Student Movement Research Articles

Practices of the formation of historical consciousness in the veteran and student social movement of Altai Krai in the 1960s–1980s

Practices of the formation of historical consciousness in the veteran and student social movement of Altai Krai in the 1960s–1980s

Student Political Transformations in Africa

Student Political Transformations in Africa

Internet of things enabled E-learning system for academic achievement among university students

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a burgeoning frontier in educational innovation, particularly in the realm of e-learning. Despite its expanding capabilities, the integration of IoT technologies into e-learning within higher educational institutions (HEIs) faces numerous challenges and constraints. Limited research has delved into the implementation of IoT in e-learning, especially in developing nations. Consequently, this study seeks to explore the determinants influencing the adoption of IoT for e-learning in HEIs. The aim of the innovative ICT classroom is to assist students in acquiring new skills, adapting to new situations, and utilizing technology in a manner that leads to enhanced learning outcomes and extensive knowledge. Our suggested e-learning system, integrated with IoT technology, gauges student engagement and attentiveness throughout online lectures. The proposed technology integrates electroencephalography (EEG) with IoT. The IoT is a collection of technologies that allow embedded real-world objects to connect to the Internet and is widely used by humans to support a variety of activities. IoT should be taught using developmental learning approaches and included in higher education teaching projects. EEG devices are used to track the psychological movements of students taking online courses. Our findings demonstrate how the proposed method can be used to detect the user’s level of concentration and the required level of educational strategy. A collection of informational indexes for student attention. By using a BiLSTM network to predict undergraduate recall and temporary memory, we can accurately predict undergraduate preferred learning styles. The findings of the research demonstrate that IoT systems and devices play a pivotal role in enhancing access to education. They facilitate easier teaching and learning processes while democratizing education. When employed as educational tools, IoT devices contribute significantly to creating highly engaging learning experiences for students.

Students Want to Build Anti-racist Praxis: How to Support Them in the Classroom with Grassroots Organizers

While university institutions have been legally codified as sites of free expression and academic autonomy, university administrations consistently repress student-led campus rebellion and activism against racism. With the resurgence of intersectional and transnational anti-racist and anti-war student activism across college campuses, how can sociology educators pedagogically invest in students’ desires to build anti-racist praxes within and beyond the university? Informed by experiences with mutually constructive grassroots spaces and undergraduate courses, I argue that educators of race, including but not limited to sociologists, must engage with grassroots and community organizers (especially organizers who are racially minoritized and queer, femme, and/or gender non-normative) and incorporate their learning tools for popular and political education. First, I use the example of “community agreements” to show how educators can incorporate political and popular education tools into their race courses to help their students build their anti-racist toolkits. Second, I discuss two examples of how educators can collaborate directly with working class and racially minoritized grassroots organizers and invite them into the classroom. I end with a call to support community-centered learning spaces beyond the university classroom, as it can strengthen anti-racist pedagogy. Despite academic and state repression, I highlight the long-held tradition and responsibility of educators to support their students’ anti-racist critiques and action. Continuing June Jordan’s anti-racist pedagogical legacy (along with others alike), the university can only survive through co-learning and co-building with students and grassroots organizers, especially racially minoritized ones.

The Emotional Labour of College Student Activism: An Interview-Based Study

The Emotional Labour of College Student Activism: An Interview-Based Study

COVID-19 Disruptions and Choice: Student Movement and Academic Outcomes in Indiana During the Pandemic

ABSTRACT Faced with, nearly all U.S. schools transitioned to remote instruction in March 2020. The following year, the majority of public schools remained closed, but most Catholic schools offered in-person learning. In Indiana, many parents had additional opportunity to switch to a private school for in-person instruction. We examine student and school administrative data to consider movement between sectors and achievement outcomes for students moving to Catholic schools compared to matched peers in their previous public schools. Students who moved to in-person instruction in a Catholic school during this time fared better academically than those remaining in their previous public school.

