Student Movement Research Articles

Determinants of Student’s Satisfaction Towards Bus Service Quality in UiTM Cawangan Selangor

Bus service around the campus is essential for the movement of students to undergo academic and co-curricular activities. Student satisfaction with the quality of the bus service provided needs to be considered. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between empathy, perceived value, reliability and timeliness and also to examine the greatest predictors among all four variables towards student satisfaction with the quality of bus services at UiTM Cawangan Selangor. In total, 200 undergraduate university students took part in the research as survey respondents. The SPSS version 29 was used to analyze the data. The findings from the analysis revealed that empathy, perceived value, reliability and timeliness were found significantly correlated with student satisfaction. In addition, the reliability was highly significant in determining student satisfaction. The practical and theoretical implications of understanding the characteristics of empathy, perceived value, reliability and timeliness will make university administrators and service providers more concerned with student satisfaction to improve the quality of bus services provided. In addition, the results of this study also aim to provide insights that can be taken into action by the parties concerned in improving service delivery and the overall student experience.

We are Who we Represent: A Theory of “Immersive” Representation in Student Activism

Abstract Children and young people have a right to freedom of association and to have their views given due weight when they act collectively. However, when they come together in groups to engage in collective action, in school and elsewhere, they are often criticised for not being “representative” of all/other young people. The concept, while frequently cited, remains undefined and fails to incorporate how young people understand, experience and enact representation. This article presents data from an empirical study with youth activists who established a Secondary Schools Students’ Union during the Covid-19 pandemic to lobby for change in education decision-making. The study was carried out as a collaboration between two university-based researchers and two secondary school students who were founding members of the union. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with union executive members, this article presents findings that convey young people’s navigation of adults’ perceptions of their representativeness, focusing on issues of legitimacy and efficacy. Based on this study, we propose a new youth co-authored and youth-informed theory of representation that conceptualises it as immersive and mutually symbiotic and, we suggest, enables meaningful implementation of child and youth activists’ civil and political rights.

Comparing the South African and Brazilian student uprisings (2015–2016): Similarities, Circulations, and Distance

ABSTRACT South Africa and Brazil are notorious for having some of the highest levels of (racialised) inequality on the planet, and dysfunctional education systems failing millions in their aspirations for a better life. Over 2015-16, student protests erupted across Brazilian and South African schools and universities, challenging these conditions through strikes, occupations, on-campus and street protests, and intellectual production. This paper builds on a World-Systems theoretical framework to understand the similarities, circulation, and distance between the two contemporaneous movements. In Brazil, the ‘Primavera Secundarista' high school occupations dealt primarily with local political dynamics, such as school closures, and intersectional forms of oppression. In South Africa, the ‘Fallist' university mobilisations demanded free, decolonised education, alongside addressing issues of outsourcing and institutional racism. In the first section, I give a comparative overview of these student movements’ similarities, situating them in their context and highlighting the key concerns and political and pedagogical practices of student activists in each. While these movements did not generally engage with each other, there were some important points of interaction, discussed in the second section. While highlighting these points of connection, I also advance an argument in the third section for why there was nevertheless relatively little direct engagement between these contemporaneous movements that otherwise had so much in common. The points of connection and disconnection between these similar movements offers insights about the functioning of the contemporary World-System and the modes of transnational circulation between movements therein, with lessons for transnational understandings of social movements, especially South-South movements.

Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Student Migration in Nepal

Student migration, defined as the movement of students to pursue education abroad for at least a year outside their country of citizenship, has transformed into a market-driven phenomenon due to the globalization of higher education. As the demand for international education surges, an increasing number of students perceive it as a pathway to potential permanent residency. The cultural and economic contributions of these international students have prompted stakeholders to facilitate their entry and integration. While North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and East and Southeast Asia remain primary destinations, emerging educational hubs like Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore are witnessing a rise in international student enrollment. Nepal is a microcosm of this global trend, with thousands of its citizens pursuing higher education abroad annually. A comprehensive analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Nepalese students studying abroad reveals complex patterns influenced by factors such as geographic origin, gender, age, religion, marital status, and economic background. The preference for countries like Japan, characterized by favorable policies and educational opportunities, is particularly pronounced among students from regions like Lumbini and Madesh. These disparities underscore the persistence of sociocultural barriers hindering educational opportunities for women and the inequitable access to international education among students from different socioeconomic strata. To effectively support Nepalese students abroad, it is imperative to develop tailored policies and support systems that address the diverse needs and backgrounds of this population.

