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Doctoral Studies As Learning To Rename The World, Hyleen Mariaye

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

The reflective experience documented in this paper engages with doctoral learning from Freire’s (1968/2000) conceptual lens of naming the world. Written from the narrative lens of the supervisor, it considers how doctoral level studies in education can position both the supervisor and the candidates as agents actively reconstructing their understanding of the world and their place in it. The doctoral journey is viewed as praxis compelling researchers to expand their frames for reading the world, accommodating the other, including multiple voices and thus demonstrating commitment to a global and yet constantly contested notion of citizenship.

Poetry And Praxis: Lessons From An Activist Educator, Dr. Emmanuel Tabi

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

Drawing on data from a narrative multi-case study based in Toronto, Canada, this article discusses the lived experiences of one Black activist. Utilizing critical race theory, new literacy studies and the rhetoric of cultural production as theoretical frameworks, the article foregrounds the work of Ebele, a Toronto activist whose work supported the educational trajectories and emotional well-being of Black students, many of whom reported being marginalized in school. Through his creative labor, Ebele directly addressed the sociology of anti-Black racism that deeply influences the lives of Afrodiasporic people in Canada. This article continues the conversation about what it means to …

What Law Schools Must Change To Train Transactional Lawyers, Stephanie Hunter Mcmahon

Pace Law Review

Not all lawyers litigate, but you would not know that from the first-year curriculum at most law schools. Despite 50% of lawyers working in transactional practices, schools do not incorporate its legal doctrines or skills in the foundational first year. That the Progressives pushed through antitrust laws and the New Dealers founded the modern administrative state reframed how people use the law, particularly in transactional practices, and should be given equal weight as the appellate-based common law in any legal introduction. Nevertheless, the law school model created by Christopher Columbus Langdell in the 1870s remains dominant. As this review of …

Find Out Jude Lavois Model Effect In Acquisition Of The Islamic Concepts At The Fifth Science Students And To Develop Their Inductive Thinking, Qutaiba Hamid Mohammed

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research aims are to find out Jude lavois model effect in acquisition of the Islamic concepts at the Fifth science students and to develop their inductive thinking. And to achieve this goal, The researcher starts to follow the procedures of the experimental Method. he made a teaching plan depending on Jude lavois model. When he makes sure from its validity by showing it to group of experts. The researcher prepared attest to acquire the Islamic concepts and tented the inductive thinking. After he make sure from its truth and stability, he uses the following statistic means (T- Test) for …

Double Thinking And Its Relationship To Some Variables Among University Students, Bushra Khattab Omar

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current research aims at identifying double thinking among university students, differences in double thinking according to the gender variable (male, female), and the specialization variable (scientific, human). To achieve the aims of this research the researcher has built the scale of double thinking that consists of (20) items. The used choices items include: extremely agree, agree, do not know, disagree and extremely disagree. Virtual validity of scale, discrimination coefficient extraction and correlation coefficient of scale's items with the whole degree of scale are checked. The stability of scale is accounted by T-test and Alpha Cronbach which amounted sequently (0,82), …

The Most Violent Manifestations In The Novel Athraa Sinjar By Warid Badir Al-Salem, Mai Abdul Khaliq, Nada Hassan Mohamed

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

Literature is an artistic treatment of reality. Reproduced from Special linguistic and analytical media are the same that distinguish it from his reality. And give him his identity as a creative phenomenon. Since novel. The most important literary genre in our time. He visualizes truth and social life through technical mechanisms that enable him to confuse the real and the imaginary in one body. In the objective context, the novel took violence as a living substance until it was said that the integrated novel is the one whose components interact within the conscience under the influence of whom. Tragic stems …

The Effect Of The Reciprocal Teaching Strategy On The Achievement Of Mathematics Department Students For The Subject Of Measurement And Evaluation And The Development Of Their Future Thinking, Okaima Ah K. Ibrahim

