An APPsolute Beginner's Guide for Action Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bauer ◽  
Martin Sankofi ◽  
Petra Szucsich ◽  
Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Learning Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Seamless Learning ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Teacher Researchers ◽  
Device Applications

Without any doubt, rapid digital technology advancement has a significant impact on the work of researchers in all scientific disciplines. Against this background, the major objective of this article is to give a brief overview of mobile device applications that enable continuous and seamless learning and work in all research phases. It is the intention of the authors to equip teacher-researchers with a practical user guide that encourages them to try out various applications for searching, collecting, annotating, analyzing, visualizing, interpreting as well as publishing information. Especially in the context of education, these complex processes may well be linked to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, focusing on the actions and learning behavior of the 21st century. Owing to the dynamic nature of the issue under review, this contribution will undoubtedly only offer a snapshot.

scholarly journals Development of Transferable Competencies in Academic Programs at King Saud University

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah Saad Al-Qahtani
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Random Method

ABSTRACT The study aims to identify the most important transferable competencies that academic programmes develop among students at King Saud University (KSU) and determine the most prominent methods of their development from their perspectives. It also intends to reveal differences that could be attributed to the variables of gender and academic discipline. A descriptive and analytical approach was used. 387 students from the scientific and humanitarian disciplines were chosen using the stratified random method. Results show that the most important transferable competencies that the academic programmes at KSU develop among their students are professionalism/ work ethics, teamwork/collaboration and digital technology. The most prominent methods of their development are project-based and problem-solving learning, immersion in the professional environment and active learning. No statistically significant differences are observed in the average responses of the participants attributed to the gender variable while there are significant differences ascribed to the academic discipline variable for scientific disciplines.

Assertion, Negotiation and Subjugation of Identity: Understanding the Tamil-Malayali Conflict in Munnar

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Shyam Hari P.
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Heterogeneous Societies ◽  
Insight Into

Social identities play a critical role in the various phases of conflict. Existing literature often examines the role of social identity of groups in inducing conflict in heterogeneous societies. This article puts forward the view that the role of identity is not limited in terms of inducing conflict, but it also plays a vital role in influencing the dynamics of conflict. Based on this conceptual framework, the article outlines the conflict dynamics observable in the Kannan Devan Hills village in Kerala, where several factors, over the course of time in the last century, have led to the perception of conflict between the Tamils and the Malayalis. As a major objective, the article identifies the issues and processes of social interaction between the two groups that necessarily influence the nature of the conflict. The article identifies that the conflict between the two communities, though mostly latent, can be seen through three important aspects: assertion, negotiation and subjugation of identities. Through assertion of identity, the conflict is perceived over ethnic lines, whereas the process of negotiation and subjugation of identity constantly undermines the ethnic nature of conflict to specific grievances, thus giving insight into the dynamic nature of the conflict.

scholarly journals Communal Challenges for Child Education in the Digital Era: A Perspective from Gender and Family Power Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-300
Author(s):  
Siti Syamsiyatun
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

The paper investigates how the digital technology’ advancement has affected our communal being and what could be done to address these challenges. In doing the research, I employ qualitative research to gather the data by documentation, observation, and interview technique with willing and selected informants. My study finds that excessive usage and inability to control the technology endanger human beings, make them submissive to the technology’ logic, and divide community. Community resilience can be achieved if every family units in the neighbourhood are strong and stable. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic enhances the widespread use of digital technology in many things, such as the learning process, economic transactions; it has changed the social structure. Despite bringing new opportunities, digital technology also presents significant challenges on issues such as gender relations in the family, patterns of parent-child relationships, and even on community health and cohesion. Digital technology might influence the shift of habitus. Still, parents and educational institutions also have the opportunities to contend the digital technological-based habitus and become the axis for the formation of a new habitus for people to navigate their lives guided by love, compassion, and respect.

scholarly journals Urban community: modern understanding and value for participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 15011
Author(s):  
Vera Orlova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Close Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

Since the 19th century - the period of the destruction of the traditional way of life, urbanization, mass migration, the formation of new directions and entire scientific disciplines - the city and society have become objects of close study of representatives of existing and newly emerging areas of science. "Community" is becoming one of the most popular concept of sociological language. Communities are considered in the context of urban development. The foundations of occurrence, modern understanding and significance for participants in urban communities are revealed. The object of the study is the global community of young people, acting in the city of Tomsk as an initiative of the World Economic Forum. The subject is the grounds for the formation and reasons for young people to enter the community. The subject is the grounds for the formation and reasons for young people to enter the community. The urban community is considered as a significant agent in complex processes (economic, political, social, cultural, etc.), in which today, without exception, all city residents are involved. Important facts highlighted for studying the phenomenon of urban communities.

