Journals In Field Research Articles

PERCEPÇÕES DOCENTES SOBRE A UTILIZAÇÃO DA METODOLOGIA DE RESOLUÇÃO DE PROBLEMAS PARA A EDUCAÇÃO INCLUSIVA NO ENSINO DE QUÍMICA E CIÊNCIAS

TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE USE OF THE PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODOLOGY FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY AND SCIENCE. This manuscript aims to present and analyze the contributions of a training process on the principles of Inclusive Education integrated with the Problem-Solving (PS) methodology. This research intervention involved a 20-hour training course conducted during three consecutive semesters, with a total of 32 participants, including graduates in Chemistry and Biological Sciences from a Brazilian federal public university, as well as Chemistry and Biology teachers working in basic education in Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected using initial and final procedures, field diary entries, and semi-structured interviews with three participants who implemented PS in a school context. According to the triangulated results, the formative action contributed to the conceptual construction of the theoretical aspects that were worked on. It also demonstrated that PS can democratize the teaching and learning process among students with and without disabilities by considering the different possibilities of learning school problems and representations of scientific knowledge. The methodology favors respect for the students’ developmental specificities, as well as educational interaction and mediation in an active and collaborative way between students and teachers.

Subjetividades de médicas y médicos en su encuentro con víctimas de violencia sexual en hospitales universitarios de Medellín, Antioquia, 2021-2022

Abstract Objective: To understand how physician’s subjectivity is expressed while attending to victims of sexual violence at emergencies. Methodology: Qualitative research, a collective case design with an ethnographic approach, via the elaboration of a field journal, two institutional itineraries, 12 in-depth interviews to leaders and doctors and one workshop. Results: There were four moments identified on victim’s itinerary at emergencies services, in each moment emerged subjectivity’s expressions, that could be organized on forms of subjectivity and their mechanisms within. If the physicians embodied the modern medicine, a subfield of medicine, into their habitus, their practices tend toward the revictimization of their patients. In the other hand, if doctors do not embody such practices and assume a critical posture about it, they tend toward a comprehensive care. Discussion: The non-recognition of such practices leads to the impossibility of exercising health citizenship, its mechanisms are a result of socialization processes from sociohistorical constructs that are reinforced by hegemonic medical model and the medical field., generating tension between practical logics of physicians and the needs of the victims. However, a fracture of this model is observed as a possibility of transformation toward comprehensive care.

Effects of the Reduction of the Food Purchase Program Resources for the Family Farmer

The Food Acquisition Program (FAP) created in 2003 during the first term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva represents a change in the way family farmers are benefited. However, in the period of 2019-2022 (Bolsonaro’s Government) the setback in the implementation of social policies, which began during President Dilma Roussef’s second term, worsened. In this context, this article sought to investigate the effects of the partial implementation of the FAP on the lives of family farmers in the municipality of Maracanaú-CE in that period. This is an excerpt from the dissertation “Evaluation of the Municipal Food and Nutrition Security Policy in the Municipality of Maracanaú-Ceará”, which was developed through a Fourth Generation Assessment from February to November 2022, using the Hermeneutic Circle Dialectic. The informants were family farmers benefiting from the program. Empirical data were constructed through individual semi-structured interviews, field observation and field diary, which allowed creating the empirical categories: Benefit of participating in the FAP; Challenges for maintaining family farming in recent years and Support from municipal managers to family farmers. The study concluded that the partial execution of the FAP due to the reduction in the transfer of federal resources had effects regarding the guarantee of sales, the reduction of sales and the value of products, on the conditions for purchasing equipment and supplies. This situation was worsened by insufficient support from municipal management in terms of providing resources and technical assistance, which generated instability in the segment and discouraged people from continuing with family farming. These findings allow us to reflect on the importance of the FAP to keep family farmers in the field, generate security and stability, and promote quality of life not only for the segment, but for consumers who seek healthy food produced in a sustainable way.