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The researcher adopted the experimental design with partial control for the two experimental groups, to suit the nature of the research. The problem of the study was determined. Do reciprocal teaching strategies have an effect on the academic achievement of the students of the Mathematics Department, College of Education for Pure Sciences, Tikrit University? Where the study aimed to measure the impact of the use of reciprocal teaching strategies on the academic achievement of the fourth students in the measurement subject among the female students of the Department of Mathematics and the development of their future thinking at the University …

The Effect Of Learning Strategy For Understanding In The Collection Of Fifth Grade Students In Philosophy, Psychology And The Development Of Their Logical Intelligence, Ahmed B. Ahmed

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study aims to identify the impact of the learning strategy for understanding on the achievement of fifth grade literary students in the subject of philosophy and psychology and the development of their logical intelligence. As there is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance between the average scores of the students of the experimental group that studied according to the learning for understanding strategy, and the average scores of the control group that studied in the usual way in the achievement test in philosophy and psychology. There is no difference. It is statistically significant between the …

The Effect Of Dunn And Dunn's Strategy In Acquiring Philosophical Concepts For Fifth-Grade Literary Students And Developing Their National Values, Hussein Ali Ghadban

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current research aims to identify (the effect of Dunn and Dunn’s strategy in acquiring philosophical concepts for fifth-grade literary students and developing their national values). The researcher adopted the experimental design with two equal groups, to suit it with the nature of the research. For girls, this sample was randomly divided into two groups, one of them was an experimental group, which included (32) students who studied philosophy and psychology using the Dunn and Dunn strategy, and the other was a control group consisting of (33) students, who studied the same subject in the traditional way. As for the …

The Effect Of The Julai Model On Developing Convergent Thinking Among Fifth-Grade Literary Students In The Subject Of Philosophy And Psychology, Mahmoud Khalil Hamad

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify the effect of the Julai model in developing convergent thinking among fifth-grade literary students in the subject of philosophy and psychology. In order to achieve the goal of the research, the researcher formulated the following hypotheses:

1-There is no statistically significant difference at the significance level (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group students who study philosophy and psychology according to the Julai model and the average scores of the control group students who study the same subject in the usual way in the post test of convergent thinking.

2-There is no statistically …

The Emotional Motives Of The Spectrum In Andalusian Poetry In The Age Of Sects, Jumaa Hussein Youssef, Muntaha Musharraf Aliwi

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The spectrum formed a distinctive phenomenon in Andalusian poetry in the era of sects. Its motives multiplied according to its use in poetry. It represents the world of visions and dreams in its poetic form after being produced by the poet in such an artistic frame that gives it its special beauty and creativity. This contributes to the explosion of creativity among the poets of the sects era in Andalusia. The poets were affected by the stability of the political, social and even cultural life in that era, which generated excited and interactive souls who sang the spectrum of the …

Restriction Of The Epithet In Sahih Al-Bukhari, Jamila Hamad Khalaf, Yassin Abdullah Nassif

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

Restriction means there is an absolute in which the restricted comes to limit this absoluteness. The restricted is an absolute with the addition of one or more restrictions that reduces its commonness, and shows that what is intended is one of its types, including the restriction of the adjective. Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon Him) says: “The patience is at the first shock”. The restriction of the adjective (the first) comes to increase and strengthen the benefit. The adjective clarifies the rule of the prescribed (shock), because the more restrictive the rule, the clearer and more specific it becomes. This …

Obstacles (Distance Education) Facing Middle School Teachers In Light Of The (Covid-19) Pandemic, Hassan Ali Abed Jawad, Mahmoud Hamid Mahmoud

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The study aimed to identify the most important "obstacles (distance education) facing teachers in the middle school in light of the (Covid-19) pandemic."(Gender, years of service) by answering study questions, the study population consisted of all male and female middle school teachers in the city of Salah al-Din. The validity of the study tool was verified by conducting the appropriate statistical treatment for it, and the researchers concluded that there are a number of obstacles facing male and female teachers in the middle school in the city of Salah al-Din in light of the (Covid-19) pandemic, and there are no …

Psychological Well-Being Of Displaced Iraqis (A Comparative Study), Nazanin Othman Mohammed Raza, Mansour Beyrami, Khalil Ismail Pur, Touraj Hashemi Nosratabadi

