Pub Date : 2019-03-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.3989
Muhammad Ahmad, Syed Kazim Shah
This study investigates gender representation in an English language textbook taught to the students of Grade-5 in public and private schools in Punjab (Pakistan) by applying Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. For this purpose, content and critical discourse analyses approaches were applied to check eight-factor gender discrimination in the said textbook. As a result, it was observed that the said textbook was highly gender biased which represented males more than females. It also appeared that the said textbook had been designed to maintain male dominance in implicit as well as explicit ways. Such state of affairs may lead to gender discrimination in practical lives. Therefore, the study suggests that both genders should be represented in an equalized proportion. This can be achieved by increasing the number of female authors and sensitizing the teachers about gender discrimination and asking them to highlight gender biased issues in education.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.4092
S. Kröner
This contribution reviews the book The Monarchy of Fear. A Philosopher looks at our Political Crisis from Martha Nussbaum that has been published in the year 2018.
{"title":"The Monarchy of Fear. A Philosopher Look at our Political Crisis [Review of the book].","authors":"S. Kröner","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.4092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.4092","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution reviews the book The Monarchy of Fear. A Philosopher looks at our Political Crisis from Martha Nussbaum that has been published in the year 2018.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79625550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-03-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.3599
Giuliano Tardivo, E. Cano, Álvaro Suárez-Vergne
El objetivo de este articulo es estudiar la imagen que tiene la Formacion Profesional, entre los jovenes universitarios de la Comunidad de Madrid que estudian en grados del area de Ciencias Sociales, Comunicacion y Ciencias de la Educacion. Por consiguiente, hemos realizado una encuesta entre 461 estudiantes universitarios, del area de Ciencias Sociales, de Comunicacion y de Ciencias de la Educacion de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, de la Universidad Complutense y de la Universidad Autonoma, para averiguar si tienen una imagen favorable o negativa de la FP. En un segundo momento hemos seleccionado una submuestra compuesta por 40 personas -20 que estudiaron FP y otras 20 que no lo hicieron-, para profundizar, a traves de entrevistas cualitativas semiestructuradas, las razones profundas y las causas reales de su posicionamiento favorable o desfavorable hacia la FP. Los resultados demuestran que la mayoria de nuestras unidades de observacion tienen una imagen positiva de la FP y que perciben este ciclo de estudios como util y practico.
{"title":"La Nueva Imagen de la FP entre los Jóvenes Universitarios Madrileños de las Áreas de Ciencias Sociales, Comunicación y Ciencias de la Educación","authors":"Giuliano Tardivo, E. Cano, Álvaro Suárez-Vergne","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.3599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2019.3599","url":null,"abstract":"El objetivo de este articulo es estudiar la imagen que tiene la Formacion Profesional, entre los jovenes universitarios de la Comunidad de Madrid que estudian en grados del area de Ciencias Sociales, Comunicacion y Ciencias de la Educacion. Por consiguiente, hemos realizado una encuesta entre 461 estudiantes universitarios, del area de Ciencias Sociales, de Comunicacion y de Ciencias de la Educacion de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, de la Universidad Complutense y de la Universidad Autonoma, para averiguar si tienen una imagen favorable o negativa de la FP. En un segundo momento hemos seleccionado una submuestra compuesta por 40 personas -20 que estudiaron FP y otras 20 que no lo hicieron-, para profundizar, a traves de entrevistas cualitativas semiestructuradas, las razones profundas y las causas reales de su posicionamiento favorable o desfavorable hacia la FP. Los resultados demuestran que la mayoria de nuestras unidades de observacion tienen una imagen positiva de la FP y que perciben este ciclo de estudios como util y practico.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77124832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3897
Guiomar Merodio
{"title":"Book review Du Bois, W.E.B. (2016). Darkwater. Voices from Within the Veil. (2.a ed) London: Verso. (P.O. 1920).","authors":"Guiomar Merodio","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89292239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3881
G. Modarresi, Ali Jeddy
The present study examined the association between static assessment, dynamic assessment and fluid intelligence. A pool of 109 students majoring in English Language Teaching and Translation Studies took part in the study. Two major instruments of the study included Computerized Dynamic Grammar Test and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices. The results of the study confirmed that the relation between static assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence as well as the relation between dynamic assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence were statistically significant. However, the relation between dynamic assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence was large. Finally, the results from the interviews revealed that ZPD and IQ are complementary and not contradictory. A practical implication for the students is that practicing fluid intelligence can improve their logical thinking by focusing on metacognitive strategies. Likewise, C-DA is a helpful source to develop effective learning strategies like directed attention, self-evaluation, and self-discovery strategies.
