scholarly journals On the Future of Computational Thinking Education: Moving beyond the Digital Agenda, a Discourse Analysis Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13848
Author(s):  
Vladimiras Dolgopolovas ◽  
Valentina Dagiene
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Development Paths ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Or Applications

This article explores the development directions of the phenomenon of Computational Thinking (CT) from the perspectives of discourse analysis. The motivation is based on the understanding of CT as an advanced educational approach, methodology, and community, aimed at a set of learners’ digital and further competences having a huge impact on modern education and society. The novelty of this study lies in the attempt to look holistically at CT and its perspectives, considering it as an evolving phenomenon per se, leaving aside discussion on its internal characteristics or applications. The study utilizes a comprehensive analysis, applying discourse analysis and social semiotics methods. The results present the most trended storylines associated with CT and its context, providing a thorough introduction to the CT discursive landscape. The findings and discussion present a reflective insight into the discursive landscape directions, focusing on meaning-makers and their identities, the transformative and transductive potential of CT, observing the phenomenon’s development paths from a metaphorical perspective and positioning it towards the development of the socio-technical networks it mediates. In the conclusion, the options for development and possible trends in the reconstitution of the CT phenomenon are outlined.

ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТНЫЙ ПОДХОД В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-124
Author(s):  
Зиля Ахмерова
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
Training Technique ◽  
Individualized Training ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Personality Studies ◽  
Activity Organization

Аннотация. Деятельностный подход к организации учебных занятий при профессиональной подготовке специалистов представляет технологию индивидуализированного обучения. В данной статье проведен экскурс по проблеме деятельности. Деятельность рассматривается как способ участия индивида в преобразовании существующей действительности, как метод познания, как условие проявления и развития личности, как условие конструирования отношений между людьми. Функции деятельности непосредственно связаны не только с проектной деятельностью, но и с развитием личности. Поэтому деятельностная организация процесса проектирования как метода развития личности является актуальной. Кроме этого отмечается, что роль преподавателя в ходе осуществления личностно-деятельностного подхода заключается в умелой организации образовательно- профессиональной среды. Ключевые слова: деятельность, личность, учебная деятельность, проектная деятельность, личностно-деятельностные технологии. Аннотация. Адистерди кесиптик даярдоо учурунда окуу сабактарын уюштуруунун ишмердик ыкмасы жеке инсанга багытталган окутуу технологиясы болуп эсептелет. Бул макалада ишмердик маселеси боюнча экскурс жүргүзүлгөн. Ишмердүүлүк учурдагы чындыкты кайра өзгөртүп түзүүдөгү индивиддин катышуу жолу катары, таануу методу катары, инсандын өзүн көрсөтүүсүнүн жана өнүгүүсүнүн шарты катары, адамдар ортосунда мамиле түзүү ыкмасы катары каралат. Ишмердүүлүктүн функциялары долбоордук иштер менен гана эмес, инсандын өнүгүүсү менен да түздөн-түз байланыштуу. Ошондуктан инсанды өнүктүрүүнүн ыкмасы катары долбоорлоо процессинин ишмердик уюштурулушу актуалдуу. Мындан тышкары, жеке инсанга багытталган – ишмердик ыкмасын ишке ашыруудагы окутуучунун ролу билим берүүчүлүк-кесиптик чөйрөнү эптүү уюштуруу экендиги белгиленет. Түйүндүү сөздөр: ишмердүүлүк, инсан, окуу иши, долбоордук иш, жеке инсанга багытталган – ишмердик технологиялар. Annotation. The activity approach to organization of study in the profession- al training of specialists represents the individualized training technique. This article makes the insight into the activity issue. The activity is considered as a way of person’s participation in transformation of existing reality, as a way of learning, as a condition for personality demonstration and development, as a condition for building relations be- tween people. The functions of the activity are immediately associated with not only de- signing activity but with development of the personality. That is why activity organization of the designing process as a way of personality development is relevant. However, in the modern education, the personal and activity approach is to be com- bined with other approaches of the collective activity based on self-government and competitiveness. Key words: activity, personality, studies, designing activity, personal and activity techniques

The Legitimating Power of Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-275
Author(s):  
Mustafa Menshawy
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Culturally Embedded

