Academic Knowledge Base Research Articles

Students’ Reflections in an Online Service-Learning (OS-L): An Analysis on Learning Outcomes

One of the functions of education includes a growth in cognitive process that supports the social aspect. The service-learning as a pedagogy is reported to develop students’ personal aspect and social engagement. As a teaching tool, it provides students the opportunity to reflect, and to better understand their experiences by writing reflections in a concluded service-learning activities. However, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, posed a challenge in the accomplishment of course deliverables that required educators to redesign learning delivery and on how service learning pedagogy be facilitated virtually. Following Kolb’s experiential learning theory, the researchers utilized the rubric that assesses the academic service-learning (AS-L) of gathered reflection papers of Grade 12. This study aims to explore how their online experiences can contribute to a positive learning outcome using the following dimensions: awareness of purpose of service, critical thinking, application of the AS-L experience to the academic knowledge base and objectives of the course, responsibility to the community and impact on student’s personal life. These were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) with computer-assisted data analysis software Max Weber Qualitative Data Analysis (MAXQDA). Given that service-learning plays a vital role in the academic milieu, the outcomes of this study may be used as a benchmark in the sphere of Philippine education and how it can contribute in enhancing students’ reflective process.

Marxism and Class-Based Analysis in the Body of Knowledge: The Scientometric Analysis and Research Agenda

This study provides a comprehensive scientometric analysis to examine the incorporation and impact of Marxist theory and class-based analysis within the broader academic knowledge base. By utilizing Scientometric data from renowned scientific databases covering the last seventy years, we can pinpoint important patterns, notable authors, essential publications, subject groups, and relevant keywords relating to Marxism and class analysis. These findings show increasing interest in the topic, especially after the 2000s. This analysis emphasizes the importance of theoretical study and the working class as topics that often appear in recent research. Additionally, we analyze the distribution of research output and country collaborations, observing substantial clustering in the Americas and the United Kingdom. Despite increasing interest in this topic, our analysis reveals gaps in existing research, namely in the practical implementation and integration of different disciplines. Based on these observations, we suggest a study plan that prioritizes the need for more detailed empirical investigation, examination of social class dynamics in non-Western settings, and the incorporation of Marxist analysis into current topics such as globalization and the working class. This agenda aims to increase the significance and practicality of class-based analysis in understanding contemporary socio-economic phenomena.

EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND ISLAMIC HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX ON POVERTY: A PANEL DATA REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Despite the continuous increase in the Human Development Index (HDI) in DKI Jakarta, the poverty rate remains fluctuating and even increasing. Labor Force Participation and the Islamic Human Development Index (I-HDI) play crucial roles in poverty alleviation. The objective of this study is to examine the influence of Labor Force Participation and the Islamic Human Development Index on poverty in the six administrative regions of DKI Jakarta for the period 2018-2022. In this study, labor force participation and I-HDI are considered as independent variables, while poverty serves as the dependent variable. The population of interest consists of the six administrative regions in DKI Jakarta for the specified period, and a saturated sampling technique is employed. Panel data regression analysis techniques are utilized to test the secondary data obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics. The findings reveal that the dependent variable, namely poverty in the six administrative regions of DKI Jakarta, is partially and simultaneously influenced by the independent variables, namely labor force participation and I-HDI. This research contributes to the academic knowledge base, serves as a reference for other researchers, and provides valuable insights to the government and policymakers as foundational considerations in addressing the issue of poverty in the six administrative regions of DKI Jakarta.

Modelagem de um Repositório de Conhecimento

An academic knowledge base (AKB) can be considered a system that, based on a set of specific information stored and organized, aims to provide knowledge, experience, and information relevant to a given knowledge domain. Thus, the elements that make up a BCA are diverse and may include databases, systems, and knowledge repositories (KR). A K-R stores knowledge in a structured way, containing information based on experience: lessons learned, best practices, directories of expertise, involving the search, selection, explanation, codification, evaluation, and dissemination of experience, with potential provision for a BC. This article presents the processes and methodological flow for creating an RC that integrates an AKB and is implemented in an ongoing project, applying the Design Science Research (DSR) method. As a result, there is a methodological proposal in the academic context, a problem centered on meaningful learning, artifacts that consider the input, processing, and output of learning objects, state of the art and theoretical framework that includes technologies and methods for modeling the proposal, and theoretical conjuncts that consider contributions related to access and dissemination of learning objects. In future work, the proposed modeling will be implemented in the AKB.

