Emergence Of New Perspectives Research Articles

Exploring emotions in language learning: Learners’ self-awareness, personal growth, and transformation on a CLIL course

Emotions in language learning are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in learner motivation and flourishing in the learning process. In consequence, much of the research published to date has focused on what happens when different emotions are experienced and the various states that these may lead to. However, studies that consider how language learners understand the importance of emotions in the context of their learning efforts as well as examine ways this understanding is experienced from the perspective of a language learner are scarce in the literature. To address this gap, the present study investigates how Japanese university language learners experienced a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) course specially designed to explore emotions in language learning, including emotional literacy, motivation, character strengths, mindsets, integrated emotion regulation, empathy, and confidence-building connected to positive and negative affect. To interpret this experience, we take a qualitative exploratory approach to analyse the final diary entries of 24 course participants, using the lens of positive psychology applied to language learning. The coding of the diaries uncovered four areas key to understanding the students’ experience, which included social capital, self-awareness of emotions, personal growth, and transformation. The findings suggest that the students profited in diverse positive ways through active engagement and reflection on the rich tapestry of emotion-related constructs connected to language learning, leading to the emergence of new perspectives, growth and transformation related to an enhanced awareness of emotions in language learning.

Особенности социологических исследований старения в постпандемийное время

The new coronavirus infection, general uncertainty and constant variability of the post-pandemic world influenced transformations in the understanding of age and aging, as well as the emergence of new perspectives in aging research and understanding of this process in the social sciences. Defining age boundaries, understanding the activities of elderly people in the post-pandemic reality and the prospects for researching such activities are important issues for the domestic and foreign scientific community. The article examines the latest publications on the sociology of aging, social policy, health of elderly people and their necessary activities. In total, the author analyzes 1,000 publications released in 2022 and 2023 and devoted to the peculiarities of elderly people’s life after the pandemic. The author uncovers important factors for better integration of elderly people into social life and overcoming the problems caused by the pandemic: activating the social life of elderly people; developing the integration of elderly people into social life; understanding the employment of elderly people as a multi-vector direction, which may include hobbies and their monetization, non-permanent employment or employment for pleasure and communication.

Doing migration studies with an accent

ABSTRACT I use accent as a metaphor and a conceptual tool to epistemologically reflect over the field of migration studies. Accented thinking is a response and a reaction to the condition of coloniality that structures the processes of knowledge production. In this article I aim to explore the potentiality of accented thinking in the formation of knowledge within the field of migration studies. I approach accent both as a way of knowing and a form of struggle. The combination leads to an epistemic refusal. I use accent as refusal not only as a tool to scrutinize how epistemic injustices arise and what forces maintain them, but also as a tool to find out what forces are available to create alternative ways of knowing. I argue that accented thinking can stimulate the emergence of new perspectives and approaches. It takes us beyond notions which have restricted the possibility of any alternative order.

From identification to innovation: how empowering leadership drives organizational innovativeness

Purpose Empowering leadership has a wide range of positive individual employee-related outcomes. However, a limited number of research studies are available emphasizing the overall organization-related outcomes. The major aim of this study is to delve into the function of organizational identification and intellectual capital (structural, relational and human) in mediating the relationship between empowering leadership and organizational innovativeness. Depending upon the resource-based view theory, this study comprehensively investigates the sequential effects of empowered leadership on the mediating roles of organizational identification and intellectual capital in organizational innovativeness.Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered through a self-administered questionnaire, which got 337 responses from telecom employees. To evaluate the hypotheses, the data were analyzed in SEM-M-Plus using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.Findings The findings demonstrate that empowering leadership impacts organizational innovativeness with the sequential mediation of organizational identification and intellectual capital (structural, human and social).Practical implications Organizations can identify and encourage leaders who exhibit empowering behaviors such as delegating responsibilities, providing autonomy and fostering a sense of ownership among employees. Also, organizations can foster intellectual capital by providing opportunities for learning, training and development. Additionally, knowledge sharing and collaboration can help to enhance the intellectual capital of employees.Originality/value While much research has been conducted on empowering leadership, the continued development of knowledge and the emergence of new perspectives related to identification and intellectual capital highlights the importance of exploring alternative paths that have been overlooked. Therefore, there is a pressing need to conduct research that takes into account these additional factors.

