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Fairy Tales In Service Of Political Projects: “Hansel And Gretel” In Changing Political Regimes, Polona Tratnik

Marvels & Tales

The production of fairy tales depends on political interests. The tales’ regimes of production and anticipated reception condition their inscribed ideological inclinations and erasures. I examine how Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the brothers Grimm contributed to nation-building and, focusing on “Hansel and Gretel,” how the changing regimes of production required omissions in the translations of the Grimms’ tales into Slovenian. I argue that the sui generis appropriation of the tale titled “Janko and Metka” by the writer France Bevk helped build a socialist nation. Finally, the article comments on some issues in capitalist regimes of fairy-tale production.

Text Steganography Using Large Language Model, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

While encryption can ensure secure message exchange, the use of encryption can draw attention to the communication because encrypted content is not human readable. While text steganography can embed hidden messages in human-readable text, it is vulnerable to disclosure to unintended recipients. This disclosure describes steganography techniques that leverage machine learning techniques, specifically generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) type large language model (LLM) to generate human-readable natural language text that seamlessly conceals a different message within the text. The use of GPT can enhance the fluency and coherence of the natural language text, thus making it difficult to detect the secret …

Program Design And Exemplary Practices For Preparing Teachers Of Color And Indigenous Teachers, Felicia Moore Mensah, Christine L. Quince

Teacher Education

Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers (TOCIT) has gained traction in recent years in educational scholarship. Yet very few studies have evaluated teacher education programs that prepare TOCIT within the U.S. context or have focused on the promising pedagogical practices used to prepare TOCIT. The challenge of doing program evaluation resides in the different institutional contexts and the limited time teacher education researchers have to look holistically and systematically at program design and evaluation. However, we can talk about exemplary practices that have been supportive in preparing TOCIT. This article describes various teacher education pedagogical and theoretical practices …

Elements, Andres L. Sanchez

Theses and Dissertations

Elements is a dissertation that presents my work as an out-of-the-Academy conceptual writer that loves teaching even though I won’t ever teach again. The dissertation includes a critical introduction, “Do You Actually Want to See This?” that seeks to examine conceptual poetry in the light of Sianne Ngai’s stuplimity and Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht’s performance theories so that we may rethink conceptual poetry’s effect on the audience when it is performed. The creative manuscript, “Elements,” is the result of a process stolen from Raymond Queneau to be used on David Hilbert’s The Foundations of Geometry but is instead redirected …

Assertion Of Identity In Chicano Poetry, Ruqaya Ibrahim Mohammed, Aida Thamer Salloom

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The late 1960s witnessed the rise of Chicano Movement as part of the Civil Rights Movements in the United States of America. A Chicano is someone born in the USA with Mexican descendant. Thus, Chicano represents a cultural identity that is neither fully American nor Mexican, exemplifying the in-between nature of cultural hybridity. Chicano literature emerges as a response to the discrimination and prejudice conduct affected Mexicans who migrated into the United States after the 1900s. Although, they are citizens of the United States for over one-hundred years, the Mexican-Americans have always been characterized in a negative manner by U.S. …

Contributors, Gustavo Garcia

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Biographies of contributors for the Fall 2024 issue of Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

The Quadruple Helix Of Strategic Alliances And Its Application For Community Development In Las Acequias De Atrisco, Jorge Garcia

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

In today’s society, the development of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) is imminent yet, large segments of the world remain marginalized. I contend that peer-to-peer and inter-institutional networks can be used to connect local with global systems to close this divide. Using today’s virtual and digital technologies the gap can be bridged using collaboration platforms using different knowledge systems that do not simply replicate the same information. The suggested model represents forming strategic alliances for information sharing and collaboration to empower and support local knowledge systems. The examples discussed show our efforts toward an inclusive approach with communities in full partnership, …

The Queer Body And The Obstructed Gaze: Chicanx Performance Artists And The Power Of Self-Objectification, Tracie N. Amend

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

The Queer Body and the Obstructed Gaze: Chicanx Performance Artists and the Power of Self-Objectification

This article examines the ways in which four queer Chicanx performance artists have manipulated and obstructed the spectator’s gaze as a method for activating their abjection, performing self-objectification or fetishization, or asserting agency. As seminal Chicanx and queer performance artists, Luis Alfaro and Nao Bustamante set the stage for identity exploration through the corporeal and figurative display of excess: they invite in the spectator’s gaze to look at the queer brown body and challenge them to resist a reductive framing of their othered voluptuousness. In …