The development of an evidence-based approach to inform learning and practices within the UK fire and rescue service

PurposeThe fire sector within the United Kingdom has identified a need to further develop their systematic use of academic literature and develop mechanisms to include academic knowledge to inform evidence-based policy and practice. By increasing knowledge exchange between the fire sector and academia, the ability to horizon scan and identify future relevant phenomena of interest to the fire sector will be achieved. Consequently, the evidence base and horizon scanning will increase the specificity of techniques, approaches and practices needed to continually improve the safety of the activities completed within the firefighting occupation, and it will also provide priority areas for investment and increase firefighter safety.Design/methodology/approachThis technical paper primarily features an initial scoping review of academic and grey literature and an operational incident data review. This was completed to provide an initial and updated review of disciplines and areas of academia that are actively engaged in research relevant to the fire and rescue service. Consequently, this method sought to identify and examine the various disciplines of academia involved in fire research. This paper then uses that outcome to suggest a model of multidisciplinarity to inform the fire sector.FindingsAs a result of the scoping review, each academic discipline was identified and an initial review developed a predetermined set of key search terms. This was established through identifying the most frequently used fire-related terms within each discipline. This allowed for a comprehensive understanding of the breadth of activity and depth of complexity of fire related research within each discipline and an indicative set of key search terms to be developed. Recommendations are formulated to suggest next steps to routinely incorporate the academic knowledge base in the learning process of the fire and rescue services in the United Kingdom.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper provides an initial scoping map of academic literature and disciplines relevant to activities completed in the UK fire sector, which can be used to further develop the evidence base to inform the fire and rescue service of the United Kingdom. It also outlines possible mechanisms and a model to systematically facilitate knowledge exchange between academia and the fire sector by which knowledge exchange could further support the development of evidence-based policy and practice. The broad range of benefits of collaboration between the fire and rescue service and academia are explored.Practical implicationsThis paper provides clear evidence as to why fire related research should have an increased priority status to inform the national fire and rescue services learning process and evidence for national policy and guidance development within the UK fire and rescue service. Additionally, recommendations are made to support the consideration of academic evidence in the systematic sector wide learning process.Originality/valuePreviously, the UK fire and rescue service had limited coordinated strategic engagement with academic disciplines to further develop their learning processes in order to produce an evidence base, which is cognisant of academic research to inform practice and guidance. This paper begins the narrowing of that gap by categorising academic literature relevant to fire research into clear disciplines, mapping these to an updated breadth of current activities undertaken by the fire and rescue service across the United Kingdom. The process also details a pilot of the proposed model to support knowledge exchange by producing an academically evidence-based submission to the National Fire Chiefs Council organisational learning process.

Teaching as Academically Based Professional Practice

This discussion presents an argument for developing teaching as a profession wherein practitioners have a shared academic knowledge base, practices, procedures, and protocols with an understanding of how and the conditions under which to apply specific approaches. In this conceptualization, teaching is viewed as an interpretive practice that relies on academic knowledge for practice generated through research on practice translated into procedures and protocols that have been tested and validated. Knowledge from practice is generated through systematic observation and documentation of students’ responses to learning experiences and the social context for learning. Teacher preparation includes the knowledge base for teaching and a separate knowledge base for learning to teach.

Mapping the service recovery research landscape: A bibliometric‐based systematic review

AbstractWith businesses under increasing pressure to provide excellent customer service, postfailure recovery strategies have become critical for long‐term customer satisfaction and loyalty. The domain of service recovery has extensively been examined in academia; however, systematic studies that provide a consolidated overview remains scant. To this end, we provide a systematic review and synthesis of service recovery literature by conducting a bibliometric‐based cocitation analysis of 24,741 cited references from 1020 articles from across disciplines. The study identifies 10 major research clusters that represent different research streams of service recovery and explores their intellectual foundations. In addition, the research presents a conceptual framework to serve as a parsimonious guide for both practitioners and researchers. Furthermore, the study reveals a number of gaps in the existing literature and suggests promising directions for further investigation, including but not limited to: expanding methodological horizons in service recovery research, understanding service recovery mechanisms in Metaverse and synthetic environments, globalizing service recovery research, revitalizing service recovery processes in the age of artificial intelligence and robotics, investigating service recovery as an investment, and exploring service recovery in shared economies. Notably, this study serves managers, firstly, by providing them with a parsimonious structure of service recovery field that could help identify areas of improvement in their own service recovery systems and, secondly, by highlighting areas where academic knowledge base could inform industry solutions.