Conventional Journalism Versus Citizen Journalism: between Confrontation and Collaboration, the Emergence of New Perspectives

Conventional Journalism Versus Citizen Journalism: between Confrontation and Collaboration, the Emergence of New Perspectives

Geografia da conservação: abordagens, limites e potencialidades

Biodiversity loss has been a major issue on the Global Agenda since at least the 1990s. Several scientific fields are in charge of addressing this issue, especially Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, and even Geography. Although the scientific and epistemological advances of the first two fields are notorious, the current causes of biodiversity loss have multiple facets, which include territorial, social, and political dimensions. To aid in the thought process of the issue, the present study used documentary research as a method, reviewing specialized literature in journals, theses, and dissertations to cover the main concepts involved in conservation studies and the contribution of related sciences. The literature review also included the perspective of Geography in conservation studies and the emergence of new perspectives, such as Conservation Geography. The main results include the initial intention of Conservation Biology to produce studies with a multidisciplinary focus, observing, however, a predominance of studies of Population Biology and Minimum Areas of Diversity. As a proposal to overcome conservation of the exclusionary type, derived from biological studies, Conservation Geography intends to coordinate the concepts of territory, landscape, and biophysical dynamics to the concept of ecosystems, producing a reading that is closer to the actors that produce the space, as well as the disputes that modify and create the territories, which are the main causes to explain the loss of biodiversity and that, in turn, would allow the production of consistent conservation designs.

'Where do we come from and where are we going?' A study about the transformation of knowledge related to long-term care.

The care crisis manifests the tensions and profound changes which are taking place in contemporary long-term care systems, leading to new care views and modalities in society. Through 26 interviews conducted with caregivers, family members and elderly people with care needs, this study aims to make visible the transformation in the conceptions of care in the Basque Country. First, the results show the displacement of familiarist ideas and values. Second, we describe the daily management of the social and moral tensions associated with outsourcing and the meaning of care work. Third, the findings indicate the emergence of new perspectives on the modalities of care. The contribution of cognitive polyphasia towards analysing the management and integration of new knowledge associated with care in a specific socio-cultural context is discussed. Finally, we consider the applicability of our findings in terms of relevant solutions for care management and innovation in this field.

Transformational Leadership Model of Muhammadiyah Branch Leaders in Bandung District

The problem of this research is that the leadership factor still has a big influence on the development of an organization. It takes the right leadership model to manage it. This happened to the Muhammadiyah organization in branch leaders Bandung Regency. Discrepancies occur in the leadership of Muhammadiyah branch leaders between very different sub-districts. The method used in this research is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Data was collected through observation and in-depth interviews with informants. The results of the study show that the transformational leadership model is the most suitable model to be applied in Bandung Regency. His ability to influence employees or subordinates or members is not by exploiting the power that comes from his position or the resources he controls, but by taking advantage of his intellectual advantages. Charismatic leadership is more suitable to be applied in the Muhammadiyah organization so that it becomes an inspiration for its followers. This model leader further enhances understanding and stimulates the emergence of new perspectives in seeing problems, thinking and imagining, as well as in establishing trust values. Likewise, in dealing with the work community, transformational leaders will first try to understand the status, position, expectations of employees well.

Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England

Inter-school networks have been promoted in many school systems globally to facilitate: knowledge generation and dissemination; responsiveness to increasingly diverse student and societal needs; and emotional and practical peer support for educational professionals. In understanding contemporary education as a ‘wicked’ problem, this paper explores case studies of inter-school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand) and England through the lens of complexity theory. We focus on how the conditions necessary for complex emergence identified by Davis and Sumara operate and how these conditions, along with their ‘enabling constraints’, facilitate the emergence of new perspectives and practices that enable the achievement of network objectives. This analysis indicates that where particular forms of leadership are in place, challenges – such as fragmentation, competition and the absence of social capital – can be overcome. We argue that network leaders need to balance and bridge three overlapping leadership approaches: operational leadership, entrepreneurial leadership and enabling leadership. We conclude by exploring the implications and insights for school, network and system leaders.

ASPECTS OF HOTEL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN POST-PANDEMIC GEORGIA

Tourism and hotel businesses are the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Georgian economy. Despite the gradual removal of restrictions imposed during the pandemic period in early 2022, despite the transition to the tourism industry recovery phase, it is important to assess the impact of the pandemic on the hotel sector to better identify post-pandemic challenges and plan sustainable business development measures. The paper analyzes the impact of the global pandemic and other negative factors on the development of the hotel business in Georgia, the main challenges, measures taken to mitigate the damage caused by the pandemic to the hotel sector, and the measures taken to save the hotel business. The paper is based on a review of leading scientific publications and statistical data, an assessment of the main directions of the state anti-crisis policy, government program 2021 - 2024 "Building a European state". Opinions are expressed on the mobilization of existing opportunities in the process of hotel business development in Georgia in the post-pandemic period and the emergence of new perspectives; in the new reality with the services traditionally considered for the hotel business, the introduction of innovative technologies and innovative products.

