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Identifying Minahasa and Manado Society's Environmental Awareness with Cooper's Ecological Concept
Get PDFAbstract : The objective of this writing is to expose the contextual implication of Ruckert's Ecocriticism in Figuring out The environmental awareness of Minahasanese and Manadonese in The Context of Cooper's Ecological Concept In The Leatherstocking Tales. This is an ethnografical study applying William Ruckert’s theory of literature that promotes a significant power in attaining the society’s sustainable life. Ruckert sees the power hidden in every works of literature. The argumentation is derived from ecological theory that regards all things in the universe interrelated. A work of literature according to him hides a power that is essential to help realizing the sustainable life, to help the world when the work is understood well. It is the responsible of the literaturists to figure out the messages, the voice in it, and the real power to be contributed to the society. Ruckert conseiders that the society where the idea in a work of literature comes is interrelated to writer, to work, to critics, to teachers and to researchers. It is from this concept, the research comes to be applied in formulating the society’s environmental awareness, understanding James Fenimore Cooper’s ecological concept in The Leatherstocking Tales as a hyrarchy of love, respect, wisdom and justice. the intellectual documents hidden in works of literature applied to reveal the society of Manado and Minahasa’s environmental awareness. The application of Ruckert’s theory in investigating the power as in The Leathestocking Tales explains that Minahasa and Manado society are not aware yet about the importance of maintaining their environment for a sustainable life as mentioned by Cooper. The society’s attitude and behaviour to their environment understood from their everyday life haven’t met yet with the perception about life requirement that they have. This is told by the way they give priority, their spirit and their motivation in doing what they know. Mostly they know much the requirements of a healty environment but they have no motivation in doing of what they know moreover they did not want to know about what is happening in their surrounding viewing from their knowledge about recent global environment
Exploring the Effectiveness of Songs for Learning Improvement: A Case of Elementary Level Students’ English Skills
Get PDFThis research study explores the effectiveness of incorporating songs into the English language learning curriculum for elementary-level students, focusing on their impact on various language skills. In an educational landscape that increasingly emphasizes creative and engaging approaches, this investigation delves into the potential benefits of integrating songs into traditional language instruction. This study was a descriptive qualitative study, while the data is collected through classroom observations and literature studies in order to provide a comprehensive view of the multifaceted effects of using songs as a pedagogical tool. The findings highlight the positive influence of songs on vocabulary acquisition, pronunciation refinement, and listening comprehension development. Additionally, songs contribute to a richer cultural context for language learning, fostering greater cultural awareness among elementary students. Importantly, the research underscores the motivational power of songs, which enhances student engagement and willingness to participate actively in English language activities. This research concludes that integrating songs into the curriculum is a promising strategy for enhancing English language skills at the elementary level. It advocates for a thoughtful and strategic approach to song selection and pedagogical methods while recognizing the need for continued exploration and research to refine the implementation of songs in language education. Ultimately, this study underscores the value of creative and engaging learning methods in nurturing well-rounded language skills among young learners
CONNECTING THE VANISHING FLORA, FAUNA AND ITS RELATION TO THE INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY AS SEEN IN COOPERS THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES
Get PDFThis study aims at connecting the vanishing flora, fauna and its Relation to the Indian removal policy in Coopers The Leatherstocking Tales. This research applies an American Studies interdisciplinary principle supplemented by the myth and symbol theory proposed by Henry Nash Smith. Smith claimed the importance of imaginative works in revealing American culture. He declared that the historical, anthropological and cultural, sociological, and ecological data as covered in this research can be equipped by data from imaginative works. Hence, in this research, those data are presented integratedly in their context of past and present. In this research, in order to highlight environmental matters in Coopers The Leatherstocking Tales, the analysis covers the data above that are integrated with the data revealed in The Leatherstocking Tales as a whole by employing the concept of ecocriticism. The spirit of the immigrants to have a better life in the new world, stimulated by its rich, lush and beautiful circumstances, in fact, is not an aim of a sustainable life. The desire to improve their life is not enough without using and treating its environment wisely as well as facing it with the environmental conservation paradigm. The spirit of doing the exploitation is a consequence of western humanism value. The reason of coming to America to avoid the population density as well as the competition of life cannot be attained when the immigrants experience the same population density and harsh competition as in their old world and when the beautiful nature disappears, the forests become cities, the tranquility becomes noisy and crowded, and the people experience the uncomfortable life that many kinds of conflict can follow. It is not on the right path when they cannot maintain the grandeur of nature, because they are not directing their way to the right, sustainable way of life as alerted and meant by Cooper. Ecologically, the superabundance of the land when it was encountered by the European immigrants had been a factor that had made the American people arrogant with the environment. The damage of the environment that is understood anthropologically, culturally, sociologically and ecologically was not an individual mistake. It was the responsibility of the government to provide law enforcement but unfortunately the government got involved in the violation of human rights and of the activities of exploiting natural resources. To Cooper, as seen in his work, the spirit of exploiting life and the environment can be overcome by the moral of ecological awareness. It is a hierarchy that starts from love or compassion, then appreciation, respect, wisdom, and justice and this hierarchy should be assisted by law. Coopers ecological moral awareness arose as a protest against American progress. The immigrants progress to Cooper is an extermination of human, flora, and fauna
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
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
TPACK Framework Towards 21st Century’s Pre-Service English Teachers: Opportunities and Challenges in Application
Get PDFLearning in the 21st century integrates various technological devices in carrying out a whole series of interaction processes between students and teachers with learning resources in a learning environment. Pre-service English teachers in 21st century must have knowledge as well as skills in using various technologies, both traditional and modern to facilitate learning and improve learning outcomes. This article aims to examine, explain and review the development of technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) for Pre-service English teachers in 21st century, in order to obtain an overview of the opportunities and challenges in implementing TPACK itself in the 21st Century Learning. This article using a systematic review method of books, journal articles, and other documents related to the topic of discussion. All sources were selected based on the publication year that was set, namely 2017-2022 so that accurate and up-to-date data could be obtained. The results of the study found that, TPACK is a new type of knowledge that must be mastered by pre-service English teachers to be able to integrate technology well in learning. TPACK can be used as a framework for designing teacher education curricula that are more in line with the era and demands of 21st century learnin
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