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How did school administrators manage the crises during the COVID-19 outbreak?
No full textThe focus of this research was to investigate how school administrators in Turkey managed the crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, which was a deadly threat for humanity worldwide. The research questions guiding this study are: 1) Did schools have a crisis plan? 2) If yes, how was the plan implemented in a crisis situation?; 3) What kind of changes were made in the plans?; 4) What should administrators do in such crisis situations?; and 5) What was done in the COVID-19 outbreak? The research was conducted as a qualitative case study which involved 105 school administrators. Due to the pandemic conditions that hindered direct face-to-face interviews and interactions, data collection was carried out online via a Google drive form with open-ended questions. The findings demonstrated that there were two main headings as the basis for the research problems. The first was the existence of crisis planning by school administrators; the other was the status of implementation of these plans. Finally, how school administrators handled crisis management was pointed out
The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 01 : 05
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The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 05 : 04
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The Black Wanderer: Reading the Black Diaspora, Resistance, and Becoming in \u3ci\u3eThe History of Mary Prince\u3c/i\u3e in the Classroom
No full textThis paper examines The History of Mary Prince as a pedagogical tool for exploring complexities within the Black Diaspora. As Paul Gilroy’s articulations of the Black Atlantic inform my approach, Prince’s circuitous journey through the West Indies and England situates her process of becoming as one mired in longing and loss. Encouraging students to consider Prince as a wandering soul in search of not only freedom, but also solid familiar connections lays the foundation for merging her narrative with other enslaved Black people traversing countries and regions on ships against their will. Ample research material available on the survivors of the 1858 illegal ship enslaving Africans “Wanderer\u27\u27 offer an opportunity to consider the constructions of Black Atlantic identities in which formerly enslaved Black people forge connections with each other while longing for a return to Africa. Additionally, Tessa Mars’ and Yinka Shonibare’s art forms a bridge for conceptualizing Black diasporic identities. Because the Caribbean is often perceived as a perpetual space of fantasy and play, The History of Mary Prince also challenges misconceptions of slavery as an institution peculiar to the United States. Of her brutal slaveholder sending her to another island, Prince expresses competing emotions, “At length he put me on board the sloop, and to my great joy he sent me away to Turk’s Island. I was not permitted to see my mother or father, or poor sisters and brothers, to say goodbye, though going away to a strange land, and might never see them again.” Encouraging students to consider Prince as a wandering soul in search of not only freedom but also solid familiar connections lays the groundwork for merging Prince’s narrative with other enslaved Black people traversing countries and regions on ships against their will. Ample research material available on the survivors of the 1858 illegal ship enslaving Africans “Wanderer” serves as my teaching tool for considering the constructions of Black Atlantic identities in which formerly enslaved Black people forge connections with each other while longing for a return to Africa. One of these survivors, Cilucängy, expressed in a letter his desire to return to his homeland: “I am bound for my old home if God be with me.” My essay also draws on student reactions to Yinka Shonibare’s art piece entitled “Wanderer.” Shonibare’s artwork forms the bridge for conceptualizing the more complex definitions of the Black Atlantic, Black Diaspora, and transnational identities
The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 06 : 08
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Is That Route Really the Most Fuel-Efficient?
No full textMany travelers use Google Maps to select the route for their trip and the Google recommendation can have a significant impact on traffic congestion. Google recently added a new route option: the most fuel-efficient route. In theory, the algorithm behind this route selection (Route E) examines the current travel conditions on the available routes and estimates typical fuel consumption based on those conditions. This should include acceleration/deceleration events as these change of speed events significantly impact fuel consumption and are a critical aspect of selecting the most fuel-efficient route, especially when comparing freeway general purpose lanes (GPLs) to Express Lanes/Managed Lanes (MLs). Initial testing of the Google Maps algorithm indicates it may not account for these speed changes.
This study examines if the new route guidance from Google Maps is accurately identifying the most fuel-efficient routes and tests the RouteE API models. Researchers examined typical travel conditions on GPLs and MLs on two Dallas freeways with MLs. Several vehicles equipped with on-board diagnostic (OBD) data loggers recorded key aspects of the vehicle operations while driving in real-world traffic conditions. These vehicles were driven on the Dallas freeways (both GPLs and MLs) during various traffic conditions, which allowed for detailed fuel consumption to be estimated based on the OBD data collected. The data collected from OBD devices were then compared with RouteE and MOVES for their accuracy on the fuel usage estimation.
RouteE and MOVES were both found to miss the actual fuel consumption by a significant amount and do not appear to accurately incorporate speed changes of vehicles in real-world situations. Thus, it was not surprising that Google would usually identify the GPLs as the most fuel- efficient route when comparing GPLs and MLs. Using the real-world fuel consumption data along with detailed speed profiles, researchers developed equations that could be used to estimate fuel consumption based on microscopic traffic data on vehicle speeds. Unlike Google, our real-world based fuel consumption equations, along with detailed Wejo traffic data, found the MLs to be more likely to be the most fuel- efficient, but this varied based on the exact traffic conditions. This was based on a small set of fuel consumption data and can only be used as proof of concept. It does show the importance of including speed changes in the analysis. There needs to be considerably more data collected in real-world conditions to further refine these models of fuel consumption and possibly incorporate these models into route recommendation algorithms. This research shows that this proof of concept model can prove helpful in estimating route-specific emissions when combined with either high-resolution data like that from Wejo or lower-resolution data like that from Google to provide a more accurate estimate of which route really is more fuel-efficient
The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 06 : 23
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Why China Cares about Canada’s Indigenous Residential Schools: from Whataboutism to Internal Denial
No full textThis article examines how the Chinese government and its propaganda departments use genocide-related discourses to fulfil different political purposes at home and abroad. By criticizing Western colonialist regimes’ assimilation policies, especially Canada’s Indigenous residential schools, the Chinese diplomats apply the rhetoric of whataboutism to dodge the international community’s questions about China’s systematic persecution of Uyghur Muslims. Domestically, China’s state media intensively cover Canada’s residential school system and the colonial genocide against Indigenous people, trying to distract the audience from the state atrocities in Xinjiang and mislead the public to distrust Canada and other countries’ motives for accusing China of committing genocide. This media campaign is an example of the Chinese government’s “yu lun dao xiang” (public opinion orientation) propaganda. It deploys a mirroring strategy that makes use of the agendas related to the genocides in other countries to cover up a genocide that is happening at home; it turns the residential school survivors’ trauma into a tool to defend a genocidal system that likewise takes the form of education. This strategy poses a new challenge to the diplomatic and academic work that aims to prevent genocide
GNSI Newsletter - July 5, 2023 // Issue 4
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