Journals In Field Research Articles

Fostering Students’ Creativity in English Writing Class: Investigating The Impact of Project-Based Learning in Bridging Ideas and Words

The lack of stimulation for students' creativity in English language learning at schools, stemming from a conventional approach that overly focuses on information transfer and offers limited scope for creativity, can be effectively addressed through the implementation of Project-Based Learning as an innovative approach. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze project-based learning as a means to enhance creativity skills in the English writing process of junior high school students. This study adopts a qualitative approach, where data were collected through student and teacher speeches or conversations recorded on video and noted in field journals during observations from the first to the third sessions. The qualitative data analysis follows the structured approach as per the model by Miles et al., (2018). The findings indicate that the application of Project-Based Learning in an Islamic State Junior High School in Kediri is effective in enhancing students' creativity skills in English writing, as reflected in the fulfillment of creativity indicators such as motivation, self-confidence, resilience to mistakes, initiative, humor, and critique. This research offers an innovative solution to overcome challenges in English language learning.

Sports Journalism Reporting in the Era of Digital Media in Nigeria

The advancement in technology has created a better way of sports reporting in journalistic engagement, which pave way for brand journalism known as specialised reporting, in which sports is one of the beats. Specialised reporting has become a necessary part of the press because of the need to address the inadequacies presented by straightforward news reports. Society is getting more complex with time so are the people. Mere news stories are no longer adequate to address the yearnings of complex human societies for complex angles to stories. Today, the diversity of media audiences has necessitated a variety of reporting beats which gave birth to what is known as specialised reporting. Within this context, the media have been associated with sports for a long time. The paper articulates that the role of the media has always been vital in boosting any activity of sports. The media have got a focal position, particularly in communication of fresh information, sharing the viewpoint of the masses, and bringing live sports and other activities to the consumer. The fusion of sports and the media, and Television, in particular, has helped propel and transform major events such as the FIFA world cup and the Olympic Games. Based on the opportunities offered by digital technologies, sports reporting has opened an opportunity for many hidden talents to come to the limelight and it has helped in improving infrastructures among other merits. The paper concludes that with the arrival of new actors in the journalistic field, the heavy use of social media and its impact on sports consumption patterns is imperative. The search for new business models for news organisations and the disrupting technology that is being explored and applied as innovation in the sports coverage all require new conceptual approaches to better understand the sports news.

Detection of fake papers in the era of artificial intelligence.

Paper mills, companies that write scientific papers and gain acceptance for them, then sell authorships of these papers, present a key challenge in medicine and other healthcare fields. This challenge is becoming more acute with artificial intelligence (AI), where AI writes the manuscripts and then the paper mills sell the authorships of these papers. The aim of the current research is to provide a method for detecting fake papers. The method reported in this article uses a machine learning approach to create decision trees to identify fake papers. The data were collected from Web of Science and multiple journals in various fields. The article presents a method to identify fake papers based on the results of decision trees. Use of this method in a case study indicated its effectiveness in identifying a fake paper. This method to identify fake papers is applicable for authors, editors, and publishers across fields to investigate a single paper or to conduct an analysis of a group of manuscripts. Clinicians and others can use this method to evaluate articles they find in a search to ensure they are not fake articles and instead report actual research that was peer reviewed prior to publication in a journal.

Factors that enhance and limit youth empowerment, according to social educators

PurposeThis study aims to identify the contextual and relational factors that enhance and limit the empowerment of young people from the perspective of social education professionals.Design/methodology/approachBronfenbrenner's bioecological model made it possible to locate the narratives of the educators in the territory. These narratives include field diaries, i.e. hybrid narratives that include visual, written and spoken materials, and focus groups with 11 educators from different fields of action and related to youth empowerment projects.FindingsAccording to these educators, the most important factors for empowering young people are their immediate environment, and the issues that affect them most. For these factors to be empowering, young people need to be accompanied, with support based on connectedness, horizontality and the creation of safe spaces and learning experiences. Both the microsystem and the mesosystem form the immediate reality for their action. Aware of this, educators do the work of connecting with the exosystem.Practical implicationsIt is evident why communities are spaces with opportunities for youth empowerment, and the authors observe the need for more transversal and less welfare-based social and youth policies that generate empowerment instead of dependency.Social implicationsThis methodology evidenced the environmental structures of educators and the dissimilar levels to explore and understand the work of educators and the complex interrelationships, which play an important role in empowerment processes.Originality/valueThis research presents a new perspective that allows traditional qualitative reflection to be embedded in the bioecological model. All of this sheds light on relational ecosystems with young people and proposes youth policies, in this case, oriented towards empowerment.

