Theoretical Dimensions Research Articles

A Theoretical Discourse on Quality Education

The theoretical and empirical dimensions and understandings of quality in education are explored in this study using secondary research techniques based on a literature review and content analysis. It reviews several studies and includes recommendations for top-notch instruction. While the quality of education is a current global problem, Nepal’s education is seen as being of poor quality. In order to guarantee quality education, numerous international conferences have been held. In Nepal, getting a good education is difficult and seen as a piecemeal process. Review shows that there are number of ways to ensure quality education. However, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, relevancy and sustainability are considered the basic measures for a quality education. Similarly, quality environment, quality inputs, quality contents, quality process, quality outputs, quality outcomes, and quality impacts are considered the basic imperatives of quality education. The main methods for achieving quality in diverse sectors include quality assurance, contract compliance, customer-driven, ISO 9000:2000, and self-assessment though the education experts and practitioners perceive quality education as an intangible and elusive notion.

Bernard Mandeville: Wealth beyond Vice and Virtue

Bernard Mandeville denounced the moral philosophy of his times, its theoretical and practical dimensions, as elitist and contrary to human nature. The explanations and recommendations derived from this moral philosophy, according to Mandeville, was inadequate to understand and govern commercial society. Mandeville scrutinized existing explanations about human nature, confronted them with what he presented as facts and unraveled their contradictions. This leads to Mandeville’s challenge: accepting things as they are or assuming the responsibility of transformation. This is the challenge I aim at exploring in this paper. We can continue to live in a highly unequal society based upon pride and shame or we can create incentives that will lead to a different calculation of passions in line with a Utilitarian criterion.

Sexual Games of Power and Status in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?

This article explores the use of sexuality as a tool to achieve power and status by the characters in Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In this drama, the characters ignore the values of marriage, love, and sex in order to dominate others or control the situation for their intended goal. Reading Michel Foucault's discursive nature of power based on his work The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, this study has justified the characters use of trivial sexual games and their motives to obtain power and status in a highly intellectual society. The characters of Albee's drama are prone to exercise power using their own sexuality. Negotiating and subverting the roles of gender and sexuality in private/public sexual games, they frequently foreground to fulfill personal desire in the existing social milieu. To unveil these aspects, this article has interpreted Albee’s drama with the theoretical dimension of power and sexuality postulated by Foucault, and has applied the content analysis method.

(Applied) Psycholinguistics for Foreign Language Teachers: A Diachronic Perspective

In discussing any scholarly discipline in both its theoretical and empirical dimensions, there is value in taking a diachronic view to determine the starting point, the direction and to assess achievements leading to new developments. The aim of this article is to outline the evolutionary character of psycholinguistics (and applied psycholinguistics), with emphasis on those areas of psycholinguistic research which are relevant for language practitioners: teachers, learners and users of foreign languages. The choice of topics made is by no means exhaustive, as psycholinguistics over decades has been—and still is—is a vast multidisciplinary domain of study. Only selected topics are discussed here, and the selection is based on the personal assessment of the author as to their importance and the evolutionary and dynamic impact they have had on language education and practical FL classroom instruction across time. This overview offers a brief discussion of psycholinguistic research from the fifties of the previous century to the present day. In each of the areas outlined, implications relevant for foreign language teachers, learners and users are discussed to create an overall picture of the developing contribution of (applied) psycholinguistics to foreign language education.