Revisit soil organic matter

<p indent="0mm">The accurate and comprehensive understanding of the molecular composition, source, and stabilization mechanism of soil organic matter (SOM) is vital for soil management and the preservation of organic carbon. Currently, a series of key scientific issues concerning the formation and stabilization of SOM is highly contentious. This review summarized the advances in the sources and molecular structure of SOM, and presented a systematic analysis of the different views, conflicts, and problems concerning soil humic substances in the past decades. The traditional view of soil science believes that SOMs are mainly composed of humic substances which are macromolecular compounds and are derived from plant and animal residues through a series of mineralization and humification processes. Soil enzymes and minerals, including phenol oxidase, laccase, peroxidase, iron oxide, manganese oxide, promote the polymerization of organic molecules through additive nucleophilic reactions and free radical catalyzation. ¹³C-NMR and FT-ICR-MS analyses supported the existence of humic substances in soils based on the structure and the molecular composition of SOM. However, with the application of biomarker analysis, high-resolution mass spectrometry, spatial resolution spectroscopy, and other advanced techniques, there is an emergence of new perspectives on the source and the structure of SOM. HPLC-SEC showed the average molecular weight of Aldrich humic acid was significantly smaller than previously thought and the aggregation of humic substances was affected by acetic acid, pH and ionic strength. These evidences suggest that humic substances are aggregates of small organic compounds with a molecular weight of hundreds to thousands of Daltons, rather than macromolecules of tens to hundreds of thousands of Daltons. Furthermore, <italic>in situ</italic> observation of soil particles by STXM revealed significant heterogeneity of SOM at <sc>50 nm</sc> spatial resolution. In terms of the origin of SOM, model calculations and biomarker analysis have indicated that microbial necromass is the major constituent of SOM which accounts for ~33%–62% of SOM in different ecosystems. Collectively, microbial residues may contribute predominantly to the SOM pool and traditional concept “humification” may not occur in the soil. These new findings are contrary to the traditional theory of soil chemistry and soil biochemistry and subvert our understanding of SOM. Therefore, it is imperative to perform further in-depth studies to fill the knowledge gaps regarding the sources, formation processes, and molecular structures of humus. However, further intensive investigations on SOM are restricted by the lack of efficient and reliable extraction procedures. In addition, the conversion coefficients from biomarker to necromass are not accurate and mass spectrometry could not provide a comprehensive analysis on the whole organic molecules in the soil. The studies on enzymatic reactions and microbial synthesis were mainly performed in simple suspension systems, which could not simulate the complex soil matrix. Consequently, future studies are needed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the extraction and analysis of SOM and to develop a real-time study platform for the interfacial reactions among minerals, organic matters and microorganisms. Meanwhile, <italic>in situ</italic> characterization techniques and modeling should be employed and combined to clarify the sources and the underlying mechanisms of SOM stabilization at molecular level.

Protection and safety of individuals: challenges of human security in a global context

The process of re-evaluating the extent of military threats in the context of ensuring international security was determined by the end of the Cold War. In this context, the perception of security was attributed to the general assessment of the possible security threats and risks. Based on this fact, the security of the person, of the human individual, was conceived as a fundamental element of the security system construction, including the subsystem of the national security assurance. Therefore, the security phenomenon has been reinvented, reevaluated and realized in the context of new realities, so that the importance of state security has diminished, being replaced by the concerns about new risks, dangers and threats related to climate change, social processes, degradation of ecology and environment, etc. As a result, an increase of in the importance of the non-military security dimensions has been generated. Human security, as a new constructivist conception in security studies, has led to the emergence of new perspectives on security as a global social phenomenon, being a conception produced by the critical approach to neorealism. Human security involves ensuring the protection of individuals taken individually, but also as a social whole. This is possible by ensuring the living conditions and fundamental needs of the human person. Individual safety is based on strategic benchmarks that highlight the purpose of educating, training and developing the fundamental qualities and virtues of the person, in order to prepare him to face the risks and threats related to security. Namely, these benchmarks are the basis for strengthening the mechanisms for ensuring human security at the beginning of the XXI century. The article analyzes the process of ensuring human security in the conditions of globalization, highlighting the ways to achieve global changes in security, the investigations being directed mainly to highlight the current processes of reconfiguring positions and resizing democratization in the context of improving mechanisms that ensure the security of the human person and of humanity as a whole.