Abstract In this article, I examine a corpus of texts that address the 1973 war; these texts cover the period from 1981 to 2011, marking the beginning and end of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), I explore how Mubarak’s regime employed the war to legitimize its power and defend its policies by deploying longstanding culturally-embedded ‘macro themes’. These macro themes refer to the war as an overwhelming and undisputed ‘Egyptian victory’ and, more significantly, they portray Mubarak himself as ‘war personified/war personalized’. The analysis of linguistic and extra-linguistic features in al-Ahram newspaper (the mouthpiece of the state), among other media texts on the war, show how the discursive construction was made consistent, coherent and resonant in a managed context that characterized the political and media landscapes. Depending on unique access to those who produced, edited and even censored the texts under analysis, this method unravels a complex set of cultural messages and conventions about the war, and fills a lacuna in the literature by offering insight into the deliberate and well-coordinated process of shaping and reshaping a specific discourse for a specific purpose.

scholarly journals Origin of the Low Magnetic Moment in Fe2AlTi: An Ab Initio Study

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Friák ◽  
Anton Slávik ◽  
Ivana Miháliková ◽  
David Holec ◽  
Monika Všianská ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Magnetic Moment ◽  
Energy Surface ◽  
Magnetic Moments ◽  
Local Magnetic Moment ◽  
Spin Configuration ◽  
Spin Effects ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The intermetallic compound Fe 2 AlTi (alternatively Fe 2 TiAl) is an important phase in the ternary Fe-Al-Ti phase diagram. Previous theoretical studies showed a large discrepancy of approximately an order of magnitude between the ab initio computed magnetic moments and the experimentally measured ones. To unravel the source of this discrepancy, we analyze how various mechanisms present in realistic materials such as residual strain effects or deviations from stoichiometry affect magnetism. Since in spin-unconstrained calculations the system always evolves to the spin configuration which represents a local or global minimum in the total energy surface, finite temperature spin effects are not well described. We therefore turn the investigation around and use constrained spin calculations, fixing the global magnetic moment. This approach provides direct insight into local and global energy minima (reflecting metastable and stable spin phases) as well as the curvature of the energy surface, which correlates with the magnetic entropy and thus the magnetic configuration space accessible at finite temperatures. Based on this approach, we show that deviations from stoichiometry have a huge impact on the local magnetic moment and can explain the experimentally observed low magnetic moments.

scholarly journals Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Research Domain ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe present study aims to gain insight into the translation of audiovisual humour displayed in the verbal manifestations of Officer Crabtree, the fictional character in the BBC sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo! (1982–1992), especially focusing on its Hungarian dubbed version of the series. Being a research domain with insights from audiovisual translation (AVT), humour studies, and discourse analysis, the article introduces the reader to AVT, more particularly, to dubbing, to research carried out in the domain of audiovisual humour, and to humour studies, especially focusing on incongruity and superiority theory. These theoretical elements are applied in the analysis of the corpus comprising the English voice track as source text (ST) and its Hungarian counterpart as target text (TT), highlighting the humorous effects achieved in both of them and especially pointing at the creative solutions translators resorted to in rendering the idiosyncratically mangled English texts into Hungarian. The analysis aims to provide counterexamples to the frequent claim that verbal humour is untranslatable.

scholarly journals CONTENT ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 MESSAGES ON SELECT WHATSAPP GROUPS: A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Umefien Dakoru Epepe
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Official Sources

This study examined novel coronavirus (COVID-19) messages on select Nigeria-based WhatsApp groups. Viewed through the lens of the Rumour Theory, the study applied content analysis and social semiotics (multimodal discourse analysis) methods. Data were elicited from three purposively selected WhatsApp groups, using the constructed and continuous weeks approach. The sample covered 6 weeks (42 days), spread across March, April, and May 2020. Findings from the content analysis showed that texts, comments, and linked message on COVID-19, had the highest frequency. The frequency of messages peaked in March and steeply tapered downwards in April and May 2020. The multimodal discourse analysis demonstrated a preponderance of messages about vaccines, treatment, prevention, lockdown, and conspiracy theories. A significant number of COVID-19 messages were based on rumours and misinformation from spurious sources, with a few from credible sources. The study recommended that to help flatten the misinformation curve, timely, unambiguous and accurate COVID-19 information should be provided from official sources.

scholarly journals An Ecological Discourse Analysis to the Chinese Slogans during the Major Economic Stages since the Foundation of PRC

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dali Ning
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Ecological Philosophy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Civic Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

Slogan has a sound mass base in China for thousands of years，functioning as guidelines for civic practice. Even today, Chinese slogans are often employed by the government to promote policies and socio-cultural values. This paper, adopting an ecolinguistic approach, explores the development of Chinese slogans during the four economic stages since the foundation of PRC (People’s Republic of China) to find out how slogans influence the relationship between men, and man and the ecosystem. It is discovered that Chinese slogans in the recent decades have experienced great changes in terms of discourse type, the beneficial degree of discourse and the ecosophy they carry. They changed gradually from destructive discourse to harmonious discourse and they reflect the transition of Chinese ecological philosophy—from ‘anthropocentrism’, ‘growthism’, and ‘classism’ to ‘harmonism’. It is hoped that this study can shed light on the eco-discourse analysis to policy language and will bring insight into its future creation.