В поисках субъекта учебной деятельности

<p>Our research on the interpsychological interaction of teachers and first graders was carried out by microanalysis of two cases when the identical learning tasks were set. This method of clinical research makes it possible to expose the theoretical dimensions of an interpsychological action when (1) both a child and adult solve a new task for the first time, acting on their own accord and on their own initiatives and designs, (2) the nonadditive effect of interpsychologial action can be achieved when the initiatives of all participants intersect and their designs are coordinated. By reconstructing the teacher's intentions and children's interpretations of the task proposed by the teacher, working in the activity-based or traditional paradigm, we identified productive and counterproductive adult actions that can open or block opportunities for children's proactive behavior in constructing new concepts and reduce or enhance the potential of executive, nonreasoning behavior. The birth of children's initiatives when setting a learning task, when elucidated at the level of functional genesis, is seen in ontogenesis as the development of the ability to learn, that is considered as the top manifestation of the subject of learning activity, capable of independently going beyond his or her own knowledge and skills to find new ways of action in novel situations.</p>

Bir İçtihat Yöntemi Olarak Tahkîkü’l-menât

The ijtihād, one of the most important concepts of the usûl al-fıqh, expresses the human effort in understanding, interpreting and applying the verses. The theoretical dimension of ijtihād is called ijtihād of istinbāt and its practical dimension of applying the results obtained is called ijtihād of taḥkīk al-manāṭ. The ijtihād of taḥkīk al-manāt is a method that enables the abstract or general propositions to meet with the actions that occur in the realm of existence as specific and concrete. With this method, the situation of each case is investigated and it is determined whether it falls within the scope of the general provision. Otherwise, the shar'i provisions are imprisoned in the minds in an abstract way, and the provisions pertaining to facts or individuals or an individuals or a society are equal to the general provision due to formal similarity. This means ignoring the essential and secondary necessity in the provisions. It is also contrary to the purpose of the provisions. On the other hand, among the ijtihād activities related to manāṭ, the ijthiād of taḥkīk al-manāṭ is derived from the ijtihād of tenḳīḥ al-manāṭ, which is “The method of separating the appropriate qualification that is mentioned in the naṣṣ and suitable for being an affliction from other qualifications related to the provision” or the ijtihād of taḫrīc al-manāṭ, which is "the method of determining the qualification that is suitable for the ruling in naṣṣ and ijma". This difference arises from the fact that the former is continuous. In this respect, taḥkīk al-manāṭ has been accepted as an essential method in ijtihād. So much so that all schools of fiqh, even those who oppose qiyas, have accepted this ijtihād activity that provides dynamism to fiqh. Taḥkīk al-manāṭ, which expresses the adaptation of the Shari'ah ruling to the facts, is also an intricate concept related to the concepts of fatwa and qada. The importance of taḥkīk al-manāṭ, which constitutes the touchstone of the fatwa and the cauldron and continues as long as the offer of the shariʻa continues, is felt more especially when creating judgments on current issues that take on a complex structure in all areas of life. Determining the existence or non-existence of manāṭ necessitates knowing the Shari'ah ruling and the event to be bound by the Shari'ah ruling. In today's world where everything changes rapidly, it is not easy to determine the nature of the event. In this respect, taḥkīk al-manâṭ jurisprudence makes interdisciplinary collaboration inevitable. The aforementioned ijtihād method; apart from being related to mujtahid, mufti and judge, it also has a special importance for all taxpayers. Therefore, it is worthwhile to conduct a study on what the ijtihād of taḥkīk al-manâṭ is, which functions to determine the appropriate judgment based on the taxpayer in one aspect and the event in the other. In this study, which deals with the ijtihād of taḥkīk al-manāṭ, after the conceptual framework is revealed, the types of manāṭ that help to determine the source of the differences in the issues, the criteria to be taken into account in the ijtihād of taḥkīk al-manāṭ and the points to be considered while making this ijtihād will be emphasized. Thus, it will be clarified what kind of method should be followed both when applying the texts to the case and when making a judgment about the issues that have no provision in the text.

A Review of the Conceptual and Comparative History of Islamic Economic Theories

This paper aimed to explore the Islamic response and practical articulation to key economic concepts such as scarcity, wealth, poverty, and rationality using the divine revelation of Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad as a theoretical dimension of religion and piety. Furthermore, the concept of profit was redefined from the theoretical and practical perspective to "reconsider what is truly beneficial, what has real value and is worthy of our sacrifice”. Certain concepts and comparative analysis were critically examined by referring to classical economic thoughts as well as neoclassical and Islamic theories. Moreover, the contributions of each author were evaluated from general perspective of economics to understand the intellectual history of thought flows developed outside Western culture. The process of Islamic assessment and old value reassessment in relation to new social and economic realities.

