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Kuzmina, O. A. "“The House That Jack Built” by Jessie L. Gaynor as an example of an English language operetta for children." Aspects of Historical Musicology 15, no. 15 (September 15, 2019): 231–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-15.12.
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Background. The children’s opera in all its diversity has undergone a rapid path to its formation and development, responding to changes in the art and aesthetic space of musical culture. The active being and the practical use of this phenomenon only emphasize the gaps in musicology science more acutely. Some researchers combine with the notion of «children’s opera» both works that involve children to participate in the performing process, and those which are aimed at a certain age audience. Other authors put the term «opera for children» as universal, but use it to describe various works. However, if the information about this genre is contained in the scientifi c literature, research on opera for children-performers analogue, children’s operetta which was formed and used by considerable demand in the late 19th – in the fi rst half of the 20th century in the English-speaking countries, is practically absent. This determines the relevance of the chosen subject. Objectives. The objective of this study is to consider the features of the libretto, the compositional and dramaturgical properties of the children’s operetta by J. L. Gaynor The House that Jack Built as one of the English-language samples of the genre. Methods. So far these methods were been applied: historical, structural and functional, comparative. Results. It is diffi cult to indicate the exact date of the children’s operetta emergence. It is known from available literature that it became widespread in the 1880s. In the following decades, the popularity of children’s operettas does not fade, rather, it only grows. The school authorities even were worried about such an intensity of extracurricular work. However, this fact did not affect the number of performances. There are books containing instructions and guidance, tips on probable diffi culties that could be faced by fi rst-time directors. In particular, it was recommended to divide responsibilities between school departments and draw up a general plan of action. Attention was paid to organizing an advertising campaign to attract as many viewers as possible. With such performance enthusiasm, there was a certain lack of repertoire written specifi cally for children and adolescents. Not surprisingly, the music teachers sought to replenish it. Among them was an American piano and harmony teacher Jessie Lovel Smith Gaynor (1863–1921) who composed The House that Jack Built (1902). This is not the only sample of children’s operetta in the heritage of J. L. Gaynor, she wrote a few more works, mostly after fairy tales: The Lost Princess Bo-Peep (its plot matches Jack’s one), The Toy Shop, Snow White, The Magic Wheel, Three Wishes, The Return of Proserpina, and On Plymouth Rock. The libretto of The House that Jack Built, written by A. G. D. Riley, is compiled on the basis of nursery rhymes, which are an integral part of the English-speaking countries culture. The operetta includes 24 folklore texts (full or fragmented): poems, two counters, and a ballad. To organize the plot, the librettist used the «stringing» method, or the cumulative principle, joining each subsequent element to the previous one with the help of the Mother Goose’s recitative lines. She is the key character, who greets and introduces new guests at her party. This principle is refl ected in the organization of the whole operetta. Mother Gooses’ cues are a refrain similar to the poem The House that Jack Built. Each character is not related to the previous one or the next, they are united only by belonging to the images of folk poetry. Since the libretto is mainly based on miniatures (with one or two verses), there are many participants of the performance: 43 characters, 21 thrushes, and collective characters, the number of which is not specifi ed precisely. There is no plot in common sense – as a series of related events built in accordance with certain principles – in The House that Jack Built. Rather, it reminds the carnival procession, in which characters are appearing one by one. They have bright, sometimes extravagant costumes, which vary with the speed of the pattern in the kaleidoscope. The structure of the operetta is simple and clear. It consists of two acts, divided into 19 big numbers (9 in the fi rst action, 10 in the second), which are often built in the form of a suite. The balance among solo-ensemble and choral numbers in The House that Jack Built is unequal. The choruses prevail in the operetta (there are about 20 of them). It is diffi cult to name the exact number because the author does not always clarify the exact cast. Solo and ensemble numbers are 4 times fewer; in addition, there are 2 numbers in the 2d act, in which the soloist and choir sing together. To achieve compositional and dramatic unity, there was a need to involve additional means in addition to the cross-cutting image of Mother Goose, since the Jack’s plot is deprived of the consistent development of events. This function is performed by several themes: «fairy tale» (in the future it is associated with the appearance of fairies and elves), «pastoral» (its emergence is marked by the remark Andante Pastorale), the theme of Jack, the dance motive, and the theme of King Cole. They are exhibited in the overture for the fi rst time. When the act begins, they are joined by the themes of Mother Goose and Thrushes. For the fi rst time, most of the themes are conducted in the overture. This determines the suite character of its structure: 6 episodes that contrast with each other by tempo. The piano part plays an important role in the operetta. It presents the leading themes, the main image-bearing and poetic motives, and supports the performers in the vocal appearances. The revealed signs give grounds to consider the English-language children’s operetta a national model of opera for children-performers. Conclusions. In the English-speaking countries, particularly in the USA, at the end of the 19th – in the fi rst half of the 20th century the tradition to perform operettas at schools was formed. This works from their form and contents were similar to compositions which were called children’s operas (operas for children-performers) in Europe. An analysis of The House that Jack Built by J. L. Gaynor allows us to interpret the author’s genre name in its original linguistic meaning – «small opera». A signifi cant number of such works still remain beyond the attention of scholars and require a thorough study both in historical and in theoretical directions.
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Sweeney, Kathryn A. "Cultural naming practices in children's literature with adoption themes." Children's Geographies 14, no. 5 (January 13, 2016): 497–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1121538.
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Shakhanova, R., and A. Saganaeva. "THE PECULIARITY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN RUSSIA." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 75, no. 1 (March 30, 2020): 317–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2021-1.1728-7804.54.
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The article deals with the question of the originality and formation of children's literature in the historical context of Russia. At all times, the most serious requirements were imposed on children's literature, since it is one of the most important sources of formation of the child's personality, his spiritual values, moral and aesthetic qualities and is of an educational nature. each period is characterized by its own tasks, requirements, themes, heroes, etc. However, the main task of children's literature has always remained the same-to teach children to believe, love, grow, understand, search, and the question of the specifics of children's literature is still reduced to repeating the truths about a dynamic plot, clarity, accessibility and fascination. The article analyzes the best examples of Russian literature, which convey all the diversity and richness of the world, instill in children a literary taste and love of reading.
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Lechner, Judith V. "Sustainability in Children's and Young Adult Literature: An Analysis of Environmental Themes." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 2, no. 2 (2006): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v02i02/54152.
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Baratz, Lea, and Sara Zamir. "Examining Hebrew-Amharic bilingual children's literature in Israel: Language, themes, and power." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 49, no. 3 (2011): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2011.0048.
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Goodman, Fallon R., Todd B. Kashdan, Melissa C. Stiksma, and Dan V. Blalock. "Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar." Clinical Psychological Science 7, no. 2 (November 14, 2018): 283–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702618804778.
