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Teaching And Learning Social Change, Amie Thurber, Helen Buckingham, Jordenn Martens, Rebecca Lusk, Darrylann Becker, Stacey Spenser

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

How can social work courses prepare students to be scholars of social movements, and also to act in solidarity with movements for social justice? How can graduate programs reimagine the professional socialization of social work students from aspiring for expertise toward a stance of life-long learning? How can instructors more deeply leverage our teaching practice to advance justice in our communities? This paper traces one attempt to answer these questions through a three-quarter graduate social work course designed to deepen students’ skills and knowledge in practices for social transformation, while amplifying existing social justice movements. Drawing on reflections from the …

Open Access Resources Usage And Copyright Violation Amongst Undergraduates In Two Universities In Ibadan, Oyo State, Adebisola Theresa Oguntimehin, James Ogielagbega Enamudu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open access is a burning issue in web-based education and research that makes provision for resources that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most licensing restrictions. However, the free accessibility provided to these resources has led to the speculations that undergraduates might tend to violate the copyright protection of these resources. Hence, the study aimed to examine the relationship between the use of open access resources and copyright violation amongst undergraduates in two universities in Ibadan, Oyo state.

The study adopted the descriptive survey design with a study population from two universities in Ibadan, Oyo state (Lead …

Memes From Confinement: Disorientation And Hindsight Projection In The Crisis Of Covid-19, David Divita

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

Memes have been described as textual forms of “(post)modern folklore” (Shifman, 2014: 5). Photos or short videos, they highlight current cultural phenomena, and they spread exponentially through person-to-person sharing on social media platforms. For this article, I created a corpus of memes that circulated in March 2020, during the first weeks after statewide lockdown orders were issued in the U.S. in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Bakthin’s (1981) concept of the chronotope, I analyze a subset of these memes that specifically addressed the experience of time in confinement, illuminating two interrelated trends: the disruption of temporal order in …

The Play Workforce In Wales – An Exploratory Demographic Study, Pete King, Justine Howard Dr

International Journal of Playwork Practice

An online survey of 211 playworkers, 90 childcare and early years workers, and 90 ‘other play’ professionals provided demographic data from 391 people involved in the play workforce in Wales. This was the first extensive survey of the Welsh play workforce since 2008 and was part of a larger Welsh play workforce study. Results of the study found the play workforce in Wales is predominately white, female with no disabilities. Differences within the play workforce exist in relation to the average age where playworkers are younger compared to childcare/early years workers and ‘other play’ professionals. There is a significant difference …

Interventions For Preventing And Ameliorating Cognitive Deficits In Adults Treated With Cranial Irradiation, Matthew A Kirkman, Julia Day, Karin Gehring, Karolis Zienius, David Grosshans, Martin Taphoorn, Jing Li, Paul D Brown

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Cognitive deficits are common in people who have received cranial irradiation and have a serious impact on daily functioning and quality of life. The benefit of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive deficits in this population is unclear. This is an updated version of the original Cochrane Review published in Issue 12, 2014.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of interventions for preventing or ameliorating cognitive deficits in adults treated with cranial irradiation.

SEARCH METHODS: For this review update we searched the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE via Ovid, Embase via Ovid, and PsycInfo via Ovid to 12 …

The Future Of Our Economy - Part I, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The future of any economy is closely linked with its present and the past. Pakistan’s economic past has gone through different phases with impressive growth and poverty reduction in the 1960s, 1980s, 2000-2007 and 2014-16, and 2020-22. The immediate precarious situation where both consumer and business confidence are at the lowest ebb, international ratings and market sentiment are negative and foreign exchange constraints are binding, if projected into the future and discounting the past, may result in an extremely dismal outlook. Should the present assumptions be carried forward as they are? Would these circumstances – both external and internal – …

A Study Of Using E-Resources By Research Scholars In Selected Institutions Of Southern Tamilnadu: Research Methodology, Senthur Vel Murugan Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

In this paper, the philosophical position of the scientist is investigated which will explain the purposes behind the decision approach utilized in this examination. In this way, the principal motivation behind this paper is to exhibit the examination approach and techniques utilized in this investigation to respond to the exploration questions and to accomplish the examination objective.