Teaching Manita/O New Mexico To Knowledge And Power Curators: Epistemologies Of The Manita Nuevo Mexicans/O, Keith E. Sanchez

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

This essay examines the cultural ecologies of Manita/o New Mexico and the educational model of La Academia de La Nueva Raza developed therein. The conclusion section offers a brief synthesis of applied pedagogical models of CCM and a sampling of culturally relevant experiential curricula concepts authored by me. The academic aim is to inform power and knowledge curators working within the Manita/o expression of the Chicana/o diaspora. The objective of this text is to create an infrastructural guide for further study and curricula development. The curriculum directed to teach and inspire professors, teachers, and public-policy makers are intended to …

Xicanacimiento: An Ethos And Praxis For Regenerating Justice And Hope, Irene Vásquez, Natalia M. Toscano, Gustavo García, Elizabeth González Cárdenas, José Luis Serrano Nájera

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

"Xicanacimiento: An Ethos and Praxis for Regenerating Justice and Hope" is the editor introduction to the inaugural issue of the journal Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal.

An Introduction To Infophilia, A Positive Psychology Of Information, Anita S. Coleman

Library Research Seminar 8: Telling Library Stories

This paper will tell some of the stories of infophilia, a positive psychology of information, avant-garde research. The goal of Brenda Dervin’s ground-breaking research was not just to develop the sense-making theory, framework, and tools, but also to “invent communication alternatives and assess their utility.” One of the ‘practice communication inventions’ of Brenda Dervin was the ‘Good news newsletter’ where she developed infosheets for doctors, schools, and medical clinics (Neill, 1992, p. 6). I am no Brenda Dervin. But I am a strongly interdisciplinary scholar who has been a tenured librarian, LIS school faculty, library director, publisher for the voiceless, …

Investigating The Intersection Of Ai And Cybercrime: Risks, Trends, And Countermeasures, Sanaika Shetty, Kyung-Shick Choi, Insun Park

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime

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Exposure And Connectedness To Natural Environments: An Examination Of The Measurement Invariance Of The Nature Exposure Scale (Nes) And Connectedness To Nature Scale (Cns) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, And Age Groups, Viren Swami, Mathew P. White, Martin Voracek, Ulrich S. Tran, Toivo Aavik, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, Reza Afhami, Oli Ahmed, David A. Frederick

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic groups. Therefore, we used data from the Body Image in Nature Survey to assess measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (N = 56,968). While multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) of the NES supported …

Adam Smith, Human Betterment, And His Erroneous Indentification With Self-Interested Human Action, Vernon L. Smith

ESI Publications

In this essay I discuss the proposition that Adam Smith has been widely misinterpreted as asserting in his second book, The Wealth of Nations, that emergent modern economies are driven by the strictly selfish motives of their human inhabitants. The propositions articulated in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which offered a theory of society, extended seamlessly into his second book, and continued to be part of his theory of economy. In both works, he distinguished the universal state of being self-interested from actions taken in one's self-interest, and modeled people as creating and following rules of propriety …

Political Articulation Of Gus Mus’ Asceticism In Strengthening The Role Of Nu As A Moral Force In National Politics, Khoiron Khoiron, Hirshi Anadza, Abdul Wahid M

Jurnal Wacana Politik

This study reveals the practice of articulation of ascetic politics carried out by Gus Mus amidst the strong democratic regime that dictated the process of contestation of power at the NU Congress in 2015 in Jombang. The practice of articulation of asceticism is political, because he always changes his identity. As a subject, Gus Mus often changes positions, such as a kiai and a cultural figure. This position is called the subject position. This study explores the creation of a new identity in contemporary politics using Laclau’s articulation theory within a post-structuralist case study research design. Therefore, the main argument …

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Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

This is the full issue of Regeneracion: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal.