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People with anxiety disorders tend to make decisions on the basis of avoiding threat rather than obtaining rewards. Despite a robust literature examining approach-avoidance motivation, less is known about goal pursuit. The present study examined the content, motives, consequences, and daily correlates of strivings among adults diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and healthy controls. Participants generated six strivings along with the motives and consequences of their pursuit. Compared with controls, people with social anxiety disorder were less strongly driven by autonomous motives and reported greater difficulty pursuing strivings. Coders analyzed strivings for the presence of 10 themes: achievement, affiliation, avoidance, emotion regulation, generativity, interpersonal, intimacy, power, self-presentation, and self-sufficiency. People with social anxiety disorder constructed more emotion regulation strivings than did controls, but they did not differ across other themes. This research illustrates how studying personality at different levels of analysis (traits, strivings) can yield novel information for understanding anxiety disorders.
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Sithas, Mohamed, and HAKNS Surangi. "Systematic Literature Review on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: Citation and Thematic Analysis." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 8, no. 3 (June 25, 2021): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/791.
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This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on ethnic minority entrepreneurship. A total of 174 articles converging on ethnic minority entrepreneurship, published between 2010 and 2020, were investigated. This paper extends existing knowledge of the sub-areas in ethnic minority entrepreneurship research by focusing on two different angles. Firstly, Citation analysis was performed to review research papers to recognize and classify the key areas of ethnic minority entrepreneurship currently being focused on and examined by the research community. Secondly, Thematic analysis was executed to discover the specific themes that are being researched. The study found seven different themes: immigrant studies, ethnic entrepreneurial motivations, ethnic startup process, motives of ethnic business success, failure factors of ethnic businesses, ethnic unique challenges, and favourite strong ties of ethnic minorities were identified as main themes. The number of research gaps identified should encourage novel paths and scopes in the ethnic minority entrepreneurship research field to fill these gaps in the literature.
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Pinchuck, Kathe. "Recognizing Jewish Children's Literature For Forty Years: The Sydney Taylor Book Award." Judaica Librarianship 14, no. 1 (December 31, 2008): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1071.
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The Association of Jewish Libraries has been presenting a children's book award for forty years. The author describes some of the history and background of the Sydney Taylor Book Award, as well as its mission of "encouraging the publication of outstanding books of Jewish content for children and teens." A description of the award's namesake and her importance to Jewish children's literature is followed by a review of some of the books and authors that have been honored. These demonstrate the high standards of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, as well as the quality of Jewish children's literature. Prevalent themes and trends reflect the ever changing dynamic of contemporary Jewry.
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Brimble, Mandy J., Sally Anstey, and Jane Davies. "Long-term nurse–parent relationships in paediatric palliative care: a narrative literature review." International Journal of Palliative Nursing 25, no. 11 (November 2, 2019): 542–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2019.25.11.542.
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Background: Paediatric palliative care (PPC) is an active, total approach to the holistic care of the child and family. Close, long-lasting relationships between healthcare professionals and parents in paediatric palliative care enhance quality, provide emotional support and can influence how parents manage their role in the face of uncertainty. Aim: To present a narrative literature review of long-term relationships between children's nurses and parents in PPC settings. Methods: Six databases (CINAHL, PsycINFO, ASSIA, Scopus, Medline and BNI) were searched, identifying 35 articles. A grey literature search produced seven additional relevant items. Findings: Four themes were identified: bonds; attachments and trust; sharing the journey; going the extra mile; and boundaries and integrity. All themes revealed an element of tension between closeness and professionalism. Conclusion: Gaining a greater understanding of how closeness and professionalism are successfully managed by children's palliative care nurses could positively influence pre- and post-registration nurse education.
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Achyldurdyyeva, Jennet, Bih-Shiaw Jaw, and Christina Yu-Ping Wang. "Foreign companies’ CSR themes and objectives in Central Asia." Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) 6, no. 2 (November 30, 2019): 331–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15549/jeecar.v6i2.279.
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The study showcases key themes and objectives of CSR of MNCs in transition economies and the types of CSR activities reported to the audience. The contribution of the paper is in bringing insights into the goals, motives, and objectives of CSR of MNCs in Central Asia. The findings of the study are based on the content analysis of the companies’ CSR activities explicitly reported to the audience. Multiple sources of publicly available data on MNCs (CSR reports, annual reports, websites of the companies, local news outlets reporting about CSR of foreign companies) were collected, coded and analyzed to generate the findings. The limitation of the study is in the limited number of companies/countries reviewed. This paper contributes to the literature on CSR of MNCs in transition economies.
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Van Meel, Jacques, Henriette Verburgh, and Marco De Meijer. "Children's Interpretations of Dance Expressions." Empirical Studies of the Arts 11, no. 2 (July 1993): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/v69n-vb0t-a9q3-tj04.
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Nine emotional themes were presented in dance expressions by a group of three professional dance students. In a first experiment these dance expressions were presented to children in the age groups of five-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-year-olds. Children's free response interpretations were analyzed for adequacy, conceptual level, and complexity of response. Clear age trends emerged, especially differentiating the five-year-olds from the other groups. In a second experiment a multiple choice response format was used. The same age trends were found. In a third experiment children with and without dance experience were compared. Experienced children used more emotional labels in interpreting the dance items. In the discussion it is suggested that, in the medium of dance, emotional interpretations gradually emerge from a preceding stage in which movements are imbued with action tendencies.
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Babarinde, Olusanmi, and Elizabeth Babarinde. "Themes, Diction, and Prosodic Systems in Yoruba Lullabies." International Research in Children's Literature 12, no. 1 (July 2019): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2019.0288.
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Lullabies are essentially sung for their soothing nature but, as this article shows, they have other important functions. One of the most important of these is that lullabies may provide much-needed language stimulation with important long-term consequences for future learning. This paper begins the work of addressing the dearth of scholarly research on lullabies, especially in the Yoruba (Nigeria: Niger-Congo) culture. It looks at the range of themes, dictions, and prosody that are intertwined to reveal Yoruba beliefs and world-views about children, starting with their time in the womb. The study uses a descriptive survey method to analyse data collected through participant observation. It shows that Yoruba lullabies not only offer insights into Yoruba cultural beliefs but also depend greatly on figurative expression and prosodic systems. These rich literary qualities identify lullabies as the earliest sub-genre of children's poetry.
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Labadie, Meredith, Kathryn Pole, and Rebecca Rogers. "How Kindergarten Students Connect and Critically Respond to Themes of Social Class in Children's Literature." Literacy Research and Instruction 52, no. 4 (October 2013): 312–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19388071.2013.809176.
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Rulf, Sybille. "Phenomenological Contributions on Schizophrenia: A Critical Review and Commentary on the Literature between 1980-2000." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 34, no. 1 (2003): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916203322484815.