Pengaruh Money Ethics dan Tax Morale terhadap Persepsi Mahasiswa Mengenai Tax Evasion dengan Hedonisme sebagai Variabel Moderasi

This research raises the issue of the phenomenon of tax evasion amidst the increase in tax revenue realization in the last three years. This study aims to determine the effect of money ethics and tax morale on student perceptions of tax evasion with hedonism as a moderating variable. The object of this research is the cadre of the Mojokerto National Student Movement (GMNI) organization. This study uses a quantitative approach with primary data sources and uses a survey method through google form with a Likert scale measuring instrument. The population in this study were 115 cadres of the Mojokerto GMNI organization. The sampling technique used purposive sampling to get 65 respondents. The data analysis technique uses descriptive statistical analysis with the Structural Equation Modeling- Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method. The test tool used is SmartPLS software version 4.1.0.2 with outer model and inner model. The results showed that money ethics has a positive and significant effect on student perceptions of tax evasion, tax morale has a negative and significant effect on student perceptions of tax evasion, and hedonism is able to moderate the influence of money ethics and tax morale on student perceptions of tax evasion.

Using Literacy Instruction to Develop Student Activists

Using Literacy Instruction to Develop Student Activists

Student Political Participation in the 2023 Medan State University Elections

Indonesia is a democratic country. One of the indicators in measuring the level of democracy is political participation. The implementation of political participation in society is in the election of people's representatives. The election process is known as elections. Elections do not only exist in the community, but in the scope of the campus there is also what is known as Pemira. Pemira (General Election) is the biggest democratic party at Medan State University. Just like a country that has a leader as a representative of the people, students also have a high official who acts as a representative of students at both the university and faculty levels. Based on data that suggests that student political participation is low in Pemira 2023, namely 65% of students do not use their voting rights. The purpose of this research is to find out how political participation and what obstacles students experience in Pemira 2023.This type of research is descriptive research with qualitative research methods. The informants in this study were students in the Civics department, the Pemira committee, and the Vice Dean 3 of FIS. The data used in this research are primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques using interview techniques, with data collection instruments in the form of interview list sheets, books, journals, diaries, cameras, recording devices and so on. Data analysis used qualitative data analysis through 3 stages, including data reduction, data presentation, and verification/conclusion. The results showed that in Pemira 2023 the level of student political participation was low due to low student curiosity in Pemira and low student interest in becoming contestants in Pemira due to other tasks and student distrust of the organizations offered. The obstacles experienced by students in the 2023 Pemira were related to the low role of the committee in socializing information related to system improvements in the application used for elections, which caused many students to be unable to enter the Pemira application and did not exercise their voting rights.

Activism as technology of the posthuman self: towards a more relevant school

ABSTRACT This paper aims to make a theoretical contribution to the field of student activism in relation to the school. In an age marked by ecological, economic and technological change, and where certainties based on Humanism and anthropocentricism continue to be eroded, this paper explores possibilities for reintegrating the school as meaningful to the ethico-political development of students. Activism is positioned in this paper as a means by which students can actualise their ethico-political agency in relation to the self, others and the world. This paper therefore urges school leaders to recognise the potential of knowledge generated through affirmative youth activism and to find a space for this knowledge within the school. This is particularly important within a context of growing youth disillusionment with formal schooling and its inadequate response to the crises of our age. This paper theoretically develops a relational space within the school for the “offical” knowledge of this education to be brought into meaningful political conversation with the “minor” knowledge generated through youth activism. These theorisations will be supported by case studies taken from the empirical literature on youth activism.

Pengaruh Aktivis Mahasiswa Dalam Perubahan Sosial Politik Di Era Digital 5.0

The study explores how student activists at the Islamic State University of North Sumatra (UINSU) influence the socio-political dynamics of the digital era 5.0. This era is marked by technological advances that integrate the physical, digital, and biological worlds, thus providing a new platform for student activism. Student activists not only act as agents of change through social and political activities, but they also use digital technology to expand their influence. The research uses a survey method with structured questionnaires distributed to UINSU student activists, as well as a qualitative approach to gaining an in-depth understanding of their views, attitudes, and experiences of socio-political change. Research findings indicate that student activists effectively use social media and digital technology for campaigns and mobilization. Through social media and internet platforms, activists can quickly mobilize people and draw attention to key topics such as gender equality, climate change, and human rights on a global scale. In the digital age of 5.0, student activists can also more successfully challenge existing forces by using digital tactics, including online campaigns, digital petitions, and online boycott movements, in addition to conducting physical demonstrations in public spaces. They not only use technology as a tool of struggle, but also as a new space for building critical awareness and solidarity. However, the research also finds challenges faced by student activists, such as the spread of disinformation and hoaxes, digital gaps, and technology access. Nonetheless, student activists continue to adapt quickly and innovate to overcome these barriers. The study provides significant insights into the role of digital technology in student activism and its implications for healthy political participation in the digital age 5.0, as well as solutions to strengthen the integrity of democracy at the local level.