Determination of Sustainability Indicators of Nut Farms: The Case of Pistachio

The aim of this study is to determine the indicators used to determine the sustainability levels of nut farms and to establish a set of indicators that can be used to measure the level of sustainability of pistachio farms, based on the literature review. As a result of the literature review, among the indicators commonly used to measure agricultural sustainability, a total of thirty sub-criteria were identified, including fifteen sub-criteria for the economic aspect (farm size, yield, etc.), six sub-criteria for the environmental aspect (pesticide, fertilizer, water, energy usage, etc.) and nine sub-criteria for the social aspect (farmer’s age, education, etc.) which can be used in evaluating the sustainability of pistachio cultivation. According to this study's findings, although the theoretical principles, dimensions, and goals of agricultural sustainability are globally adaptable, the applicability of the indicators may vary between regions and countries due to geographic, climatic, and socio-cultural differences. Therefore, the sustainability assessment process requires special attention. Sufficient knowledge and expertise are required in setting goals, selecting indicators, and verifying indicators.

A RAPID REALISTIC REVIEW TO INFORM AN IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES WITH CO-DESIGN AND OLDER ADULTS

Abstract Objective This presentation reports on a rapid realist review of participatory co-design approaches to developing assistive technologies with older adults. It provides an evidence synthesis of the key mechanisms, contexts and outcomes that drive success and failure in the use of participatory co-design in this field. This KISSS-AT sub-project, was undertaken to help inform stakeholder partners and the wider gerontechnological community of the key challenges and opportunities, that participatory co-design offers the field. Methods We conducted a rapid realist review (Saul et al., 2013). We identified 1060 citations from databases (AgeLine, BSC, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Web of Science), and 936 from hand journal searches (Ageing and Society, CSCW, Gerontechnology). We screened 311 full-text articles, with 19 articles for extraction. We extracted an additional 9 articles in order to capture post-search publications and a few articles identified through additional snowball citation searches. We analyzed the data for context-mechanism-outcome configurations (Pawson, 2015; Wong et al., 2013) that we found were relevant to our initial program theory, and used analytical induction to test emerging themes with our data set. Results We identified two key theoretical dimensions (1. Epistemological 2. Ethico-political) of participatory co-design with older adults, as part of our program theory, along with several C-M-O-Cs related to each dimension. Conclusions We found that paying attention to the underlying dimensions of participatory co-design, and the key mechanisms and contexts that support its successful implementation is fundamental to realizing the promise of this approach to gerontechnology development and implementation.

Linguistic and Cognitive Features of English-Language Political Discourse

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that pluralism, dialogism, and a new model of political communication have forced a change in the way power communicates with society. Nudity, formulaic newspeak has been replaced by expressive texts subordinated to the function of persuasion. Nevertheless, there are many publications in the scientific literature describing the shortcomings of contemporary English-language political messages. Political discourse has been accused of vulgarity, banality, and arbitrary presentation of reality, bias, use of templates and stereotypes, excessive aggressiveness and incorrectness. There are various forms of public discourse characteristic of democracy, which are characterised by certain constant features. Political discourse has its characteristics. Each political environment develops certain kinds of communication under the influence of relevant experiences. Discourse is one of those concepts in the social sciences characterised by exceptional terminological confusion. This is because it is an area of interest of different methodological sciences. Based on English-language studies of the phenomenon, the term is also the result of a clash of linguistic traditions with a more recent English-language understanding. Discourse analysis becomes an attempt to remedy the shortcomings of the linguistic and cognitive aspects, consisting in studying language in isolation from practical human experience and trying to find internal structures and dependencies in a language only in a theoretical dimension, on imagined examples. Its axioms include language as a holistic system integrated with the speaker's knowledge of the world and society. This system has to be described in linguistic, cognitive, and social terms, together with the conditions in which the speaker uses it during the discourse. The practical significance lies in identifying the linguistic and cognitive features of English-language political discourse.

