scholarly journals Nurturing Environmental Transformation and Scholastic Success in Northern Manitoba

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Jeffray Roy Stepaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
The North ◽  
Environmental Engagement ◽  
Environmental Transformation ◽  
Lesson Delivery ◽  
Scholastic Success ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Environmental Understanding

Effective non-traditional approaches to environmental lesson delivery and enrollee evaluation remain ephemeral in northern Manitoba as indicated by negative local attitudes towards imported and metropolitanized instruction (Martin, 2014; Mercredi, 2009). Current pandemic aside, and as increased attrition and abysmal failure rates have not changed in decades, there is relevance in exploring the experiential context and local implications of an inductive student model intended to improve remote environmental understanding and scholastic performance. To help prevent perpetuating a dis-order in which Indigenous expressions are neither recognized nor developed, learning experiences of University College of the North (UCN) students concerning regional freshwater availability and the calculation of stream flow were documented. Using componential analysis and participatory video as a mediating technology, allied empirical test scores and codified normative elements of self and environmental ‘awareness’ in traditional classrooms versus boreal settings were examined. Three exploratory factor axes explained more than 50% of the variance from an integrated but diverse set of 27 chosen variables. Titled axes declining in order of importance were Environmental Engagement, Scholastic Scoring and Non-Conventional Lesson Delivery. Seventy percent of unsolicited adult student responses suggest moralization and unique meta-ethical quale were undeniably and academically important. Empirical-‘ized’ findings advocate UCN must now ask which aspects of curriculum design, lesson delivery and enrollee assessment might result in greater scholastic success when nurturing personalized transformations in the milieu of ongoing threats to both freshwater sustainability and Cree safeguarding paradigms in northern Manitoba.

Turbulent Climate Discourses in Northern Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-42
Author(s):  
Flora Mary Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Environmental Engagement ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Crucial Part

I examine how tensions between locals, environmentalists, and State politicians in a small town in northern Sweden are reinforced through national discourses of climate change and sustainability. Turbulence emerges across different scales of responsibility and environmental engagement in Arjeplog as politicians are seen by local inhabitants to be engaging more with the global conversation than with the local experience of living in the north. Moreover, many people view the environmentalist discourses from the politicians in the south, whom they deem to be out of touch with rural life, as threatening to the local experience of nature. These discourses pose a threat to their reliance on petrol, essential for travel, and are experienced locally as a continuation of the south’s historical interference in the region. Based on thirteen months of field research, I argue that mistrust of the various messengers of climate change, including politicians and environmentalists, is a crucial part of the scepticism towards the climate change discourse and that we as researchers need to utilise the strengths of anthropology in examining the reception (or refusal) of climate change. The locals’ mistrust of environment discourses had implications for my positionality, as I was associated with these perceived ‘outsider’ sensibilities. While the anthropology of climate change often focusses on physical impacts and resilience, I argue that we need to pay due attention to the local turbulence surrounding the discourses of climate change, which exist alongside the physical phenomena.  

scholarly journals Engaging conceptual learning about threshold concepts with pots and pans

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvon Appleby ◽  
Alison Barton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Experiential Approach ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Further Education Colleges

This paper discusses a recent session delivered to teachers on a Masters’ (MEd) programme, with a strong emphasis on enhancing professional practice, at a university in the north west of England. The aim of the session was to develop an understanding of threshold concepts for curriculum design by using a novel and practical approach to engage the teachers who deliver higher education, across a variety of subject areas, in further education colleges. What initially felt to be an unexpected and strange learning environment for the teachers (using a hands-on experiential approach with pots and pans) enabled a detailed focus on subject pedagogy (Cousins, 2010) and awareness of metalearning about threshold concepts (Ward and Meyer, 2010). The session supported the teachers, as learners, to move from seeing threshold concepts simply as ‘troublesome knowledge’ (Meyer and Land, 2005; Land et al 2005) towards something that was transformative and that could usefully be integrated into their practice. The session, which presented threshold concepts as a threshold concept itself, challenged both our own and the teachers’ assumptions about curriculum design in subject teaching encouraging a greater understanding of how to embed threshold concepts within subject pedagogy and learning activities (Davies and Mangan, 2006).

The North Dakota Mental Health and Aging Education Project: Curriculum Design and Training Outcomes for a Train-the-Trainer Model

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Fitzgerald ◽  
Barbara Chromy ◽  
Candace A. Philbrick ◽  
Gregory F. Sanders ◽  
Kara L. Muske ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Training Outcomes ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
The North ◽  
And Training

scholarly journals Chinese Language in Saudi Arabia: Challenges and Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Hammad Alshammari
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Education System ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Learner Motivation ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
The North ◽  
Language Difficulty ◽  
Pedagogy And Curriculum

This study identifies potential challenges for learners, teachers, and curriculum designers regarding the recent inclusion of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in the Saudi education system, according to an in-depth review of previous research. This review focused on issues related to CFL learning, pedagogy, and curriculum. Factors were grouped into five categories: 1) CFL learning difficulty, 2) learner motivation and aptitude, 3) learner culture, 4) pedagogical effectiveness, and 5) curriculum design. To gain a deeper understanding, a sample of 25 foreign language learners and 15 curriculum designers was selected randomly from a university in the north of Saudi Arabia to complete a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were employed to highlight the most important issues. The data analysis revealed serious concerns among CFL learners, such as language difficulty, learner motivation and aptitude, and learner culture. CFL pedagogy could also pose a challenge. However, no concerns were found related to CFL curriculum. Implications and recommendations are offered to help incorporate CFL into the Saudi education system and encourage further research.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Concentration of Selected Chemical Components of Rainfalls in the Szczecin