{"title":"The Association between Dynamic Assessment of Grammar and Fluid Intelligence: A Case of Undergraduate EFL Students","authors":"G. Modarresi, Ali Jeddy","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3881","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the association between static assessment, dynamic assessment and fluid intelligence. A pool of 109 students majoring in English Language Teaching and Translation Studies took part in the study. Two major instruments of the study included Computerized Dynamic Grammar Test and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices. The results of the study confirmed that the relation between static assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence as well as the relation between dynamic assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence were statistically significant. However, the relation between dynamic assessment of grammar and fluid intelligence was large. Finally, the results from the interviews revealed that ZPD and IQ are complementary and not contradictory. A practical implication for the students is that practicing fluid intelligence can improve their logical thinking by focusing on metacognitive strategies. Likewise, C-DA is a helpful source to develop effective learning strategies like directed attention, self-evaluation, and self-discovery strategies.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74586739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3108
H. Dkhili, K. Oweis
We study the link between university rankings and economic growth in Sub Saharan African Countries (SSA)? By applying the panel data analysis method and the system GMM technique used on a sample of 43 SSA countries during the period 1996-2015. Our results indicate that academic research exerts a positive and significant effect on the level of economic growth for both fixed and random effect. However, this relation seems to be insignificant when we run GMM in system regression. Also, findings show that domestic investment (INVES) and gross domestic savings (GDSAV) are considered as key factors for boosting economic growth in the SSA region. Contrary, the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) is positive but not significant for fixed and random effect regressions.
{"title":"Does Research Output Matter for Economic Growth in Sub Saharan African Countries? Quantity and Quality Analysis","authors":"H. Dkhili, K. Oweis","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3108","url":null,"abstract":"We study the link between university rankings and economic growth in Sub Saharan African Countries (SSA)? By applying the panel data analysis method and the system GMM technique used on a sample of 43 SSA countries during the period 1996-2015. Our results indicate that academic research exerts a positive and significant effect on the level of economic growth for both fixed and random effect. However, this relation seems to be insignificant when we run GMM in system regression. Also, findings show that domestic investment (INVES) and gross domestic savings (GDSAV) are considered as key factors for boosting economic growth in the SSA region. Contrary, the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) is positive but not significant for fixed and random effect regressions.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84311184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.17583/rimcis.2018.3537
Cristian Rodríguez Mesa
{"title":"El Andalucismo de la Asamblea de Ronda a la Guerra Civil (1918-1936): Una Aplicación de las Propuestas de Miroslav Hroch","authors":"Cristian Rodríguez Mesa","doi":"10.17583/rimcis.2018.3537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/rimcis.2018.3537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77534160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3011
M. Najafzadeh, A. Ghanizadeh, Safoura Jahedizadeh
One of the objectives of any educational endeavor is helping students to adopt a set of personal goals for their achievement. This is known as personal best (PB) referring to personalized goals or standards of excellence that match or exceed one's prior best in the academic context. It is also believed that PB goals can fluctuate in line with other academic-associated factors. The aim of the present study is to scrutinize these goals in association with students' resilience and language achievement. In other words, this study elucidated how EFL learners' PB and resilience influence language achievement. To do so, 173 students studying in two private language institutes and a university completed two questionnaires. The former was PB scale designed by Martin (2006) measuring specific, challenging, competitively self-referenced, and self- improvement goals. It was then translated and validated by the present researchers. The latter was the resilience scale containing five dimensions of perceived happiness, empathy, sociability, persistence, and self-regulation. The questionnaire was designed and validated by Kim and Kim (2016) and then translated and validated in this study. The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) demonstrated the validity of the Persian versions of the scales. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) also indicated that PB is a positive and significant predictor of resilience. Moreover, it was found that language achievement is predicted by both PB and resilience.