Critical Conversations: Supporting Elementary Teachers In Instructing With Inclusive Children’S Literature, Susan Flis

Educational Studies Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The present study investigated how an instructional coach supported elementary classroom teachers in critically analyzing interactive read-aloud texts and facilitating critical conversations with students about inclusive picture books. Extant literature highlights the importance of the representation of all identities in children’s literature. This qualitative collaborative inquiry research study was framed by critical literacy theory. Six classroom teachers in grades kindergarten through 5^th grade participated in this research. Children’s books are a valuable instructional tool for a variety of reasons, but educators must think critically when choosing books for their classrooms. Many teachers are unaware of the effect that …

2024 Latinx Heritage Month, Illinois State University, Latin American And Latino/A Studies Program

Latinx Heritage Month Posters

Schedule of events for Illinois State University's Latinx Heritage Month celebration

The Level Of Literary Culture Among Arabic Language Students At King Khalid University, Mahmoud Helal Abdelbaset Abdelkader

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current study aimed to reveal the level of literary culture among Arabic language students at King Khalid University. To achieve this goal, the research tool was prepared, which consisted of: a measure of literary culture, then ensuring the stability and validity of that tool, then selecting the study sample from Arabic language students at King Khalid University, then applying the study tool to the research sample, then statistical analysis, interpretation of the results, and presentation. Recommendations and proposals. The results showed: a low level of literary culture among the students in the study sample. The research recommended paying attention …

Frequency And Use Of Phrasal Verbs In Academic Writing, Mustafa Talib Al.Juboury

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present study deals with phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb can be used either intransitive when there is no noun phrase, or transitive when there is a noun phrase. Almost all transitive phrasal verbs allow adverb movement while such movement is not possible with the preposition. Phrasal verbs usually represent single semantic units that cannot be derived from the individual meanings of the two parts. Frequently used phrasal verbs in spoken and written discourse, the Corpus of Contemporary English was used. The problem of phrasal verb misunderstandings can be seen as a sign of deceptive teaching, insufficient attention, or lack …

Opposition As A Stylistic Feature In The Poem (La Ankuthan Biwaedi Ethan) By Salim Barakat, Khuncha Sabah Ahmed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research focuses on a literary text titled Opposition as a Stylistic Feature in the Poem "(La ankuthan biwaedi ethan) by Salim Barakat, the Kurdish-Syrian poet. It is a stylistic analysis aimed at exploring the linguistic, semantic, and rhetorical coherence of opposition within the poetic text. The motivation behind selecting this research lies in the attempt to establish a new rhetorical project centered around the poet Salim Barakat, using this poem as a means to reach Arab stylistic standards. Research Objectives:To examine the linguistic, semantic, and rhetorical styles that characterize Salim Barakat's language, revealing the stylistic features that set him …

The Effect Of 5es Model In Developing Fifth Graders' English Vocabulary Learning And Their ` Motivation, Dalal Fanar Abdulbaqi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Students in Iraq, who study using traditional methods, face difficulties in understanding the language. Textbooks and teachers are considered secondary resources in constructivist and collaborative learning, where the focus is on student interaction and building connections between what they already know and what they are learning.This research examines how the 5Es educational framework affects the motivation of fifth-grade students and their ability to acquire new English vocabulary. It may contribute to research on the 5Es model and its impact on the motivation and success of students learning English as a foreign language. A total of 100 fifth-grade students studying English …

(Alhikayah), The Story In Arabic Grammar Effective Fossilization, An Analytical Study, Husam Qaddoorie Abed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Parsing is the soul of Arabic that cannot - under any circumstances- be forced to be waived. And here we give up on it in the story (Alhikayah)! Whatever it is called, Modularity, hierarchy, harmonious series, it is governed by one name; It is parsing. If all of this were broken, it would be a cause for astonishment or difficulty in understanding. How can, the effect between one word and another, and one sentence and another, be explained considering new relationships that are pre-ordained by error?

The story (Alhikayah) is not a typical substitute for parsing. Semitic languages tend to …

Innovative Use Of Google-Blogs To Overcome Socioeconomic And Technological Barriers In Pakistan: Link-List Gadgets As Digital Libraries., Zameer Hussain Baladi, Syed Razi Muhammad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction: Access to educational and a research material has always been a challenge in a socio-economically challenged country like Pakistan, due to lack of financial resources, unavailability of electricity, and slow internet speeds. The use of Google blogs has promoted a new and innovative way, through which users can easily access knowledge content. This research sheds light on the creation and usefulness of digital libraries through the use of Google blogs and their link list gadgets.