Institutionally crafted Amhara-domination narrative: an existential threat to Amhara people

ABSTRACT Political narrative is an instrument for political actors to construct a shared meaning, and it can be harnessed to harm political opponents. The Italian invaders, the Ethiopian Student Movement, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the Oromo Liberation Front, and the incumbent regime contributed in varying degrees to the Amhara domination narrative. TPLF, in its political manifesto and later in the 1995 FDRE constitution, institutionally crafted an anti-Amhara narrative, reaching a crescendo after Abiy Ahmed assumed office in 2018. Thus, this research article tried to scrutinise and weigh the discourse of institutionally crafted Amhara existential threats. The study employed a qualitative research tradition and an exploratory research design approach that involved a political-economic analysis. The study finds that the century-old Amhara domination narrative, coupled with institutionally supported recurrent mass killings and expulsion, especially in Oromia, Benishangul-Gumuz, and Amhara regional states, posed a real and perceived existential threat that gave birth to the Amhara Fano armed struggle.

A grounded theory of intersectional Asian American college student activism.

A grounded theory of intersectional Asian American college student activism.

College Student Political Participation in the Context of a Polarized Nation and an International Pandemic: Do Campus Civic Engagement Efforts Matter?

U.S. universities devote substantial resources to increasing student political engagement, especially voting; research identifies several factors affecting student political participation, including socialization theories (e.g. family, friends, school), distance from home (Niemi and Hanmer), and choice architecture (Thaler, Sunstein, and Balz). Other research suggests that increased party polarization leads to higher voter turnout (Abramowitz and Stone; Crepaz). Our study sought to understand student political behavior (voting and registration) and political polarization during fall 2020 in the context of a polarized nation and an international pandemic. Based on 326 surveys of undergraduates and in-depth follow-up interviews, where 85% of our student sample reported voting, results suggest support for several factors that contribute to voting: level of political information efficacy, participation in campus organizations and events, friends, and family. On measures of social distance (“polarization”), participants felt more distant from Trump and less distant from Biden, and participants who felt closer to Biden felt significantly more prepared to vote than participants who felt distant to Biden. Surprisingly, minority students were less likely to vote. A second analysis compared a subsample of student fraternity/sorority members (“Greek” members) from 2016 and those from 2020. The 2020 Greek members voted at higher rates and were more active on social media although voter registration rates did not differ. Results suggest that several factors contributed to student voting in our sample: parent/family encouragement, a cultivated campus voting culture, campus outreach efforts to first year students, and increased voting avenues during the pandemic.

Supplemental Material for A Grounded Theory of Intersectional Asian American College Student Activism

Supplemental Material for A Grounded Theory of Intersectional Asian American College Student Activism

Rocking Under Orion’s Belt: The Rise and Fall of Seibu Kōdō as International Concert Venue

ABSTRACT An edifice resembling a temple hall and located on the outskirts of the Kyoto University campus, Seibu Kōdō, rose to national prominence in the early 1970s as a hub for the city’s burgeoning performing arts and rock music scene. Its reputation and legend quickly grew after hosting the MOJO WEST series, inaugurated in 1971, that included concerts by iconic Japanese bands such as Flower Travellin’ Band, Murahachibu, and Zunō keisatsu. Towards the end of the decade, Seibu Kōdō began attracting international performers, spearheaded by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in 1976. However, an incident during a concert by The Police in 1980 led to a permanent suspension of welcoming foreign acts. This article explores Seibu Kōdō’s formative years as a concert venue and the way its connections to the radical student movement, symbolised by the constellation of three red stars painted on its roof, informed its peculiar self-management model. This facilitated the venue’s use as a space for unrestricted artistic expression, but at the same time hindered its development beyond local significance.

From Kent State to Black Lives Matter: Student Affairs’ Relationship With Campus Activism

Kent State University (KSU) has been associated with campus activism history since May 4, 1970. Using a case study approach, we interrogated if and how KSU student affairs administrators’ approach to activism has changed in the intervening decades and how the legacy of the shootings informed their practice during the Black Lives Matters protests of 2020. We found administrators’ bedrock values and approach were consistent across the two periods. However, their tactics for working with activists shifted in line with the growth and evolution of the field of student affairs, available technologies, and the social and news media climate.