Enhanced digital transformation supporting capabilities through enterprise architecture management: A fsQCA perspective

The rapid development of novel, innovative digital technologies significantly impact organizations and their business ecosystem. Organizations must stay abreast of the latest developments and respond to them continuously to remain competitive. Many organizations make significant investments in enterprise architecture management (EAM) to manage the transformation of their complex information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) landscape and to guide their digital transformation. However, empirical research on EAM benefit realization is limited. This research conceptualized EAM as a particular type of dynamic managerial capability. Survey data (N = 110) was used in a set-theoretic approach (fsQCA) to identify EAM configurations that lead to a presence of technical IT capabilities and strategic IT alignment. The results indicate the importance of system changes induced by the EAM function itself to improve technical IT capabilities. Furthermore, setting up clear standards and rules, and developing and planning the migration to target architectures is particularly important to align business and IT in larger organizations. This research contributes to the academic knowledge base on EAM benefit realization and supports the needed reconceptualization and evolution of EA and EAM to better support organizations' digital transformations. Furthermore, the outcomes can help decision-makers justify and guide their EA investments while implementing a digital strategy.

Integrated scheduling and flexible maintenance in deteriorating multi-state single machine system using a reinforcement learning approach

This paper studies an integrated optimization problem of production scheduling and flexible preventive maintenance (PM) in a multi-state single machine system with deteriorating effects. A flexible PM strategy is proposed to proactively cope with machine failures while ensuring relatively regular PM intervals, which is composed of time-based PM (TBPM) and condition-based PM (CBPM). TBPM is conducted within every flexible time window and CBPM is implemented immediately after the most deteriorated yet still functional state. An illustrative case is presented using the enumeration approach to demonstrate the integration of production scheduling and machine maintenance. Then, Q-learning-based solution framework (QLSF) is further designed with proper state and action sets and reward functions to facilitate the determination of appropriate production scheduling rule under the constraint of the flexible maintenance. Numerical experiments show that the proposed QLSF outperforms the other four state-of-the-art scheduling rules in different scenarios. Moreover, the performance of the proposed flexible PM strategy is also examined and validated in comparison with three candidate maintenance strategies, i.e., run-to-failure corrective maintenance (CM), combination of TBPM and CM, and CBPM. The proposed flexible maintenance and solution approach can enrich the relevant academic knowledge base, and provide managerial insights and guidance in practical production systems.

RESEARCHING ONLINE LABOR STRIKE AND PROTEST PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES

Efforts to surveil social media platforms at scale using big data techniques have recently manifested in government-funded research to predict protests following the election of President Trump. This work is part of a computer science research field focused on online “civil unrest prediction” dedicated to forecasting protests across the globe (e.g. Indonesia, Brazil and Australia). Researchers draw upon established data science techniques such as event detection/prediction, but also specific approaches for surveilling social movements are conceived. Besides furthering the academic knowledge-base on civil unrest and protests, the works in this field envision to support a variety of stakeholders with different interests such as governments, the military, law enforcement, human rights organizations and industries such as insurance and supply chain management. I analyze the recent history of civil unrest prediction on social media platforms through examining discourses, implicated actors and technological affordances as encountered in publications and other public online artifacts. In this paper I discuss different risk frames employed by researchers, concerning politics of the technology and argue for a needed public debate on the role of online protest surveillance in democratic societies.

Exploring the fluidity of relationships and methodology as an ‘insider’ action researcher

ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the challenges of undertaking insider research as a Widening Participation university practitioner and positioning myself as lead researcher with three academic co-researchers. The action research process provided the fertile environment for our complex academic: non-academic relationships to shift into more equitable working relationships and for expertise to be attributed to the practitioner as well as the academic knowledge base. I was required to be responsive and agile throughout the research in order to adapt my vision for the research project from a participatory action research to a more pragmatic action research approach. This necessary shift had a significant impact on my understanding of the action research methodology and of the research project focus. While my self-perception at the outset is that of an outsider in collaboration with insiders, through the process of enacting the research with my colleagues, my position can be seen to move to insider in collaboration with other insiders.

