•Tertiary students face constraints in practicing agile methods in a university context.•Adaptations are made by students to work around the identified constraints.•These adaptations are perceived to ...have both positive and negative effects.
Teaching agile practices has found its place in software engineering curricula in many universities across the globe. As a result, educators and students have embraced different ways to apply agile practices during their courses through lectures, games, projects, workshops and more for effective theoretical and practical learning. Practicing agile in university contexts comes with challenges for students and to counter these challenges, they perform some adaptations to standard agile practices making them effective and easier to use in university contexts. This study describes the constraints the students faced while applying agile practices in a university course taught at the University of Auckland, including difficulty in setting up common time for all team members to work together, limited availability of customer due to busy schedule and the modifications the students introduced to adapt agile practices to suit the university context, such as daily stand-ups with reduced frequency, combining sprint meetings, and rotating scrum master from team. In addition, it summarizes the effectiveness of these modifications based on reflection of the students. Recommendations for educators and students are also provided. Our findings and recommendations will help educators and students better coordinate and apply agile practices on industry-based projects in university contexts.
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Traditional expository classes, whose only didactic resources are the blackboard and the teacher’s talk, are neither the only alternative nor the most productive one to teach Chemistry. Keeping it in ...mind, this study aimed at addressing one of several topics in Chemistry – plastics – by problematizing everyday situations, since the composition of some plastic packaging includes harmful compounds, such as bisphenol A (BPA). Specifically, BPA is an industrial chemical product which has been broadly used in its monomeric form to yield epoxy resins and polycarbonate plastics. Since it has excellent physical and chemical characteristics, it has been used as lining of metal packaging, besides the manufacturing of milk bottles and household items. However, BPA, even at low concentrations, may cause infertility, nervous system disorders, diabetes, cancer, obesity, precocious puberty and cardiovascular diseases. In order to make Chemistry teaching more attractive, this study aimed at informing students about effects of BPA at the Instituto Federal do Triângulo Mineiro - Campus Uberlândia Centro (IFTM - UDICENTRO), a high school located in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (MG) state, Brazil. Thus, questionnaire about BPA was applied to the students and the theme and the adverse effects of this compound were discussed from a chemical point of view. Results of the study and both students’ learning and awareness-raising were considered satisfactory. Teaching which includes students’ reality is capable of improving their comprehension and make Chemistry classes more attractive and pleasant. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17807/orbital.v12i2.1448
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Despite a long history of citation research, its focus has been on the linguistic and rhetorical characteristics of citations rather than their semantic nature. Using a move-based approach grounded ...in the CARS model (Swales, 1990), this paper studies the sorts of source ideas cited in different parts of literature reviews (LR) of Information Systems research articles following the design science research (DSR) and interpretivist research (IR) paradigms. Findings reveal three types of epistemically-oriented semantic content – theoretical, research, and methodological – and one type that is non-epistemically-framed, which vary quantitatively and qualitatively between the DSR and IR LRs. For example, both types of LRs cite more often in Move 1 Establishing a territory than in Moves 2 and 3 Establishing a niche and Occupying the niche, with theoretical terminologies, definitions, propositions being referred to more frequently in the IR writing than in the DSR writing. On the other hand, citations in the DSR writing often display prescriptive propositions, design concepts, artefacts, and methods which are absent from the IR writing. These findings not only help us better understand how citation is shaped and constrained by rhetorical moves and research paradigms but also provide implications for the teaching of citation content.
•Literature reviews of information systems research articles are examined.•A move-based approach grounded in the CARS model is used.•A semantic typology of citations is developed.•Four types of citations are found.•Methodological citations appear only in literature reviews of research articles with the design science research paradigm.
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RESUMO A micro-história italiana é geralmente conhecida como o produto dos ensinamentos de Giovanni Levi e Carlo Ginzburg, considerados seus pais fundadores. A figura de Edoardo Grendi é menos ...conhecida, sobretudo fora da Europa, e seu papel na formulação da proposta micro-histórica é até subestimado, apesar de ele ter sido, talvez, seu mais precoce teorizador. Graças à sua atenção aos problemas historiográficos internacionais e ao seu interesse pelas ciências sociais, Grendi se destacou como uma figura não convencional no contexto acadêmico do seu tempo, provocando um debate fecundo e também polêmico. É possível colocar sua lição, portanto, no mesmo plano das de Levi e Ginzburg, independentemente da separação entre micro-história social e cultural, no âmbito da qual elas foram inseridas. Esses três historiadores, de fato, protagonizaram a mesma batalha, que visava esclarecer as possibilidades e os limites do conhecimento do passado.
ABSTRACT Italian Microhistory is generally known as being the product of the teachings of Giovanni Levi and Carlo Ginzburg, considered its creators. The figure of Edoardo Grendi, especially outside Europe, is least considered. His role in the creation of the micro-historical proposal is underestimated, although he was perhaps its earlier theorist. Through his attention to the international scientific debate and interest in social sciences, Grendi stood out as an unconventional figure in the academic context of his time. He led to fruitful and controversial discussions. It is possible to place his lessons at the same level as those of Levi and Ginzburg, regardless the separation between social and cultural micro-history within which their work is schematically inserted. These three historians, in fact, were the protagonists of the same battle to establish the possibilities and limits of knowledge of the past.