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study aims to compare the level of psychological well-being and its six sub-components (self-acceptance, independence, social relations with others, purposeful life, personal growth, and environmental empowerment) between the displaced Iraqis residing in the Kurdistan Region and the Kurdish citizens in the region and to know the statistically significant differences in psychological well-being For the displaced Iraqis according to the variables (age, gender, educational level, and socio-economic status). The study was conducted on a sample consisting of (240) displaced Iraqis, and (240) Kurdish citizens. The descriptive-analytical approach was used based on the scale of Psychological wellbeing by Ryff (1989), …

Potential Risks Inherent In Robotic Process Automation, Colin L. Robinson, David Y. Chan

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Robotic process automation (RPA) uses automation technologies to perform tasks typically performed by humans. Although such technology has been instrumental in expediting business operations and lowering costs, it has also created several risks that warrant scrutiny. When discussing the drawbacks of automation, many will point to the number of jobs lost to the influx of automation. However, there are technology risks that organizations must consider such as fraud and cybersecurity. Fraudsters may utilize RPA to commit more novel and subtle technological and cyber security fraud. Organizations may implement internal control measures to prevent or mitigate such schemes, segregation of duties, …

Consumer Boycotts In The Time Of War Crisis: An Efficient Citizenship Strategy Or A Temporary Spurt Of Solidarity, Jolanta Zralek

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

By drawing from the theory of consumer citizenship, collective activism, and consumer boycotts, this article strives to understand the nature of the current calls for consumer resistance and the following consumers’ actions that resulted from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular, by utilizing Friedman’s (1991) taxonomy of boycotts, we aimed to identify the character, motives, and tools of ongoing boycotts and thus estimated their actual and probable effectiveness. The main research questions in this paper concern what type of consumer boycotts we currently observe, what the aims and motives are of current boycotting, and whether the noticed boycotting attempts …

Leveraging Next-Gen Technology For Supply Chain Security, Thomas Drape, Reginald P. Parker

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Global supply chain disruptions continue as part of both a national and global discussion. There is a need for a greater focus on supply chain security as part of this discussion as there is an increasing amount of counterfeit parts and goods within global supply chains. While counterfeit activity is an economic burden to companies and the global market, there are also legitimate concerns on consumer safety, consumer trust and company brand management.

The aim for this paper is to identify the concern and extent of the counterfeit problem and identify the use of next-gen technologies to provide brand protection …

Sustainability Across The Supply Chain: A Case Study In The Automotive Industry, Jane Siegler, Angelyn Bidlack, Sarah Harrison

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been widely adopted and implemented by organizations worldwide. However, with 17 goals and 169 targets, the decision on what to focus on and invest in are not trivial tasks. This research focuses on a major Tier-1 automotive supplier, here identified as CMF. With annual sales of 16 billion euros (2021), one in every three vehicles in the world is equipped with some form of CMF technology. The objective of this research was to evaluate CMF’s value chain and understand the challenges and opportunities related to the United Nations 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). …

Covid-19 And Culture: Individualism Versus Collectivism, Short-Term Versus Long-Term Orientation, And Indulgence Versus Restraint, Charles Lanier, Navpreet Pooni

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

To some degree, all social behaviors may be affected by cultural influences. So which national cultures could be positive influences or negative influences on the prevention of a contagion? (Roser et al., 2020). This paper explores regression models for predicting initial Covid-19 cases per capita by country utilizing only Hofstede’s six Cultural Dimensions (Hofstede et al., 2010).

Regression techniques were applied to develop predictive models for initial Covid-19 rates. Two proposed models were found that explained 54% and 60% of the variability in numbers of initial Covid-19 cases by country: The first model included only Individualism, and the second included …

Study Of The Impact Of Working At Home And The Fears Of Returning To Work Among Managers And Professionals Who Are In Virtual Congruent Jobs And Who Are High Growth/Achievement Oriented, Carmine Gibaldi, Gerald Cusack, Niall Hegarty

