Month: May 2021
Art and Self-expression on Social Media: The Recreation of the Historical Value During the Pandemic State in 2020
In this paper I discuss from an ethical and aesthetical perspective how a specific account on Instagram has changed the relationship between people and famous paintings. The Instagram account Tussen Kunsten Quarantaine has become a collaborative space with thousands of people across the world sharing pictures, including personal recreations of masterpieces of art. The account …
Website Advertisement: Examining the Effect of Interactivity and Curiosity on Consumers’ Cognitive Absorption and Knowledge Acquisition
One of the goals of effective advertising is to ensure not only attracting the target consumers’ attention, but also engenders their interest and informs the consumer in terms of product benefits and positioning (Aaker, Batra, & Myeers, 1992). Interactivity influences users’ mental mapping of the information shown on the website (Xu & Sundar, 2016). One …
A Qualitative Case Study on Nepalese EFL Teachers’ Perception of Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction (DI) is a pedagogical premise that provides benefits, such as meeting diverse learner needs, accommodating students with varying learning abilities (De Jesus, 2012). DI is not just for special education; it addresses every student’s needs without turning classrooms into cram schools or private tutoring lessons. Therefore, in light of recent progress in Nepal’s …
Investigating the Impact of Acquiring Collocation and Lexical Bundles on Improving Language Proficiency of First Year College Students
This presentation introduces the outcome of a study that investigated the impact of teaching collocation & lexical bundles on increasing the vocabulary size of EFL learners. The presenter will give a detailed account of the research methodology, theoretical framework, and the research methods that were implemented in the study. Many studies investigated the relationship between …
Disease Selects its Victims: Inequality in Falling Ill to Infectious Disease in Bleak House
Though unnamed, the infectious disease in Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53) is definitely smallpox. The fever, delirium, blindness, and scars that Esther suffers from are the main symptoms of smallpox, and she easily identifies her disease. The process of Esther’s contraction of smallpox reflects both facts and falsehoods about the medical environment at the time Dickens …
The Impacts of the Anti-COVID Measures Introduced in the Czech Republic and Spain in the Context of Preschool Education
The text presents a part of a broader research study carried out at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc in cooperation with foreign partners. Its aim is to analyse and compare the impacts of the measures against the spread of COVID-19 on preschool education in selected European countries. This paper focuses on an initial …
A Comparative Study of Motivations in the Learning of East Asian Languages
Understanding learner motivations for studying a foreign language has long been recognized as an important factor in providing effective language instruction. In recent years, foreign language education has been devalued in higher education in the U.S., resulting in the removal of foreign language requirements or reduction of course offerings. In this context, understanding learner motivations …
Exploring Blockchain Technology and its Usefulness in Education
Blockchain Technology has been known to most People pertaining to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Blockchain has been now around for about a decade but other than in cryptocurrency it has not been very successful. It has been applied to many areas of Business-like finance, judiciary, education, Health care, Logistics, and commerce however with limited success. …
Developing High School Students’ STEM Competencies Through a Sports-based Educational Program
Sports is one of the significant drivers capable of fostering cognitive and scholastic skills in the young generation. Its’ potential to integrate within diverse scientific and engineering disciplines makes it an ideal motivational tool to attract high school students towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculties at universities and careers. Amid gradual educational reformations …
Learning through Teaching: Reciprocal Peer Teaching in Language Education
This study discusses pedagogical effectiveness of reciprocal peer teaching in language education by putting students at the centre of the teaching and learning process. Undergraduate students learning Korean as a foreign language at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) took part in reciprocal same-year tutoring in the format of rotating teaching sessions by individual …
Differences as a Source of Creativity: Friendship Between Wang Hui and Yun Shouping
The biography of Wang Hui (1632-1717), a famous seventeenth-century landscapist in China, has been written many times over. While the question of whether to define him as a professional artist or as a scholar-amateur is still being debated, it has not been fully articulated what the sophistication of his identity brought to his work as …
Ethno-cinematographic Rhizomes: Examples From the Independent Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Anocha Suwichakornpong
We propose a conceptual framework of filmic analysis, the “ethno-cinematographic rhizome”, as a parallel and convergent vehicle of audiovisual artistic creation and para-ethnographic observation of non-Western societies in today’s global era. It is based on the concept of “rhizome” by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, an “image of thought” that understands knowledge in a non-hierarchical …
No City for Fatal Women: Gender, Power, and Noir Convention in Marvel’s Jessica Jones
This paper aims to analyze both the employment and subversion of traditional noir convention in the web television series Jessica Jones, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. While the series is more a crime drama than a superhero story and features numerous elements that mark it as a work of neo-noir, …
Levelling the Playing Field: A Case Study on the Benefits of Integrating Student Feedback Through Fluid Course Development
A challenge in teaching and course planning is striking the balance between the skills and knowledge students need to learn and the timeliness of the information available to explore and learn from. In visual arts, students who are hoping to pursue professional practice need legal knowledge, communication skills, and technical skills alongside reflective thinking and …
A Critical Review of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development Goals, UNCRC and Child-Friendly Schools
Global warming and other acts of environmental destruction have significant consequences for both the social and economic sectors. The protection of the environment and the promotion of green consumption by governments have increased more recently. Environmental education builds awareness, creates the skills and knowledge essential to communicate complex environmental problems, teaches students how their choices …
Culture and Human Resource Management: Understanding Communication in the Ages of Globalization
This paper will examine the international management of culture and human resources communication. The various movements of human resources and competencies have implicated the phenomena of culture exchange worldwide. Intercultural conflicts, intercultural competencies, and intercultural management are topics humans did not face decades ago. Researchers worked on these differences and how we can accept and …
Do You Trust Me? A Systematic Literature Review on Student-teacher Trust Relationships and School Identification
Trust between a student and a teacher and school identification are described in scientific research as focal points of learning, personal development and satisfaction, and a basis for a positive school culture that can impact the whole community. Yet, both constructs are still challenging scientists as to their components, incidence and links. Additionally, empirical studies …
Synoptic and Authentic Assessments: Moving Away From Traditional Assessments to Integrate the Development of Transferable Skills
Using traditional forms of assessment (e.g. exams and essays) does not fit with a programme that aims to have a broader and richer approach to the subject as well as the development of transferable skills that will upskill students and prepare them for the graduate world. In additions, assessment is not to be used as …
Feedback: What It Is and How to Use It Effectively in a Digital World
The COVID-19 pandemic presented us the challenge of simultaneously moving towards hybrid and blended teaching provision, and designing assessments that, whilst still meeting the learning outcomes, were appropriate for the new learning environment. This allowed us to speed up the process of completely rethinking the purpose and format of assessments as well as the most …