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Administering Secondary Level Learners’ Engagement in Online Education During COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: A Leadership Perspective
No full textSchool leadership played a pivotal role in secondary schools of Bangladesh to continue education without interruption during the COVID-19 crisis. The study aimed to identify the approaches, roles, challenges, strengths, and success measures of teachers as school leaders in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on secondary education. Data was collected through a mixed-methods approach, including questionnaire surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions (FGDs) with secondary-level teachers and students. The findings indicate that despite a strong willingness to adapt, factors such as low network connectivity, limited knowledge, and poor economic conditions hindered the implementation of online education (OE) in secondary schools. However, school leaders demonstrated various leadership qualities, including situational, emergent, assigned, laissez-faire, transformational, participative, and crisis leadership. This research contributes to the literature on school leadership during crises and offers insights into the specific challenges faced in the context of secondary education in Bangladesh. The findings can inform policymakers, educators, and school leaders in designing effective strategies to address similar crises and ensure the provision of quality education
Assessing the Possibilities and Speculations of Blended Teaching-Learning (BTL) Based on the Online Teaching-Learning (OTL) Experience during COVID-19 in Bangladesh
No full textThis research paper investigates the potential and viability of implementing Blended Teaching Learning (BTL) in Bangladesh, drawing on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 Online Teaching Learning (OTL) practice experiences. The study specifically focuses on examining the advantages and challenges encountered by teachers and students in online classes during the pandemic. Through a mixed-methods approach, including questionnaire surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions (FGDs), data was collected from secondary-level teachers and students in Bangladesh. The findings highlight the dedicated efforts made by educators and students in embracing and adapting to online education during the COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, the study identifies hindering factors, such as inadequate infrastructure, limited network availability in rural areas, lack of access to devices, insufficient training and skills, and socioeconomic disparities among guardians. Despite these challenges, the research underscores the willingness of teachers and students to embrace the BTL approach in the new normal educational landscape. Overall, this study provides insights into the potential for implementing BTL in secondary schools in Bangladesh, highlighting both the opportunities and obstacles that need to be addressed for its successful implementation
[Review of the book Expanding approaches to thematic analysis: Creative engagements with qualitative data by J. R. Wolgemuth, K. W. Guyotte, & S. A. Shelton (Eds.)]
No full textIn Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis, editors Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Kelly W. Guyotte, and Stephanie Anne Shelton introduce an expansive, paradigm-shifting book that reimagines thematic analysis beyond conventional coding methods. This edited volume begins with two presumptions: (1) there are multiple methods of theming data, and (2) qualitative researchers are not necessarily required to code to achieve themes. Through the convergence of various qualitative researchers and early-career scholars, this edited collection pushes thematic analysis into new epistemological territories. The 18 chapters of the book reveal new techniques, such as meditative theming, poetic analysis, and making art, underpinned by theoretical heterogeneity and dense methodological thought. The book starts with root chapters criticizing the limitations of coding-based techniques and moves toward focus on storytelling a wide scope of rival techniques such as annotation, diagramming, meditative analysis, poetry, and autoethnographic reflection. Several of the chapters end with Methodologies in Action brief narratives by graduate students and early researchers who tested these new methods in their own research. Drawing on diverse theory traditions feminist theory, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, mindfulness, and contemplative research the book shows that topics can be fashioned not only procedurally via coding but through the arts, through the body, through reflection, and through resonance. The outcome is a necessary contribution to the qualitative research conversation engaged with creativity, reflexivity, and data-researcher embedded. The review considers the book\u27s academic strengths, methodological concerns, and applicability for higher education scholars committed to reflexive and critical research
Effects of Social Media on the Interpersonal Relationship among the Married Couples: A Study on a Selected Neighborhood (or Wards) of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
Get PDFIt is clearly shown that at present social media plays a vital role in our daily life and the progression in the internet in current years have made new way available to education, health service, business, transportation etc. However, in recent years many sociologists, advocates, educators, psychologists and policy makers have expressed concerns regarding the existing negative impact of social media usage. Some studies have indicated that social media use may be led to negative interpersonal relationship, including infidelity, divorce, disrespect, detachment which often occurs suicide, increases loneliness. Other studies have found evidence for harm what have indicated that social media use may be not so beneficial for some individuals especially in married life. The research was conducted on the neighborhood of Dhaka city with regards to the effects of social media on the interpersonal relationships of married couples. The report identifies the rationale of the research by drawing from popular literature which claims that social media has detrimental effects on quality of marriage. Then relevant literature is reviewed including both national and international researches with regards to the findings regarding effects of social media usage and marriage quality. Usually the usage of Internet among couples was negatively associated with marital satisfaction and commitment of both partners. At the end of the paper, the author discusses the results, along with implications, limitations and recommended future research directions with regards to the acquired information
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Reasons behind the Drop out of Street Children from Non-formal Primary Education Program
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to find out the inner reasons of dropping out of street children from non-formal primary education program. With this study also we can have a figure of the lifestyle, needs and social conditions of street children. To have the findings of my study qualitative research method will be conducted. In accordance with the study objectives from the large areas only 1 authority member, 1 teacher, 5 admitted children and 5 dropped out children were selected as sample. I designed open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview to collect my data. The thematic analysis method was used for data analysis. I have a variation in findings because of using questionnaire for teacher and authority and interview for children. Moreover in commonly I can say the demographic conditions, lackings of parental care and guidance, lackings of Interest and awareness, lackings of facilities, lackings of economic support, effects of misguidances, lackings of proper relationship among program stuff with parents and childrens are major problems that disturbed the street children to continue their education. Considering the findings it can be recommended that increasing of education program or giving support with educational equipment is not enough to continue education in this marginal sector of society. It is more important to grow consciousness, make them understood the importance of education, giving them a link of better future through education and make a reliable environment between education program and parents-children. Keywords: Street Children, Non-formal Education Program, Drop ou
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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