Designing idea convergence platforms: The role of decomposition of information load to nudge raters towards accurate choices

Innovation contests offer organizations the opportunity to source innovative ideas to achieve competitive advantage. However, raters cannot easily converge on the most promising ideas because they can easily feel overwhelmed by the high number of generated ideas. Further, information overload will likely impair raters’ decision-making processes and how well they can accurately distinguish good from bad ideas. Digital nudging may counteract this convergence challenge via user interface elements to change how information is presented to users. To design a digital nudge in a convergence platform to effectively nudge raters towards improved choice accuracy, one needs to understand the decision-making processes associated with the convergence task. Considering this goal, we conducted an online experiment in which 190 participants eliminated the least promising ideas in presentation modes with either a high (two ideas/screen) or low (30 ideas/screen) decomposition of information load. Our findings suggest that convergence platforms with a high decomposition of information load help raters make more accurate choices. The extent of elimination and revision decisions raters make partially explained this effect. However, these paradoxical mediation effects depended on whether raters showed a high or low tendency to follow the crowd’s opinion. Our findings add to the growing academic knowledge base on idea-selection processes and how one can design convergence platforms with digital nudges to help raters deal with their cognitive constraints and ensure successful convergence.

‘State governing of knowledge’ – constraining social work research and practice

ABSTRACTEvidence-based practice (EBP) has been launched, spread, and established in social work in Sweden in the last decade. Today, impact studies and ‘what works’ are the recommended approaches, and medical ways to understand and examine social problems thus are prioritised over the broad social science perspectives on which social work rests. This development has culminated in an institutionalised system called ‘state governing of knowledge’. We analyse the Swedish EBP movement as an ‘epistemic community’, directing our attention to the ways in which evidence is constructed and proclaimed valid for policy and practice. Empirically, we build on documents from various actors involved in EBP in social work and on results from our on-going research on documentary practices in the social services. We identify four strategies that key actors use within the Swedish EBP community to contest, redefine, and constrain the academic knowledge base of social work: efforts to (1) construct a (state) knowledge bureaucracy, (2) standardise social work research, (3) exclude important aspects of social work expertise, and (4) govern social work practice. All four strategies are supported by ‘improvement rhetoric’ that aims at justifying the project.

Role of rural camps in nurturing field practicum: narrative from a faculty of social work, Delhi, India

Rural camps are an integral part of practice learning for most schools of social work in India. The paper locates the relevance of rural camps in social work education and unveils its pedagogy and broad learning framework. Based on the experiential account of the author in a rural camp as a teacher educator, the paper situates the role of camps in professional development of social work students and how it enables to bridge the gaps between academic knowledge base and the complex realities of practice. The unique standpoint of the paper is the students’ account of their experiences, challenges faced and its impact on their personal and professional growth.

Research impact: a narrative review.

Impact occurs when research generates benefits (health, economic, cultural) in addition to building the academic knowledge base. Its mechanisms are complex and reflect the multiple ways in which knowledge is generated and utilised. Much progress has been made in measuring both the outcomes of research and the processes and activities through which these are achieved, though the measurement of impact is not without its critics. We review the strengths and limitations of six established approaches (Payback, Research Impact Framework, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, monetisation, societal impact assessment, UK Research Excellence Framework) plus recently developed and largely untested ones (including metrics and electronic databases). We conclude that (1) different approaches to impact assessment are appropriate in different circumstances; (2) the most robust and sophisticated approaches are labour-intensive and not always feasible or affordable; (3) whilst most metrics tend to capture direct and proximate impacts, more indirect and diffuse elements of the research-impact link can and should be measured; and (4) research on research impact is a rapidly developing field with new methodologies on the horizon.

Universities, Libraries and No Librarians

Like registrar is the custodian of administrative record base of the university, a librarian is the custodian of its academic knowledge base. Ideally the first senior position after the vice chancellor that should be appointed in a university is its librarian. The report of University Grants Commission (UGC) Pay Review Committee (PRC) which suggested for granting the post of librarian through CAS from the post of deputy librarian finds no implementation so far. There is no doubt about the learner driven supplemental role libraries have in learning, teaching and research in a university as classroom learning is mostly done out of teacher's knowledge in the topic often hindered by interruptions from students. There is also an element of passivity in classroom learning as students are just passive receptors of whatever is provided by the active teacher. Whereas, a student has to be an active recipient in the case of taking advantage of resources of interest available in library. The data collected from the Universities Handbook, 2010 shows 69% of central universities, 62% of state universities, 63% of deemed universities and 60% of institutes of national importance are functioning with the librarian post kept vacant. When the post is vacant, normally it is being looked after by a teacher or junior officer of the library which both has academic and administrative shortcomings. The high experience prescribed for the post of librarian unlike similar academic and administrative positions in the university is making it impossible to fill the post through direct recruitment as evident from the recruitment results from many universities. The paper makes a plea for realistic reduction in the experience prescribed along with implementation of UGC PRC's recommendation of granting career advancement for deputy librarians of universities to provide librarians to these universities.