Among knowledge, affections, and regulations: an institutional analysis of brazilian education management during the COVID-19 pandemic

This article presents an experiential account whose general objective was to identify the instituting movements in a public school located in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Instituting movements are understood as responsible for the ongoing (re)creation of processes that challenge and reconfigure the institution within the context in which it operates. The specific objective is to identify the main challenges faced by school managers, as well as the strategies adopted to address them. The Institutional Analysis framework developed by Baremblitt was used to guide the field insertion analysis, which took place from September to December 2021. Four in-person meetings were conducted, lasting 60 to 90 minutes, in addition to social media contacts and interactions in different spaces within the school. The data were organized in a field diary, recorded, and transcribed with consent. Eight main challenges were identified, from which two analyzers were defined: i) bringing the school into the cell phone, which indicates that the boundaries between the public and the private gradually blurred, creating a new reality in which work and personal life became intertwined; and ii) multifaceted school management, which suggests that participatory actions arising from teamwork produce a kind of creative light to manage antagonistic experiences. It is concluded that the school faced work precarization, but the managers were able to overcome adversity through horizontal collaboration, clear roles, common interests, efficient communication, and lasting bonds among the professionals.

Propuesta interdisciplinaria para la indagación en las ciencias naturales en estudiantes de séptimo grado: una investigación de diseño en el aula

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the results of the implementation of an interdisciplinary didactic proposal (chemistry, biology and physical education), which focuses on the concept of human breathing and was designed to promote the competence of inquiry innatural sciences. We worked with 38 7th grade students in a school in the municipality of Soacha (Colombia) and with three teachers who implemented the didactic design. This study was developed through Design-Based Research (IBD). Field diaries, semi-structured interviews and the evaluation questionnaire of the Saber 7 2021 tests were used as information collection instruments. Initial analyses focused on performance in the inquiry competition and implementation of the integrative methodology designed. Subsequently, the emerging category "student motivation" was included in the analysis. The results of the applied Saber 7 test showed that the students improved their performance after the integrative activity. Regarding motivation, greater interest of students was identified to participate in these articulating projects. In the analysis of the implementation of the design, the participating teachers expressed the need to articulate the different disciplines in pedagogical projects and pointed out the institutional limitations for their application.

Unos impactos del covid-19 en la educación primaria.

Given the serious characteristics and consequences in education derived from the pandemic in the world, the research was developed, which gives rise to this article. Objective: it was done with the purpose of assessing the impact of Covid-19 in private preschool and primary schools in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. Materials and methods: surveys were applied to the directors of 28 educational centers, out of a total of 56, interviews were made with them, an observation grid was made and a field diary was kept to later triangulate the information. Results: results were found such as the definitive closure of several schools due to this phenomenon and the economic difficulties suffered by the owners of the schools for the same reason. Conclusions: it was concluded that the directors, teachers, students and parents had few skills to use digital tools and that despite the economic adjustments that were made, the schools still have serious difficulties to recover the number of students and the financial part. Keywords: Educational centers, Covid-19, Basic education, Impacts, Pandemic

Mediation in Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Deaf Education: Algebraic Thinking

The proposal of inclusive education in the education of deaf children does not limit the issues of access to communication. Bilingual education is necessary for their learning and cognitive development, also considering their way of interacting and organising life. Objectives: To investigate how mediation is done through signs and instruments in appropriating algebraic knowledge by deaf students attending non-special schools. Design: The design experiment based on educational design research (EDeR) has been chosen as the methodological path. Setting and participants: The teaching episodes were developed with two deaf students from two state public schools in a municipality in Paraná, Brazil. Data collection and analysis: Field diaries and video recordings of teaching episodes were used for data collection. The collected data were analysed through the use of content analysis. Results: Mediation through signs and instruments is the key point for high-quality teaching, as it establishes connections between the student’s previous experiences and the mathematical concepts in consolidation. Conclusions: Visuality is reaffirmed as essential for the development of mathematical contents, especially in the development of algebraic thinking in the education of deaf students. It also points out the need to expand investments in universal education of quality to guarantee human and material resources for public schools.