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AbstractAfter a brief perusal of the various meanings of phenomenology in psychopathology, the contributions to schizophrenia of phenomenological psychology (psychiatry) in the European sense are reviewed. The last twenty years are deemed fruitful and productive. Following the central themes and motives of this literature allows us to come to a different and perhaps wider understanding of schizophrenia than that proposed currently by mainstream psychiatry. These diverse investigations converge in seeing as the core of schizophrenia the disorders related to inter-subjectivity and ipseity (mineness), in turn related to what Bleuler had once called Autism. Finally, a critical discussion of the limitations and the strengths of the phenomenological approach is offered.
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Safronova, Lyudmila, and Aygerim Bekmuratova. "Ethnocultural images in postcolonial publications in the Russian-language prose of the Korean diaspora." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 11, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 275–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.6510.
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The literature of the Korean diaspora of the former Soviet Union combines the national characteristics of the Korean culture of the metropolis, the Korean national mentality, and at the same time reflects the historical realities and difficult, sometimes tragic fates of all peoples of the USSR and post-Soviet period. In this respect, the evolution of the literature of the Korean diaspora, leading from the prose in Korean to the first settlers from Korea to Sakhalin, was shown, which later were deported by Stalin’s decree to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The literature of the Korean diaspora in Kazakhstan goes through all stages of the development of Soviet literature – from anti-Stalin prose, romanticized thaw literature and “quiet” stagnation prose, to postmodern and feminist literature. Moreover, Confucianism and Christian motives, Buddhism and Taoism, shamanism and Russian traditional literary images, motives, and themes are organically intertwined in the work of Russian and Kazakhstani Koreans. However, crosscutting issue through all the work of Korean writers who find themselves outside their homeland, it is an appeal to national identity, attempts to acquiring, preserving or tragedy and the pain of loss.
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Kraus, Sascha, Verena Traunmüller, Norbert Kailer, and Victor Tiberius. "The Dark Triad in Entrepreneurship Research — A Systematic Literature Review." Journal of Enterprising Culture 28, no. 04 (December 2020): 353–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495820500156.
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The impact of traits in entrepreneurship has been subject to intense discussion. Apart from favorable traits fostering opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial orientation, venture performance, and other variables, a younger research stream also addresses the role of negative traits. Among them, the dark triad, comprising of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, have gained specific attention. This systematic literature review aims to structure the field, identify current research themes, and provide a better understanding of prior research outcomes. Our results show that dark triad research addresses entrepreneurial activity, opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial leadership, the and entrepreneurial motives. Among the dark triad traits, narcissism is stressed most in research so far. It relates to firm performance, risk, and leadership behavior, whereas Machiavellianism and psychopathy relate to opportunity recognition and exploitation. We also identify several research gaps, which can be addressed in future research.
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Lamers, Elizabeth P. "Children, Death, and Fairy Tales." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 31, no. 2 (October 1995): 151–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/hxv5-wwe4-n1hh-4jeg.
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This article examines the evolution and transformation of themes relating to death and dying in children's literature, using illuminating parallels from historical demographics of mortality and the development of housing. The classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” is used to draw these trends together.
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Peer, Willie van. "BECKETT'S "FIRST LOVE" AND CYNICAL PHILOSOPHY." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 7, no. 1 (December 8, 1998): 407–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-90000110.
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Situating Beckett's "First Love" in the philosophical tradition of cynicism allows us to approach the text comprehensively. Evidence of Beckett's own cynical attitude supports several of the overt themes of the work: vanitas, or the irrelevance of human actions, the outsider or misanthrope, scatology or obscenity, and the demystification of love and other high values. Further analysis of intertextual relationships (e.g., Dante) and genre affinities all leads to the conclusion that the characters, their behaviour, their motives, and their emotions are a direct heir to the cynics' worldview. Moreover, "First Love" aims to express and pass on the cynical philosophy through the comic mode.
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McLean, Richard, and Jiju Antony. "Why continuous improvement initiatives fail in manufacturing environments? A systematic review of the evidence." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 63, no. 3 (April 8, 2014): 370–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-07-2013-0124.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the core themes derived from literature that contribute to the failure of continuous improvement initiatives in the manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken was to complete a systematic review of literature, grouping the failure factors through the use of idea maps and affinity diagrams into the core themes reported. Findings – From the review it is evident that continuous improvement initiatives can fail due to a multitude of factors; but that these can be grouped under eight core themes. The themes found to contribute to the failure of continuous improvement initiatives are: Motives and Expectations, Organizational Culture and Environment, The Management Leadership, Implementation Approach, Training, Project Management, Employee Involvement Levels, and Feedback and Results. These themes have been further categorized into a three-stage model. Research limitations/implications – The review was carried out using a selection of high-quality journals, although this may have restricted the findings. The research is also limited to manufacturing, so it is unknown if the same factors impact initiatives in the service or public sectors. Continuous improvement is defined for the purpose of the study as TQM, Lean, and Six Sigma. Originality/value – From a practical perspective, the research findings create awareness for organizations of the complexity of organizational change in the form of continuous improvement implementation.
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Kidron, Aviv, and Hedva Vinarski-Peretz. "The political iceberg: the hidden side of leaders’ political behaviour." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 39, no. 8 (November 5, 2018): 1010–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-01-2018-0061.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to implement the concept of the “political iceberg” and to investigate its hidden or submerged part comprised of motives and latent triggers lying behind leaders’ political behavior, and which remains almost unexplored. Specifically, drawing on the abundant literature at the intersection of leadership and organizational politics, the authors examine – what drives leaders to engage in political behavior? Design/methodology/approach Public sector organizations are characterized by a high level of organizational politics and are therefore suitable for this research. A semi-structured interview formed the main data-gathering instrument. The authors conducted interviews with 14 leaders across public sector organizations. The findings are based on a qualitative analysis of the interviews. Findings Two key themes were analyzed: leaders’ motives to engage in political behavior to achieve corporate interests; leaders’ motives to engage in political behave or for personal interests. On the one hand, motives for political behavior are directed toward the general good, such as accomplishing organizational goals, attaining resources and managing change. On the other hand, motives to engage in political behavior may focus inter alia on such, personal interests as one’s career in the organization, gaining an advantage or other self-interests. Originality/value To date, research has focused primarily on the visible tip of the political iceberg. This study is part of a new stream of qualitative studies of political behavior. To gain a complete picture of organizational life, this study focuses on the hidden side of the political iceberg and has revealed the motives for political behavior.
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Opall, Brent S. "Motives in creating an LGBTQ inclusive work environment: a case study." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 16, no. 1 (February 5, 2021): 237–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-09-2019-1822.