Design / Methodology/ Approach

Research Design is a groundbreaking strategy indicating the strategies and methodology controlling the specialist to gather their information and investigation their exploration. The most widely recognized research structures that analysts consistently use are exploratory, expressive, and easygoing. …

Framing Of Covid-19 In Newspapers: A Perspective From The Us-Mexico Border, Rifat Afrin, Ahasan Harun, Gayle Prybutok, Victor Prybutok

Information Systems Faculty Publications

The degree to which the media report a health emergency affects the seriousness with which the people respond to combat the health crisis. Engagement from local newspapers in the US has received scant scrutiny, even though there is a sizable body of scholarship on the analysis of COVID-19 news. We fill this void by focusing on the Rio Grande Valley area of the US-Mexico border. To understand the differences, we compared such local news coverage with the coverage of a national news outlet. After collecting the relevant news articles, we used sentiment analysis, rapid automatic keyword extraction (RAKE), and co-occurrence …

Expanding Workplace Inclusion Of Employees Who Are Parents Of Children With Disabilities Through Diversity Training, Lisa M. Stewart, Julie M. Rosenzweig, Anna M. Malsch Tamarkin, Eileen Brennan, Jessica Lukefahr

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Employed parents raising children with disabilities manage exceptional care responsibilities along with their work careers. This study examines the effects of targeted diversity training on human resource (HR) professionals’ knowledge of the work–family experiences of these parents, and on their self-efficacy in providing workplace supports. Using computer-based training in field settings, 64 U.S. human resource professionals in an international company participated in two diversity training sessions. Data related to knowledge and efficacy of dependent and disability care were collected before the first training and immediately after the second. HR participants demonstrated significant increases from pretest to posttest on the trained …

Presentation, Delay And Omission In Artistic Messages In The Umayyad Era (A Stylistic Study), Amani Rabie

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Writers in the Umayyad era paid a clear interest in messages, based on the development of this art on the one hand, the rise of writers among the rulers, princes and caliphs on the other hand, and the emergence of bureaucracies and the development of their presence in the Islamic state on the third hand, all of these elements directly contributed to the development of the art of messages. In general, and contributed to the change in its methods, which was linked to the manifestations of workmanship, good writing, and accuracy of expression.

The research aimed to reveal the manifestations …

The Image Of Nature And Human In Elia Abu Madi Poetry: The Woman And Homeland As A Model, Mokhled Al-Aied, Abdelhaleem Al-Hrout

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study deals with the image of nature and the human relationship with it in light of the knowledge of the relationship with women and the homeland. The study seeks to analyze the relationship between nature and man, in which the poet's vision was manifested. The study highlighted, through its topics related to women and the homeland, the depth of the connection between the poet and nature. The study confirms the importance of nature in Abu Madi's poetry as an idea that expresses the intellectual and psychological dimensions with which his poems were mixed and expressed. The current study shows …

Aspects Of Cultural Life In The Pre-Islamic Era (Muallaga Antara Ibn Shaddad Model), ٍSamara Al-Athamat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research aims to study the pre-Islamic text – Muallaga Antara ibn shaddad – An analytical study that shows the cultural aspects of the pre- Islamic era.The research plan required the following details; Introduction, and included the Importance of the research, and the methodology used in the research. Likewise, the tow research requirements; The first requirement: The implications of culture in language and idiom, and the second requirement; The manifestation of cultural life in Muallaga Antara, The conclusion came with the most important finding of the research

Religious Discourse In The Poetry Of Contradictions (Naqa’Id) In The Light Of Sociolinguistics, Huda Alnattar

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the religious discourse and its impact on the language of the poets of contradictions, according to sociolinguistics, and how these poets were able to express their social and political issues according to the religious perspective, starting from their visions and views emanating from epistemological, ideological, religious and social references that help in the formation of their poetic inspiration and its glow, which is reflected in their poetry.As the speaker is the creator of linguistic performances, and the transmitter of what goes through his mind, he produces through these linguistic performances a spoken or written speech, received …

Mental Modeling Of Linguistics Of Narrative Discourse: A Theoretical Framing Of Language, Asmaa A’Leean, Laith Al-Rawajfeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Narration in its origin is a way of thinking that begins in the mind of the writer and then moves to the reader through language, and writing is an important topic of cognitive linguistics that deals with tracking mental aspects and mental processes in processing language and employing them creatively, in addition to examining the extent of the reader's ability to understand and decode language codes inside his brain Through the perceptual capabilities that humans enjoy without others.

This study came to provide a theoretical framework for the language of the novel, which is witnessing a remarkable development and rapid …

Topics Of Imaging In Al-Buhturi Poetry, Ali Al-Hauamdeh, Abdelhaleem Al-Hrout

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research dealt with the topics of Imaging in the poetry of al-Buhturi, three topics were chosen: women, nature and animals. There is a relationship between other arts, such as the plastic arts of drawing and sculpture, and the poetry written by Al-Buhturi, where poetic subjects appear in figurative mechanisms that seem like artistic paintings that derive their material from the letter and the word. This study seeks to reveal the manifestations of photography in the three poetic themes according to the descriptive analytical approach. The results of the study showed Al-Buhturi's ability to form images and produce them as …

Linguistic Techniques In Pilgrims: A Study Of The Poetic Movement In Jordan During The Emirate Period, Na’Emah Abuzreeg, Moustafa Al-Haiadreh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The poetic discourses for Emirate stage poets are considered as an intellectual heritage diary, Because they are one of the ancient literary and fluent texts that form,at most, reformatory approach and attempt for changing social, economic and politic life which is built on poetic texts that address the recipient for influential and convincing purposes. Also, these poetic discourses adopt linguistic verbs and rhetorical techniques that guide the recipient's brain, his soul and conscience in an argumentative guidance away from contradict and force.

