New Spatial Imaginaries for International Curriculum Projects: Creative Diagrams, Mapping Experiments, and Critical Cartography

This article explores the complex relational landscape of international partnerships where local and transnational education objectives are entangled. We present a methodological practice for experimenting with diagrams and maps. Our emphasis on spatial rendering of local/global relationality is intended to invite discussion about the postcolonial context of international education work and the geopolitics of transnational curriculum. We pursue a diagrammatic and archipelagic form of creative abstraction, which we present as a posthuman cartographic practice. To illustrate this practice, we focus on a specific international curriculum development project funded by the World Universities Network.

Images as ‘potentials’: Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice

This article contributes to sociological and new materialist efforts to reorient and reimagine qualitative methodologies. I explore the more-than-human and more-than-representational potentials of one traditional humanist qualitative method, photovoice and its ‘affordances’ when the epistemologies and ontologies underpinning what images ‘can do’ are opened up. I extend the work of Higgins (2014; 2016) and others who have ‘recalibrated’ visual methods to argue that photovoice has the potential to be an aleatory methodological practice which connects to efforts to mobilise ethics of encounter in feminist new materialist research. I draw on two empirical examples from a study which used photovoice as a key tool to explore young people’s embodiment and wellbeing as emergent traces, formed through entangled processes and relations, rather than inherent properties of human bodies and subjects. The article explores what photovoice ‘can do’ and how it may be useful in contributing to sociological efforts to generate new answers to old questions through attending to the ways structures and material inequalities are themselves produced through the situated and affective practices and embodiments of everyday life.

The Standard of Scientific Pedagogical Expertise: a Creative Dimension

Pedagogical expertise is considered as a system-forming scientific technology in education, which has a significant impact on the practice of teaching and the formation of a creative personality, actually becoming a method of scientific cognition in the context of improving the quality of education. It is advisable to design all programs of higher pedagogical education according to the deductive principle-from the general content component presented in the structure of technologies of pedagogical expertise of educational projects and programs, to private methodological practice-oriented recommendations proposed by experts as an indicative basis for teacher actions. The role of an expert and his personal qualities are of particular importance in the composition of pedagogical expertise. Based on the professional analysis of the expert's activity, his personal portrait is formed. In pedagogical expertise, the ratio of the objective (various normative documents regulating the activities of an expert) and the subjective is crucial, when the quality of the examination depends on the competence, experience of an expert specialist, his wisdom, intuition and creative insight. The analytical review of the mistakes of pedagogical experts should be used as the basis of the methodology for training teachers and expert specialists in the field of education.

Instrumental and methodological approach to the adaptation of the Triple helix model for the conditions of Russia, taking into account historical retrospect

The monograph presents the results of a scientific study, the novelty of which lies in a meaningful methodological reinterpretation of the Itskovitz triple helix model for Russian conditions and mentality with the filling of economic and mathematical tools. The main three components of the study are: the adaptation of the CU model to Russian conditions, taking into account historical retrospect, and the tasks of the economic environment. It can be used by students, postgraduates, teachers as a textbook; by researchers and specialists of practical economics - to solve complex methodological practice-oriented problems.

Discourses of Belonging: Intersections of Truth, Power, and Ethics in Evaluation With Migrant Youth

This article problematizes methodological practices, specifically the use of surveys as tools of measurement in evaluation with migrant youth. Drawing from Foucault’s Genealogy of Ethics, we investigate the knowledge created about particular minoritized groups through the author’s current evaluation, the power relations involved, and the ethical dimensions of evaluation. We argue that ethical questions for evaluators are entangled in an era of neoliberal, audit culture in educational research. We offer a theoretical orientation for productive critique of methodological practice.

Machine learning in occupational safety and health: protocol for a systematic review

Industry 4.0 has shaped the way people look at the world and interact with it, especially concerning the work environment with respect to occupational safety and health (OSH). Machine learning (ML), as a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be effectively used to create expert systems to exhibit intelligent behavior to provide solutions to complicated problems and finally process massive data. Therefore, a study is proposed to provide the best methodological practice in the light of ML. Alongside the review of previous investigations, the following research aims to determine the ML approaches appropriate to OSH issues. In other words, highlighting specific ML methodologies, which have been employed successfully in others areas. Bearing this objective in mind, one can identify an appropriate ML technique to solve a problem in the OSH domain. Accordingly, several questions were designed to conduct the research. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for Protocols and Systematic Reviews were used to draw the research outline. The chosen databases were SCOPUS, PubMed, Science Direct, Inspect, and Web of Science. A set of keywords related to the topic were defined, and both exclusion and inclusion criteria were determined. All of the eligible papers will be analyzed, and the extracted information will be included in an Excel form sheet. The results will be presented in a narrative-based form. Additionally, all tables summarizing the most important findings will be offered.