Tracing institutional change: How student activism concerning diversity facilitates administrative action.

Tracing institutional change: How student activism concerning diversity facilitates administrative action.

The Youth Inner Mission and the Soli Deo Gloria

From the 19th century, as a parallel field of foreign missionary work, the Hungarian inner mission followed Western (English, German) models and established associations to revive the stagnating religious life and to help those less fortunate in a miserable situation. The urbanisation of the period affected greatly the families moving to the capital, where some of them had become disconnected from their church roots, and the lack of a social safety net led to a high level of poverty and the moral decay that accompanied it. In the first half of my study, I looked at the beginnings of the Hungarian inner mission and then I wrote about evangelising and educating associations for youth and children, such as the Protestant Orphans’ Association, the Sunday School Association and the Christian Youth Association, which was modelled on the YMCA. In the second part, I discussed the social and faith-based activities of the specifically Hungarian Reformed Soli Deo Gloria Student Movement. Keywords: inner mission, youth ministry, Reformed Church, SDG, communism

Overcoming Religious Prejudice Among Indonesian Students Through Islamic Education Based on Religious Maturity

Religious prejudice adorns socio-religious issues in Indonesia, including on state university campuses. Some Muslim student activists are very aggressive in calling non-Muslims and minority Islamic sects as infidels. Their negative prejudice is that Christians and Hindus are infidels because they have three Gods. The Shi'a are heretical because they prioritize Imam Ali over the Prophet. Ahmadiyah is not Islam because they believe in Mirza Gulam Ahmad as the Prophet. However, their accusations have no reliable basis. Meanwhile, mature and religious students have positive and tolerant attitudes. The research aims to counteract religious prejudice in Muslim students through Islamic education based on religious maturity—a mixed-method research method. The research instrument is an inventory of religious prejudice and religious maturity. The research respondents were 300 Muslim students in Bandung and Palembang. The research results show that the religious maturity approach in Islamic education has effectively prevented religious prejudice in students. Before college, half of the respondents had a prejudice against non-Muslims and minority Islamic schools. But after college, their unfavorable discriminations diminished. They say that among non-Muslims, some believe and deserve to go to heaven. Shi'a and Ahmadiyya are both Muslims. The implication is that Islamic education based on religious maturity needs to be implemented in universities.

Tingkat Kesantunan Berbahasa Mahasiswa Universitas PGRI Palembang di Lingkungan Kampus

The problem in this research is how the principles of language politeness are found in the speech of PGRI Palembang University students and how the language politeness of PGRI University Palembang students is based on the level of pragmatic parameters. This research aims to find out and describe the principles of language politeness found in the speech of PGRI Palembang University students and to find out and describe how language politeness of PGRI University Palembang students is based on the level of pragmatic parameters. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method. The data collection technique used is the observation and documentation method. The research results that researchers obtained from the speech of PGRI Palembang University students in the campus environment, found that the speech of PGRI Palembang University students in the campus environment contained the principles of language politeness and a language politeness scale based on the level of pragmatic parameters.