O brincar na zona rural: uma comparação entre o ontem e o hoje

Playing is considered one of the main occupations of the child. Based on the understanding of influences on playing, this work proposes to describe the childhood playing of rural residentes, from an intergenerational perspective. This is a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with eight mothers and eight daughters living in ​​Limoeiro-PE. In the data collection, the interview technique, the Drawing-History procedure and the field diary were used. For analysis, Bardin's Content Analysis methodology was adopted based on Romeu Gomes' framework. The results identified similarities in play between both generations: space where play usually takes place, family members as the main partners in play and the characteristics of games, toys and pranks. The insertion of new technologies into children´s daily lives, the ease in purchasing industrialized toys and the quality of the toys are seen as the most obvious differences. Given the objective of this study, the number of participants, and unique characteristics of the sampling, the data presented may differ from similar studies in relation to the characteristics of games, toys and games experienced in rural spaces. It could become a guide for new studies and concerns involving the topic.

Антропологічний матеріал із городища уличів 10 століття біля с. Сажки на Вінниччині із розкопок П. І. Хавлюка у 1970-1978 рр.

The purpose of the article is to summarize information about the anthropological material from the excavations of P. I. Havlyuk, which was found at the ulychi settlement near the village Sazhki in 1970-1978 and its introduction into scientific circulation. The research methodology is represented by: the principle of historicism, system approach, methods of logic, grouping, comparative-historical, statistical and problem-chronological principle. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that it summarizes information about the found human skeletons belonging to the ulyches who died as a result of an attack on the settlement during the first stage of its existence in the 10th century. Today, only part of the preserved human skeletons from the excavations in Sazhki are available for detailed anthropological research. To write the article, unpublished materials from the personal fund of PI Havlyuk in the Vinnytsya Regional Museum of History and Nature and the State Archive of the Vinnytsia Region were used, namely: field diaries, manuscripts, and epistolary heritage. The scientific reports on excavations stored in the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv were also included in the work. Information is provided on the position of the discovered skeletons, their probable signs of death, and personal items found among or near the bones. The skeletons are systematized by age category. For a significant part of the dead, their gender has been determined. Conclusions. It was possible to establish the position of the skeletons of 94 deceased. Among the dead, according to P. I. Havlyuk, there are signs: wounds; tied limbs and burnt. The inventory material was found in 33 deceased persons aged two years and older. The sex of 42 persons was determined, of which 32 were female and 10 were male.

Nordic Academic Publishing in Health Economics

We analyse how the Nordic contribution to health economics has evolved over the past three decades -- in quantitative and qualitative terms. Using a dataset of publications from five prominent field journals for health economics, we combine different empirical methods to analyse the general trends in terms of number of distinct publications, topics covered, and co-authorship relationships between countries and individuals. We find that the Nordic countries are responsible for a stable share of international publications in health economics. The topics that Nordic health economists publish on are relatively similar to those most prevalent in the international community, even though health insurance is remarkably absent as a research topic in Nordic countries. In terms of links between countries and co-authors, we see that Nordic researchers are well embedded in the international community, and that the Nordic research community has moved toward less hierarchical relationships.

Cheaters or AI-Enhanced Learners: Consequences of ChatGPT for Programming Education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies have a long history of being used in education for motivating learners and enhancing learning. However, there have also been critiques for a too uncritical and naïve implementation of AI in education (AIED) and the potential misuse of the technology. With the release of the virtual assistant ChatGPT from OpenAI, many educators and stakeholders were both amazed and horrified by the potential consequences for education. One field with a potential high impact of ChatGPT is programming education in Computer Science (CS), where creating assessments has long been a challenging task due to the vast amount of programming solutions and support on the Internet. This now appears to have been made even more challenging with ChatGPT’s ability to produce both complex and seemingly novel solutions to programming questions. With the support of data collected from interactions with ChatGPT during the spring semester of 2023, this position paper investigates the potential opportunities and threats of ChatGPT for programming education, guided by the question: What could the potential consequences of ChatGPT be for programming education? This paper applies a methodological approach inspired by analytic autoethnography to investigate, experiment, and understand a novel technology through personal experiences. Through this approach, the authors have documented their interactions with ChatGPT in field diaries during the spring semester of 2023. Topics for the questions have related to content and assessment in higher education programming courses. A total of 6 field diaries, with 82 interactions (1 interaction = 1 question + 1 answer) and additional reflection notes, have been collected and analysed with thematic analysis. The study finds that there are several opportunities and threats of ChatGPT for programming education. Some are to be expected, such as that the quality of the question and the details provided highly impact the quality of the answer. However, other findings were unexpected, such as that ChatGPT appears to be “lying” in some answers and to an extent passes the Turing test, although the intelligence of ChatGPT should be questioned. The conclusion of the study is that ChatGPT have potential for a significant impact on higher education programming courses, and probably on education in general. The technology seems to facilitate both cheating and enhanced learning. What will it be? Cheating or AI-enhanced learning? This will be decided by our actions now since the technology is already here and expanding fast.

