scholarly journals Albanian Literature in Its Critical Evaluation Process. Case Study: Periodicals

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-358
Author(s):  
Marisa Kërbizi ◽  
Edlira Macaj
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Interpretative Approach

The aim of this article is to analyze the process of evaluation of Albanian literature in literary periodicals (print or online). The research aims to explain the nature of criticism of Albanian literature in accordance with three main periods of Albanian literary history (1920–1944; 1945–1990; 1991–present). The paper has a short chronological presentation of the main periodicals which deal with literature. It also deals with the reception of Albanian literature in old and new periodicals. Some of the most important research questions of this paper are: Is there a continuation in the critical approaches to Albanian literature from the beginning to the present? Do critics have a ‘critical’ interaction between them while they express their evaluation regarding literature? Who are the critics? Which is the core role of certain critics and periodicals? The methodology used in this paper embraces a historical, analytical, statistical and interpretative approach. The paper will be developed in two parallel sections. The first one will elaborate quantitatively official data related to the number of periodicals which deal with the evaluation of literature in its theoretical and critical aspects and the other section will describe, analyze and interpret the data. The research results tend to prove that the process of critical evaluation of Albanian literature has experienced similar characteristics with Albanian literature itself. The critical reflection or criticism has turned out to be a refracting process. The critical evaluations are marred occasionally by low levels of professionalism or political interference.

Modeling the Evaluation Process in a Public Controversy

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Emanuel Dionne ◽  
Chantale Mailhot ◽  
Ann Langley
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Orders Of Worth ◽  
Major Increase ◽  
Over Time

Public controversies have attracted increasing attention in the organization studies literature. They emerge when critical issues are not defined and understood in the same way by different stakeholders, influencing the way they evaluate the worth of other actors, objects, and situations. In this paper, we show how the “orders of worth” perspective of Boltanski and Thévenot may throw light on the evolution of an evaluation process occurring during a public controversy. In particular, we study the Quebec student conflict of 2011 and 2012 that followed a proposed major increase in higher education tuition fees. We conducted an in-depth case study based on media coverage of the actions and discourses of the major actors to examine how objects and actions associated with a controversy are successively defined, redefined, and evaluated over time through a series of tests of worth. Our article contributes to the organizational literature on public controversies by drawing attention to the role of six types of evaluative moves in situations of controversy, and by offering an abductively developed model for understanding the evaluation process as it evolves over time. We suggest that actors, through these evaluative moves, may displace the object of a test, and therefore the foci for evaluation, through actions intended to bolster their positions.

A research template to evaluate the degree of accountability of integrated reporting: a case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Silvestri ◽  
Stefania Veltri ◽  
Andrea Venturelli ◽  
Saverio Petruzzelli
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Interpretative Approach

Purpose The scope of the study is to analyze an Italian family firm operating in the transformation and marketing of durum wheat to investigate the degree of accountability of the integrated reporting (IR) disclosed by the organization. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a case study approach proposing a specific research template to evaluate the implementation of IR depicting the role of three main dimensions: stakeholder involvement, business model and integration. Findings The paper enriches theoretical conceptualization of the implementation of IR proposing a new conceptual model that adds empirical findings to the literature on IR and at the same time addresses the call for studies of Dumay et al. (2016) to engage more with practice and development on IR. Research limitations/implications The use of a specific research framework constitutes both the main strength of the paper and also its main limit, as the dimensions of the framework have been chosen by the authors, and the observations and conclusions are based on the authors’ analysis under an interpretative approach. Practical implications The implementation of the same research framework to other organizational IR documents could allow comparisons to be expressed on the quality of the IR disclosed by different organizations and on the same organization in different periods of time. Originality/value The main originality of this paper is the creation and the employment of a specific template to analyze the degree of accountability of the case study selected representing a non-listed Italian company operating in the food industry.

