scholarly journals Using Area Cartograms in Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Anna Markowska
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Spatial Continuity ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Diffusion

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> An area cartogram is one of the cartographic presentation forms. It is a unique way of presenting statistical data, in which the surface of the individual spatial units is proportional to the value of the phenomenon. Due to its specificity, the area cartogram is an interesting way of graphical representation of phenomena, in particular, the demographic and economic problems of the world.</p><p>In my research, I discuss an empirical study that I have conducted among pupils of the secondary school in Poland. On the basis of the list of advantages and disadvantages of area cartograms collected by B.D. Denta (1999), I assumed that contiguous area cartograms seem to be more useful in teaching in the secondary schools than non-contiguous cartograms. I compared the three types of contiguous area cartograms (preserving the spatial continuity of the presentation, having no gaps between neighboring units &amp;ndash; Figure 1): square cartograms, mosaic cartograms and diffusion-based cartograms (Gastner-Newman algorithm).</p>

scholarly journals THE RESEARCH AND STUDY PATHS IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL: THE CASE OF THE POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE SECOND DEGREE

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Viviana Carolina Llanos ◽  
María Rita Otero
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Mechanistic Model ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Polynomial Functions ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Second Degree

This analysis introduces the pedagogy of research and questioning the world within the Math classrooms at secondary schools in Argentina by using Research and Study Paths (RSP). The RSP have been proposed by Chevallard in the Anthropologic Theory of Didactic (ATD) to face the mechanistic model of teaching mathematics in secondary school (Chevallard, 2004). The RSP has been previously conceived as part of this research and could enable to cover the syllabus of the three last years of the secondary level (students aged 14 to 18 years old). The RSP has been carried out in courses intentionally selected by the researcher. Two implementations have been performed once a year during three years; with 163 students participating in the whole research. The results of introducing RSP into the classroom, the characteristics of the Mathematical Organization (MO) and the advantages and disadvantages of teaching mathematics based on the pedagogy of research and questioning the world are described in the present work. Key words: functions, pedagogy of research and questioning the world, polynomial functions of second degree, research and study paths, secondary school.

Grappling with Internationalisation of the Curriculum at the Secondary School Level: Issues and Tensions for Educators

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libby Tudball
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Level ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Global Flows ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Increasing global flows of students, information and ideas, the realities of globalisation, and an increasingly interdependent world have meant that many educators at the secondary school level are currently grappling with the issue of how to internationalise the curriculum and increase inter-cultural understanding among students. In addition, complex and troubling issues in the world have added urgency to the need for consideration of what knowledge, skills, and pedagogies schools should focus on in the curriculum into the future. This article discusses views in the literature and research on how educators are grappling with the issues and tensions of internationalisation in Australian secondary schools.

Summary of Carbon Sequestration Methods

2012 ◽  
Vol 424-425 ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Ying Li Huang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Stem Volume ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Investigation Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Volume Method

With the signing of the ‘Kyoto Protocol’, more attention has been paid to the greenhouse effect because of the emission of CO2 of human activities. Therefore carbon sequestration accounting becomes more and more significant as the world starts to realize the significance of launching forestation activities for carbon sequestration. This research reviewed the two categories of methods in accounting forest carbon sequestration: Biomass Investigation methods and Microclimatology methods. Principles of the two methods will be introduced in the essay, followed by detailed analysis on both the advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, the individual applicability will be discussed at the end of each method. Lastly, according to the characteristics of the Greater Khingan Mountains in Heilongjiang Province, the research selected the Stem Volume method as the method to account carbon sequestration of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

scholarly journals Effect of Family Variables on Multiple Intelligences of Secondary School Students of Gujarat State

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Sanjay Kumar M. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gujarat State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Potential ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Family Variables

There are billions of people in the world, but it is impossible to find two people identical because God doesn’t repeat His creation. It means everybody is inborn different. But, our education system is such that treats everybody in more or less same way which hampers the development of a child negatively and his or her contribution as well. Hence, researcher has conducted this study entitled “Effect of Family Variables on Multiple Intelligences of Secondary School Students of Gujarat State” to study the individual potential of children in terms of their intelligences and the effect of family related variables on their intelligences. It was found that some of the family and environment related variables affect the intelligences of learner positively and some do not have any effect as given.

scholarly journals Atlantic Slavery: Lost in Trans-lation

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott L Stabler ◽  
Mary Owusu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
In Trans

“Who benefited more from the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Ghanaians or Europeans?” Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports:2008, 17). That’s the test question on the official government syllabus/standards for Ghanaian schools. The syllabus also lists the benefits of colonization and that list far outweighs the detriments. The lack of a broader understanding about the devastation brought on by the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TAST) is not exclusive to Ghana, but proves similar in the United States and likely throughout the world. Generally, the TAST appears lost in Trans-lation in secondary schools. The Transatlantic Slave Trade forms the most transnational exchange surrounding Africa and the African Diaspora. The TAST to the Americas relocated millions of people, killed untold more, treated them as property based on their melanin, caused many wars and affects the world today. To broaden our understanding of the pedagogies of the TAST, Ghanaian secondary teachers were interviewed, textbooks and the national standards were reviewed along with Ghana's role at the heart of the TAST with Cape Coast as a central embarking point. We discovered a lack of instruction about the transnational and contemporary impacts of the TAST at the secondary level. Through our study of the TAST’s instruction in Ghana’s secondary schools a need to expand how teachers inform students about the breadth of the TAST was discovered. This article will focus primarily on Ghana’s lack of transnational reach at the secondary school level due to the limits of standardized testing, the Ghana Educational Service’s syllabus, the textbooks utilized, assessments, poverty, teacher awareness and neocolonialism. This study also examines why transnational exchange in teaching the TAST proves essential in the secondary school classroom in Ghana and beyond.Ghana Ministry of Education. (2008). Teaching Syllabus for Social Studies Senior High School. Accra: Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports.[i]Teaching Syllabus for Social Studies, Senior High School, Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports, 2008, 17.