Nation and its students: Reflections on educational activism from a public university in Delhi, India

This article examines contemporary facets of student mobilization that unfolded with the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA). Taking cues from a premier public university in India, the article explores how CAA-driven activism enabled the political socialization of students, and how such a process was entangled with their identities and ideologies. It provides an ethnographic description of student mobilizations for and against the amended citizenship laws to show that (1) the space of the university has witnessed a steady resurgence insofar as the questions of nationalism and nation-building are concerned, (2) higher education in India is at a paradoxical crossroads, and is traversing through rapid neoliberalisation and burgeoning religious nationalism, and (3) ‘competing nationalisms’ between student organizations are on display, where each group believes that their idea of the nation is more suitable than another. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual armory, the article’s contribution lies in arguing that campus activism leads to the formation of dispositions that enable and assist in the production of political capital among student activists. It concludes that the university then serves as a platform and creates further pathways for accumulating such capital.

Researching Decolonization: Exploring the Applicability of the Concept of Decolonization to Student Activism in Ghana

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the role university students played in the decolonization discourse in Ghana. It analyses whether or not the concept of decolonization can be used to investigate the resistance of student movements through their activism. The consciousness of student movements such as the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) of the continuous existence of forms of colonialism despite nominal independence can be seen in student struggles for socio-economic and political justice especially struggles against neocolonialism and neoliberalism from the 1960s to the early 1990s. It investigates the continuities and discontinuities of different historical conjunctures of student movements and how these fed into the wider debates on decolonization. Using a qualitative multidisciplinary approach and relying chiefly on primary sources, open-ended interviews, newspapers and archival data, this paper analyses the connection between student political activism and the concept of decolonization in Africa. The article situates student actions within decolonisation discourses in Africa by analysing student efforts to ensure the total liberation of all African states, oppose neocolonialism, and contribute to Africa’s development.

Penerapan Permainan dalam Meningkatkan Gerak Lokomotor pada Siswa Kelas VI SD Negeri 4 Bubutan Surabaya

This study aims to improve the locomotor movement ability in grade VI SDN Bubutan 4 Surabaya with the application of games, The problem is that students in grade VI B still have difficulties in locomotive movement, In cycle 1 using the application of games such as relay games and jumping rope, data is collected through direct observation and assessment of student skills before and after the implementation of the activity, analysis shows that some students still do not show significant improvement in locomotor movement ability, In cycle 2 the game is simplified. The results of the analysis showed that the improvement of locomotor movement ability became more consistent across all groups of students. The conclusion of this study is that the application of the game method is effective in improving locomotor movement skills in grade VI B SDN Bubutan 4 Surabaya. Classroom action research (PTK) with Cycle I and Cycle II. The subject of this study is 32 students of class VI B SD Negeri 4 Bubutan, the application of the game aims to improve the locomotor motion of students in class VI B SD Negeri 4 Bubutan. From the results of the Implementation of Cycle I, students in class VI B reached a percentage of 43% and the Implementation of Cycle II reached a percentage of 87%, with this the application of the game method in improving the locomotor movement of students in class VI B has reached a classical value with a provision of 85%.

Influence of Campus Outdoor Spaces on Students Behavior: Enhancing Social Interaction and Learning at An-Najah University

This study examines how the physical features of university campus outdoor spaces affect student behavior, aiming to promote social interaction and improve learning outcomes. Two central questions guide the research: how student movements relate to open space features, and how campus layout influences student circulation and interaction. By employing a mixed-method approach, including field observations and space syntax analysis, five areas at An-Najah University Campus are studied. The findings highlight the importance of these insights in urban design and planning, especially for teaching staff, students, and visitors. Results indicate that spatial layout and physical features significantly affect space usage, with students favoring areas with seating, shade, and social opportunities, adapting to informal setups when formal options are limited. Visibility is key, with students favoring spaces offering maximum visibility for seating. This understanding informs architects and planners in creating engaging campus environments for social interaction and learning.

INFLUENCE OF TARGET POSITION ON EYE MOVEMENT IN NAVIGATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE TASKS: REINTERPRETATION OF DATA

The main objective of this study is to understand how the target’s position influences eye movement in navigational and informative tasks. The study included 20 university students, 13 females and 7 males, aged between 18 and 44. Participants answered a socio-demographic questionnaire and performed two tasks: navigational and informative. Linear combinations of dependent variables were performed through the MANOVA (2x2) test, which maximized the differences between several conditions of the independent variables. The results indicate that the target’s position in the navigational task significantly influences the eye movement of university students. Additionally, the individual’s position influences eye movement in both navigational and informative tasks. It is concluded that both the target’s position and the individual’s position determine eye movement factors during navigational and informative tasks, highlighting the importance of considering these variables in studies of visual perception and human-computer interaction.