A project for Romania? The role of the civil society’s counter-accounts in facilitating democratic change in society

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Mihaela Apostol
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Interpretative Approach

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look more closely, in the context of a given case study, at the role of civil society’s counter-accounts in facilitating democratic change in society, as an essential goal of an emancipatory and radical social accounting project. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of a Canadian company’s plans to open a gold mine in western Romania is here analysed. Civil society’s opposition to the mining project gave rise to an unprecedented social movement contesting the project’s utility for Romanian society. The role played by counter-accounts produced by civil society groups is investigated. Findings – Counter-accounts produced by civil society played multiple roles in the case study analysed. First, counter-accounts indicated the failure of corporate reports to present the gold mining project in a balanced manner. Second, counter-accounts were successful in problematizing the corporate approach to addressing the social, cultural and environmental impacts of the project, while also nurturing societal debate on these issues. Third, counter-accounts exposed the ideological inclinations of state institutions to favour economic interests over the social, cultural and environmental ones. As a result of these contributions, even if the counter-accounts were subjective, this study claims that they form a good basis for the development of emancipatory accounting. Research limitations/implications – Limitations associated with an interpretative approach and case study research apply. Originality/value – The paper illustrates the potential of civil society’s counter accounts to enable societal debates, as means towards democratic, transformative change.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENYELESAIAN TINDAK LANJUT HASIL PEMERIKSAAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Lusiana Lusiana ◽  
Ali Djamhuri ◽  
Yeney Widya Prihatiningtias
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Management Function ◽  
Analysis Instrument ◽  
Audit Management ◽  
Management Functions

Abstrak: Analisis Penyelesaian Tindak Lanjut Hasil Pemeriksaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan proses penyelesaian Tindak Lanjut Hasil Pemeriksaan di Pemerintah Kabupaten Sanggau melalui pelaksanaan fungsi-fungsi manajemen (perencanaan, penggorganisasian, pengarahan, dan pengendalian) sebagai alat analisisnya, dan mengidentifikasi permasalahan yang menyebabkan belum optimalnya penyelesaian TLHP. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan model studi kasus dan difokuskan pada Organisasi Perangkat Daerah (OPD) yang masih memiliki temuan yang belum tuntas. Informan yang dipilih, yaitu pimpinan OPD, salah satu pejabat teknis yang menangani TLHP dan salah satu pejabat Inspektorat daerah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat kelemahan dalam proses penyelesaian TLHP yang menyebabkan penyelesaian TLHP belum optimal, yaitu belum tersedianya kebijakan khusus tentang TLHP; lambatnya respon pihak lain dalam proses koordinasi dan belum intensifnya koordinasi antara OPD dan lembaga pengawasan; pimpinan belum mampu memberikan motivasi; kurangnya komitmen pimpinan; kesulitan dalam melakukan proses evaluasi dan tidak dilaksanakan evaluasi secara berkala; belum optimalnya peran Majelis Pertimbangan TPTGR; dan kendala-kendala teknis yang dihadapi oleh OPD. Kata Kunci: TLHP, Fungsi Manajemen, Perencanaan, Pengorganisasian, Pengarahan, Pengendalian. Abstract: Analysis of Follow up Audit. This study aimed to explain the process of follow up audit in Sanggau local government by using management functions (planning, organizing, directing, and controlling) as the analysis instrument and identify problems that caused follow up audit was not optimal. This study used a qualitative approach with case study model and focused on OPD that still have unfinished findings. The selected informant is the Head of OPD; a technical official handling follows up audit and an Inspectorate official. The results of the study showed that there were some weaknesses in the process of follow up audit. For example, there was no specific policy about follow up audit, the slow responses of other parties in the process of coordination and the coordination between OPD and monitoring institution was not intensive; the leader was not able to give motivation, the low commitment of the leader, Difficulties in the evaluation process and the evaluation was not periodically, the role of TPTGR Assembly Consideration was not optimal, and the technical obstacles that was faced by OPD. Keyword: follow up audit, management function, planning, organizing, directing, controlling.

scholarly journals The Case of Lady Anne Clifford; or, Did Women Have a Mixed Monarchy?