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Piotr Daniszewski
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Chemical Components ◽  
Water Drainage ◽  
Water Vapour Content ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
The North ◽  
Environmental Transformation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Spring Frosts ◽  
The Town

The progress of civilization, as well as enhanced environmental transformation processes have a negative impact on individual elements of the environment. These processes remind us that the protection of the individual elements of the environment is the basis for further socio - economic development. In recent years the increasing pollution of the atmosphere causes more and more interest in the science of the substances contained in it and merge back to the surface of the Earth. Of great importance for the environment have the substances contained in the water drainage, as in the form of dissolved very easily reach the individual environmental elements causing their contamination. Research was carried out in the years 2008-2011 (January-December) in the town of Szczecin. In the tests was measured the amount of precipitation, chemical composition (NH4+, NO3-, PO43-- ions were numbered), pH and conductivity. Szczecin is situated in North-Western Poland, in the western part of the province. West at the Polish-German border. The town lies on the river Oder and the Lake Dabie, covering part of the inter-Odra. Szczecin is located on the city's Lower Oder Valley four geographical: Szczecin, Beech Hill, Elevation and Plain Goleniowska-they are part of port of Szczecin. The most affecting the North Atlantic polar-maritime air-masses with the high humidity, which affects the increase in cloud cover and in the summer the amount of precipitation; in winter involves a warming and a large cloudness. These weight most outstanding summer and autumn. The presence of this air is observed most commonly in winter and spring. Is it a little water vapour content. Much less likely to flood the air Arctic-weather very variable, it brings with it major changes in temperature and spring frosts. Least likely has the presence of air, which brings periods of rapid warming marshes, appearing sometimes in winter and occasionally in the summer.

scholarly journals Extended Pseudo Invariant Calibration Site-Based Trend-to-Trend Cross-Calibration of Optical Satellite Sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1545
Author(s):  
Prathana Khakurel ◽  
Larry Leigh ◽  
Morakot Kaewmanee ◽  
Cibele Teixeira Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Radiometric Calibration ◽  
The North ◽  
Landsat 7 ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Satellite Sensors ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sentinel 2A ◽  
Cross Calibration ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Short Time

Satellite sensors have been extremely useful and are in massive demand in the understanding of the Earth’s surface and monitoring of changes. For quantitative analysis and acquiring consistent measurements, absolute radiometric calibration is necessary. The most common vicarious approach of radiometric calibration is cross-calibration, which helps to tie all the sensors to a common radiometric scale for consistent measurement. One of the traditional methods of cross-calibration is performed using temporally and spectrally stable pseudo-invariant calibration sites (PICS). This technique is limited by adequate cloud-free acquisitions for cross-calibration which would require a longer time to study the differences in sensor measurements. To address the limitation of traditional PICS-based approaches and to increase the cross-calibration opportunity for quickly achieving high-quality results, the approach presented here is based on using extended pseudo invariant calibration sites (EPICS) over North Africa. With the EPICS-based approach, the area of extent of the cross-calibration site covers a large portion of the North African continent. With targets this large, many sensors should image some portion of EPICS nearlydaily, allowing for evaluation of performance with much greater frequency. By using these near-daily measurements, trends of the sensor’s performance are then used to evaluate sensor-to-sensor daily cross-calibration. With the use of the proposed methodology, the dataset for cross-calibration is increased by an order of magnitude compared to traditional approaches, resulting in the differences between any two sensors being detected within a much shorter time. Using this new trend in trend cross-calibration approaches, gains were evaluated for Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel 2A/B, with the results showing that the sensors are calibrated within 2.5% (within less than 8% uncertainty) or better for all sensor pairs, which is consistent with what the traditional PICS-based approach detects. The proposed cross-calibration technique is useful to cross-calibrate any two sensors without the requirement of any coincident or near-coincident scene pairs, while still achieving results similar to traditional approaches in a short time.

scholarly journals Empirical test of conditional CAPM using expected returns of Brazilian, Argentinean, German and United States of American portfolio

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Elmo Tambosi Filho ◽  
Fabio Gallo Garcia ◽  
Joshua Onome Imoniana
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Expected Returns ◽  
Conditional Capm ◽  
Financial Variables ◽  
The North ◽  
Long Run ◽  
North American Market ◽  
Capm Model ◽  
Financial Transactions

In the last decades, CAPM model has been of great interest in the scientific scene. Despite all the criticism, the improvement of the static CAPM, which has generated new dynamic models, provided investors with stronger guarantee through financial transactions. The CAPM and its static version were and are still very important in the financial scene. Nowadays, more sophisticated adaptations of the CAPM are found, which allow us to explain some matters in finance that had remained unqualified for a couple of time. Considering such discussion about the CAPM validity, this study aims to create a basis for reflection upon the conditional model, comparing it with the static one. In order to verify such facts, tests of conditional models are examined (with beta varying throughout the exercise), something uncommonly studied in the literature. Such tests are suitable to incorporate variances and covariance that change at long run. Methodological wise, the study tested the conditional CAPM model borrowing a leaf from Jagannathan and Wang (1996) using macroeconomics and financial variables from the Brazilian, German and Argentinean markets. Also, the approach compared such results with the American figures. Based on our findindings, there is evidence that the conditional CAPM of Jagannathan and Wang (1996) for the North American market is perfectly applicable to the Brazilian, Argentinean and German markets.

Evaluation of Environmental Transformation in Areas of Hydrocarbon Deposits in the North of Western Siberia

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Opekunova ◽  
A. Yu. Opekunov ◽  
S. Yu. Kukushkin ◽  
I. Yu. Arestova
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
The North ◽  
Environmental Transformation ◽  
Hydrocarbon Deposits
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