ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Digital Narratives as a Means of Shifting Settler-Teacher Horizons toward Reconciliation
Author: Bissell, Alexandra
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Indigenous Knowledge,Preservice Teacher Education,Teacher Education Programs,Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Multimedia Materials,Electronic Publishing,Story Telling,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Teacher Education,Narration,Video Technology,Observation,Qualitative Research,Indigenous Populations

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's &quot;Calls to Action&quot; report (2015), in the section &quot;Education for Reconciliation&quot; (p. 7, #62-63), calls for the integration of Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into the curriculum and for better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content. Settler-teachers, however, have not been adequately prepared for this mission, nor are they well-prepared to teach Indigenous students. This article discusses a project of dual purpose in support of reconciliation: to give Indigenous students the opportunity to represent their Land-based dogsledding experiences as iMovie digital narratives and to give settler-teacher candidates direct experience for relationship-building in an indigenized context of education. Drawing upon theories of settler-colonialism, decolonization, and reconciliation in education, the article illustrates the imperative of immersing settler-teachers into contexts where Indigenous students self-representing their identities and Indigenous knowledge are at the centre of the curriculum.
Subject Positions of Children in Information Behaviour Research
Author: Lundh, Anna Hampson
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Child Behavior,Behavioral Sciences,Information Seeking,Educational Research,Classification,Discourse Analysis,Information Science,Power Structure,Educational Sociology,Individual Characteristics,Interpersonal Relationship,Adults,Children,Cognitive Development,Technology Uses in Education

Introduction: This paper problematises how children are categorised as a specific user group within information behaviour research and discusses the implications of this categorisation. Methods: Two edited collections of papers on children's information behaviour are analysed. Analysis: The analysis is influenced by previous discourse analytic studies of users within information science and by the sociology of childhood and the discourse analytic concept of subject positions guides the analysis. Results: In the children-focussed discourse of information behaviour research, children are described as being characterised by distinctive child-typical features, which means that similarities between children and other groups, as well as differences within the group, are downplayed. Children are also characterised by deficiencies: by not being adults, by not being mature and by not being competent information seekers. The discourse creates a position of power for adults, and for children a position as those in need of expert help. Children are also ascribed a subject position as users of technologies that affect the group in various ways. Conclusions: It is suggested that information behaviour research would benefit from shifting the focus from trying to explain how children innately are and therefore behave with information, to creating understandings of various information practices which involve people of a young age. [Note: The citation information (v20 n1 March 2015) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct citation is v21 n3 September 2016.]
Simultaneous and Comparable Numerical Indicators of International, National and Local Collaboration Practices in English-Medium Astrophysics Research Papers
Author: Méndez, David I.
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scientific Research,Researchers,Cooperation,Astronomy,Physics,Research Reports,Writing for Publication,Journal Articles,Scientific and Technical Information,English,Periodicals,Literature Reviews,Statistical Significance,International Cooperation,Intercollegiate Cooperation,Authors,Foreign Countries,Incidence,Geographic Location,Social Indicators,Mobility

Introduction: We report an investigation on collaboration practices in research papers published in the most prestigious English-medium astrophysics journals. Method: We propose an evaluation method based on three numerical indicators to study and compare, in absolute terms, three different types of collaboration (international, national and local) and authors' mobility on the basis of co-authorship. Analysis: We analysed 300 randomly selected research papers in three different time periods and used the student's t-test to determine whether the paired two-sample differences observed were statistically significant or not. Results: International collaboration is more common than national and local collaboration. International, national and local authors' mobility and intra-national collaboration do not seriously affect the indicators of the principal levels of collaboration. International collaboration and authors' mobility are more relevant for authors publishing in European journals, whereas national and intra-national collaboration and national mobility are more important for authors publishing in US journals. Conclusions: We explain the observed differences and patterns in terms of the specific scope of each journal and the socio-economic and political situation in both geographic contexts (Europe and the USA). Our study provides a global picture of collaboration practices in astrophysics and its possible application to many other sciences and fields would undoubtedly help bring into focus the really big issues for overall research management and policy.
Elaborating the Conceptual Space of Information-Seeking Phenomena
Author: Savolainen, Reijo
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Seeking,Incidental Learning,Literature Reviews,Information Sources,Definitions,Information Retrieval,Interest Research,Library Research,Search Strategies