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1682-1689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Modern Period

I became a feminist critic of the renaissance in 1989, when a professor, in answer to my question about why there were no women on the syllabus, replied that there were no women writers in the seventeenth century. This comment took me to the library, where I discovered what he should have known but did not have to: not only were there women writers in the period, but feminist literary critics were retrieving them from the archives and rewriting literary history in the light of their contributions. One of these women writers was Lady Anne Clifford (1590–1676), the author of a singularly massive amount of genealogical, historical, and personal writings and a subject of interest, long before the 1980s, for Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. In 1985, the Marxist feminist critic Katharine Hodgkin wrote an essay about Clifford's conflicted status as a woman (victim of patriarchy) and as a landlord (oppressor). Clifford has received different treatment in recent years, considered primarily as a diarist (with the attendant and often ahistorical assumptions the genre solicits [see Kunin]) and as a heroic resister of patriarchal forces. My goal here is to use Clifford as a case study for the role of feminist criticism today, not only because she has raised such complex issues for feminist critics of the Renaissance and early modern period but also because the issues her life and work raise about kinship and the household, property and political agency, and the intersectionality of determining forces of identity and power are of continuing relevance to feminist methodologies and politics. I am particularly concerned with feminist claims that have become axiomatic—for the early modern period as well as others—both at the level of historical progression (the march toward modernity) and in more synchronic analyses of social and cultural practices and relationships (including our assumptions that we know what patriarchy, kinship, and household mean). By unsettling these axioms and reconsidering the stories Clifford tells, I hope to illustrate the truth that feminist criticism is by its nature a reconsideration, a form of doing rather than being.

Effects Of The Video Case Study in Preparing Paramedic Preceptors For The Role Of Evaluator

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Janing ◽  
Wesley Sime
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
Measure Evaluation ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Case Based

AbstractIntroduction:Accurate field evaluations are critical in determining paramedic students' competency to provide patient care. The [U.S.] National Paramedic Curriculum does not address the skills needed by evaluators, and requirements to be a preceptor/evaluator vary from state to state. Therefore, it is imperative that educational programs develop an evaluation process that reflects valid performance criteria and assure a high degree of rating consistency among the evaluators. This study sought to determine the effects of using a video case based teaching approach in preparing paramedic preceptors for the role of evaluator.Hypothesis:Paramedic preceptors receiving the case-based teaching approach to prepare them for the role of evaluator would demonstrate significantly higher scores on a video posttest than paramedic preceptors who were not prepared for the role of evaluator using the case-based approach.Methods:Thirty-four paramedic preceptors from a Midwestern fire-based Emergency Medical Services system were enrolled in this study. Two scripted video student/patient encounters were used to measure evaluation scores in a pretest-posttest comparison of control versus experimental group. The experimental group was given structured rating guidelines and practice applying those guidelines to a case study. Pretest and posttest scores were weighted and analyzed using Analysis of Variance.Results:Analysis of the pretest–posttest differences revealed significantly higher scores for the experimental group in the categories containing complex behaviors: communication F(1,16) = 13.21, p <.01, assessment F (1,16) = 8.81, p <.01, and knowledge F (1,16) = 29.64, p <.001. There was no significant difference between groups in the categories containing simple, easily observed behaviors: reliability F (1,16) = .55, p >.05 and cooperativeness F (1,16) = 3.02, p >.05.Conclusions:Using the case study method and written guidelines that provide concrete examples of complex behaviors appears to increase reliability of evaluations among preceptors.

scholarly journals The Role of Technology in Promoting Physical Activity: A Case-Study of parkrun

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Steve Haake ◽  
Helen Quirk ◽  
Alice Bullas
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Saturday Morning ◽  
Behaviour Change Interventions ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Physically Inactive

Around a third of people worldwide are physically inactive, causing 3.2 million deaths each year. People often use wearables and smartphone trackers to motivate them to be active, but there is evidence to show that use of these trackers declines quickly, often within weeks. One intervention that appears to successfully motivate people to be active is parkrun, a free, weekly timed 5 km run or walk every Saturday morning. The system used by parkrun is surprisingly low-tech: it uses printable barcodes, stopwatches and scanners, and the internet. A survey of 60,694 parkrun participants showed that levels of self-reported physical activity increased following participation in parkrun, especially for those with previously low levels of activity. Nine out of ten reported feeling a sense of personal achievement and improvements to fitness and physical health since starting parkrun. Based on a taxonomy of behaviour change interventions, the technology used by parkrun was shown to incorporate at least seven techniques that inform and encourage parkrunners. It is concluded that physical activity technologies should not be central to an intervention, rather, they should enhance interventions where behaviour change takes precedence.