Islamic inheritance law is stigmatized due to its rigidity and conservativity. The rigidity and conservatism of Islamic inheritance can be seen in the view that Islamic inheritance rules cannot be ...changed or modified. In addition, the assumption of Islamic inheritance rules does not consider the social developments that occur over time. This research aims to explore how Islamic inheritance law is applied in Indonesia and how contextualization is carried out in response to existing stigma. This research employs a qualitative study with a normative juridical approach. The research data is derived from documents and texts on Islamic inheritance law and concrete cases of contextualization of Islamic inheritance law in Indonesia in different situations and contexts. The data are analyzed using descriptive interpretative techniques with the application of Amina Wadud's hermeneutics of tauhid. The research findings indicate that Islamic inheritance law in Indonesia has undergone contextualization, thus negating the negative stigma attached to Islamic inheritance. Contextualization is achieved by understanding and advocating Islamic inheritance law in the Indonesian context, reconstructing the basic concepts of Islamic inheritance law according to the Indonesian context, and promoting the resolution of inheritance conflicts through consultation and mediation. This research offers a model of inheritance division applied in Indonesia that is contextual and flexible based on Amina Wadud's hermeneutics of tauhid.
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Rare events and other nonerror outliers (such as the COVID‐19 pandemic) are important phenomena in global strategy contexts. Despite their salience, however, they have hardly been ...studied systematically in our field (or organizational research at large). We suggest that this is due to a dominance of the Gaussian paradigm, which (often unrealistically) assumes linearity and independence of observations. Moreover, case‐based qualitative studies which offer contextualization have been underrepresented. We thus call on researchers to abolish the practice of habitually discarding outliers, reflect on nonnormal distributions, and pursue more qualitative studies. Journal editors and reviewers should widen their assumptions regarding “acceptable” papers and reflect on the requirement of contributing to big “T” theories. Finally, PhD training should juxtapose fundamental paradigms and associated implications for epistemological choices.
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Extreme occurrences, such as organizational crises, recessions, or pandemics, are challenges most practitioners deal with and worry about. Understanding their determinants, characteristics, and dynamics allows for heightened vigilance, preparedness, and ultimately performance. Yet, much of global strategy research (and organizational research at large) has focused on “average” phenomena, based on methodologies that assume bell‐shaped distributions and independent observations. In this note, we argue that this is not a realistic way to think about most social phenomena. In fact, most are characterized by their high degree of interdependence among elements, as well as a relative commonness of “rare” events and outliers. As a result of embracing the reality of nonnormality, scholars will be able to offer more relevant guidance to practitioners.
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•Situations in SJTs did not or only marginally affect the construct-related validity of SJTs.•This study adds more evidence speaking to the perspective of SJTs as context-independent measures.•This ...study provides further evidence that experimental test validation provides interesting insights that go beyond correlative validation approaches.
Despite the common belief that situation descriptions in SJTs are central to the measurement of targeted constructs, recent studies demonstrated that omitting situation descriptions had only minor effects on SJT performance and validity. However, these results might be due to the fact that traditional SJTs often fail to assess well-defined constructs. So, we aimed to examine the relationships between construct-driven SJT scores with and without situations and self- and peer-rated personality dimensions (N = 158). Results revealed almost no difference in construct-related validity between both versions. The conscientiousness facet emerged as the only exception, for which the SJT scores without situation descriptions yielded a significantly higher convergent correlation.
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Where and how meanings emerge Zolyan, Suren T.; Ilyin, Mikhail V.; Teslya, A. A. ...
Slovo.ru : Baltiĭskiĭ akt͡s︡ent,
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The discussion aims to identify the interpretive mechanisms that provide an interface between text and context (between language and the world, language and culture, language and society). It is a ...multi-level system of interfaces connected by inversion and recursion relations and operations. We identify this system as a pragmasemantics. It also acts as an interface platform for correlation/transformation of intra-system semantic units and extralinguistic objects within a set of possible worlds. At the same time, this platform is endowed with the autopoietic potential to generate new operating interfaces systems, as well as textualized structures of operations and interpretations (instructions, memory, reframing). The generation of meaning is the result of the interaction of the system platform with the platform-as-context, due to the possibility that one generates and determines the operational potential of the other, acting a recursive loop or Möbius strip. The connection between subjectivity and meaningful semiosis is crucially important due to the key role of textualization and languaging. The signified are reproduced by signifiers and thus generate those processes that are structured by interactions and other practices. In complex systems (biological and beyond), the possibility of self-replication arises through recursive self-interpretation. Thus, subjectivity acts as a kind of universal interface that determines the change of contexts, their interaction, the generation of possible new ones, ensuring the pro-creativity and pre-adaptability of the system (its stability and development.
AbstractMegaprojects exert substantial influence on economics, society, and the environment on a global scale. Current theory-building research in the megaproject field mainly focuses on three ...perspectives—the socioeconomic system, systems engineering and project management, and complex organization and governance. Despite realizing the importance of megaprojects, we still lack a deep understanding of megaproject management and related organizational issues. Adopting organizational behavior (OB) theory as a point of departure, this study first reviewed the classic OB theory and current OB research status systematically. The classic OB theory was then introduced to the context of megaprojects in an attempt to build a theoretical framework of OB in megaprojects through bibliometric analysis and an integrative review approach. A multilevel framework across individual, group, project, and organizational fields was elaborated for OB research in the megaproject field, and based on the framework developed, future research directions in this research area were proposed and discussed. This research not only bridges the research gap in megaproject management from a new perspective, but also contributes to the enrichment and development of the classic OB theory in a new context.
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