Introduction: The article contributes to conceptual studies of information behaviour research by examining the conceptualisations of information seeking and related terms such as information search and browsing. Method: The study builds on Bates' integrated model of information seeking and searching, originally presented in 2002. The model was slightly elaborated, resulting in the identification of four main modes of information seeking: (i) active seeking and searching, (ii) browsing and scanning, (iii) passive monitoring, and (iv) incidental acquisition of information. The study draws on the conceptual analysis of fifty-two key articles or books characterizing the constituents of the above modes. Results: The main activities constituting active seeking and searching are the identification, selection, location and accessing of information. The mode of browsing and scanning is based on the selection and sampling of information sources. The core activity of passive monitoring is the recognition of potentially relevant sources, while the mode of incidental acquisition of information is based on passive reception of information in certain events or situations. Conclusions: Information seeking is a multifaceted phenomenon, the research of which has led to conceptual multiplicity. The present study helps to create an overview of the multiple viewpoints by specifying the conceptual space of information seeking phenomena.
&quot;Talk, Talk and More Talk&quot;: Parental Perceptions of Young Children's Information Practices Related to Their Hobbies and Interests
Author: Barriage, Sarah
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Young Children,Interests,Surveys,Recreational Activities,Interaction,Information Seeking,Information Dissemination,Leisure Time,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research

Introduction: This article explores parental perceptions of young children's everyday life information practices related to their hobbies and interests. Method: Thirty-one parents of children between the ages of four and eight years old completed a survey about their children's hobbies and interests. Questions were related to the nature of the children's activities and the ways in which children seek, use, and share information related to their hobbies and interests. Analysis: Survey responses were analysed for common themes in information seeking, information use and information sharing. Information practices of children with intense interests were compared with information practices of children with more typical hobbies and interests. Results: Findings indicate that young children exhibit a heavy reliance on interpersonal interactions for information seeking and information sharing, while information use is more likely to be an individual activity. Children with intense interests did not engage in information practices of a different nature from those with more typical hobbies and interests. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that children as young as four years of age engage in observable information practices related to their hobbies and interests. Additional research is needed to better understand young children's everyday life information practices.
The Information Culture of Higher Education Institutions: The Estonian Case
Author: Lauri, Liia
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Higher Education,Multivariate Analysis,Leadership Styles,Job Satisfaction,Foreign Countries,Information Management,Information Technology,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Online Surveys,Factor Analysis,Well Being,Organizational Culture

Introduction: This paper focuses on the information culture of higher education institutions in Estonia. The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between information culture, information management and job satisfaction, leadership style, and self-reported individual performance. Method: A total of 160 faculty members from twelve institutions of higher education completed an online survey. The aim of the online survey was to identify the behaviour and values that characterise the information culture of Estonian higher education institutions. Analysis: Factor analysis and multivariate analysis were performed to analyse online survey data. Results: Taking into account six components of information culture identified by earlier researchers, analysis revealed three types of information culture characterised by their dominant components: integrated, proactive, and informal. A significant correlation was found between information culture with integrated information culture and job satisfaction, leadership style, and self-reported individual performance. Conclusion: Our study suggests that the construct of information culture is valuable in analysing information environments and their relations with job satisfaction, leadership style, and self-reported individual performance. In addition, integrated information culture seems to be (at least in the sample of academic staff) the most sensitive one, having significant correlations with several indicators of subjective well-being within the academic staff.
Strategies, Obstacles, and Attitudes: Student Collaboration in Information Seeking and Synthesis Projects
Author: Leeder, Chris
Date: 2016-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Seeking,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Cooperative Learning,Case Studies,Assignments,Group Behavior,Recordkeeping,Attitude Change,Grades (Scholastic),Web Sites,Computer Software,College Students,Student Projects,Comparative Analysis,Instructional Design