Interventions for gender equality in STEM education: A meta‐analysis

AbstractBackgroundAlthough gender inequality in education is gaining increasing attention, female underrepresentation remains pervasive in STEM fields. Many studies have applied various interventions to narrow the gender gap in STEM education.ObjectivesIn this study, we conducted a systematic meta‐analysis to examine the effectiveness of various interventions for gender equality in STEM education and tested the influence of moderator variables.MethodsTen databases—ERIC, IEEE, JSTOR, ProQuest‐Education, SAGE Journals, Scopus, Springer Link, Taylor & Francis, Web of Science, and Wiley Online Library—and seven high‐quality journals in related fields were selected as literature resources. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analyses (PRISMA) process was used to identify eligible articles for the random‐effects meta‐analysis.Results and ConclusionsThe overall effect size (Hedges' g) was 0.434, indicating that the interventions promoting gender equality in STEM education had a near‐medium positive effect. There were significant differences by the type of intervention, but not by the type of intervention outcome. The results of the moderator analysis showed a significant difference in moderator variables, including country, educational level, form of experiment, intervention level, and different measurement methods, whereas there was no significant difference in the moderator variables, including economic development level and sample size.ImplicationsThis study examined the effectiveness of gender equality interventions and the impact on it of different types of intervention, intervention outcomes, and moderator variables. These results have implications for the design of gender equality interventions in STEM education.

Uncovering patterns of author productivity in educational leadership and management in Indonesia

Background of the study: The rapid development in the field of educational leadership and management (EDLM) recently has led to an increase in the number of publications. In line with this, bibliometric analysis has been widely conducted to assess various fields of study, particularly in Indonesia. The abundance of publications also necessitates an examination of the extent to which authors' productivity levels contribute to the field of EDLM in Indonesia. Purpose: This research aims to explore the pattern of author productivity by testing Lotka's Law on publications in the field of EDLM in Indonesia. Method: The testing is conducted using the complete count and straight count methods to compare the results obtained from both approaches. The data for the study were collected from all 44 Indonesian accredited journals in the EDLM field. A total of 7,796 articles were screened based on specific criteria, resulting in a final sample of 5,158 articles with 6,604 authors (complete count) and 4,301 authors (straight count). Findings: The results of the study indicate that the productivity levels of authors in the field of EDLM in Indonesia do not align with Lotka's law. While, most productive authors tend to publish their publication in a single journal only. Conclusion: The study also reveals a disparity in the productivity levels between the two methods, as well as a tendency for productive authors to publish their work in a single journal.

Selective and (mis)leading economics journals: Meta‐research evidence

AbstractWe assess statistical power and excess statistical significance among 31 leading economics general interest and field journals using 22,281 parameter estimates from 368 distinct areas of economics research. Median statistical power in leading economics journals is very low (only 7%), and excess statistical significance is quite high (19%). Power this low and excess significance this high raise serious doubts about the credibility of economics research. We find that 26% of all reported results have undergone some process of selection for statistical significance and 56% of statistically significant results were selected to be statistically significant. Selection bias is greater at the top five journals, where 66% of statistically significant results were selected to be statistically significant. A large majority of empirical evidence reported in leading economics journals is potentially misleading. Results reported to be statistically significant are about as likely to be misleading as not (falsely positive) and statistically nonsignificant results are much more likely to be misleading (falsely negative). We also compare observational to experimental research and find that the quality of experimental economic evidence is notably higher.

Reconsidering Ru(li)net: Russian literary self-publishing platforms and the war in Ukraine. A case study of Litnet.com

In this paper, I examine online self-publishing literary platforms in Russia from a historical and legislative perspective. Using a mixed methods approach, including digital ethnography, field diary, phenomenological interviews, I trace how the Russian Internet, and particularly literary self-publishing platforms, transformed from a free space without legislation or geographical borders to a limited digital arena controlled by the Russian state. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this transformation was complete: the boundaries of the Russian literary Internet coincided with the geographical borders of Russia. The notion of Runet as a community of Russian-speaking people was broken by regulative acts of the Russian government and a war. Literary and online self-publishing practices, contrary to Soviet samizdat, depend on state legislation due to their commercial nature. Regulatory acts limit authors’ capacities to express their thoughts and feelings in literary work.