Campus sustainability office representations of the DEIJ-sustainability nexus

The number of campus sustainability offices in the USA has grown over the past two decades. These offices evolve from myriad origins such as an outgrowth of a facilities department, academic administration, or student activism. Some campus sustainability office missions are closely aligned with environmental sustainability, whereas others include the intersection of environmental with human factors such as cultural and economic sustainability. As potential breadth and scope evolves, each college’s sustainability office has new horizons to choose among. These decisions are shaped by factors such as institutional strategic goals, funding, opportunities, and management choices. One of the possible directions for campus sustainability offices is to highlight how the office contributes to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) efforts on campus. These observations are placed into literature on the changing roles of campus sustainability offices, the evolving roles of DEIJ efforts on college campuses, and of website-based representations for audiences internal and external to colleges. In so doing, the article categorizes ways in which sustainability offices present themselves as advancing DEIJ on campuses. This is done by comparing website content from a cross-section of US-based university sustainability offices. Results allow campus decision-makers to see a range of options for advancing DEIJ through sustainability. These results are also of use to faculty in sustainability-related programs to think through course design and community engagement activities. Scholars of higher education management will also be able to see the broader landscape of how DEIJ and sustainability offices align.

Students’ behaviour analysis based on correlating thermal comfort and spatial simulations; case study of a schoolyard in Shiraz City

The significant impact of outdoor school environments on student behaviour highlights the need to study how students interact with their surroundings. This has become a central focus in recent educational research, leading scholars to use various methods to gain insight into student movement behaviour. This research introduces a novel data-driven spatial gridding technique, employing thermal comfort and space syntax evaluation through ENVI-met and depthMapX software. It validates the extracted climatic and spatial heatmaps using real-time drone footage and Python programming to map and visualize student movement patterns. The findings from the Pearson correlation analysis in the Orange Software suggest that the correlated spatial-thermal heatmap better represents students’ actual behaviour with a high correlation coefficient of 0.84 (p = 0.84). Furthermore, this study sheds light on how students’ dynamic and static behaviours are linked to the schoolyard’s thermal and spatial characteristics. In conclusion, this research innovatively combines real-time monitoring with dual-simulations to analyze student movement behaviour, providing valuable insights into specific schoolyard dynamics.

The university, student politics, and the ABVP

ABSTRACT The rise of Hindu nationalist ideologies in public universities in India has partly been accredited to the growing prominence of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The ABVP is the student organization of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and operates on college campuses. For most observers, ABVP’s influence is linked to the dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), RSS’ political organ. But in the Western Maharashtrian city of Pune, a region that has had an ABVP presence for several generations, the unit explicitly denies all associations with the BJP. In this article, I explore the historical and strategic logics behind this denial. I argue that the ABVP’s strategy in Pune is part of a longer and understudied history of an anti-political discourse that emerged in universities over the course of a century. By appealing to apolitical student interests, the ABVP is further contributing to universities becoming key sites for the production of Hindu nationalism.

Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom

Since the first Merkel government in 2009, Germany’s reason of state (Staatsräson) has been increasingly formulated as ‘unconditional solidarity’ with the state of Israel, thus evolving into a logic and practice of erasing Palestine and Palestinians. In such a context, the article delves into the most recent events at German schools and universities since October 7, 2023, and examines how these educational sites have become fundamental avenues for reaffirming Germany’s Staatsräson, as well as potential spaces for its contestation. Combining the work of Lisa Lowe and Nadera Shaloub-Kervorkian, we show how liberal notions of freedom emerge and follow racial frontiers that systemically erase Palestine in the educational structures, from schools to universities. While these processes consolidate Germany’s Staatsräson, protest movements of students and pupils offer the most radical spaces to resist it.

Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University

This essay, written by members and friends of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)—the Palestine solidarity group founded at Columbia in November 2023—brings forth an analysis of our movement. We begin by describing the steps that led to CUAD’s formation, and then its historical continuity with Columbia’s legacy of student activism. We discuss our approach to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, the research that informs our demands, and two of our methods for accomplishing them: an encampment and building occupation. By contextualizing ourselves in Columbia’s student protest history, we hope to explain the lessons we have learned about the content and form of struggle. By explaining our demands, we hope to focus attention to our points of unity, often overlooked or misunderstood, even by our supporters. Finally, by describing our own experience of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and Hind’s Hall occupation, we hope to situate the protests for which most readers know us in our own political, strategic, and practical framework. We analyze our movement through the principal lens of anti-imperialism, while situating ourselves in the context of the US imperialist core, from which we remain auxiliary to the liberation movement in Palestine.