Introduction: While group work that takes place in education contexts has been studied by researchers, student collaborative research behaviour has received less attention. This empirical case study examined the strategies that students use and the obstacles they encounter while working in collaborative information seeking contexts on an in-class assignment. Methods: Participants were college students working on an in-class group research assignment over a period of eight to nine weeks. Participants used an online collaborative search system, Coagmento, which recorded their actions in server logs. Participants also answered a series of questionnaires regarding their attitudes towards group work. Analysis: Server log data and questionnaires were used to analyse student group behaviour and perceptions of strategies used in group work, obstacles to successful group work, and changes in perceptions from before to after completing the project. Student collaborative activities were compared to the final project grades. Results: Results show that groups that received the highest grades had the highest number of bookmarks, the lowest average number of query terms, and lower number of total searches. Students valued using collaborative tools such as Google Docs, were concerned with unequal participation and procrastination, and characterised group work as both helpful and inefficient. Conclusions: This research contributes to our understanding of the behaviour and attitudes of students, and offers suggestions for instructors and designers to better support students in group work.
Community-Based English Clubs: English Practice and Social Change outside the Classroom
Author: Malu, Kathleen F.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Clubs,Social Change,Community Programs,Language Teachers,Teacher Role,Leadership,Standards,Program Development

This article defines and provides a rationale for the creation of community-based English clubs. We offer strategies that individuals can use to create and sustain English clubs, and we suggest meeting activities that will engage members in conversations and potential community action on a range of topics such as democracy, gender equality, and environmental protection.
How to Conduct an ELT Workshop
Author: Sowell, Jimalee
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Workshops,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Language Teachers,Teacher Education,Faculty Development,Time Management,Visual Aids,Audience Awareness

This article serves to give readers a framework for planning, preparing, and delivering a successful workshop, including strategies to keep on pace and anticipate and overcome obstacles.
Teaching Techniques: Four Ears Hear More than Two--A Competitive Team Approach to Listening Practice
Author: Shikhantsov, Alexey
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Cooperative Learning,Listening,Listening Skills,Educational Practices,Educational Strategies,Instructional Improvement,Class Activities,Classroom Techniques,Teamwork,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Language Tests,College Students

This article explores a technique that can be used for almost any kind of classroom listening practice and with all kinds of classes. It seems to work well both in exam preparation and in regular textbook listening exercises.
English Homework: What Makes Sense?
Author: Büchel, Laura Loder
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Homework,Assignments,Mathematics Instruction,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Educational Practices,Student Attitudes,Mothers,Parent Attitudes

The purpose of this article is to persuade English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and teacher trainers that homework is indeed beneficial by presenting multiple examples of high-quality homework assignments, as Dettmers et al. (2010) found in mathematics. The argument here is that it is not the time spent on homework that matters in early foreign-language instruction, but rather the types of homework assignments--perhaps different from traditionally assigned practice activities-- that make learning more meaningful.
My Classroom: Kazakhstan
Author: Whitaker, Lauren
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Language Teachers,Teacher Student Relationship,Student Centered Learning,Creativity,Student Motivation,Teaching Methods,College Faculty

Yulia Bulatkulova discovered her passion for English language teaching at a young age as a result of the example set by an esteemed childhood English teacher, Elvira Kuyanova. This article discusses how Ms. Bulatkulova's interactions with her students, both inside and outside the classroom, demonstrate that she has followed in the footsteps of her childhood role model in providing motivation and a love of learning and language. Bulatkulova believes in a learner-centered approach and encourages her students to explore their creativity and the world through the arts. Her approach is highly effective, with students motivated by topics that are personally meaningful.
Effects of Short Term Camp Periods on Aerobic and Anaerobic Performance Parameters in Ice Hockey National Team Athletes
Author: Eler, Serdar
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Athletes,Athletics,Exercise,Volunteer Training,Team Sports,Time on Task,Metabolism,Fatigue (Biology),Biofeedback,Exercise Physiology,Performance Tests,Pretests Posttests,Program Effectiveness,Day Camp Programs,Males,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries

This study was conducted for determining the effects of trainings, applied to athletes during short term camp period, on their aerobic and anaerobic performance. Measurements were made by the participation of 28 volunteer male ice hockey national team players. During the 15-day camp period, 10-minute running and stretching for warming and then 40-minute jogging practice was performed in the mornings, and at evenings, following warming and stretching for the same lengths, general strength practices were applied. On the first and last day of the camp period, after making body weight and height measurements, respectively, the Running-Based Anaerobic Sprint Test (RAST) and 20m shuttle running tests were performed. The obtained data were evaluated by the paired-t test. As a result of the study, when the two measurements were compared, there was no significant difference found between speed, maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) and fatigue index (FI) (p&gt;0,05); significant differences were found between the two measurements in heart rate (HR) during maximal loading (p&lt;0,05). Based on these results; it was concluded that although trainings performed during short term camp period lowered number of heart beats at maximal running speed, this time was not sufficient for developing performance.
An Academic Survey Concerning High School and University Students' Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving in Chemistry
Author: Duran, Muharrem
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Students,Student Attitudes,Problem Solving,Chemistry,Student Surveys,College Freshmen,Likert Scales,Statistical Significance,Gender Differences,Expertise,Novices,Attitude Measures,Physics,Institutional Characteristics,Comparative Analysis,Statistical Inference,Cohort Analysis,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study is to reveal differences between attitudes and approaches of students from different types of high school and the first grade of university towards problem solving in chemistry. For this purpose, the scale originally developed by Mason and Singh (2010) to measure students' attitude and approaches towards problem solving in physics (AAPS), was adapted for chemistry. The Attitudes and Approaches to Chemistry Problem Solving (AACPS) scale included Likert-type items and was conducted with 552 students from science (2), regular (2), and vocational (2) high schools, plus one university. No statistically significant difference were found among high schools, but there was between high school and university students, and between female and male students in terms of their attitudes and approaches towards problem solving in chemistry. University students demonstrated more expert-like attitudes towards problem solving, and science and regular high school students were similarly expert-like, while the vocational high school students were rather novice-like. The results obtained through the AAPS physics attitude scale conducted in the same sample group were compared with results of the chemistry scale. Variances between these attitudes and approaches towards problem solving in both chemistry and physics were analyzed and some suggestions made.
A Study on Preservice Preschool Teachers' Recycling Intentions in Relation to Parents' Educational Level and Recycling Opportunities
Author: Öztürk, Deniz Kahriman
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Preschool Education,Student Teacher Attitudes,Student Surveys,Intention,Self Control,Attitude Measures,Social Behavior,Recycling,Sustainable Development,Parent Background,Environmental Influences,Foreign Countries

Preservice preschool teachers' intentions to recycling and influential factors in their intentions were analyzed in this study through Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The data of the study were collected from 181 preservice preschool teachers via a survey to measure their attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention regarding recycling. After three steps of analyses, the results indicated that preservice preschool teacher exhibited high scores on the level of attitude, subjective norms, and intention compared to perceived behavioral control. On the other hand, perceived behavioral control was shaped by recycling opportunities in their childhood, college campus and city that they live in. And finally, the linear combination of recycling attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control were found to be significantly related to their intentions. These predictors were explained 25% of variance in preservice preschool teachers' behavioral intentions on recycling.
Esthetic Education of Children with Special Needs by Means of Computer Art
Author: Salakhov, Rasykh F.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Special Needs Students,Computer Graphics,Educational Practices,Art Education,Experimental Curriculum,Questionnaires,Empathy,Student Motivation,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Creativity,Child Development,Foreign Countries

Thematic justification of the problem under study: growth of social stratification in the present context of social and economic transformations and emerging forms of social inequality, which is creating serious obstacles for the younger generation's social adaptation, specifically among those social groups that are dealing with difficulties due to specific circumstances. First of all, it concerns children with special needs. Specifically, processes of modern public reform and how they often lead to the violation of social integration and adaptation for this group of children. Such a process poses a problem of an independent living arrangement, juxtaposed with the background of low efficiency of realization of educational and habilitation technologies. It has been observed that educational institutions have not yet been able to fully counteract these negative factors. Growth of the number of children with special needs, on the one hand, and humanization of public life, wide circulation of ideas, increases the importance of social and rehabilitation activity. The purpose is to enhance the social and educational training and increase maximum achievable adaptation of life, granted to children with special needs, a chance to develop skills for social orientation, ethics and cultural social attitude. This data and analysis of such is relevant to the esthetic education of children with special needs as conditions of formation of a socially valuable personality.