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PurposeThe purpose of this inquiry is to examine why companies create LGBTQ-inclusive work environments and how these firms advance LGBTQ-inclusiveness through CSR practices and address challenges presented by strategic duality.Design/methodology/approachUsing a qualitative multiple case study design, data was collected and then triangulated from interviews and company documents. NVivo, a qualitative research program, was used to organize, sort, query and model the data.FindingsSeveral themes were identified as reasons why Fortune 500 organizations sought to create LGBTQ-inclusive work environments. Themes include a positive return on investment, advancing human rights issues within the framework of corporate social responsibility (CSR), internal organizational pressure and parity with other Minnesota companies. Findings are examined through the theoretical lens of strategic duality.Research limitations/implicationsPrimary theoretical implications include contributions to our understanding of strategic duality by providing a first-hand account from people in organizations that encountered imperatives that to some degree are in conflict. By design, the multiple case study methodology does not allow generalizations to be drawn beyond the organizations included in this study.Practical implicationsBoth managers and researchers will find this study provides valuable insight on how people and organizations experience and navigate strategic duality (pairs of competing imperatives) within the context of the motivation behind creating an LGBTQ-inclusive work environment.Originality/valueThis inquiry provides a unique and valuable account as to why organizations choose to invest resources in creating a LGBTQ-inclusive work environment, the return on investment (ROI) and examines competing imperatives (strategic dualities) faced by management. Similar multiple case studies of this qualitative nature are rare, possibly even non-existent and, therefore, this study makes a significant contribution to the literature.
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Fu, Wenying. "Spatial mobility and opportunity-driven entrepreneurship: the evidence from China labor-force dynamics survey." Journal of Technology Transfer 45, no. 5 (July 24, 2019): 1324–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10961-019-09746-9.
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Abstract Literature on regional entrepreneurship has tended to neglect inter-regional flows of human capital, and yet spatial mobility provide the nascent entrepreneurs with multi-location knowledge and networks to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. The paper fills the gap by adopting an agent-environment interactionist perspective in the investigation on the interrelation between mobility and entrepreneurship. To be more specific, it deals with two underlying themes. First, the way through which the multi-location experiences and non-local knowledge equip the migrants with the pursuit of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Second, the distinctive relationship between the regional environment and opportunity-driven entrepreneurial motives for individuals with and without spatial mobility experiences. These themes are investigated with the China labor-force dynamics survey data, comparing the characteristics and drivers of entrepreneurial motives of the migrants and locals. The survey data presents clear evidence of a higher prevalence of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship in migrant entrepreneurs compared to their local counterparts. Furthermore, the ordered logit regression results demonstrate that spatial mobility experiences significantly promote the likelihood of entering into opportunity-based business. The regional environment exerts impacts on migrants and non-migrants’ entrepreneurial motives, yet in different ways. Local entrepreneurs are more influenced by the endogenous nature of firm ecology in the city, whereas migrant entrepreneurs start business pulled by both local demands and extra-local connectedness to greater market areas. Finally, the paper reflects upon possible implications for a more targeted and inclusive entrepreneurial policy, as well as the future areas of research.
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Ingersoll, Virginia Hill, and Guy B. Adams. "The Child is 'Father' to the Manager: Images of Organizations in U.S. Children's Literature." Organization Studies 13, no. 4 (October 1992): 497–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084069201300401.
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A person's approach to organizational life is grounded in an elaborate and largely unarticulated meaning map, which provides tools for analysing situations, beliefs about how things ought to be done and rationales for those beliefs. This meaning map is socially constructed. We argue in this article that children's literature is a part of this process of social construction, and that these stories in the United States are reflective of one of the dominant strands of the U.S. national culture, namely, technical rationality. We analyse thematically a set of twenty-nine chil dren's stories, and discuss the repeating themes which emerged from that analysis. The implications for the study of organizations are discussed.
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Krstic, Predrag. "Reflecting the secret." Theoria, Beograd 50, no. 2 (2007): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo0702035k.
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Parallel analysis of children's literature on one hand, and the crime genre on the other, positing children's and serious construction of the world and ego, outlining homology of their narrative and reconstructing social construct that follows, assumes that light could be thrown at certain particularity that is a parasite on a host whom it would like to legitimate. Juxtaposition of the two worlds, or, often, the world whiten the world visualizes the image, an inward tension and perversion of the world for which the attraction of secret service with an aspiration to public action makes it particular. The established analogy directs the attention at two points that mark particularity of the world of secrets: the protocol of the concealment and secret action and to the motives for shifting, compounding and acquiring the identity that follows.
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Stroganova, Nina A. "Poetics of the cycle “Parting With a Friend” by Cao Zhi." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 25, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2020-25-2-295-304.
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The article is devoted to a comprehensive review of an Early Medieval Chinese poetic cycle, consisting of two friendly messages preceded by a preface, - the Parting With a Friend by Cao Zhi (192-232). The article is the first to provide an interlinear translation and a sequential analysis of the cycle. In progress of the analysis the images, tropes and figures in both poems, the motives, different types of connection between the motives, the themes of the poems, their compositional structures, genre identity, and the peculiarities of the poetics of the Parting With a Friend as a cycle were examined in detail. By the example of the Parting With a Friend, conclusions regarding the appearance of a poetic cycle in Chinese literature at the turn of Antiquity and the Middle Ages were drawn. The poetics of the Parting With a Friend was examined on the base of the Western theoretical material, which makes our study not purely synological, but partly comparative.
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Ştefan, Ana-Maria. "Heart of Darkness – Heart of Redness: Heartache and Pain in two Commonwealth Novels." Linguaculture 2013, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2015-0008.
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Abstract Our study is conceived as a comparative analysis of Zakes Mda’s postcolonial and postmodern novel The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad’s canonical and colonial novella Heart of Darkness, from the viewpoint of a literarily encoded anthropology of the body. In both texts, body marks and body pain are prominent and recurrent motives, carrying along important cultural meanings, related to several classic themes of colonial and postcolonial literature: the birth and becoming of cultural identity and awareness, culture shock, cultural contacts, enculturation versus deculturation, and cultural memory, as a vehicle and repository of myths, history and (body) image stereotypes.
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Lensmire, Timothy J., and Diane E. Beals. "Appropriating others' words: Traces of literature and peer culture in a third-grader's writing." Language in Society 23, no. 3 (June 1994): 411–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500018042.