Determinants of green electricity adoption among residential customers in Germany

AbstractThe label ‘green electricity’ is commonly used to refer to power generated from various renewable natural sources (e.g. wind). The present article develops hypotheses on the effects of eight attitudinal and perceptual characteristics of residential electricity consumers on their propensity to adopt a green electricity supplier. The hypotheses are tested empirically with data generated by means of a standardized telephone survey of 267 household electricity customers of a German regional power supplier. Questionnaire answers are augmented with information derived from the supplier's billing system on a participant's actual annual electricity consumption. Measurement and structural relationship models are obtained via Partial Least Squares analysis. Regardless of a person's level of actual power consumption in the recent past, propensity to adopt green electricity is most strongly influenced by general consumer attitudes towards environmental protection issues and social endorsement of green power use by close social contacts. In the subsample of participants with low actual electricity consumption, the propensity to purchase green energy is significantly positively affected by the weight an individual attaches to electricity prices in supplier selection decisions and the person's belief that his current electricity supplier takes over social responsibility. In contrast, in the subsample of respondents with high actual electricity consumption consumer's willingness to adopt green electricity is significantly enhanced by the degree of perceived dissimilarity among power company offerings. The identification of factors influencing the adoption of green electricity offers both practical implications for marketers of utilities and contributes to the academic knowledge base of a service domain characterized by increasing societal importance.

Evolving to Perfection? Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards in Vietnam

Following ‘Doi-moi’, accession to the WTO and liberalisation of foreign investment, the volume of trade and commercial transactions in Vietnam have increased. Arbitration, being the preferred method for dispute resolution in international commercial circles has been at the centre of this change. Vietnam has had a plethora of legal instruments on the enforcement of international arbitral awards, which have been subject to evolution, renovation and reform. However, the history and the current legal practice pertaining to the enforcement of arbitration awards reveal that Vietnam still has to take major steps to improve the integrity and efficiency of its commercial arbitration system. This paper endeavours to fill the existing gap in the academic knowledge base in this growing but incipient area in Vietnam, by providing a critique of both the current Vietnamese arbitration regime as well as the imminent legislative reforms therein. In doing so a number of constructive and feasible suggestions are also provided.

The built environment interdiscipline

PurposeThe built environment subject area is now well‐established as a recognised field of study. However, because of its vocational orientation it is usually defined in terms of a particular range of professional activities and aptitudes. In consequence the theoretical nature of its academic knowledge base is poorly developed. This has consequences for research and teaching practice within the field which are explored in this paper.Design/methodology/approachUsing established literature on the historical approaches to knowledge categorisation a theoretical model is proposed.FindingsThe proposed model defines the built environment as an applied, but theoretically coherent, interdiscipline with a common epistemological axiomatic.Originality/valueThe paper proposes a new model of the built environment knowledge base for further discussion within the field. The practical benefits of the model are also illustrated by examples in the context of curriculum design, research strategy and the research‐teaching nexus.

Atribuições causais para o sucesso e fracasso escolares

A Teoria da Atribuição de Causalidade representa um interessante corpo teórico para analisar como os alunos explicam as suas situações de sucesso e de insucesso escolar. Este artigo analisa se essas atribuições causais se diferenciam de acordo com o gênero e o ano escolar dos alunos. A amostra foi composta por 868 alunos do 5º ao 9º ano de escolaridade. A avaliação recorreu ao Questionário de Atribuições de Resultados Escolares, no qual os alunos ordenam seis causas possíveis (esforço, método de estudo, bases/conhecimentos, ajuda dos professores, sorte e capacidade) consoante a sua importância na explicação dos seus sucessos e dos seus insucessos escolares. Os resultados sugerem que os alunos, independentemente do sexo e do ano escolar, associam os seus resultados acadêmicos (sucesso e fracasso) ao esforço, surgindo ainda para explicar o insucesso a falta de métodos apropriados de estudo. À medida que se avança na escolaridade, as bases de conhecimentos surgem mais valorizadas na explicação do sucesso escolar. Por outro lado, os rapazes parecem recorrer mais à capacidade para explicar o seu sucesso, e as meninas mais ao esforço e às bases de conhecimentos. Na explicação do insucesso, a falta de esforço e de método de estudo surgem mais valorizados que a capacidade conforme se avança na escolaridade, o que parece proteger a auto-estima dos alunos.