ANALYSIS OF ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF REMOTE WORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
N.M. Zykova ◽  
◽  
Sh.T. Maussymbek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

At the beginning of the twentieth year of the two millennia, humanity is faced with an illness. All spheres of human activities have altered. Due to the risk of COVID-19 infection, many enterprises have transferred their employees to remote work, since the less contact, the fewer threats. Until that time, people had mostly vague and stereotyped ideas about this format of employment. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of remote work, which is a consequence of a pandemic. It was analyzed worldwide statistical data from the World Economic Forum and organized questionnaire about online work among locals.

The perils of protocols: acute phosphate nephropathy after intravenous phosphate replacement

Diagnosis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malvinder S. Parmar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Dialysis Patients ◽  
Laboratory Abnormality ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Phosphate Nephropathy ◽  
Time Of Admission

AbstractProtocols are commonly used in the hospitals around the world and enable health care organizations to put evidence into practice and provide a framework for the management of the individual patient. Such standardization of practice is felt to reduce variations in practice and improve quality of care. However, the protocols have advantages and disadvantages. I present a case where activation of the protocols for “Electrolyte, phosphate and magnesium replacement” at the time of admission to the hospital, resulted in harm to the patient because of inappropriate timing of the test(s) with a resulting action to correct the expected laboratory abnormality. Timing of tests and administration of various medications including antibiotics in hospitalized dialysis patients is important, and both the physicians and the nursing staff require vigilance when requesting/performing tests and ordering/administering medications to dialysis patients.

scholarly journals   Development of agricultural trade and competitiveness of the commodity structures of individual countries of the Visegrad Group

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 222-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Svatoš ◽  
L. Smutka
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
The Eu

The paper analyzes the development of the value, commodity and territorial structure and competitiveness of agricultural trade of the countries of the Visegrad Group in 1993&ndash;2008. Over the years, there has been a sharp increase not only to the volume, but also to the value of the traded agricultural products. The territorial structure of both exports and imports has narrowed to a decisive extent, primarily to the trade with the countries of the EU27. The commodity structure of agricultural trade has adapted very strongly both to the world and especially to the European market and it has furthermore reacted to the changes in the structure of the individual national markets. In the course of the years, the commodity structure has profiled so that there has been a limitation of aggregation with a strong comparative advantage on the market of the EU countries in relation to the aggregations that did not held this advantage. The analysis that has been performed indicates that the process of the accession to the EU has been reflected positively in the results of agricultural trade especially in the case of Poland. In the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the entry into the EU likewise has not led to a worsening of the results in the area of agricultural trade. Only in the case of Hungary, one does find serious structural problems after the entry into the EU in the case of agricultural trade. It can be assumed that these problems can be attributed for the most part to the Hungary&rsquo;s current economic problems. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Teorie e paradigmi in psicologia. Riflessioni sulle diverse possibilitŕ di dialogo tra differenti teorie

2009 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Stefano Cecchini
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Key Words ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligence Theory ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Directing Attention

Over the last fifty years we have witnessed the birth, within psychology, of different concepts, aimed at directing attention to how the individual develops and applies the knowledge to his own interiority and to that of others. At least, two of these concepts were greeted in time as representing the advent of a new paradigm in the sense of Kuhn's theory on science revolutions. If this were true, it would support the hypothesis that in the world of psychology could coexist, unlike that of physic sciences, theories from different paradigms. In reality, however, the most "popular" option in the psychological world is to consider the various psychological theories as belonging to the same paradigm. We present an example from Jungian literature in order to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of these options.Parole chiave: paradigma, teoria, empatia, intelligenza emotiva, teoria della mente, funzione riflessiva.Key words: paradigm, theory, empathy, emotional intelligence, theory of mind, reflective function.

scholarly journals Understanding the clinical and demographic characteristics of second coronavirus spike in 192 patients in Tehran, Iran: A retrospective study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0246314
Author(s):  
Hamid Zaferani Arani ◽  
Giti Dehghan Manshadi ◽  
Hesam Adin Atashi ◽  
Aida Rezaei Nejad ◽  
Seyyed Mojtaba Ghorani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Complicated Conditions ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Alternative Drugs

During the last months of the coronavirus pandemic, with all those public restrictions and health interventions, the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appears now to have been raised in some countries around the world. Iran was one of those first countries facing the second wave of coronavirus, due to the lack of appropriate public restrictions because of economic problems the country is facing. The clinical and demographic characteristics of severe cases and non-severe cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in 192 patients in Tehran, Iran, between June 16 and July 11, 2020, were investigated. The patients were divided into severe cases (n = 82) and non-severe cases (n = 110). Demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between the two study clusters. The mean age was 54.6 ± 17.2 years, and the most common presenting symptom was persistent cough (81.8%) and fever (79.7%). The logistic regression model revealed that age, BMI, and affected family members were statistically associated with severity. Patients with complicated conditions of disorders faced more hospitalization days and medical care than the average statistical data. As the coronavirus spike in the case and death reports from June 2020, we observed the rise in the incidence of severe cases, where 42.7% (82/192) of cases have resulted in severe conditions. Our findings also suggested that the effect of IFB (Betamethasone) was more valid than the other alternative drugs such as LPV/r and IVIg.

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