New Guests Crashing the Party: A Typology of Journalistic Collaboration

ABSTRACT This study examines the key factors involved when news work is done through collaboration. The author draws on two years of ethnographic observation, interviews and textual analysis in examining two collaborations, the Dallas Media Collaborative and the Credible Messenger Reporting Project, and assesses the variables at play when journalists work alongside groups outside the traditional journalistic field—including nonprofits, universities, think tanks, artistic groups, and citizen journalists. Building on existing literature, the study defines collaboration as a partnership among organizations, at least one of which is committed to traditional journalistic values (i.e., truth, verification, independence and public service). Drawing on the “hierarchy of influences,” it lays out variables that impact whether a collaboration is likely to challenge those values: the identities of the partners, the level of integration of the partners, and the extent of the partnership’s commitment in terms of time and scope. The findings suggest that, while inclusion of non-journalistic entities is important, the degree to which new kinds of partners are integrated into collaborative editorial processes ultimately determines whether they have the ability to transform the field. When they are highly integrated, the study argues, collaborations enable onetime “extramedia” influences to impact journalism at the organizational level.

Moral Judgment and Social Critique in Journalistic News Satire

Journalistic news satire is a satire subgenre that is gaining legitimacy in academic research as well as in the journalistic field as an opinion news format and arena for public debate. News satirists claim journalistic roles and operate under the mandate of exposing moral wrongs and auditing power. The development of a more substantial news satire coincides with an observed repoliticization of humor and comedy and intensified moral negotiation around comedic content, particularly on social media. Based on the Moral Foundation Theory, this study identifies moral judgments in journalistic news satire, using a content analysis of TV news satire material from Sweden and the U.S. The results show an overwhelming majority of moral judgments related to the individualizing foundations of Harm and Fairness, while the binding foundations of Ingroup, Authority, and Purity were less frequent. In addition, the results show strong similarities between the two countries in the material, indicating moral common ground and displaying how moral judgment is connected to the inherent nature of satire in general and the genre conventions of journalistic news satire in particular.

Innovative innovation in journalism

Previous studies over the past 23 years have illustrated how the journalistic field has embraced innovative processes. While some of these processes were fully developed at that time, others were still in the process of development or implementation. An ad hoc analysis sheet was designed using innovation categories, where each item is assigned a score based on the level of innovation, ranging from low to high. This methodological instrument is proposed for the analysis of high innovation in news websites and it is applied to narratives, data journalism, audience involvement, co-creation, verification, ethics, corporate information and content distribution in the most widely consumed news sites across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa. What is discovered is that there are no more evolved trends in some regions than in others. Nevertheless, European and American sites offer a broader range of options compared to their African and Asian counterparts.

Mathematical competencies with applications of mirror classes in regular basic education

<span lang="EN-US">The problem about learning in mathematics lies in the lack of application of teaching strategies for the resolution of the calculation in mathematical problems, problems of movement, mathematical regularity, equivalence, and uncertainty; in populations with difficulties to learn collaboratively. Here the application of mirror classes in populations with interactive problems is demonstrated, thus contributing to strengthening their knowledge from cooperative information management, the use of analysis skills based on co-evaluation. In this sense, the purpose of the study was to evaluate the mirror class, as a pedagogical strategy, in order to optimize the competence of solution of quantity problems in basic school students of two educational institutions in Lima, Peru. The study was conducted under the action research approach where the diagnostic and exit test, question guide and field diary were the instruments used for data collection. It was concluded that the mirror class as a pedagogical strategy favors the optimization of competition and solves quantity problems in basic education students. So, they also developed concrete knowledge, to assign them in cognition more enduringly as a form of social learning.</span>

Facilitators and barriers to dealing with questionable journals in management science

