmond clarifies the meanings of the ancient text by examining use of literary devices such as prognostic terms, imagery from daily life, rhetorical tropes, metaphors, proverbs and set phrases. This provides insight on how theZhouyiwas composed and explains its use for divination. It also shows how, centuries later, theZhouyiwas adapted by the Confucians, who believed it to be the creation of ancient sages, and the source of their metaphysics and cosmology. Redmond also analyzes the Changes through a variety of philological heuristics, such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, methods of analogy and anomaly, the distinction between argumentative and context dependence, as well as modern approaches such as Jungian psychology, and critical theory. Included are the interlinear Chinese text, and a glossary of key words in English, Chinese, and pinyin, making it essential reading for students studying Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, and early Chinese history, as well as readers looking for a clear and accessible gloss of this text.
Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain
Authors: Mahaney Kathryn L. 
Published: December 2024

This book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times.
Beginning withSección Femenina, the official Francoist women’s organization,Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spaintraces the interplay between Spanish women’s policy and international policymaking. In some cases, as with theSección Femenina-championed Law of Political Rights (Ley de Derechos) in 1961, Spanish women’s policy at least appeared more progressive than what Western democracies offered – notable at a time when Spain was considered backward. After Franco’s death in 1975, Spain’s democratic transition seemingly consolidated forward-thinking women’s policy with a Constitution that guaranteed equality of the sexes in 1978, and with the creation of a national bureau charged with crafting women’s policy, theInstituto de la Mujer(Women’s Institute), in 1983.
Yet feminists found themselves marginalized in Spanish political decision-making, as Kathryn L. Mahaney argues so successfully in this study. Mahaney reveals that women ultimately influenced domestic policy not by acting within national networks but by leveraging European connections, particularly after Spain joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. The book shows that Spanish feminists worked through the EEC to gain international approval of policies that had met domestic opposition, and did so by representing them as necessary litmus tests of nations’ democratic integrity. Their proposals were shaped by the specific context of Spanish feminism, but also by Spanish debates about what rights democracies should grant women and what equality in a post-fascist nation should encompass. This ground-breaking study explains that, in turn, these processes shaped both Spain’s and the European Union’s much-prized self-identities as democratic communities.
Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation
Authors: Daroy Alys , Prescott Paul 
Published: December 2024

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises?
This is the first book to fuse Shakespearean ecocriticism with adaptation studies. It is a single critical and contextual resource for students, teachers and practitioners embarking on an in-depth exploration of ecological approaches to Shakespeare and adaptation. The book provides critical insight into ecological performance practices and accessible contextual information for ecocriticism, early modern environmental cultures and theatre-making.
This guide offers:
- Primary texts from the early modern period to the present, covering themes such as weather, botany, agriculture, fertility, land rights, animal and human relationships, metamorphosis and adaptation; - A focus on 3 of the most studied and adapted plays,A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King LearandThe Tempest,as a basis for the wider application of ecological adaptive principles to Shakespeare; - A full range of environmental references in each focus play through innovative Eco-Tables; - Concise summaries of literary ecocriticism in relation to each key text; - Sustained attention to performance and creative writing as ecocritical interventions; - The first dedicated chapter in the field offering conceptual and practical resources for staging your own Shakespearean eco-adaptation; - A glossary of key terms and links to resources; - An accompanying companion website featuring additional resources.
Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guideprovides a pedagogic pathway and a ready-made syllabus for teachers. It is also an indispensable resource for theatre directors, designers, actors and dramaturgs seeking inspiration for the environmentally engaged productions and adaptations the future demands of us.
King Arthur and the Languages of Britain
Authors: Mees Bernard 
Published: December 2024

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years.Arthur and the Languages of Britaindemonstrates how linguistic evidence can be employed to see if the earliest historical records that mention Arthur are reliable.
The book begins with an analysis of the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon invasions and the response of the Britons, and introduces the main methodological approaches employed in the linguistic analysis of historical records. It then provides evidence for Arthur as a Cumbric-speaker active in the region about Hadrian’s Wall, before assessing the linguistic evidence which supports the validity of the references to Arthur in theWelsh Annalsand theHistoria Brittonum.
Bernard Mees reflects on how Arthur is recorded as having taken part in the Battle of Mount Badon, a site that has never been located, and dying at Camlann, now Castlesteads on Hadrian’s Wall. He uses linguistic analysis of the evidence recorded for the existence of Arthur to support the historical reliability of these records. Mees concludes with a summary of how Geoffrey of Monmouth created pseudo-historical stories from the references to Arthur in these early sources, turning Ambrosius Aurelianus into Merlin and Mordred into King Arthur’s nephew and the lover of his queen Guinevere.
Drawing Music, Marking Time
Authors: Griffin David 
Published: December 2024