scholarly journals The effects of CLIL on mathematical content learning: A longitudinal study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Surmont ◽  
Esli Struys ◽  
Maurits Van Den Noort ◽  
Piet Van De Craen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
First Year ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Content Learning ◽  
Mathematical Performance ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Insight Into

Previous research has shown that content and language integrated learning (CLIL), an educational approach that offers content courses through more than one educational language, increases metalinguistic awareness. This improved insight into language structures is supposed to extend beyond the linguistic domain. In the present study, the question whether pupils who learn in a CLIL environment outperform their traditionally schooled peers in mathematics is investigated. In total, 107 pupils entered the study. All participants were in the first year of secondary education at a school in Ostend, in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Thirty-five pupils followed CLIL education in a foreign language (French) and 72 followed traditional education that was given in the native language (Dutch). All participants were tested using a mathematical test at the beginning of the year, after three months, and after ten months. The first measurement of the mathematical scores showed that the two groups did not differ. In accordance with our hypothesis, the CLIL group scored higher than the non-CLIL group after ten months. Surprisingly, an effect was also found after three months. To conclude, CLIL appears to have a positive impact on the mathematical performance of pupils even after a short period of time.

UNDERSTANDING BLOGGERS POSTING ABOUT POP CULTURE: LINGUAPRAGMATICS OF «UNPOPULAR OPINION» IN THE ENGLISH INTERNET-DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Kukovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Blog Posts ◽  
Subcultural Community

The paper explores communication within the English blogosphere in which the discourse manifests itself in blog posts, devoted, in particular, to reactions to a variety of pop-culture works. These posts are characterized by specific linguapragmatics. The article examines the language and the discourse of bloggers from the standpoint of the Linguistic Creativity approach, which may help to have an in-depth insight into the mechanisms of cognitive processes. The topicality of this topic is justified by the interest that modern linguists have in text studies, discourse analysis and computer-mediated Internet-discourse. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that the given discourse and the linguapragmatics of the posts in question in the English blogosphere have not so far received the attention they deserve and should be the subject of more research and analysis. The paper supplies relevant conclusions made on the basis of the empiric material. The research demonstrates that within the English Internet-discourse of bloggers, who interpret modern pop culture and can be considered a subcultural community, among other types of posts there can be singled out the so-called “unpopular opinion”, that boasts a number of linguapragmatic peculiarities coinciding with the communicative goals of bloggers. Decoding such posts may be a challenge and we, among other things, want to draw researchers’ attention to the “language of bloggers” and its study.

Examining Young Children's Computational Artifacts

2021 ◽  
pp. 265-294
Author(s):  
Apittha Unahalekhaka ◽  
Madhu Govind
Keyword(s):  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Project Portfolio ◽  
Creative Coding ◽  
Insight Into

Computational thinking (CT), in line with the constructionist perspective, is often best displayed when children have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills by producing creative coding artifacts. Performance-based or project portfolio assessments of young children's coding artifacts are a rich and useful approach to explore how children develop and apply CT abilities. In this chapter, the authors examine various rubrics and assessment tools used to measure the levels of programming competency, creativity, and purposefulness displayed in students' coding artifacts. The authors then discuss the development of ScratchJr and KIBO project rubrics for researchers and educators, including examples to illustrate how these highly diverse projects provide insight into children's CT abilities. Finally, the authors conclude with implications and practical strategies for using rubrics in both educational and research settings.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Adjectives Used with the Word Multiculturalism in British Print Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Sadok Abcha
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into

The present paper critically analyses the ideological uses of the adjectives used to describe multiculturalism in opinion articles published by two British quality newspapers, The Telegraph and The Times, which politically lean to The Right. Methodologically, the sample on which this study is based has been retrieved from the websites of the two dailies by means of the Key Word In Context (KWIC) technique, which has been used to look for comment articles published between July 2005 and December 2015, and in which the search word, multiculturalism used with an adjective featured. Using Fairclough’s theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study pinpoints the ideological underpinnings of the adjectives used with the word multiculturalism in the editorials. The study found out that all the adjectives are used in a derogative way to describe multiculturalism as being unreasonable, harmful and unsuccessful. Significantly, this paper provides critical insight into the peculiar uses of derogative adjectives in comment articles dealing with multiculturalism and avers that negative adjectives are not simply linguistic elements, but most importantly, ideological tools.

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