{"title":"A Dynamic Model of EFL Learners' Personal Best Goals, Resilience, and Language Achievement","authors":"M. Najafzadeh, A. Ghanizadeh, Safoura Jahedizadeh","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3011","url":null,"abstract":"One of the objectives of any educational endeavor is helping students to adopt a set of personal goals for their achievement. This is known as personal best (PB) referring to personalized goals or standards of excellence that match or exceed one's prior best in the academic context. It is also believed that PB goals can fluctuate in line with other academic-associated factors. The aim of the present study is to scrutinize these goals in association with students' resilience and language achievement. In other words, this study elucidated how EFL learners' PB and resilience influence language achievement. To do so, 173 students studying in two private language institutes and a university completed two questionnaires. The former was PB scale designed by Martin (2006) measuring specific, challenging, competitively self-referenced, and self- improvement goals. It was then translated and validated by the present researchers. The latter was the resilience scale containing five dimensions of perceived happiness, empathy, sociability, persistence, and self-regulation. The questionnaire was designed and validated by Kim and Kim (2016) and then translated and validated in this study. The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) demonstrated the validity of the Persian versions of the scales. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) also indicated that PB is a positive and significant predictor of resilience. Moreover, it was found that language achievement is predicted by both PB and resilience.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89155474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3576
O. Kofanov, Oleksandr Zozul`ov
In order to make positive socio-economic transformations, the concept of the sustainable development was proposed and it can be implemented through the innovation. And startups are among the modern innovation drivers. So, the aim of the research was to identify the key startup success factors and to develop an instrument for startup success evaluation in order to minimize the loss of time and resources and partly overcome the high uncertainty rates, specific to the startup industry, using multidisciplinary approach and, in turn, contribute to the sustainable development implementation. It was found that there are three main constituents which influence the startup success – an external environment, startup activity and an internal startup environment. The determined success factors were analyzed according to the groups which correspond to these constituents. The mathematical model in the form of the Bayesian network for evaluation and prediction of the startup success was developed. It was found that the modeled startup success probability is most likely to be of a low or an average level. The conditional probabilities distribution for the startup success was also analyzed. The developed model can be used for the startups success levels determination in a particular country, specific market, etc.
{"title":"Successful development of startups as a global trend of innovative socio-economic transformations","authors":"O. Kofanov, Oleksandr Zozul`ov","doi":"10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3576","url":null,"abstract":"In order to make positive socio-economic transformations, the concept of the sustainable development was proposed and it can be implemented through the innovation. And startups are among the modern innovation drivers. So, the aim of the research was to identify the key startup success factors and to develop an instrument for startup success evaluation in order to minimize the loss of time and resources and partly overcome the high uncertainty rates, specific to the startup industry, using multidisciplinary approach and, in turn, contribute to the sustainable development implementation. It was found that there are three main constituents which influence the startup success – an external environment, startup activity and an internal startup environment. The determined success factors were analyzed according to the groups which correspond to these constituents. The mathematical model in the form of the Bayesian network for evaluation and prediction of the startup success was developed. It was found that the modeled startup success probability is most likely to be of a low or an average level. The conditional probabilities distribution for the startup success was also analyzed. The developed model can be used for the startups success levels determination in a particular country, specific market, etc.","PeriodicalId":43006,"journal":{"name":"International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences-RIMCIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74688972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.17583/RIMCIS.2018.3330
Ayodeji Olalekan Awobamise, Yosra Jarrar
This article focuses on understanding the strategic role Public Relations (PR) plays in positioning NGOs and helping them achieve their set out objectives in Libya- Post-Civil war era. The researchers analyzed two Non-Profit Organizations (NGOs) that operate in Libya - Bokra and Attawasul. NGOs like any other organization have publics they need to communicate and appeal to and as such it goes without saying that they channel their communication messages in such a way that their message is clear and resonates soundly with their intended audiences. This is even more pertinent in a country like Libya. Public Relations ensures that organizations are favorably looked upon by their publics by communicating in the right way. This study was premised on the Social Marketing Theory and dealt with understanding Public Relations and how it is used by NGOs in Libya. Based on the findings of this study, it was determined that Public Relations especially through social media, indeed plays a significant role in the process of getting donors and volunteers for NGOs in Libya. To arrive at this conclusion, questionnaires were distributed to staff and volunteers of the organizations under study and interviews were also conducted with top management staff of both organizations.
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