A training action for chemistry and science teachers: contribution of problem-solving activities to inclusive education

This work analyzes the contributions of a teacher training action to the acquisition or improvement of knowledge concerning the principles of inclusive education, assisted by use of the problem-solving (PS) methodology. The training action was conducted with 32 subjects, including undergraduates from the Chemistry and Biological Sciences courses at a Brazilian federal public university, together with teachers of Chemistry and Biology at state schools in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Data were collected using questionnaires and field diaries. The present article discusses two main categories that emerged from triangulation of the data: (i) conceptions about inclusive education, and (ii) experiences and potential of PS. The findings showed that the training course activities contributed to the professional development of the participants, using a strategy where the principles of inclusive education were associated with study of an investigative approach to teaching and learning.

E-Character Education among Online Learning: Focusing on Performance, Collaborative, and Spiritual Character

Character development is one of the goals of the teaching and learning process. On the other side, teachers are still looking for an effective way to instill good character in the students through online learning. According to the survey, this research focuses on the students' characters of individual performance, collaborative and spiritual character. The transition from conventional to e-learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic significantly affects the readiness of lecturers and students to get involved in learning activities, which affects the development of the students' characters. This is a mixed method case study, conducted in seven university. Seven hundred forty-six students of public and private higher educations in Indonesia were investigated in this research. Data collected through observation, field journals and interviews. Data were analyzed through quantitatively and qualitatively. The result showed that the students' performance and collaboration characteristics were not as good as their spiritual character. The students did assignments without paying too much attention to the quality of the content. The students tended to finish the assignments independently, they were rarely involved in the discussion, felt the changing of the academic climate because of the difficulties in accessing the platform to fulfill the needs of remote interaction among the students. The lecturers' readiness was unfamiliar with the teaching platform, and they needed time for converting teaching material into digital form and gave them many assignments.

Facing the flames

AbstractIn June 1939, Melville Herskovits arrived in Trinidad. Already committed to his eponymous thesis of African cultural survivals, he identified the rural municipality of Toco as a site to observe “African ways of life … in greatest purity.” The oil field strikes that gripped the island just two years earlier received only a passing mention in his monograph, Trinidad Village. This essay meditates on Herskovits's field notes to consider how a Boasian cultural paradigm compelled Herskovits to exclude the oil field labor from his study. Still, he is aggravated throughout by oil troubles of his own. Vexed by a faulty gasoline generator, Herskovits used his field diary to document his frustrated efforts to record audio of Shango songs in Toco. Engaging in a counterfactual thought experiment in which Herskovits pursued the aftermath of the oil field strikes as his object of study, this essay considers how Herskovits could have charted a distinct ontological ground for discipline of anthropology.

Journalistic Verification Practices From the BBC World News and Al Jazeera English

News media organizations are a part of the institution of public knowledge. Through journalism, news media organizations inform and educate the public on matters of public concern. However, the digitalization of news media and new affordances brought forth by digital technology have challenged the journalistic field. Complexity in the news media landscape, particularly with the proliferation of fake news, has pushed greater demand for news organizations to ensure that news produced is correctly and accurately verified, especially in newsrooms’ adoption of user-generated content (UGC). Breaking news reports are more prone to the utilization of UGC as newsrooms compete for immediacy. For 24-hour news channels, its credible image is vital for future sustainability in a challenging media landscape. This study adopts the gatekeeping theory as it identifies the verification process by two 24-hour news channels—BBC World News and Al Jazeera English—as part of daily news operations. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with news media practitioners from both news channels, five methods of verification are adopted.