scholarly journals Towards an Open and Accessible Sound and Audiovisual Archives

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita ◽  
Forbes Z. Chinyemba
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Proper Management ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Audiovisual Archives ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Improve Access

Sound and audiovisual archives are critical media for the storage and preservation of an institution or a country’s intellectual and cultural heritage. As the world moves towards the knowledge economy it becomes imperative for all countries to prioritise the proper management of sound and audiovisual archives as a way to preserve cultural capital for posterity. This paper will examine the strategies that are in place to facilitate easier access to sound and audiovisual archives. The writers will also explore the dynamic nature of users with diverse with regards to basic and digital literacy. It will also highlight the challenges that the country’s National Archives is encountering in the management of sound and audiovisual archives. It will highlight the factors that are impeding proper management of sound and audiovisual archives at the National Archives of Zimbabwe. It will examine the aspect of sustainability with regards to providing access to sound and audiovisual archives. The article will explore the prospects for migrating from traditional to online access. It will also explore the aspect of collaboration through Public and Private Sector Partnership to facilitate wider and easier access to sound and audio archives. The treatise will also explore the prospects for migrating towards digital technology. It will also come up with recommendations to improve access to sound and audiovisual archives in Zimbabwe.

Macrocognition Metrics: Meaningful Measures for Complex Processes

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-404
Author(s):  
Eduardo Salas ◽  
Stephen M. Fiore
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Engineering ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Increasingly we see business functions and military operations engaging systems that are interconnected and interdependent with an even greater degree of cognitive work distributed among people and machines. From this we will see an increased need to understand how individuals and teams in these environments are able to work together to plan, think, decide, solve problems, and take action as integrated units. This panel brings together leading researchers from the burgeoning field of macrocognition to discuss their research. In cognitive engineering and related scientific disciplines the term macrocognition has been contrasted with microcognition to illustrate differing types of cognitive processes. What complicates the issue is that these distinctions consider not only the realization of cognition in the real world but also a level of analysis. Panel members will discuss issues arising out of research to understand complex and collaborative activities in vivo and in situ and in the development of the appropriate metrics to measure dynamic cognitive processes in such environments.

scholarly journals Exploring another side of co-leadership: Negotiating professional identities through face-work in disagreements

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Schnurr ◽  
Angela Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Leadership Responsibilities ◽  
Leadership Identity ◽  
Complex Processes

AbstractTraditional perceptions that view leadership as a top-down process are increasingly challenged by so-called critical perspectives that acknowledge that leadership may involve several people. This article explores a particular type of these other leadership constellations, namely co-leadership where members share several leadership responsibilities.Drawing on more than twenty hours of authentic discourse data recorded in two workplaces in Hong Kong, we employ the analytical concepts of face and identity to identify and describe some of the complex processes through which co-leadership is enacted. Our particular focus is situations in which members of the co-leadership team disagree with each other.Our findings indicate that co-leadership is a dynamic process in which both members position themselves and each other as leader and co-leader at different moments throughout an interaction. This dynamic nature can be captured particularly well by exploring how face-work and identity construction are accomplished in interlocutors' everyday workplace talk. (Co-leadership, identity, face, workplace discourse, Hong Kong)*

scholarly journals Developmental Methods for Emotion Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica P. Lougheed
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Development ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Multiple Time Scales ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Developmental Studies ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Emotion Dynamics

Emotions and their development are complex processes. Emotions are dynamic; involve multiple biological, psychological, and social systems; and can be idiosyncratic. However, much of the research on emotional development has used methods that do not capture the dynamic nature of emotions; focus only on one biological, psychological, or social system; and/or do not account for individual differences. I provide an overview of current methods for developmental studies on emotion dynamics. First, I introduce methods for examining emotions as dynamic processes. Then, I extend this discussion to multiple burst designs that capture emotion dynamics at multiple time scales (Ram & Diehl, 2015). Throughout, I discuss approaches for both individual and interpersonal emotion dynamics that are applicable across the lifespan. I conclude with a discussion of future directions in the study of emotion dynamics and their development.

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