This paper will give an intensed image for the most important linguistic verbs and rhetorical techniques found in …

Stylistic Applications In Arab Criticism (Stylistic Expressive Model), Rana Al-Marazeeq

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Arab criticism was distinguished by the emergence of a number of critics and writers who had an imprint through their literary works. It studies literary texts, analyzes the styles, and reveals their aesthetic values, by analyzing the linguistic and rhetorical phenomena of the text. Vststlpeh expression studies the emotional and aesthetic features.

This study deals with the topic of stylistic applications in modern Arab criticism, represented by expressive stylistics, by highlighting some important critical books of critics who have emerged with stylistic phenomena (repetition, selection, and displacement).

This is an applied stylistic study. To contribute to increasing awareness and showing …

Dimensions Of Transcendence In Quranic Discourse: Surat Al-Waqi`Ah As A Model, محمود الزهيري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper aims at discussing the dimensions of the transcendence discourse in Al-Waqi`ah Sura trying to explore its concept, which is a supreme discourse in which there is power and determination that transcends the addressee to the highest levels of eminence and supremacy in thought and truth by way of challenge and excitement. It is the one who addresses the recipient in all its dimensions, such as whether having a response, the answer, or the compatibility with it. It is different from controversy, as the controversy has the tone of argument and debate, while the transcendence does not allow the …

The Degree To Which Secondary School Students In Jordan Possess Digital Citizenship Skills, Dareen Abdelhadi, Youssef Arouri

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree to which secondary school students in Jordan possess digital citizenship skills and to identify the extent of statistically significant differences attributed to variables: gender, family monthly income, education system. The researcher used the descriptive survey analysis approach to conduct the study; the study tool (A test) was prepared consisting of (52) items and they were classified according to the nine elements of digital citizenship as follows: digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital laws, digital health and wellness, digital access, digital communications, digital security, digital commerce, digital rights and responsibilities. After verifying …

The Opinions Of Abu Obaida In The Book Entitled By (Interpreting The Surrounding Ocean) "Tafseer Al-Bahir Al-Moheet" And The Attitude Of Abu Hayyan Towards That, Abdullah Al-Thnaibat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed at addressing the grammatical opinions of Abu Obaida in the book entitled by "Tafseer Al-bahir Al-Moheet" as well as comparing them with the content of his book (metaphor in Quran) " Majaz Al-Quran" and demonstrating the attitude of Abu Hayyan towards that in his explanation in terms of displaying, analysis and criticism. The theoretical content of the research included information related to both Abu Obaida and Abu Hayyan in terms of culture, knowledge and classification as well as the methodology of each of them in illustrating the issues of syntax and language. The applied material included the …

The Effect Of Using Roundhouse Diagram Strategy In Achievement Of English Language For Tenth Grade Female Students' And Their Attitudes Toward It In Jordan, Siham Al-Mashaqbeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed to identify The Effect of Using Roundhouse Diagram Strategy in Teaching the English language for Tenth Grade Female Students' and their Attitudes Toward it in Jordan. The participants Students were (40) from tenth grade. Female Students' from Umm Al-ma'am Secondary School, and they were distributed in to tow division.

The study was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019, with (4) classes per week for each division. The study continued for (4) weeks, The semi-experimental method was used. The sample of the study was divided into two groups, one experimental and the other controlling …

The Reality Of The Application Of Modern Teaching Strategies In University Education At The University Of Amman From The Perspective Of The Members Of The Commission, Maha Khreisat, أسماء عبد المنعم العمري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The present study aimed to identify the reality of the application of modern teaching strategies in university education at the Amman Private University in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (100) faculty members at Amman Private University in the academic year (2018/2017).The results of the study showed that the reality of the implementation of strategies in university education at the University of Amman was high, and the results showed that there was no effect of the variables of experience and faculty in the in the degree of application of teaching strategies. In light of the results of the study, the …