Datafication of Journalism: How Data Elites and Epistemic Infrastructures Change News Organizations

Data has become an increasingly important commodity for news organizations. The capability to extract, store, and analyze data is also central to organizational decision-making. Drawing on the concept of epistemic infrastructures, this study sheds light on organizational datafication in journalism. Analyzing job advertisements of incumbent broadcast, print legacy, and online-only news outlets in the US and UK, this study traces material underpinnings of data architectures, networks of data agents, and epistemic data paradigms in news organizations. We show that a professional data elite of data analysts, engineers, and product developers serves as an epistemic community that consolidates power through epistemic authority and reinforces epistemic paradigms in journalism. We describe epistemic data infrastructures in the journalistic field and highlight how reliance on these infrastructures contributes to ethical challenges that news organizations are ill-equipped to address. We conclude that news organizations are deeply engaged in fostering epistemic infrastructures and that by acknowledging them, we can better analyze socio-technological changes in journalism and its consequences.

Autoethnography as a Tool for the Achievement of Deep Learning of University Students in Service-Learning Experiences

This exploratory study was carried out within the framework of a pilot learning and service experience in the subject of Qualitative Research Tools in Social Work, where the autoethnographic field journal was used as a tool for the development of deep learning competency in a group of third-year university students undertaking a degree in Social Work and fourth year students undertaking a double degree in Social Education and Social Work in the Social Work, at the University of Deusto. The authors hypothesized that this qualitative research tool could help students develop their ability to critically reflect on their experiences, identify their own strengths and weaknesses in relation to deep learning competency, and establish goals to improve their learning. The service-learning methodology experience proposed for the students involved to participate in a program aimed at the transition to adulthood of young people in situations of vulnerability, where they were required to record in a field journal the emotions, interpretations, and contradictions that the experience of meeting and living with unaccompanied migrant minors using the program could evoke. The results of the qualitative study showed that the autoethnographic field journal was an effective tool for developing deep learning competency in the students participating in the pilot service-learning methodology experience. The results concluded that the autoethnographic field journal could be a valuable tool for promoting reflection, self-awareness, and critical thinking.

A review of machine learning applications for the proton MR spectroscopy workflow.

This literature review presents a comprehensive overview of machine learning (ML) applications in proton MR spectroscopy (MRS). As the use of ML techniques in MRS continues to grow, this review aims to provide the MRS community with a structured overview of the state-of-the-art methods. Specifically, we examine and summarize studies published between 2017 and 2023 from major journals in the MR field. We categorize these studies based on a typical MRS workflow, including data acquisition, processing, analysis, and artificial data generation. Our review reveals that ML in MRS is still in its early stages, with a primary focus on processing and analysis techniques, and less attention given to data acquisition. We also found that many studies use similar model architectures, with little comparison to alternative architectures. Additionally, the generation of artificial data is a crucial topic, with no consistent method for its generation. Furthermore, many studies demonstrate that artificial data suffers from generalization issues when tested on in vivo data. We also conclude that risks related to ML models should be addressed, particularly for clinical applications. Therefore, output uncertainty measures and model biases are critical to investigate. Nonetheless, the rapid development of ML in MRS and the promising results from the reviewed studies justify further research in this field.

A Aprendizagem Coletiva e em Rede Desenvolvida em Empreendimentos Formados por Mulheres da Economia Solidária: Uma Análise Pós-Colonialista Sobre uma Prática Feminista de Autogestão

Abstract This research arises from studies of women's management practices from the place of self-management within the scope of the Feminist Solidarity Economy Network (Resf) and, therefore, the term feminist practices of self-management was developed throughout the research, considering the practices that are performed in the Solidarity Economy (ES). The objective of this research is to identify and analyze one of the feminist practices of self-management observed in the field: the development of collective and networked learning. The main theoretical contributions used to mediate the discussion are based on studies of feminist management practices, on the perspective of substantive rationality, on studies on organizational learning and the post-colonialist view that adheres to the context of women in the SE. The data collection was implemented based on thematic oral history in semi-structured interviews with women from Resf and direct and indirect field observation between the years 2018 and 2021, recorded in field diaries. The perspective adopted for data analysis is critical discourse analysis. The results point to the following findings: (I) no hierarchization of the organization of learning practices; (II) intense exchange of information inside and outside the network based on reciprocal ties; (III) a form of learning that prioritizes experiences with a system of activities in which knowing is not separated from doing. For the women, knowledge is integrated and distributed in the life of the community, which necessarily requires the involvement that comes from the sense of belonging and mutual care that unites them.