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ABSTRACTMikhail Bakhtin's notion of appropriation is a potentially powerful way to conceptualize discourse development in children. Typically, studies of discourse development have emphasized structural aspects of text. However, children appropriate not only forms, but also words, themes, purposes, and styles. From a developmental point of view, the concept of appropriation raises at least three questions: What is it that children appropriate? Where do they get their material? And what do they do with that material? In an attempt to make sense of appropriation as a developmental construct, we examine one third-grader's writing: Suzanne's book, The missing piece. We find that Suzanne appropriated material from two major sources: (a) adult-authored text – Margaret Sidney's novel, Five little Peppers and how they grew – and (b) the meanings and values of a stratified local peer culture. We conclude by discussing the significance of this work for future research on children's discourse development. (Discourse development, Mikhail Bakhtin, peer culture, social context of writing, children's writing, appropriation)
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Noohi, Forough, Miranda Li, and Yann Joly. "Clinical translation of mitochondrial replacement therapy in Canada: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ attitudes." FACETS 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 449–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0062.
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Mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) in Canada is considered a criminal offense according to article 5(1)(f) of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA) (2004). The Act prohibits any practice that modifies the genome of “a human being or in vitro embryo such that the alteration is capable of being transmitted to descendants.” We carried out 32 semi-structured interviews with clinicians, researchers, patient groups, egg donors, and members of the public to explore their attitudes toward the clinical implementation of MRT in Canada. Our interview guide was informed by the socio-ethical, legal, and scientific literature of MRT. We used a thematic analysis to identify and analyze emerging themes and sub-themes. Our findings were divided into five broad themes: ( i) an outdated criminal ban, ( ii) motives for using MRT, ( iii) terminology, ( iv) practical and theoretical risks and benefits, and ( v) the feasibility of clinical translation in Canada. Although the public and stakeholders’ views on the feasibility of foreseeable translation of MRT in Canadian clinics varied, there was consensus on conducting an overdue review of the current AHRA ban on MRT.
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Putri, Nadia Dwi, Edwin Rizal, and Nuning Kurniasih. "Konstruksi makna pegiat Kelompok Dongeng Bengkimut." Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan 8, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/jkip.v8i1.26637.
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Every activist’s introduce stories to children through storytelling. This study discusses the construction of meanings, motives, and experiences of ‘Kelompok Dongeng Bengkimut’ (Bengkimut Fairytale Group) activists. This research purpose was to discover the meaning, motives, and experiences of storytellers as activists. The research method was qualitative with a phenomenological approach, used were observation, interview, and literature study. Informants were seven active members in the ‘Kelompok Dongeng Bengkimut’, who had at least four years' experience in joining the group. Study results found that three meanings and two motives could be obtained from the ‘Kelompok Dongeng Bengkimut’ activists. The meaning possessed is a bearer of happiness, something pleasant, and a messenger. The 'Kelompok Dongeng Bengkimut' owned two motives, namely the motive of reason and purpose. The activist's first motive was a motive for a reason because (s)he was often told tales when (s)he was small, was also comfortable, and was not burdened. Whereas the motive for the purpose was to become an activist, bring up the culture of storytelling, challenge oneself, and introduce books to children. The activist's experience was storytelling in the Children's Ward at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, telling about his work, and storytelling to young and adult listeners. The constraints ever experienced were listeners who did not pay attention to fairy tales, storytelling in groups, and nervousness when storytelling. The conclusion the research that storytelling is meaningful for activist a bearer of happiness, something pleasant, and a messenger, the motive of reason and purpose.
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Cartmel, Jennifer, and Amy Hayes. "Before and After School: Literature Review about Australian School Age Child Care." Children Australia 41, no. 3 (August 17, 2016): 201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.17.
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One in three Australian children attend school-age childcare. School Age Care (SAC) services have increased to meet the growing demand for children to have somewhere safe to go before and after school while their parents work. SAC services have continued to grow in size, but are still considered a “care” rather than “education” service. This literature review highlights some current features of Australian SAC childcare sector. Key features detailed include the growth in service usage and the particular organisation types that characterise the sector. Other themes identified relate to parent expectations, venues, workforce needs and children's wellbeing. This literature review advocates for more research about the SAC sector.
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Fogle, Stephen. "Dance and Music in Children’s Literature: A Qualitative Study of Intergenerational Solidarity Themes." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.022.
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Abstract Intergenerational Solidarity is consistently recognized by the United Nations as a primary focus for work being undertaken to build a society for all ages. This study utilized a qualitative methodology to examine themes of intergenerational solidarity contained within children’s literature. Specifically, this study explored intergenerational examples of dance and music shared by older adults and children. McGuire’s (2016) Growing Up and Growing Older annotated bibliography for preschool-to-third grade children, which contains over seventy pages of non-ageist children’s literature references (N= 411), served as the sample frame for this study. A sample of six story and picture books was selected after inclusion criteria and availability from two public children’s libraries considerations were met. Inclusiveness of the present sample is manifested through geographic origin of dance and music traditions as well as the age range, gender, primary spoken language, and kin relationships of the older adult and children characters. Results revealed three intergenerational solidarity themes: 1) a humanizing portrayal of an older adult, 2) common cause, 3) continuity of tradition. This study demonstrates the efficacy of the arts, specifically dance and music, for facilitating intergenerational solidarity. This study identifies three themes that primary school teachers and children's librarians can utilize when selecting reading material about intergenerational solidarity. Finally, this study contributes to decades of pioneering educational gerontology literature focused on combating ageism through development of curricula that stimulate discovery of the elder within.
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Yang, Sungeun, and Soyeon Park. "A Sociocultural Approach to Children’s Perceptions of Death and Loss." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 76, no. 1 (February 8, 2017): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222817693138.
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By employing the phenomenographic approach, the present study explored children's cognitive understanding of and emotional responses to death and bereavement. Participants included 52 Korean, 16 Chinese, and 16 Chinese American children ages 5–6. Thematic analysis of children's drawings and open-ended interviews revealed that most children associated death with negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and sadness. The majority of children used realistic expressions to narrate death. The core themes from their drawings included causes for death, attempts to stop the dying, and situations after death. This study contributes to the literature by targeting young children who have been relatively excluded in death studies and provides evidence in the usefulness of drawings as a developmentally appropriate data collection tool. The findings also enrich our knowledge about children's understanding of death and bereavement, rooted in the inductive analysis of empirical data with children from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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Singer, Nermeen, and El-Farahaty El-Sayed Mahmoud. "MOTIVES OF THE EGYPTIAN EDUCATION FUTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN 2020 AND 2030." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 01–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.82e01.
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Purpose of the study: The current study aims to identify the engines of the future of Egyptian education to achieve the fourth goal of the United Nations Convention on Sustainable Development.
Methodology: The research followed the analytical method in the comparative analysis of the future of Egyptian education between 2020 and 2030.
Main Findings: The results of the research, in addition to the conclusions of researchers from the literature and previous studies, stressed on the importance of the existence of ten motives for the future of education for sustainable development 2030.
