“A Zone of Deep Shadow”: Pedagogical and Familial Reflections on “The Clash of Civilizations”     

David W. Jardine  Rahat Naqvi  Eric Jardine  Ahmad Zaidi 《Interchange》2010,41(3):209-232

This paper examines the media coverage of the murder of a young Muslim girl in Mississauga, Ontario in December 2007. We examine how that coverage moved from concerns for a terrible family event to the use of the language of Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations.” We explore the nature of this exaggeration that occurs in times of threat and the “hardening” and eventual clashing of identities that can follow. We interweave with these matters considerations of the pedagogical and familial consequences of such identity-exaggeration under threat. We propose that the provisional, negotiated, and casual conviviality of identities that precedes times of threat are cast into what Ivan Illich called “a zone of deep shadow.” We propose, also, that it is this locale of an interdependent, co-determining conviviality of identities that can profitably be the locus of rich and intellectually vital classroom conversations.  相似文献   

United Arab Emirates University students’ attitudes towards the handicapped     

Ahmad A. Smadi  Abdel Aziz M. Sartawi 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(3):242-248

ABSTRACT

The study aims to explore attitudes of the United Arab Emirates University students towards the handicapped. A sample of 313 students, conventionally drawn, took the College Students' Attitude Scale towards the Handicapped. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences in favour of females vs males, single vs married, residents vs non‐residents, families with handicapped children, previous contact with handicapped and urban vs rural groups. Several recommendations are suggested at the end of the study.  相似文献   

Information ethics in Pakistani librarianship: The role of online mailing groups     

Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen  Muhammad Arif  Muhammad Sajid Mirza 《International Information and Library Review》2012,44(2):65-71

This study examines the practice of information ethics of the members of the mailing group of the Pakistan Library Automation Group, called PAKLAGPK who participate frequently in the discussions on a variety of LIS ethical issues. The research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, including a survey questionnaire to measure subscribers' prior knowledge about certain issues in Information Ethics (IE). The research also uses the content analysis method to investigate the information communication behavior of the subscribers over this mailing group.  相似文献   

Computer Graphics in Simulating the Functioning of a Simple Computer     

Ahmad H. Nasri 《Computer Science Education》2013,23(2):161-170

Computer graphics is widely used in several areas of science such as computer science education. The execution of hardware and software computer systems can be skillfully simulated using computer graphics. Such a simulation is very attractive in teaching at a university level. It is a way of visualization where students can see the unseen. In this article, the function of a simple computer is simulated. A simulator ASSEM is developed which is suitable as a teaching tool in computer system courses along with mnemonic and assembly language. The algorithm for implementing such a simulator is also presented.  相似文献   

A kinetic approach to evaluate salinity effects on carbon mineralization in a plant residue-amended soil   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

Nourbakhsh F  Sheikh-Hosseini AR 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2006,7(10):788-793

The interaction of salinity stress and plant residue quality on C mineralization kinetics in soil is not well understood. A laboratory experiment was conducted to study the effects of salinity stress on C mineralization kinetics in a soil amended with alfalfa, wheat and corn residues. A factorial combination of two salinity levels （0.97 and 18.2 dS/m） and four levels of plant residues （control, alfalfa, wheat and corn） with three replications was performed. A first order kinetic model was used to describe the C mineralization and to calculate the potentially mineralizable C. The CO2-C evolved under non-saline condition, ranged from 814.6 to 4842.4 mg CO2-C/kg in control and alfalfa residue-amended soils, respectively. Salinization reduced the rates of CO2 evolution by 18.7%, 6.2% and 5.2% in alfalfa, wheat and corn residue-amended soils, respectively. Potentially mineralizable C （Co） was reduced significantly in salinized alfalfa residue-treated soils whereas, no significant difference was observed for control treatments as well as wheat and corn residue-treated soils. We concluded that the response pattern of C mineralization to salinity stress depended on the plant residue quality and duration of incubation.  相似文献   

Non-occupational lead exposure and hypertension in Pakistani adults     

Rahman S  Khalid N  Zaidi JH  Ahmad S  Iqbal MZ 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2006,7(9):732-737

INTRODUCTION Blood-Pb levels are taken as representative of dose/exposure, as all clinical symptoms resulting from the toxic effects of Pb are manifested mainly in blood. Lead exposure of children correlates with de- creased IQ, symptoms of hyper kinesis or minima brain dysfunction, poor learning, or defects in specific neuromotor tasks (Landgrin et al., 1980). Large number of observations over the years has associated lead exposure with human diseases (McMichael and Johnson, 1982). Ca…  相似文献   

Teachers＇ perception on the relationship between parents and school     

Ahmad Esa A bdul Rasid Abdul Razzaq Zurina Yasak Zainon Omar 《美中教育评论》2010,7(5):47-54

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Towards a sight word list in Arabic     

Ahmad Oweini  Katia Hazoury 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2010,9(1):457-478

While the English language boasts a century of research into its most frequently-used words, no such attempt has ever formally been made in the Arab world. This pioneering study presents a list of 500 commonly-used words in the Arabic language based on compilations of words gathered from a number of popular reading series in Lebanon, spanning grades K to 3. This list can serve as a powerful tool for language teachers—who face several challenges posed by the inherent nature of Arabic in terms of diglossia, orthography and morphology—and provide them with a handy list of words for their pupils. The study has its limitations in terms of scope, breadth and the nature of the technology used for counting words. Nonetheless, it makes a number of recommendations for the future, including the development of a readability formula based on this list, the expansion of the scope of this word list and improvement to increase its technical accuracy.  相似文献   

Impact of Accommodation Strategies on English Language Learners' Test Performance     

Jamal Abedi  Carol Lord  Carolyn Hofstetter  Eva Baker 《Educational Measurement》2000,19(3):16-26

How can we make effective accommodations for nonnative English speakers taking mathematics measures? What kinds of accommodations are useful and what kinds are not? Where does this research need to go in the future?  相似文献   

Performance of English Language Learners as a Subgroup in Large-Scale Assessment: Interaction of Research and Policy     

Jamal Abedi  Patricia Gándara 《Educational Measurement》2006,25(4):36-46

Factors that contribute to the performance gap between subgroups and mainstream students deserve special attention. Different subgroups are faced with different sets of challenges. To understand and control for factors leading to the performance gap between subgroups and mainstream students one must clearly understand the issues specific to each subgroup. This paper focuses on assessment and performance issues for English language learner (ELL) students as a subgroup. Identifying factors affecting the performance gap between ELL and non-ELL students may help gain insight into assessment issues for other subgroups of students as well as strengthen assessment of this group.  相似文献