Responsabilidad social en la producción de tabaco de Nayarit. ¿Un lavado de cara y de manos en la acumulación por despojo?

In Nayarit, Mexico, there is an Integrated System of Tobacco Production (SIPT) which operates mainly with the participation of campesino families. However, for some preparatory work and to guarantee the harvest, local jornaleros and indigenous migrant families from the mountainous regions of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, and Zacatecas are hired, manly on a temporarily basis. They live for several months in precarious conditions in the houses and yards of the growers and on the agricultural plots. Since the Marco’s Convention and the General Law on Tobacco Control, the companies that control the SIPT have adopted new narratives and strategies for managing and sustaining their businesses, mainly emphasizing the so-called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The objective of this article is to analyze the CSR actions of the tobacco companies from an approach of accumulation by dispossession, understanding CSR as a capitalist tool for the extraction of surplus value. With the support of a qualitative methodology, based on bibliographic and hemerographic review, direct observation, field diaries and interviews, also corporate actions comprised between 2018 and 2023 have also been documented. British American Tobacco and Tabacos del Pacífico Norte have "sponsored" the operation of the Florece centers and the Sustenta program in the tobacco fields of Nayarit, even though, in the tobacco reality of the tobacco industry the operation of such programs and their costs are assumed and absorbed by the growers, while the companies disseminate an image of sustainable business management.

Mausoleum Complex near the Village of Lapas, Astrakhan Region (from the Field Diary of V.V. Dvornichenko)

The materials obtained during the work on the complex of mausoleums of the Golden Horde era near the village of Lapas in the Astrakhan region by the Volga archaeological expedition led by V.V. Dvornichenko in 1995 – 1997 are introduced into scientific circulation. These were the first scientific studies of the largest cult complex of the Golden Horde nobility, little known in the scientific community. It was then that the idea of the true size, composition and potential of the archaeological monument, its significance in the culture of the Golden Horde and the development of Islam in the Eurasian space appeared.

More of the shareable same

This paper shows the disproportionate influence Facebook exercises over Indian journalism and how it induces conformity and isomorphism in the journalistic field by nudging journalists to incessantly produce more of the same “shareable” content. It focuses on the efforts of 7 alternative news startups in South India to diversify news coverage, as gleaned through 11 in-depth interviews. These startups have a clear reformative agenda, criticizing and hoping to distinguish themselves from the mainstream media’s elite-controlled, partisan, sensationalist reporting that ignores issues affecting the marginalized. Key to these startups’ claims to be alternative is the dedicated, ground reporting of issues faced by the LGBTQ+ community, Dalits and Adivasis. As digital-only publications, they depend on Facebook to circulate their content, interact with the audience and earn revenue. Using the theoretical framework of platformization (Nieborg & Poell, 2018), this paper demonstrates how this dependence keeps startups locked in a perpetual loop of precarity, trying to placate the algorithm with shareable content to stay visible, hoping to eventually get enough subscribers to make it on their own. The constant churning of shareable content detracts organizational resources and leaves their content undistinguishable from the mainstream, postponing the realization of independence to a later date.

Landscapes as Narratives: Decolonising Ceuta’s Contemporary Border through Performative Filmmaking

The inspiration for this work is based on the experimental film “Tout le monde aime le bord de la mer” [The colour of the sea] I set in the border town of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the north of Africa. The film depicts this territory of transit migrations as a racialised limbo. Drawing on field diaries written during the filming process, I examine here the leading role that landscape can play in the fabrication of narratives and the performative act of playing with the aesthetics of fiction to de-centre the production of white-male Western knowledge. In this paper I delve into the process of filmmaking by analysing three central aspects that can help conceptualise performative cinema as a decolonial methodology. Firstly, the crisis of representation based on a process of experimentation with fiction and visual grammar, which also facilitates the blurring of the divide between self and other; secondly, the creation of counter-spaces that facilitate processes of participation and self-fiction; and thirdly, the choice of non-representational landscapes to dislocate audiences from formal geographical references and normative imaginaries about political borders.