Applications of this study: This research attempts to address this dilemma through the perspectives and engines of education for sustainability. Where teachers can meet the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) approach to enhance knowledge and positive attitudes towards appropriate action for sustainability in relevant, meaningful, exciting, and creative ways, this research offers experiences that allow pupils to become more connected to nature, develop children's sense of practical orientation that embraces positive attitudes, change behaviour and hope for the child's future.
Novelty/Originality of this study: There is no research or studies that addressed the motives of the Egyptian education future for sustainable development.
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Novyk, O. P. "THE POETICS OF ROMANTICISM OF MYKHAILO MINCHAKEVYCH’S WORKS IN THE SON OF RUS." Rusin, no. 60 (2020): 154–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18572685/60/9.
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The article analyses Mykhailo Minchakevych’s poems “Satire”, “Rozsvit”, “Roksolana”, “Separation”, dumka “Cross stone near Lyubchych”, love elegy “Dumka” from the manuscript collection The Son of Rus (1995), with the focus on the poetics of romanticism and imagery. The author compares the themes and motives in Mykhailo Minchakevych’s poetry with those of other Romanticists (Markiyan Shashkevich, Mykola Petrenko). The poetics of Minchakevych’s works was incluenced by the writing of Markiyan Shashkevych and other Galician authors; however, it demonstrates the similarities with East Ukrainian literature of the first half of the 19th century as well as European Romanticism. Mykhailo Minchakevych uses the so-called “word complexes” (D. Chyzhevsky), inherent to Ukrainian Romanticism. His desire to demonstrate the Rusinian great history is manifested in his reminiscences of the time of Kievan Rus and allusions to famous historical figures of the past. Similarly, the poet tries to show the influence of the Rusins on European history by mentioning the ties of blood between the Russian princes and European rulers. The poems “Satire”, “Rozsvit”, “Roksolana” convey the moods of “Russian Trinity” both through motives and imagery, thus revealing the influence of Markiyan Shashkevych. Mykhailo Minchakevych’s poems are also close to folklore, which becomes evident in their motives, composition, and the use of repetitions and onomatopoeia. Minchakevych’s poetry as a component of the “Russian Trinity” phenomenon reflects the processes that took place in the Ukrainian culture in the first half of the 19th century.
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Kuznetsov, I. V. "Concept as “Motive” of Theoretic Discourse." Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology, no. 1 (2019): 80–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2410-7883-2019-1-80-86.
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The article considers the possibility to interpret motive and concept as two parallel ways of pre-predicative matter of internal speech incarnation. Lev Vygotsky’s doctrine about thought and word, which arose in the philosophical context of neo-Kantianism and dialectics peculiar to the beginning of the 20th century, creates the possibility of such interpretation. The primacy and substantiality of art’s content before its incarnation was recognized and declared by such thinkers and poets of The Silver Age as Andrey Bely and Boris Pasternak. The word “matter” itself was a working concept in the aesthetic reflections of Pasternak. In his own work, invariant themes were embodied in both narrative and lyrical modality, and in the form of reasoning. Generic boundaries, thus, shown their permeability and, therefore, a conventionality. On the other hand, the adjacent status of artistic and theoretical ways of speech was realized in the search of the formal school of poetics in 1920s. Boris Tomashevsky in his classical textbook of poetics interpreted the “theme” as an atom of “matter”. In the status of thematic units, that is, units of “matter” division, the scientist considered both the plot and the motive. With this, he stated the possibility of two paths to dispose thematic elements: fabulous story based on causal- temporal relationships, and without fable. On the second way, according to Tomashevsky, lyrical works emerge, and it also generates dialectics of theoretical reasoning. This allows to consider theoretical reasoning as a parallel method of organizing thematic material – “matter”. Concepts are joined in the propositions exactly the same as the motives are combined in the plots. Additional similarity of concepts and motives is created by the only systemic way of their existence, established by such researchers as, on the one hand, Lev Vygotsky, on the other, Vladimir Propp. So there is a prospect of parallel systematization of categories: motive, concept, plot, proposition, and others related to them. Reference to the experience of literature shows that the thematic elements of the matter can be embodied both as concepts and as motives even within one work. The example is the “Word of Law and Grace”, in which the themes of Law and Grace, first, are revealed in the conceptual comparison, and secondly, are embodied in the images of Hagar and Sarah from the Old Testament. So clearly appears concurrency of concepts and motives as ways of realization of thematic “matter”.
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Niron, Yakobus M. Langkelang. "MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS USING VIDEO BLOG (VLOGGING) BASED ON PROJECT LEARNING STUDENTS OF THE INDONESIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT NUSA CENDANA UNIVERSITY: A PHENOMENOLOGY APPROACH." IJLECR - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND CULTURE REVIEW 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 168–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/ijlecr.062.18.
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This study aims to identified students motivation in learning project-based learning (PBL) Indonesian language skills using vlogging media based on meanings and themes seen from the "because motives" and "in order to motives" related to the phenomenon of learning in the classroom. In identifying objectives, this study uses a qualitative research method with the approach of phenomenology from Albert Schutz's perspective. Researcher becomes the main instrument in an effort to obtain and find data. The research subjects were 38 second semester students of the Department of Language and Literature at Nusa Cendana University. Data collection techniques used include observation, questionnaires, and interviews. Data analysis through three stages of the flow model namely reduction, presentation and verification of data and triangulation. The results of the study prove that the teaching strategy associated with vlogs can attract students' learning interest because of their interest in other fields such as multimedia technology and social media. The application of learning PBL-based speaking skills using vlogs can improve speaking competence and gradually improve the mental aspects of students to become more confident to speak and communicate in public. So it can be said that learning PBL-based speaking skills using vlogs is a good and innovative learning strategy in an effort to increase learning motivation and mastery of students' speaking skills.
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Alheneidi, Hasah, and Andrew P. Smith. "Exploring the Awareness, Motivations, and Coping Strategies of Problematic Internet Users." Sumerianz Journal of Social Science, no. 41 (February 17, 2021): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.47752/sjss.41.19.31.
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This paper presents a systematic review that covers internet addiction and wellbeing studies on adults; followed by a semi-structured interview of a group of 6 problematic internet adult users, analysed through thematic analysis. The interview questions explore motives, awareness level and coping strategies of problematic internet users. The systematic review results are categorised based on DRIVE model and indicate gaps in the literature on internet addiction studies and suggests a holistic direction of studying wellbeing. The interviews resulted in 6 themes that reflected the user’s awareness of the consequences of problematic internet use, coping strategies when there is a high information overload, controlling internet attachment, causes of excessive internet use, preferred using time and psychological effect after spending long hours online.