Marking down the complexities of musical pieces on paper allows them to become portable, shareable, and eminently teachable, but how are the simple geometries of a music notation unfolded into space and time?
A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its tracery supplies mechanisms for planning, composition, analysis, annotation, and performance of music. But how is it that we read that simple, strategic two-dimensional geometry and make such complex, four-dimensional performances? In this book David Griffin guides readers to a comprehensive understanding of the structural properties of music notations, with a particular focus on the standard Western staff notation system, looking at composers such as Bach, John Cage, Earle Brown and Stockhausen.
Developed over a thousand years ago, the staff notation is a geometrical drawing method using dots and lines on a horizontal timeline for explaining the structure of a musical piece. The system behaves a bit like a picture, but it is also like a diagram, and a bit like writing in its structure. In the hands of an experienced user, the notation’s complex of marks and phatic elements allows us to leave behind the mere denotation of diagrams or pictures to become a connotative drawing system.
This book will attempt to de-code music drawings, untangling their strange knots of graphic and linguistic elements. Using a series of visual examples, Griffin presents background information on how the staff notation developed as an inter-linguistic inscription, a drawing that slips through the mere denotation of pictorial or diagrammatic graphics to become a connotative system, with which we may craft subtle and powerful elements of musical poetry.
"The Unthinkable" in Ethics, History and Philosophical Anthropology
Authors: Pihlström Sami 
Published: December 2024

What we find ‘unthinkable’ is not seriously considered as an ethical option in our thought and deliberation; it is ruled out from the outset. Combining a broadly pragmatist approach with a Kantian-inspired transcendental strategy, Sami Pihlström distinguishes between what is considered ‘unthinkable’ and what is merely ethically wrong.Pihlström demonstrates how different issues concerning the unthinkable vs the thinkable, ranging from the proper ethical response to the Holocaust to philosophical considerations of monstrous characters familiar in gothic fiction, may challenge the categories we use to structure the world. In particular, he makes the case that it is unthinkable for us to reject the kind of ‘human exceptionalism’ that attributes an ineliminable dignity or preciousness to human beings. Chapters also explore the complex relationship between our responses to human suffering and the suffering of non-human animals, together with questions concerning the philosophy of war and pacifism.
‘The Unthinkable’ in Ethics, History and Philosophical Anthropologyturns our attention to the ethically and ontologically constitutive character of the boundaries we draw between the thinkable and the unthinkable, while utilizing conceptual and argumentative resources from the Wittgensteinian tradition in moral philosophy, particularly from the work of Raimond Gaita. An original and timely study, it will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the fundamental ethical issues of human life.
Detox Your Culture
Authors: Ellis Colin D. 
Published: December 2024

The essential guide for organizations to understand how toxic cultures form, identify the warning signs, and take effective action to address and prevent them.
In recent years, the media has been rife with stories of toxic workplaces - from reports into public institutions such as the police and healthcare trusts, to allegations from former employees at the likes of Twitter and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. It can present itself in many forms: harassment, discrimination, lack of boundaries, a culture of fear and lack of support for employees. But toxic workplaces can also lead to missed targets, poor strategic decisions, and a loss of trust from the public and shareholders; in short, they are bad for business, leaders and anyone working in them.
In this book, workplace culture expert Colin D. Ellis lays out a series of simple but effective methods for leaders looking to understand how toxic cultures form, illustrated through a global range of case studies (including CBI, the London Fire Brigade, Uber, SpaceX, Sony Music, and Amnesty International). He walks readers through practical actions that they can take to create the cultural conditions for success - a work environment of belonging, inclusivity, flexibility and value creation.
Designed to be universally applicable, and tackling a diverse range of topics - from employee connection, to establishing and integrating positive values -Detox Your Cultureis essential reading for any leader or manager looking to ensure that their organization’s reputation and results are never compromised by culture.
In Pursuit of Love
Authors: Bostridge Mark 
Published: December 2024

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit followsAdèleHugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after hermore than 150 yearslater.
It’s 1863. The daughter of the most famous writer in the world, Victor Hugo, who has ambitions as a writer and composer, suddenly leaves her family’s home on the Channel Islands bound for Nova Scotia. She is in pursuit of a young British soldier, with whom she is desperately in love, but who has rejected her. Eight years later, after stalking him to the Caribbean, where he’s stationed with the army, Adèle Hugo is brought back to Paris by a benevolent former slave woman who has taken pity on her. She is admitted to an asylum where she dies decades later, rich from the inheritance of the rights to her father’s books.
This story of hopeless love has inspired writers, composers, and a well-known film by François Truffaut. Yet much about Adèle Hugo’s tragic life has remained shrouded in mystery – not least the true character and identity of the soldier who ultimately contributed to her undoing.
Mark Bostridge was drawn to Adèle’s story in his twenties, thanks in part to the François Truffaut film, and has been following her story ever since. Now he sets out in pursuit of the truth about her, travelling halfway across the world, acting as sleuth and tracking down the descendants of the soldier she loved. In so doing he recognises the source of his fascination with the aspects of Adèle’s life that reflect and parallel his own. The result is a moving book about the pain of loving too much and of parents loving too little; about the ways in which we are haunted by the dead; and about our insatiable appetite for other people’s stories which possess us and invade our own lives.
In Pursuit of Loveis part memoir and part travelogue, as well as an invigorating new approach to the writing of biography.