The Female Body and the Body Politic in Sex Scenes of Lou Ye’s Film: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of <i>Summer Palace</i>

This article discusses the body politic of Yu Hong in the postsocialist Chinese film–Summer Palace (2006). Director Lou Ye places Yu Hong’s body in the sex scenes that metaphorically expresses a traumatic and sensitive political event, the “June Fourth Incident.” The portrayal of sexual intercourse, nudity, and this historical event is the unspeakable “secret” in mainland Chinese media. Therefore, the authors raise the question that, when sexual intercourse and the female body enter political discourse, how do we deal with the complex and dynamic power structures behind bodily attributes and the “anachronistic” historical objects that do not fit into the mainstream narrative and epistemological spaces? Drawing on body politic theory, feminist film theory, and a semiotic framework, we adopt multimodal critical discourse analysis to assess power relations and ideologies behind Yu’s body attributes in the sex scenes. The findings indicate that Lou constructs a complex communication system, using her body as a carrier of communication to express self-consciousness, constructing female subjectivity through the writing of feminine discourse, with the political purpose of seeking the freedom of the written word. Sexual liberation is sought by establishing a transgressive body that is not accepted by the mainstream and opposes the inherent power of government. Yu’s bodily pleasure is set up as an expression of narcissistic individualism through love, producing a vision of political ecstasy. Her melancholy body metaphor for the discomfort and confusion that preceded the student movement and the post-traumatic ambivalence. Using the female body as a site of political discourse and sexual liberation offers a new reading strategy for analysing the representation of the female body in film and other forms of media. In making the argument, the study contributes valuable scholarship to the film studies focused on sexual, gender, and political marginalised discourse.

PRODUK OLAHAN IKAN (PROKAN) UPAYA MENINGKATKAN INOVASI PRODUK PERIKANAN DI DESA SISARAHILI TELUK SIABANG, KECAMATAN SAWO, KABUPATEN NIAS UTARA

Sisarahili Village is one of the underdeveloped villages that has a lot of potential in the fisheries sector. Based on survey information in the village, the income and economy of the people of Sisarahili Teluk Siabang Village have decreased since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The problem faced by the community in Sisarahili Teluk Siabang Village is the lack of knowledge and skills possessed by the community to process fishery products into processed fish products that are highly nutritious and have high selling value. In order to solve this problem, this service activity aims to provide knowledge and skills to the community in Sisarahili Teluk Siabang Village about the technology of processing fishery products into processed fish products (PROKAN) which are highly nutritious and can increase the income and economy of the community. The implementation method used to achieve the target of service activities is by conducting counseling, training on the technology of processing fishery products into Processed Fish Products (PROKAN): nuggets and meatballs and mentoring. The community group that is the special target of this service activity is fisherwomen. Through the Student Organization Capacity Strengthening Program (PPK ORMAWA), it becomes a student movement in providing knowledge about the technology of processing fishery products into Processed Fish Products (PROKAN). This community service activity was welcomed enthusiastically by the community by attending the counseling and training of Processed Fish Products (PROKAN). The community stated that they got additional insights and skills in processing fish into various products, namely nuggets and meatballs.

Navigating Respect and Rapport: A Comparative Analysis of Teacher and Student Politeness Strategies in EFL Classroom

Navigating Respect and Rapport: A Comparative Analysis of Teacher and Student Politeness Strategies in EFL Classroom

Teacher Development Dilemma and Solution Ideas in Contemporary Chinese Rural Small-Scale Schools

Small rural schools are an important part of compulsory education and an inevitable form of rural education development. As urbanization accelerates, the movement of rural students to urban schools has led to a drastic reduction in the number and size of rural schools and a serious loss of quality teachers. Currently, rural teachers in China are facing problems such as disconnected interpersonal networks, weakened discourse power, and limited professional development. In order to promote the development of rural education, it is necessary to prioritize the professional development of teachers in small-scale rural schools, innovate the rural teacher training model, focus on the training of native and generalist teachers, and establish inter-school teaching and research teams to achieve the sharing of educational resources. Simultaneously, it is crucial to pay attention to the spiritual needs of rural teachers, enhance the professional identity of young teachers in small-scale rural schools, raise their comprehensive treatment level and reduce the burden of non-teaching tasks, so as to promote the professional development of teachers in small-scale rural schools.

Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education: A Global Perspective

Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education: A Global Perspective