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Lewis, Alyson, Sian Sarwar, Jacky Tyrie, Jane Waters, and Swansea University. "Exploring the Extent of Enactment of Young Children's Rights in the Education System in Wales." Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education 19, no. 2 (November 1, 2017): 27–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.16922/wje.19.2.3.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (UNCRC) is the most widely ratified of all the human rights treaties. In contrast to recent UK-wide developments, the UNCRC has been vigorously taken up in post-devolution policy and law in Wales. The Assembly's stance on children's rights distinguishes Welsh policy from the rest of the UK and children's rights have been described as 'emblematic' of Welsh devolution. This paper presents the findings of a review of readily available empirically based literature that evidences the extent to which young children in Wales (aged three to seven) routinely access their rights in education settings. The findings are presented under eight themes and provide a picture of inconsistency as well as some positive indicators. Reasons for a limited, patchy and variable evidence base for the enactment of young children's right in education settings in Wales are considered, alongside recommendations for action that would seek to address such shortfalls.
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RYNDAK, DIANE L., JUNE E. DOWNING, ANDREA P. MORRISON, and LILLY J. WILLIAMS. "Parents' Perceptions of Educational Settings and Services for Children with Moderate or Severe Disabilities." Remedial and Special Education 17, no. 2 (March 1996): 106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/074193259601700206.
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PARENTS OF 13 CHILDREN HAVING MODERATE OR SEVERE DISABILITIES WHO WERE RECEIVING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN INCLUSIVE SETTINGS ACROSS SEVEN SCHOOL DISTRICTS WERE INTERVIEWED ABOUT THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF SERVICES IN SELF-CONTAINED AND INCLUSIVE SETTINGS. SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WERE USED TO OBTAIN DATA PERTAINING TO THESE PARENTS' PERCEPTIONS. INTERVIEWS WERE ANALYZED FOR COMMON THEMES ACROSS PARENTS PER TYPE OF SETTING, WITH THREE MAJOR THEMES BEING IDENTIFIED. THEMES INCLUDED COMMENTS RELATED TO THE LOCATION IN WHICH SERVICES ARE PROVIDED, THE CONTENT ADDRESSED DURING INSTRUCTION, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH SERVICES ARE DELIVERED. PARENTS CLEARLY STATED THEIR RATIONALE FOR WHAT THEY CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE AND LEAST RESTRICTIVE ABOUT SETTINGS AND INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT. PARENTS ALSO EXPRESSED THEIR VIEWS ON HOW DISTRICT PERSONNEL SHOULD INTERACT WITH THEIR CHILDREN, THOUGH SPECIFIC TEACHING STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE THEIR CHILDREN'S LEARNING WERE NOT ARTICULATED AS CLEARLY. FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY ADD TO THE LITERATURE ON PARENT PERCEPTIONS AND INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION TEAM DECISIONS. FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS RELATE TO FACTORS ATTRIBUTING TO THESE PERCEPTIONS.
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Ibarrán Bigalondo, Amaia. "A Chicano childhood experience." Journal of English Studies 2 (May 29, 2000): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.57.
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The difficult social and cultural situation that the Chicano community has suffered after the signing of theTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, has been overtly manifested in the Literature produced by its writers. Themes such as the social and economical conditions of the members of the Chicano community, schooling and housing, the situation of the workers in the fields, portrayals of the first organized political movements, family and domestic relationships etc., are widely found in the Literature written by Chicano authors. Chicanas, on their part, also use the novel for vindicatory purposes. Their body of Literature also deals with subjects that account for their constrained existence as members of an oppressed gender and ethnic group. The first Chicano novels are, in general terms, therefore, "adult" novels even though Monserrat Fontes¿ First Confession is one of the exceptions in which childhood and children's voices are portrayed in a novel, a thematic analysis of the novel demonstrates that many of the most recurrent themes of the female novel are present in this story.
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Fairchild, Rebecca, and Katrina Skewes McFerran. "Understanding Children's Resources in the Context of Family Violence through a Collaborative Songwriting Method." Children Australia 43, no. 4 (November 28, 2018): 255–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.45.
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The majority of literature about children experiencing family violence focuses on reporting ‘problems’ and highlighting detrimental outcomes for children. In contrast, there is little acknowledgement of children's personal resources and capacities in times of crisis.This article describes a participatory arts-based research project involving 10 pre-adolescent children. The research aimed to explore children's individual resources and to highlight the value of giving voice to children through participatory processes. A collaborative songwriting method sought to co-construct knowledge with children about what helped them to ‘do well’ in their lives. An illustrative example demonstrates the collaborative process of engaging children throughout the data generation, collaborative analysis and presentation of the findings. The children described a range of resources and supports in their lives, such as friends, family, sport, pets, journaling, hope and creativity. Five themes explore the role these resources play in children's lives: seeking refuge, wanting to feel safe, hoping for a better future, feeling cared for and being self-determined. The results emphasise the ongoing need to build upon existing resources in children's lives and to support them to navigate access to additional resources. We advocate for participatory approaches that provide opportunities for children's voices to be heard, fostered and responded to.
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Rezaei, Saeed, and Haniye Seyri. "Iranian doctoral students’ perceptions of publication in English." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 11, no. 4 (October 14, 2019): 941–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-02-2019-0040.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the English for publication purpose practices of doctoral students in Iran. The overall objective was to explore their motives, hurdles and strategies in academic writing. Design/methodology/approach This case study draws on a narrative inquiry to explore nine science and engineering doctoral students’ perceptions of academic publication. The data were analyzed through a hybrid process of inductive and deductive thematic analysis. Findings The qualitative results showed three dominant themes, namely: motives for publication, hurdles to publication and strategies for dealing with these challenges were extracted. The main sources of motives were students’ desire to publish their works for their graduation, improve their resume, satiate the universities’ evaluation system, and finally share their knowledge worldwide. Their hurdles included: political reasons, language-related problems, center-periphery priorities and the lack of academic writing instruction. In order to overcome these hurdles, the participants employed some strategies in academic writing. Research limitations/implications Due to qualitative nature of this study, only nine PhD students were recruited and therefore the research results are not intended to render generalizability. Besides, only narratives were employed to collect the required data. Future researchers can use surveys to collect more data. Practical implications The findings are discussed within English for academic purposes discourse and some recommendations are provided to alleviate the plights of non-native-English-speaking academic writers. Originality/value The methodology and the higher education context in which this paper was conducted are new to the literature.
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Yu, Shulin, and Icy Lee. "Peer feedback in second language writing (2005–2014)." Language Teaching 49, no. 4 (September 23, 2016): 461–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444816000161.