Comparative analysis dimensioned by sex on socioeconomic attributes, vocational orientation and gender perspective in career selection, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2021

With the objective of comparing the main attributes in the choice of career for the municipality of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2021. A study with a cross-sectional quantitative approach was carried out. Using a comparative analysis and taking into account gender as a grouping variable, using the T-Student parametric hypothesis test for independent samples, 159 attributes were compared on a 0-10 ratio scale in 445 subjects. As a preview of the results, it is noteworthy that the theoretical dimension with the most surprises is not the gender expectation in the choice of career, an understandable assumption if the grouping variable is gender. The hypothesis tests showed greater asymmetries during the verification on the student socioeconomic status between women and men, since, in 16 of 19 attributes measured, equivalent to 68.42% of the items, the marks of significance and low female averages required rejecting the hypothesis. of nullity With the above, it can be inferred that women are today the majority in the universities of Fresnillo, because an important segment of them is circumscribed to a socioeconomic level below the average, meanwhile, the men who access higher education, belong mostly at medium and high socioeconomic levels.

Zmiany ludnościowe jako determinanta w polityce przyszłości na przykładzie Unii Europejskiej i Organizacji Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego

Population Changes as a D eterminant in the Politics of the Future on the Example of the European Union and North Atlantic Pact Organization Contemporary analyses of the international reality allow it to be seen as more and more complex. Globalization, new wars and failed states are examples of challenges faced by individual actors and the entire international community. The interdependence of phenomena in their global scope necessitates the creation of international coalitions of states and organizations as part of creating resourcesin the global management of these problems. The steady growth of China’s power and the prospect of a return to global competition between superpowers complicates this picture even more. Heads of state and international organizations set ambitious goals for their organizations in the face of emergingchallenges. They assume the strengthening of unity, adaptation to the changing international reality and expansion of resources. Plans to meet the challenges of the present, go together with a demographic determinant. The low birth rate associated with the aging of the population is likely to increase social benefits in the general budget balance of countries. The article aims to analyze the development of the situation of EU and NATO countries from the perspective of the demographic challenges that they and the whole world will face in the first half of the 21st century. The text will take into account both the presentation of demographic changes from the past and in the present in the theoretical (Malthusianism, Neo-Malthusianism) and practical (population policy) dimensions.

Educational performance between the human resource's theoretical paradigm and the practical mentality. Analysis at the European level.

The issue of performance in education is always topical because it plays an important role in creating the most valuable resource: labor. It has been treated both from a scientific and practical point of view through numerous strategies and optimization techniques, being integrated with the strategies for educational development as a training system at a global level. This research aimed to identify the need for performance and assessed the theoretical and practical dimensions of the European gap in performance in education, given the impact of the global crisis. The analysis was based on a structured questionnaire that is part of a pilot research in which 130 teachers and school managers from Romania and 97 teachers and school managers from five other European countries participated. The results of the study will allow the identification of the human resource's theoretical paradigm and the practical mentality in the education system to improve performance, which the authors propose to use to identify concrete applicable measures in the short term.

“You're Not Defeated as Long as You're Resisting”

Abstract This interview with Lena Meari considers the history and present of Palestinian hunger strikes. Meari reflects on the political and theoretical dimensions of hunger strikes by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli colonial prisons and illuminates their relationship to the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle and its transformations from the 1960s into the post-Oslo present. The interview situates the hunger strike at the center of a Palestinian political culture of anticolonial protest and argues that this form of strike manifests Palestinian aspirations for freedom that have continued to permeate the prison while transforming it into a space of struggle and reproducing Palestine as resistance. Each singular/collective hunger strike interrupts the colonial order within and beyond the prison walls and asserts Palestinians' persistent struggle for a liberated future. The demise of the collective hunger strike and the rise of individual strikes, Meari argues, does not necessarily signal the collapse of collective struggles. Rather, individual hunger strikes are what at present maintain the memory of past collective struggles and anticipate while activating anticolonial collectivity-in-struggle to come.

