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An exploration of Islamic studies curriculum models in Muslim secondary schools in England
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Muslim schools and the teaching of citizenship
No full textThe links between Islam and the teaching of citizenship in Muslim schools, and in state
schools containing Muslim pupils have been explored using the perceptions of students and
teachers in a sample of such schools. The delivery of citizenship instruction in Muslim
schools, attitudes towards its teaching, and its connection with Islam has been the areas of
primary focus. A combination of interviews and questionnaires was used to gain information
from 332 pupils (199 in Muslim schools and 137 in state schools), 28 teachers (15 in Muslim
schools and 13 in state schools), 8 head teachers (5 in Muslim schools and 3 in state schools),
and 6 community and religious leaders. The teaching of citizenship in both Muslim and state
schools faces a number of challenges such as time provision, resources, staffing, training,
administration, and assessment. In Muslim schools the religious perspective is taught
alongside the National Curriculum for citizenship instruction. However, teaching the Muslim
perspective on citizenship involves certain difficulties in terms of curriculum development
and resources.
There is at present, therefore, a great need to revise and develop the citizenship curriculum in
both Muslim and state schools. It is apparent that a large part of the sample in both Muslim
and state schools, including pupils, teachers, as well as religious and community leaders
believe that teaching citizenship in schools is important to pupils’ education. Most of the
pupils in the sample believe that studying citizenship helps pupils become aware of their role
in society, and to become good citizens. Citizenship lessons seem to be enjoyable for the
majority of pupils, although these views may be based on sample selection and bias. Muslim
pupils appear to have a preference for instruction on citizenship to be given by a Muslim
teacher who reflects Islamic values. In Muslim schools pupils are subject to religious
influence in terms of prosocial behaviours and positive attitudes towards others, whatever
their ethnicity or faith. These schools appear to be rather successful in building their pupils’
value systems. Islamic Studies and lessons in the Quran are often used to support the teaching
of citizenship, and this too appears to be quite successful. Muslim schools are therefore
judged to have the potential for the development and evolution of a new form of Muslim
national identity within Britain through citizenship education, in useful and meaningful ways,
given the difficulties encountered in the delivery of citizenship education in schools of all
types according to the Ofsted (2006) review
The Degree to Which a Sample of Parents Practice Islamic Child-Rearing Methods in Modifying Stubborn Behavior in Their Children
No full textThis study aimed to reveal the extent to which a sample of parents were found to practice Islamic child-rearing methods to modify stubborn behavior in their children. In addition, it aims to demonstrate the extent to which there are statistically significant differences in the level of parents’ practice of Islamic child-rearing methods in modifying stubborn behavior in children based on the variables of social role, level of education, employment status, and the number of children. The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach using the field survey method as it was deemed well-fitted to the nature of the study and its objectives. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was constructed to collect data from parents. The sample consisted of 317 fathers and mothers, who were selected via the convenience method during the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022. The study revealed a set of important results. Most prominently, the extent to which parents practice Islamic parenting methods in modifying stubborn behavior in children was high, with the method of encouragement being most commonly used, and the method of exclusion (isolation) being the least used. The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (α = 0.05) based on the variables of social role, educational level, and employment status. There are significant differences between the arithmetic averages due to the variable of the number of children. The study recommended encouraging institutions concerned with the family in Jordanian society to focus their attention on conducting training courses for mothers and fathers, to help them learn and practice behavior modification strategies as found in Islamic teachings and to provide them with appropriate support materials for doing so
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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