LCA Practices of Plastics and Their Recycling: A Critical Review

In a bid to help address the environmental footprints associated with products and services, life cycle assessment (LCA) applications have become increasingly popular throughout the years. This review summarizes some important methodological developments in recent years, such as the advent of dynamic LCA, as well as highlighting recent LCA applications in the context of plastics/recycling with a focus on their methodological choices. Furthermore, this review aims to offer a set of possible research lines to improve the gap between LCA and decision-making (policy). It was found that the majority of reviewed papers are mostly conservative in their methodological practice, employing mostly static analyses and making little use of other methods. In order to bridge the gap between LCA and policy, it is suggested to broaden system boundaries through the integration of dynamic modelling methods, incorporating interactions between fore- and background systems, and including behavioral components where relevant. In addition, advanced sampling routines to further explore and assess the policy space are recommended. This is of paramount importance when dealing with recycling processes as the molecules/polymers constituting the output of those processes have to be benchmarked in terms of costs and, crucially, their sustainability character against virgin ones.

Prática Pedagógica e Mídias Digitais: um Diálogo Necessário na Educação Contemporânea

ResumoApesar de os avanços científicos e tecnológicos se fazerem, constantemente, presentes nas mais diversas áreas, atualmente, a prática metodológica aponta indícios de poucas transformações no que se refere ao planejamento e aplicação dos conteúdos nas aulas. Este artigo se originou de uma pesquisa qualitativa etnográfica, que discute a importância da contextualização da prática pedagógica perante os desafios impostos pelo avanço tecnológico. O objetivo do estudo é refletir sobre os procedimentos de ensino utilizados por professores de uma escola pública, apresentando um breve recorte histórico sobre o uso das mídias na escolarização, considerando a evolução tecnológica e o surgimento de diferentes recursos educacionais. A recolha das informações ocorreu pela análise documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas, com a observação de atividades desenvolvidas. Os resultados apresentam aulas expositivas e a utilização do livro didático e do quadro como ferramentas mais empregadas pelos professores em suas aulas. A conclusão aponta para a importância das discussões sobre os temas no panorama educativo contemporâneo e destaca a necessidade de o professor procurar se atualizar, modernizando seu ofício no contexto atual, garantindo o uso das tecnologias como instrumento capaz de priorizar seu desenvolvimento e do seu educando, promovendo a aplicação das Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação na conjuntura de um processo de ensino e aprendizagem dinâmico, significativo e transformador. Palavras-chave: Educação. Tecnologia. Professores. Ensino e Aprendizagem. Formação continuada. AbstractAlthough technological evolution is constantly present in the most diverse areas today, methodological practice points to evidence of few changes in relation to the content planning and application in classes. This article originated from a qualitative ethnographic research that discusses the importance of contextualizing pedagogical practice before the challenges imposed by technological advances. The objective of the study is to reflect on the teaching procedures used by teachers of a public school, presenting a brief history of the use of media in schooling, considering the technological evolution and the emergence of different educational resources. The information collection was based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, with observation of the activities developed. The results indicate expository classes and the textbook use and the blackboard as tools most used by teachers in their classes. The conclusion points to the importance of discussions on topics in the contemporary educational landscape and highlights the need for teachers to seek to update themselves, modernizing their practice in the current context and highlighting the use of technologies in order to prioritize their development and that of the students, promoting the application of Digital Information and Communication Technologies in the context of a dynamic, meaningful and transforming teaching and learning process. Keywords: Education. Technology. Teachers. Teaching-Learning. Continuing education

Bisexuality and /s/ production

The belief that there are systematic differences in speech production as a function of sexual orientation has inspired a vast body of linguistic research investigating the acoustic correlates of sounding queer. Although gay-sounding voices and to a lesser extent lesbian-sounding voices are well represented in this literature, bisexuality is conspicuously absent. The current study addresses this gap through an acoustic analysis of bisexual English speakers’ read speech vis-à-vis lesbian, gay, and straight speakers, specifically attending to three measures of the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/: center of gravity, skew, and duration. A qualitative analysis of post-test participant information surveys contextualizes the statistical results. The study finds that bisexual women and men do not pattern consistently with lesbian, gay, or straight speakers, or even with each other. The results call into question the common methodological practice of grouping bisexual speakers with lesbian and gay speakers a priori and underscore the importance of intersectionality, gender normativity, and ideology in sociophonetic studies of sexuality and the voice.

More-than-human methodologies in qualitative research: Listening to the Leafblower

This paper explores the methodological possibilities of listening to more-than-human sounds as an entry point to critical analysis. Through attending to the sound of a leafblower as it resonates across a university campus, this article draws lines between the resonances of the leafblower, higher education, and white supremacy to explore how sounds become embedded in bodies and spaces. In addition, this article offers a methodology of listening as a process of attunement that provokes readings beyond what is immediately heard, seen, or felt. To listen to the sound of the leafblower and what it does, how it resonates is to attune to how that sound works, how it operates in the production and discourses of place. In other words, this article wonders how listening, as a methodological practice, provokes critical questions about place and space, and how sound (and particularly nonhuman or more than human sounds) functions in qualitative methodology.