Современное монголоведение: от «культурного поворота» к новой картине мира

The article foregrounds the theme of the socio-cultural, civilizational context and worldview status of the contemporary Mongolian Studies and the prospects of its inclusion into the wide perspective of the world scientific research. The processes like globalization and informatization of the science and education, the expansion of the international and interdisciplinary research collaboration, the activation of the science diplomacy lead to “cultural turns”, the emergence of new perspectives in science, the understanding of the scientific and humanistic unity of the East and West, Europe and Asia, the whole world. All these raise the issues of the methodological self-renovation and cultural and civilizational selfawareness for the contemporary Mongolian Studies. The article points out the importance of the refusal of the Eurocentrism rigorism, the need for understanding of equivalence, equal status, equal significance of the west and east intellectual and scientific traditions, their equal importance for each other. The inclusion of the contemporary Mongolian studies into the wider context of the world research will enable to perceive the true meaning of the phenomena “world history”, “world philosophy”, define the new scientific world view of the XXI century.

Soolisuse esitamine Eesti grafitis ja tänavakunstis / Representing of gender in Estonian graffiti and street art

Soolisuse esitamine Eesti grafitis ja tänavakunstis / Representing of gender in Estonian graffiti and street art

A leader–network exchange theory

PurposeWe propose an integrative model of how leaders (individual level) effectively relate to their social networks as a whole (network level). Additionally, we focus both on the leader constructs and the followers shared constructs about those networks.Design/methodology/approachOur conceptual paper uses the integration of literature from two main bodies of knowledge: individual and shared cognitions, fundamentally from psychology, and a structural perspective, mainly from sociology, organisational studies and social network analysis. We take a psycho-structural approach which allows the emergence of new perspectives on the study of leadership and more specifically on the study of relational leadership.FindingsWe propose a leader-network exchange (LNX) theory focussed on the behaviours and cognitions of leaders and followers as well as the relations between them.Research limitations/implicationsOur model represents a new perspective on leader–followers relationship by stressing the importance of both followers and leaders' cognitions. We highlight the importance of the relationships between followers on the creation of shared meaning about the leader.Practical implicationsOur model helps leaders and managers make sense of the cognitions and behaviours of their teams. By considering the teams characteristics, i.e. cognitions and network structure, it allows leaders to adopt the most appropriate behaviours for effective leadership. Leadership and management development programmes designed around our model will enhance the use of networking skills.Originality/valueContrary to the traditional view of LMX, our approach considers the social context of leaders and followers. It also adds a new layer of knowledge going beyond what members think of their leaders by considering the social networks of leaders and followers.

Protagonismo feminino e a ditadura militar no Brasil: o caso Araguaia

O presente artigo, realizado com apoio da Fundação Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS/MEC – Brasil, é resultado dos estudos acerca da participação feminina em diferentes frentes de luta contra a ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1964-1985). Ao longo das últimas décadas, importantes contribuições para se pensar o protagonismo feminino durante a ditadura passaram a ser produzidas, permitindo o surgimento de novas perspectivas e abordagens de análise. Assim, ao pensarmos a história das mulheres no referido período, devemos observar os códigos de conduta que as cerceavam e as práticas de resistência que rompiam tanto no cenário político, público, quanto cultural, patriarcal. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é discutir a participação e a resistência feminina na Guerrilha do Araguaia.

Developing collaborative creativity through microblogging: A material-dialogic approach

A dialogic theory of collaborative creativity focuses on the emergence of new perspectives from the interplay of ‘voices’. With much research on the interaction between digital technology, dialogue and collaborative creativity focusing on human voices, this paper explores how a microblogging tool may contribute to co-creative processes as a ‘voice’ in a dialogue. We diffractively read excerpts from one lesson, involving learners aged 11–12 years studying English in the UK, through material-dialogic theory and Barad’s theory of agential realism. Through our entanglement with both theory and data, we explore the tensions and relationships between: i). ideas of creativity in the context of digital technology-supported classroom dialogue; and ii). frameworks of understanding informed by agential realism. Bringing these two sets of ideas together addresses a gap in our current understanding of the multi-layered nature of students’ creative engagement with digital technologies in classrooms. These findings are thus significant when considering a material-dialogic approach in the context of developing collaborative creativity through technology. Additionally, the paper makes a methodological contribution, illustrating the use of a diffractive approach in the context of technology-mediated dialogue and creativity.