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Using two surveys, this article examines employee opinions on working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020 we chronicled the experience and reactions of 478 managers and professionals to the mandate they work at home. We found that a large portion of the respondents felt no significant loss in productivity and no reduction in job satisfaction. Most of the challenges they faced had involved efforts required to establish a facilitating home working environment and disruptions in the ease of collaboration with others. The opportunities overwhelmingly focused on the benefits of having more time to rebalance their work and …

Economic Implications Of State-Wide Covid-19 Response Aggressiveness, Bryan Foltice, Michael Edward Parker

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

This paper aims to evaluate how the aggressiveness of each state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic affected their respective economies from Q2, 2020 through Q2, 2021. In our study, we utilize the scale developed by McCann (2021, April 6), which ranks the least aggressive state response to the most aggressive state response at three different points of the pandemic. Through this methodology, we test the impact of the aggressiveness of each state governments’ response with the resulting economic impact within that state. Namely, we examine how this level of response affected each state’s unemployment rate, gross domestic product growth, and …

Building A Better Future: Restoration, Resilience, And Sustainability, Biagio Pilato, Igor Tomic

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

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Imaginary Interconnection Among University Students, Noor Abbas Fadel, Hussein Rabie Hammadi

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify the imaginary interdependence among university students and the statistically significant differences according to the variable of gender (male/female) and specialization (scientific/human), where the sample size was (378) male and female students who were chosen by the stratified random method with a proportional distribution, from six colleges and distributed by (146) males (39%) and females (232) (61%) and according to the specialization, where the number of students in the scientific specialization was (163) at (43%) and the humanitarian specialization (215) at the rate of (57%) and the correlation scale was applied The imaginary prepared by the …

Mutual Gratitude Of University Students, Rana Khaled Jawad Kazem Al-Musafiri, Ali Hussein Mazloum Al-Mamouri

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The basic concept in the current research is Mutual Gratitude. Mutual gratitude helps lift people's spirits and enables them to find positive qualities in life during bad or difficult times. People who do not feel mutual gratitude will go unnoticed and not driven by this. With a feeling of blessings in their lives, and their feeling of deprivation increases that, the current research seeks to identify the mutual gratitude of university students. The mutual gratitude scale was built for the lack of a scale that matches the sample of the current research within the limits of the researcher’s knowledge. The …

Moral Attention Among Graduate Students, Nazik Shutb Omran, Karim Fakhry Hilal

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify:

• Moral Attention among Postgraduate Students.

• Statistically significant differences in moral attention according to gender (male - female), specialization (scientific - human) and degree (Master - PhD)

To achieve the objectives of the research, the researchers chose the research sample from graduate students at the University of Babylon, according to the simple random method, from eight faculties, three humanities and six scientific faculties. The proportionality was applied to the research sample, the moral attention measurement tool that was built by the researchers according to the theoretical framework and the definition adopted by Reynolds (2008), …

Sustainable Human Development In Light Of Economic Openness In Iraq For The Period (3003-2022), Taghreed Hussain Muhammed

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

Despite wars, adventures, and security, economic and political instability, natural resources are abundant, and factors of strategic, historical, cultural and civilizational geographical location give Iraq enormous potential for growth and economic development. The three wars destroyed the infrastructure represented by energy sources, roads, transportation and the destruction of the productive and service sectors. These reasons prompted the Iraqi economy to follow a policy of economic openness to achieve economic growth and attract foreign investment, i.e. the open door policy of openness and foreigners achieving levels of openness and openness. The Three Wars and the socialist approach followed by the previous …

Homogeneous Spatial Thinking And Its Relationship To Cognitive Depth Among Distinguished Students And Their Ordinary Peers, Baida Saadoun Aziz Al-Tai, Madian Nuri Talak Al-Shamry

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current research aims to identify:

1- The degree of homogeneous spatial thinking among middle school students.

2- The statistically significant differences in the degree of homogeneous spatial thinking among middle school students according to the two variables: gender (males - females) and school (distinguished - normal).

To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher chose the research sample according to the Thomson equation, which amounted to (400) distinguished and ordinary students, they were distributed in a stratified random method with a proportional distribution. Four areas of homogeneous spatial thinking, with (10) paragraphs for the first field, and (8) …