The Critical Role of Technological Analysis for Prehistoric Anthropological Inference

1990 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary O. Rollefson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Lime Plaster ◽  
Hearsay Evidence

AbstractPrehistoric archaeology has profited enormously from the expanding role of technological examination of artifactual materials, particularly in the past couple of decades. Indeed, the rapid growth of materials sciences studies has evidently begun to outpace the capacity of many prejistoric archaeologists to accomodate the results of technological analyses into anthropological models to explain perceived changes in the prehistoric archaeological record. The sheer numbers of published technological reports, which increasingly appear in a growing number of specialized journals and other publications, account for some of the communications lag among prehistorians and smaterials scientists. But long-held and persistent myths and “hearsay” evidence also contribute to a widening gap between relevant data and critical evaluation.The case study presented below compares scenarios that purport to explain striking contrasts in the northern and southern parts of the Levant during the middle part of the Neolithic period, particularly from ca. 6,500-5,000 b.c. One hypothesis (climatic change) is briefly dismissed; the other hinges principally on the environmental implications of plaster production that characterized the cultures of the region. The “collapse” of the southern Levantine settlements is understandable when the specific requirements of lime plaster manufacture are taken into account, while the conditions for the persistence of long-term site continuity in the northern Levant are clear under the less pressing environmental demands of gypsum plaster production.

Electron Microscopy of Metal-Matrix Composites

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 404-405
Author(s):  
A. Lawley ◽  
M. R. Pinnel ◽  
A. Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Metal Matrix Composites ◽  
Metal Matrix ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Elastic Behavior ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Directionally Solidified ◽  
Fracture Characteristics ◽  
Broad Program

As part of a broad program on composite materials, the role of the interface on the micromechanics of deformation of metal-matrix composites is being studied. The approach is to correlate elastic behavior, micro and macroyielding, flow, and fracture behavior with associated structural detail (dislocation substructure, fracture characteristics) and stress-state. This provides an understanding of the mode of deformation from an atomistic viewpoint; a critical evaluation can then be made of existing models of composite behavior based on continuum mechanics. This paper covers the electron microscopy (transmission, fractography, scanning microscopy) of two distinct forms of composite material: conventional fiber-reinforced (aluminum-stainless steel) and directionally solidified eutectic alloys (aluminum-copper). In the former, the interface is in the form of a compound and/or solid solution whereas in directionally solidified alloys, the interface consists of a precise crystallographic boundary between the two constituents of the eutectic.

Social Motives Predict Loneliness During a Developmental Transition

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Nikitin ◽  
Alexandra M. Freund
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Developmental Transitions ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Low Levels

Abstract. Establishing new social relationships is important for mastering developmental transitions in young adulthood. In a 2-year longitudinal study with four measurement occasions (T1: n = 245, T2: n = 96, T3: n = 103, T4: n = 85), we investigated the role of social motives in college students’ mastery of the transition of moving out of the parental home, using loneliness as an indicator of poor adjustment to the transition. Students with strong social approach motivation reported stable and low levels of loneliness. In contrast, students with strong social avoidance motivation reported high levels of loneliness. However, this effect dissipated relatively quickly as most of the young adults adapted to the transition over a period of several weeks. The present study also provides evidence for an interaction between social approach and social avoidance motives: Social approach motives buffered the negative effect on social well-being of social avoidance motives. These results illustrate the importance of social approach and social avoidance motives and their interplay during developmental transitions.

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