A STUDY ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF METRIC EDUCATION SCHEDULED CASTE STUDENTS

Education is the only tool that enables the individual to develop knowledge value skills and attitudes. It is the foundation of a persons socio-economic development. Socio-political and wealth sharing is the channel to eliminate discrimination. Education is the basic tool for the fulfilment of the goals and objectives of each individual, and the protection of human rights. Especially among the socially and economically backward classes, undoubtedly, social reforms and education have the power to analyze the causes of their socially impoverished lives and create opportunities for them to thrive in society.

Students’ use of Justifications in Socioscientific Argumentation

Research focusing on students’ argumentation in socioscientific issues (SSI) shows that students tend to base their arguments on values rather than knowledge. This study explores Swedish upper secondary chemistry students’ written argumentation. The data consists of student texts written at the end of an intervention designed to develop skills related to high quality argumentation. The results show that after being taught about argumentation and the context of SSI, students mainly base their arguments on content knowledge. Value justifications are present in students’ texts, but constitute a smaller proportion. Beside content knowledge- and value justifications, we found a third category – “reasoning” – in which students draw conclusions, or make predictions of future events, to support or refute a claim. The justifications in the argumentative texts include a breadth of subject areas in which chemistry knowledge plays an important role. This study suggests that content knowledge constitutes an important part in student argumentation.

The Global Knowledge Value Chain on Sustainability: Addressing Fragmentations through International Academic Partnerships

While research on universities’ role in sustainability transitions has flourished in recent years, explorations into the potential of academic internationalization for the promotion of sustainability transitions are still rare. This article aims at contributing to this incipient literature by emphasizing an underexplored property of international academic networks and transnational academic cooperation: their potential to break disciplinary and geographical barriers in the global debates on how transitions towards sustainability can be achieved. When realizing this potential, international partnerships are able to provide more comprehensive knowledge to inform sustainability transitions while shaping sustainability transitions in various places at the same time. This article pursues three objectives: First, it introduces the concept of the “global knowledge value chain on sustainability” and explores its value as a heuristic to understand global knowledge production relevant for sustainability transitions. Furthermore, it identifies two fragmentations in this chain resulting from global inequalities and specific dynamics within the global science community. Second, it confirms empirically the fragmentations of this global knowledge value chain on sustainability. Third, it provides good practice ideas on how international academic partnerships can overcome these fragmentations by drawing on the authors’ experience with the international partnership “trAndeS—Postgraduate Program on Social Inequalities and Sustainable Development in the Andean Region” carried out by the Institute of Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin and the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP).

Drivers of Performance Indicators for Success of Green SCM Strategy and Sustainability Performance

This study sought to identify drivers of performance improvement indicators for GSCM strategy in Alban Al-Youm Company in Jordan and hence the impact of this strategy on sustainability performance through innovation strategy. Quantitative data were collected from a sample of participants from Alban Al-Youm Company in Jordan by a questionnaire-base survey to analyze research hypotheses via structural equation modeling (SEM). GSCM strategy success depends on pivotal drivers of performance improvement indicators. Eighteen significant drivers were identified in the current study. Moreover, the results found that GSCM strategy success exerted a significant effect on both innovation strategy and sustainability performance. Principally, innovation strategy mediated the effect of GSCM strategy on sustainability performance. This study is the first one to address performance indicators of GSCM practices in the dairy industry sector in Jordan. The study added knowledge value on the assessment of GSCM strategy performance, its impact on sustainability performance through innovation strategy.

FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY COMPETENCE IN A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Рассматриваются проблемы формирования компетентности экологической безопасности у курсантов факультета тыла. Представлено определение компетентности экологической безопасности. Основываясь на исследованиях отечественных авторов, выделяются три основных компонента компетентности экологической безопасности: когнитивный как система экологических знаний; ценностно-мотивационный, выражающийся в осознании важности сохранения окружающей среды и природных ресурсов; деятельностно-практический, проявляющийся в способности практически решать возникающие природоохранные задачи. Проведен анализ, на основании которого установлено, что в перечень компетенций, формируемых в результате освоения профессиональной образовательной программы по специальности 56.05.01 «Тыловое обеспечение», не входит компетенция экологической безопасности. Установлены учебные дисциплины, изучение которых способствует формированию мировоззрения, знаний, умений, навыков, опыта для обеспечения экологической безопасности. Предстоит провести исследование с целью получения ответов на следующие вопросы: как измерить компетентность экологической безопасности у курсантов и как обеспечить формирование компетентности экологической безопасности выпускников. The problems of environmental safety competence formation among the cadets of the logistics faculty are considered. The definition of environmental safety competence is conducted. Based on the research of Russian authors, there are three main components of the competence of environmental safety: cognitive, as a system of environmental knowledge; value-motivational, expressed in the awareness of the importance of preserving the environment and natural resources; activity-practical, manifested in the ability to solve practically arising environmental problems. The main academic subjects are analyzed, during mastering of which the competences necessary for environmental protection in the performance of official duties are developed. An analysis was carried out on the basis of which it was established that the list of competencies formed as a result of mastering a professional educational program in the specialty 56.05.01 Logistics does not include the competence of environmental safety. Educational disciplines have been established, the study of which contributes to the formation of a worldview, knowledge, abilities, skills, experience to ensure environmental safety. It is necessary to conduct a study in order to obtain answers to the following questions: how to measure the competence of environmental safety among cadets and how to ensure the formation of competence in environmental safety of graduates.

Methods of Formation of the Students-Mathematicians’ Readyness to Study Mathematical Disciplines

The introduction to the article analyzes the current state of formation of the students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines. The purpose of the study is to develop and scientifically substantiate the method of forming the students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines. Methods. In the process of achieving the goal, the theoretical and practical methods of data retrieval and processing were applied. The results. The analysis of the researched problem gave an opportunity to characterize the essence of the concept «students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines». The students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines was defined as the result of mathematical training of a prospective university student, that is a necessary condition for forming the mathematical competence of graduates of pedagogical universities. The article defines the content of structural components of the formation of the students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines: motivational-value (presence of motives and needs in studying mathematics, awareness of the mathematical knowledge value for future professional activity), semantic (mathematical knowledge of school mathematics required to master basic mathematics knowledge of generalized methods of solving typical professional problems), instrumental (universal actions of generalized methods of solving typical professional problems that require the mathematical knowledge use), personal (communicative, creative abilities and personal qualities needed to solve typical professional problems). The didactic principles of forming the students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines are the principles of cooperation, of professional orientation, fundamentality, modularity of the mathematical training content. Conclusions. The methods of formation of the students-mathematicians’ readiness to study mathematical disciplines which contains interrelation of target, methodological, substantial, procedural and result-estimating components is developed. The prospects for further research are planned in the direction of the developed methodology implementation into the educational process of pedagogical universities for students-mathematicians.

Value co-creation mechanisms of multi-agent participation in crowdsourcing innovation: A grounded theory study

As a new business model, crowdsourcing innovation is widely used for enterprises to complete innovation tasks by the external crowds. The enterprises, the external crowds, and the crowdsourcing platform make an alliance and co-create value to achieve the multi-win goal. Based on the operation process analysis of the third-party platform crowdsourcing innovation model, this paper proposes that the essence of crowdsourcing innovation is the value co-creation of multi-agent participation. Based on grounded theory, this paper constructs the theoretical model of the realization mechanism of multi-agent participation value co-creation in crowdsourcing innovation from the three parties’ perspective. This research finds that value co-creation factors include six factors: task attributes, incentive mechanisms, trust mechanisms, the platform supports, participation motivation, and diversities. The process of value co-creation includes resource integration and interaction. The results of value co-creation include three elements: innovation value, knowledge value, and relationship value.

Introduction: Approaches to the Paper Revolution: The Registration and Communication of Knowledge, Value and Information

Invented in China and brought to Europe by Muslim merchants across the Silk Road, the use of paper in the West took off in the Mediterranean towards the end of the Middle Ages. Overshadowed in cultural and media history by the invention of print, paper has played a fundamental role as the media infrastructure for innumerable processes involving the registration and communication of knowledge and value in communities and institutions, from religious orders, mercantile societies, to global empires. This thematic section of Cromohs features four essays. Three essays examine particular cases of paper as a medium for the codification and exchange of knowledge, information and value, whereas the fourth outlines the state of the art on the history of the so-called paper revolution and methodological issues illustrated with relevant case studies. These essays exemplify the research conducted by the Paper in Motion workgroup within the People in Motion COST action.