Quotation And Inclusion In Andalusian Poetry In The Fifth Century Ah, Mohammad Al-Rgebat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the phenomena of quotation and inclusion in Andalusian poetry in the fifth century AH, as a form affected by the religious and literary heritage of poets, and the study seeks to reveal the effectiveness of both quotation and inclusion and their role in revealing the poet’s vision, the criterion of beauty and its use within the poetic text , And highlighting the poet's skill in incorporating quote and inclusion in his new text, Using the descriptive analytical method

The Level Of Occupational Stress Among Public School Teachers In Jordan, Khalid Al-Mahasnieh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The current study aimed to identify the level of occupational pressures that secondary school teachers are exposed to in Jerash Directorate of Education, and proposing some solutions to relieve such kind of pressures.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical method, both quantitative and qualitative, the study tool was a questionnaire contains (30) paragraphs, and an open question to suggest some possible solutions. The tool was applied to a sample of (274) secondary school teachers in Jerash Directorate of Education.

A set of suggestions were also presented, which it is hoped will work to …

Islamic Education Curriculum On Raising And Caring Of The Gifted In Corona Pandemic, Odeh Bani Ahmed

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study sheds light on the issue of Islamic education curriculum, in educating and caring of the gifted in the current era in Corona pandemic , and the methods and factors of Islamic education which affect in educating and caring of the gifted.

The research has concluded that Islamic education has taken a great interest in educating and caring for the talented in all ages and in current era in Corona pandemic, and has developed methods and factors affect the care of the gifted through Quranic verses, noble prophetic hadiths, and the sayings and actions of the Companions.

The Islamic …

Economic Law; A Comparison Between Islamic Sharia And The Jordanian Constitution "Presentation And Budget", Abdullah Al-Zyout, Fadi Aljbour

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the economic laws in the Jordanian constitution, namely the right of ownership and the right to work on one hand, and the balancing of these rights with Islamic law in order to determine the extent to which the Jordanian constitution approves Islamic law in this regard. The study concluded that most of the articles of the Jordanian constitution came in accordance with Shari'a, with some of the articles that contradicted the Sharia in some of their finer details. The study relied on the descriptive, analytical and comparative approach, and recommended that the articles that did not …

Steven Pinker’S Concept Of Violence: Between Nature And Culture, Malek Al-Tarawneh, Amer Shatara

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper shed a light on Harvard thinker and linguist Steven Pinker’s concept of violence. Although In recent years the problem of defining 'violence' has gained a growing number of interest among philosophers, politicians and sociologists, but they rarely define it.even though most of us believes that violence has intensified in recent years, Pinker argues that we are living in an unusually peaceful time. For him it is a matter of data and the way we looks at that data, as Pinker himself state, “If one bases one’s beliefs about the state of the world on what one reads in …

Interpreting The Verse Of Al-Hasher Of The Book Of Fateh Al-Rahman In Interpreting The Qur'an For Mohammad Ibn Qurqamas (882 H): A Study And Investigation, Asem Al-Qatawneh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

In this research I addressed investigating and detecting the verse of Al-Mujadaleh in the book of Fateh Al-Rahman in interpreting the qur'an for Mohammad ibn Abdullah Qurqumas.This study consists of an introduction, two sections, a conclusion as well as appendixes.The introduction included the importance of the subject, the reasons for choosing it, the research plan, and addition to the previous studies. The first section is the study section which included two chapters:

The first chapter addresses the author's biography in terms of his name, his lineage, nickname, birth, life and death, his teachers, his students, his approach, his doctrine, his …

A Descriptive Analytical Study Of Listening Skill In Arabic Textbooks For Speakers Of Other Languages: "The Book In Learning Arabic, And Arabic Between Your Hands" Is A Model, Shaden Al-Salman, عبد الكريم سليم الحداد

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study aimed at describing and analyzing the listening skills in two series of books that teach Arabic for other speakers, are (Al-Kitaab fii Ta’llum al-Arabiyya, Arabic between Your Hands), the study adopted the descriptive analytical approach using the content analysis method, and the analysis card has been prepared Contained (69) listening skills according to the guidelines of American council for teaching foreign languages (ACTFL) divided into five levels, which is: (27) skill novicee level, (14) intermediate-level skills, (12) advanced level skills, (11) skills for the superior level, and (4) skills for the distinguished level, the study showed a set …

The Accidental Effects Of The Error In The Formation Of The Void Contract In The Jordanian Civil Law, Nisreen Rashaideh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the effect of error in the formation of the contract as it is one of the accidental effects of the invalid contract within the framework of Jordanian civil law, Islamic jurisprudence and Egyptian civil law, in which it was found that the invalid contract does not mean nothingness, but rather that the invalid contract entails accidental effects in certain and exceptional cases as it is A material event and not a legal act, and it is possible to compensate the aggrieved party affected by the invalid contract, especially since the Jordanian legislator has not dealt with …