Methods: Google is an international technology corporation that provides dozens of services, including Blogger. Blogger provides 25 modules or gadgets that offer …

الألعاب التعليميّة كأدوات لتعزيز قدرات التّعلّم دراسة تطبيقيّة على المدارس الحكوميّة في العاصمة الأردنيّة عمّان, Tahani A. Hasan Yagi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت الدراسة إلى بيان كيف تكون الألعاب التعليميّة أدوات لتعزيز قدرات التعلم في المدارس الحكومية في العاصمة الأردنية عمان، وتمّ اتّباع المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وتمّ اعتماد الاستبانة أداة لجمع البيانات، وتكوّن مجتمع الدراسة من (معلمي، ومعلمات الصف). حيث بلغ حجمه (3195) معلمًا ومعلمة، وتمّ أخذ العينة بالطريقة العشوائية، بالاعتماد على جدول مورغان، حيث بلغ حجم العينة (320) معلمًا ومعلمة، وتمّ استخدام برنامج الحزمة الإحصائي (SPSS)؛ لتحليل بيانات الدراسة. وتوصّلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها: إنّ الألعاب التعليمية كأدوات لتعزيز قدرات التعلم في المدارس الحكومية في العاصمة الأردنية عمان، حصلت على درجة أهمية مرتفعة، بلغت(3.82). ووجود فروق دالة إحصائيًا في …

أثر أساليب التدريس الحديثة في تحسين أداء طلبة الصفوف الأساسية في المدارس الحكومية في محافظة إربد من وجهة نظر الإداريين, Dima Zein Eddin Alzatari

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت الدراسة الكشف عن أثر أساليب التدريس الحديثة في تحسين مستوى أداء طلبة الصفوف الأساسية في المدارس الحكومية، وتمثل مجتمع البحث من جميع الإداريين (مديري المدارس) في محافظة اربد، وبلغ حجم عينة الدراسة (150) مديرا تم اختيارهم بطريقة العينة العشوائية، واعتمدت الدراسة منهج البحث الوصفي، كما تم تصميم أداة الاستبيان لجمع البيانات التي تسهم في الإجابة عن تساؤلات الدراسة من العينة، حيث تم توزيع (200) استبيان واسترداد (150) استبانة صالحة لأغراض الدراسة، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى فاعلية أساليب التدريس الحديثة في تحسين مستوى أداء الطلبة حيث تبين وجود أثر ذي دلالة إحصائية، كما كشفت عن تفسير مقياس أساليب التدريس الحديثة ما …

Whiteness: Six Stages Of Identity Development, Ann Roemer

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Multicultural inclusion cannot exist in our North American schools without educators acknowledging that many of us live like snowflakes in a white bubble. This presentation includes the social concept of race, the characteristics of whiteness, and Ruth Helms' stages of white identity. Come with curiosity and an open mind.

Mobile Devices As An Instructional Tool To Promote Teachers’ Metacognition: Insights From Pakistani Teachers, Zainab Shazadi Javed Ms, Fatima Javed Ms, Mehvish Mufti Ms

The Qualitative Report

The use of mobile phones as an instructional tool by teachers is not yet widespread, and there is a need to enhance the literature on how this experience affects their metacognition. While existing literature focuses on students' experiences, little is known about the experiences of teachers. This qualitative study utilized an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach to examine the experiences of primary and secondary school teachers in Karachi, Pakistan, who used mobile devices for teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic for at least 12 weeks. Nine participants were interviewed to collect data, and two themes emerged from the research: "Employed Metacognition …

Text-To-Model Transformation: Natural Language-Based Model Generation Framework, Aditya Akundi, Joshua Ontiveros, Sergio Luna

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

System modeling language (SysML) diagrams generated manually by system modelers can sometimes be prone to errors, which are time-consuming and introduce subjectivity. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools to create SysML diagrams can aid in improving software and systems design processes. Though NLP effectively extracts and analyzes raw text data, such as text-based requirement documents, to assist in design specification, natural language, inherent complexity, and variability pose challenges in accurately interpreting the data. In this paper, we explore the integration of NLP with SysML to automate the generation of system models from input textual requirements. We propose a model …

Translating Scientific Latin Texts With Artificial Intelligence: The Works Of Euler And Contemporaries, Sylvio R. Bistafa

Euleriana

The major hindrance in the study of earlier scientific literature is the availability of Latin translations into modern languages. This is particularly true for the works of Euler who authored about 850 manuscripts and wrote a thousand letters and received back almost two thousand more. The translation of many of these manuscripts, books and letters have been published in various sources over the last two centuries, but many more have not yet appeared. Fortunately, nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) translation can be used to circumvent the challenges of translating such substantial number of texts. To validate this tool, benchmark tests have …