PurposeScientific publishing has recently faced challenges in dealing with questionable (predatory and hijacked) journals. The presence of questionable journals in any field, including management science, will yield junk science. Although there are studies about questionable journals in other fields, these journals have not yet been examined in the field of business and management. This study aims to identify facilitators and barriers to dealing with questionable journals in management science.Design/methodology/approachA Delphi research method consisting of three rounds was used in this study. Data were collected from 12 experts in the first two rounds, and ten experts in the final round.FindingsThe present study shows that management science is vulnerable to questionable journals. A total of 18 barriers and eight facilitators to dealing with questionable journals in management science were found. The present study also identifies some new barriers and facilitators for avoiding questionable journals, which are specific to management science and have not been identified in previous research. Most of these barriers and facilitators were identified as “important” or “very important”. Publishers and scientific databases, government, the research community and universities and research centers were identified as critical players in overcoming challenges posed by questionable journals.Originality/valueThe number of articles that investigate predatory journals in management science is limited, and there is no research focused specifically on hijacked journals in this field. This study identifies facilitators and obstacles to dealing with predatory and hijacked journals in the field of management, by gathering opinions from experts. Thus it is the first study to examine hijacked journals in the field of management science. It is also one of the few studies that examine predatory and hijacked journals by conducting exploratory research rather than with a descriptive/conceptual approach.

A participant observation methodology to analyse social functions, gender, class, and gastronomic practices in food-centric organizations: From the Gastronomic Societies in San Sebastián to the world

Departing from the Gastronomic Societies in San Sebastián, Spain, we propose a scientific, scalable, method for participant observation in civic and cultural arenas where gastronomy is the key connector between members (such as gastronomic confraternities, diaspora organizations, “casas regionales”, “peñas”, among others). This model combines a structured combination of qualitative methods like ethnography, that comprises interviews and a field diary, netnography, focus group(s), questionary(ies) and bibliographic review with archives searching. An adjustable framework on the objectives, research question and hypothesis are also presented. Besides, the model also comprises recommendations regarding the research steps (“working packages”), a risk management plan, the selection of a facilitator, the way to create trust and address serendipity, as well as it draws recommendations on research validation of tools by experts, followed by pilot testing guidelines.

Science teaching and the mobile collaborative learning approach: different educational contexts

The study described in the article aims to understand how mobile devices can help teaching practices in the pedagogical project in the classroom and beyond. We opted for a qualitative approach with the use of research-action, involving the collaborative work of a teacher interested in contributing to the resolution of concerns related to the use of these technologies in the school context. Interviews, field diaries, and class observations were analyzed and coded. The results indicate that the elements that supporThe research deals with how mobile technologies helped Science classes, articulating curriculum content and real situations experienced in the community. t Mobile Collaborative Learning, based on teaching practice supported by mobile devices, recognize the importance of teaching as a mediator, involving students in discussions about the themes studied in different learning contexts. One way, via, or possible path that the study brought out is that for these technologies to be integrated into school activities it is necessary to make the curriculum more flexible, both in planning and execution, thus rethinking public policies that encourage the use of these devices at school, especially those of students' own use.

Twitter adoption and perceived utility among Israeli news professionals: A mixed-methods study

This study examined Israeli news professionals’ adoption and usage of Twitter as a journalistic tool. A mixed-methods approach was used, including a survey and open-ended questions, to gather data from 63 news staff members, including senior news presenters, correspondents and commentators. The results showed that Israeli news staff primarily use Twitter in a professional context and view it as a positive and essential work tool. Most respondents believed Twitter played a significant role in determining the media’s agenda and influencing the atmosphere among news staff. A one-way analysis of variance found that Twitter usage time was related to the perceived importance of the platform as a work tool and its influence on the journalistic field. The study also identified several reasons for adopting Twitter: curiosity, internal encouragement and pressure, access to quick updates and a wider range of sources, the opportunity to present a unique voice and the desire to reach new audiences.

Care in family coping with teenagers who use drugs

Aim: Know the meanings and family coping of adolescents who consume drugs in rehabilitation. Method: Qualitative research with a phenomenological design sought to know the life stories of the families of adolescents who consume drugs in a rehabilitation center in the city of Chihuahua. Participant observation, field diary and in-depth interview were used, content analysis was carried out in three moments: discovery, coding and construction of units of meaning. Results: The consumption of addictive substances in an adolescent causes changes and feelings in family dynamics, generating helplessness, and anger and at the same time stress and fear. From the perspective of the coping experienced by the family of the adolescent who uses drugs, there are four categories: poor family communication; to us as a family who takes care of us; mother's intuition, an awakening to reality and finally defeat as a family. Conclusion: It is not easy to structure a form of care, it was necessary to reach the most sensitive fibers of the human being in order to understand the processes in which he is immersed, establishing an intimate and intentional dialogue with him, since he is surrounded by a whirlwind of pain and suffering.