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This article reviews research on peer feedback in second language (L2) writing published in the last decade (i.e. 2005–2014). We analyse first the theoretical underpinnings that have informed both peer feedback research and the pedagogical use of peer feedback in L2 writing instruction. We also provide a critical interpretation of existing peer feedback research and discuss seven important themes emerging from the literature, that is, (1) effectiveness of peer feedback compared with teacher and self-feedback; (2) benefits of peer feedback for feedback-givers; (3) computer-mediated peer feedback; (4) peer feedback training; (5) student stances and motives; (6) peer interaction and group dynamics; and (7) cultural issues in peer feedback. Next, we examine the contextual and methodological issues in peer feedback research and then conclude the article with implications for future research.
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Oliver, Dave, and Celia Romm. "Justifying Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption." Journal of Information Technology 17, no. 4 (December 2002): 199–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268396022000017761.
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This paper presents a critical approach to the way organizations justify adopting enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. An earlier critical theory provides a framework for exploring the themes of communication, rationality and domination. Technology, process and organization are forms of domination that may appear in the context of ERP adoption. The literature on the formal and informal (qualitative) justification of information technology investment is reviewed and assessed. The significance of ERP systems is examined and also motives for their adoption. The data used for the study are electronically mediated justifications of ERP adoption that were presented by universities. A content analysis is applied to these data. The paper concludes that, despite reservations about the sensitivity of domination and emancipation to identification and measurement, there is some evidence to suggest people are considered to occupy a subservient role to technology, process and organization.
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Callary, Bettina, Chelsea Currie, and Bradley W. Young. "Insights into the Importance of Relational Coaching for Masters Sport." International Sport Coaching Journal 7, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 390–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2019-0021.
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Research into the Masters (or adult) sport context has revealed important socially mediated participatory motives for Masters athletes, including a strong connection between their learning in sport and the relationships they have with their coaches. The purpose of this insights article was to identify and describe links between relevant relational perspectives in sport coaching and dominant themes extracted from research pertaining to the psychosocial aspects of coaching adults. Three theoretical perspectives are purposively explored: interdependence theory, humanistic coaching, and andragogy. We considered how these parallel bodies of literature ascribe to the particularities of coaching adults to provide insight on how to frame effective coaching approaches and coach–athlete interrelations for this unique athletic sample. We make the case for ongoing research using an andragogical model of coaching in Masters sport in understanding how coaching Masters athletes is a complex and nuanced phenomenon.
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Clark, Rebecca L., Jennifer E. Glick, and Regina M. Bures. "Immigrant Families Over the Life Course." Journal of Family Issues 30, no. 6 (March 4, 2009): 852–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x09332162.
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Family researchers and policy makers are giving increasing attention to the consequences of immigration for families. Immigration affects the lives of family members who migrate as well as those who remain behind and has important consequences for family formation, kinship ties, living arrangements, and children's outcomes. We present a selective review of the literature on immigrant families in the United States, focusing on key research themes and needs. A summary of secondary data sets that can be used to study immigrant families is presented as well as suggestions for future research in this increasingly important area of family research and policy.
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Safron, E. A. "The Legacy of German Romanticism in Russian Urban Fantasy." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 12 (December 31, 2020): 196–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-12-196-207.
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The philosophical views of German romantics, as well as images, motives, chronotopes characteristic of German romanticism, embodied in the domestic urban fantasy are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the techniques of the comparative method. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the almost complete absence of works devoted to the study of urban fantasy. It is noted that this fantasy subgenre has not been considered in detail in the context of the continuation of the traditions of romantic German literature. The theoretical basis of the research is presented by the works of M. M. Bakhtin, N. Ya. Berkovsky, V. M. Zhirmunsky, Yu. M. Lotman, S. S. Levochsky, etc. It was revealed that urban fantasy inherits the main images, themes, motives, symbols that dominated in German romanticism: the motive of a double, the image of a doll, an artist, etc. It was established that the authors of urban fantasy not only reproduce the image of a romantic artist-creator, but depict a character-demiurge. It has been proven that urban fantasy deepens and transforms the romantic “night beginning”: the images of the dead and vampires become plot-forming characters in independent series of works. It is concluded that the authors of urban fantasy, like German romantics, activate the readers’ attention to mythology and folklore, creating new fantastic worlds with their help.
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Vorontsova, Galina N. "“Between Heaven and Earth”: A.N. Tolstoy’s Fiction of 1918–1919." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 2 (2021): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-2-128-143.
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The article is based on the thesis that in the writer’s works it is always possible to trace the existence of periods marked by the emergence of new themes and motives. As a rule, this is due both to external circumstances and the artist’s reaction to them, his internal feeling of the need to change the paradigm of his further development. In the work of A.N. Tolstoy one of such periods was the era of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and, in particular, the first revolutionary years, which are characterized by artistic experiments of the writer, allowing to talk about a definitely new vector of his searches. The article analyzes Tolstoy’s stories Mercy!, Peter’s Day, Count Cagliostro and Delirious in the context of the writer’s artistic searches of the 1918–1919. The writer’s work within the boundaries of small prosaic genres at that time allowed him, already in the second half of 1919, to come close to the creation of a full-scale canvas about the Russian Revolution, the novel The Road to Calvary.
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Vorontsova, Galina N. "“Between Heaven and Earth”: A.N. Tolstoy’s Fiction of 1918–1919." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 2 (2021): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-2-128-143.
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The article is based on the thesis that in the writer’s works it is always possible to trace the existence of periods marked by the emergence of new themes and motives. As a rule, this is due both to external circumstances and the artist’s reaction to them, his internal feeling of the need to change the paradigm of his further development. In the work of A.N. Tolstoy one of such periods was the era of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and, in particular, the first revolutionary years, which are characterized by artistic experiments of the writer, allowing to talk about a definitely new vector of his searches. The article analyzes Tolstoy’s stories Mercy!, Peter’s Day, Count Cagliostro and Delirious in the context of the writer’s artistic searches of the 1918–1919. The writer’s work within the boundaries of small prosaic genres at that time allowed him, already in the second half of 1919, to come close to the creation of a full-scale canvas about the Russian Revolution, the novel The Road to Calvary.
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Rajpurohit, Dalpat S. "Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants’ perspective." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 84, no. 1 (February 2021): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x21000264.
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AbstractScholars have rightly questioned the periodization of early modern Hindi literature (fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century) into two major thematic and temporal categories, often described as binaries: an early bhaktikāl (era of devotion), and the later rītikāl (era of mannerism). It is now common to understand bhakti and rīti as complementary modes of poetic expression rather than oppositional styles that poets had to identify with entirely. This paper uses the perspective of poet-saints (sants) to argue that, although the sants share many features with the rīti poets in terms of genres and register, they diverge fundamentally from them on the topic of the proper motives of composing verse. The criticism that the sants register with selected rīti themes – conflicts which would later figure in the writings of Hindi literary historians in the nationalist era – can be seen as anticipating the modern bhakti versus rīti distinction.