Network of meanings around occupational biosafety in the face of COVID-19

Security have concern authorities and civil society during last years. Different society’s substrates have different perceptions on security. Present document explores reliability and validity of an instrument which measures security perception in bachelor’s students by reviewing seven dimensions: territorial, national, public (government), human, public (self-protection), private and internaut. Accordingly, setting values and residual permitted to accept the null hypothesis significant relationship between the theoretical dimensions with respect to the weighted factors.

Components of the mechanism of notary activity: theoretical and legal dimension

In the author’s work, the components of the mechanism of notarial activity as a theoretical and legal phenomenon were analyzed. The relevance of the research topic and the importance of modernizing the understanding of the componentsof the mechanism of notarial activity in the modern conditions of its development were noted.The cognitive features of the subject of this article have been established. The author emphasized that the prospects for improving notarial activity are in the area of strengthening its functioning as a single integral mechanism that provides an effective algorithm for the notary to implement its functions on the basis of complexity, professionalism and efficiency. Onthe basis of the analysis of doctrinal approaches to understanding the mechanism of notarial activity, the definition of the specified concept as a type of legal mechanism of notarial activity, the content of which is an ordered system of interrelated legal means aimed at normalizing and giving legal form to social relations arising from the implementation of notarial activities, has been clarified actions related to certification of rights and facts that have legal significance, taking other actions with the aim of giving them legal credibility, as well as providing citizens and legal entities with other professional legal assistance. The components of the mechanism of notarial activity are singled out and characterized, namely regulatory andlegal support, legal facts, notarial-procedural legal relations, acts of application of law, legal means of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of participants in notarial proceedings.It is summarized that the mechanism of notarial activity is the main way of functioning of the notary institution, a set of legal means of performing its main functions defined by legislation. It is his proper scientific research that should be the basis for improving the practice of functioning of notaries in Ukraine.

Developing More Effective and Adaptive U.S. Governmental Healthcare Leaders

With the enormous number of deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19, the need for public health government leaders that are responsive and effective has never been more important. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of 20 government supervisors who experienced executive coaching to illuminate patterns of effective and agile coaching practices by drawing from theories of experimental and interdisciplinary learning and transformational leadership models. This study proposes executive coaching as a potentially effective and functional methodology to solve this problem, and supports the government in understanding the practical and theoretical dimensions of executive coaching as a developmental method in U.S. government healthcare organizations. This research shows that coaching can be a useful tool to help in the development of more effective healthcare managers, many of which have only been extensively trained in clinical areas.

The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?

ABSTRACT Forgiveness is a foundational tenet across all religions that has consistently been shown to be related to positive health outcomes. Although specific theoretical dimensions of “forgiveness” have been proposed (e.g., decisional, emotional, dispositional), there is limited evidence to suggest that they are statistically distinct constructs. However, a recent factor analysis (Yoon et al., 2022) indicated that a frequently used measure of forgiveness (i.e., Trait Forgiveness Scale) is composed of statistically distinct behavioral (i.e., willingness to forgive) and affective dimensions (i.e., resentment). Given this finding, the current study determined how these empirically distinct constructs interact to influence health. Based on 322 primarily Christian undergraduate students the results indicated: 1) willingness to forgive and resentment are significantly negatively correlated but distinct constructs; 2) religiosity is related to forgiveness but not resentment; 3) forgiveness, resentment, and their interaction are all significantly related to mental (but not physical) health; and 4) resentment partially negates the positive effects of willingness to forgive on mental health. Overall, the results suggest the need to differentiate behavioral and affective dimensions of forgiveness, that religious beliefs may promote forgiveness but not reduce resentment, and that both willingness to forgive and reducing resentment are important in promoting positive health.