Radio’s Waves of History: Media Activism and National Radio Network Historiography in the United States

The publication of U.S. radio network history began less than five years after the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) inaugurated national service. This descriptive analysis of U.S. radio network historiography periodizes the emergence of four waves of radio network history between 1930 and 2020, and illustrates how social, political, and regulatory activism influenced the emergence of new perspectives on the developmental period of U.S. network radio. Examining evolutions in radio network historiography reveals the continued applicability and relevance of radio history to contemporary debates concerning media activism and the applicability of historical inquiry in media controversies in the United States.

Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 by Maryanne A. Rhett

Reviewed by: Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 by Maryanne A. Rhett A. David Lewis (bio) Maryanne A. Rhett. Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922. Bloomsbury, 2019. 200 pp, $114. In his groundbreaking Unflattening, Nick Sousanis identifies the fragmentation and territoriality that comes with most specialization. An antagonism arises as a result of finer and finer expertise in both professional and academic fields. "Distinct territories were drawn up, /delineating provinces of exclusion /claims staked /areas carved out /fields defined. /Walled off within isolated domains, /communication across boundaries was stifled. /They kept to themselves, pursuing separate paths to understanding."1 Given that comics are a medium of communication both requiring and encouraging an interplay between word and image as well as segmented unit to the next, it is especially appropriate that they be used in reunifying or integrating various spheres with one and another. "As the coming together of two eyes produces stereoscopic vision /outlooks held in mutual orbits, /coupled, /their interplay /and overlap /facilitate the emergence of new perspectives."2 This goal—to use and to study comics in order to desegregate—must be kept squarely in mind when reading Maryanne A. Rhett's Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922, a work of greater potential than its title suggests. At the outset of the book, Rhett states that her goal is to expand readers' "understanding [of] how Islam and Muslims came to be codified in the popular imaginations of the United States between 1880 and 1922" (1), and, to a large degree, she is successful. The chapters move from an overview of terms to a sense of the US religious populations in this era to Islam in the news and political discourse. Chapters four and five focus more specifically on the visual meanings behind harems and scimitars, respectively, as well as how [End Page 243] Turkish involvement in World War I aligned a good deal of Muslim portrayal with nefarious Others (e.g., Germany and Austria). The next chapter is more clever, both analyzing the use of characters in disguise as a Muslim of "Turk" and revealing how (knowingly) false and constructed such outfits were. Concluding with linkages further into the twentieth and twenty-first century, Rhett nicely highlights the promise and the peril of Muslim representations in comics currently; criticisms of imperial heritage and the promotion of marginalized voices are to be lauded but not without a wary eye toward the infantilization of female characters and the relative dearth of research to be placed in responsible dialog here. Any problem arising from Rhett's work is not with the content nor the analysis, both well-written and aptly researched, but perhaps with the scope. In one sense, she does an excellent job of embracing Sousanis's direction by ignoring barriers and lucidly traversing the worlds of fashion, journalism, gaming, and film in her examination of the time period. However, the examination of comics and cartoons themselves makes up a slim majority of this sweep over popular culture, less demonstrating how integrated it was with these other arenas and more undercutting the accuracy of the title. Passages touch upon Mutt and Jeff, Happy Hooligan, and Punch (reasonably argued as an ocean-crossing periodical) as well as later protagonists like Kismet, the heroes of The 99, Dust, Nightrunner, and Ms. Marvel. Unquestionably, there is effort and attention paid to comics, but their starring place in the title feels, across the various subjects deftly discussed, like a misnomer. Considering the quality of the scholarship against the positioning of the book leads to a further criticism, though not of Rhett. In her Acknowledgments section, among the widespread gratitude she expresses to colleagues and family, none of it is explicitly directed to editors at Bloomsbury, fittingly. The publisher might have merited it had they steered her towards a more inclusive title—Representations of Islam in US Popular Culture, 1880–1922 works equally well—suggested she correct odd omissions like Green Lantern Simon Baz, or simply cared to correct typos large and small (e.g., the easily detectable punctuation of "Spiderman and Super Girl," whole sentences which embarrassingly repeating themselves, etc.). In short, Bloomsbury, not Rhett...

К использованию английского языка как средства обучения

The author highlights the global trends observed in the system of higher education: the growth of mutual influence and interdependence of the people of the planet; increased commercialization of life, the emergence of new perspectives. It is shown that the English language takes on new educational functions; new, more attractive places for training and scientific research appear due to changes in status and rating; the diversity of training areas and pedagogical approaches is increasing; new opportunities open up in the study of programs and languages; value guidelines change. Promising opportunities and styles of using the English language as a source of education and learning tool are revealed.