Memorable dining experiences with five senses: Conceptualization and scale development

Based on servicescape and sensory marketing, this study developed a Memorable Dining Experiences with Five Senses Scale (MDEFS). In Study 1, five dimensions of MDEFS were extracted by a literature review and fourteen in-depth interviews. In Study 2, 882 responses were obtained from eight restaurants to verify the proposed theoretical dimensions. In Study 3, we replicated our findings using short-version MDEFS through 430 responses from eight Michelin-starred restaurants in Taiwan. A total of 436 statements were identified from interviews and were later narrowed down to 61 items under five dimensions. Our results found criterion-related validity of MDEFS with word of mouth, revisit intention, and restaurant attachment. A five-dimensional 40-item MDEFS was developed for the five senses: visual, sound, touch, taste, and olfaction. To the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the first attempts to develop a scale for Memorable Dining Experiences with Five Senses. The MDEFS can be utilized by restaurant managers in dining experience design and improvement.

Adapting and validating global knowledge branding scales in the education services sector

Purpose The education services sector faces ever-changing global market dynamics with creative disruptions. Building knowledge brands can push the higher education sector beyond its geographical boundaries into the global arena. This study aims to identify key constructs, their theoretical background and dimensions that aid in building a global knowledge brand. The authors' research focuses on adapting and validating scales for global knowledge and education services brands from well-established academic literature. Design/methodology/approach The authors have adopted a mixed methodology approach and a systematic literature review. Authors interviewed 18 subject matter experts as part of content and face validity to arrive at select constructs, dimensions and items. Quantitative methods with random sampling were adopted as the primary methodology. Initially, the survey was administered to 390 students to test preliminary results. The survey was also administered to 5,112 students at a later part of this study. Valid responses stood at 3,244 with a 63% response rate. Further, the authors conducted confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to test the reliability and validity of scales. This study analyzed composite reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity to finalize items for scales. The authors also validated the hypotheses based on the discriminant validity assessment scores. Findings Authors' key research findings are that academic stimulus, campus infrastructure and student intent play a significant role in campus culture and events design and experience at campus. Authors were able to bring out 16 key constructs and 55 critical dimensions vital to global education services brand building. This study also adapted and validated 99 items that meet construct validity and composite reliability criteria. This study also highlights that constructs such as student intent, academic stimulus, campus infrastructure scalability, selection mechanism, pedagogical content knowledge, brand identity, events experience and campus culture play a vital role in global brand recognition. Research limitations/implications The authors' work is fairly generalizable to education services and the higher education sector. However, this study must be extrapolated and empirically validated in other industry sectors. The research implications of this study are that it aided the authors in building theoretical background for student brand loyalty theory, student expectation theory and study loyalty theory. This study adds to the body of knowledge by contributing to theoretical concepts on students, knowledge culture, events, infrastructure and branding. Researchers can adopt the scales proposed in this study to build research models in higher education branding. This study acts as a catalyst for building theories in education services areas. Researchers can delve deep into proposed research aspects of campus infrastructure, knowledge infrastructure, campus knowledge culture, events design and events experience. Practical implications This study aids educators and brand managers to develop global education services and optimize their effort and budget. Administrators in the education services sector must focus on practical aspects of student perception, campus infrastructure, culture and events experience. Practically administrators can reorient their efforts based on this study to achieve global brand recognition. Social implications This study highlights that students are not customers but are co-creators of value in the education sector. This study provides scales and dimensions needed to build co-creation frameworks and models. Originality/value Most research in higher education branding has not covered wider aspects of global brand building. Existing theories proposed in higher education and education services articles cover only narrower aspects of campus infrastructure, culture, events design and branding. This study presents a comprehensive list of critical factors that play a vital role in global knowledge brand building. This study highlights the constructs and scales integral to building a global education services brand.