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Higher Education Students’ Perceptions of Environmental Issues and Media Coverage

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Keinonen T. , Palmberg I. , Kukkonen J. , Yli-Panula E. , Persson C. , Vilkonis R.

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nr 1

5-22

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This study aims to find higher education students’ perceptions about environmental issues and how the perceptions are related to perceptions of media coverage. This study investigates higher education students’ perceptions of the seriousness of environmental issues and their relation to perceptions of media coverage. Higher education students perceived a global problem, lack of clean water, as most serious environmental problem. Media has had an effect on students’ perceptions on environmental issues: when students perceived the problem as serious they also perceived the information in media concerning it appropriate. Students perceived that the media underestimate and obscure some environmental problems such as biological diversity and global warming. It was concluded that higher education educators need more knowledge of students’, future decision makers’ concerns and perceptions about environmental issues to develop more effective teaching practices in higher education. Through education environmental issues literacy, which is a precursor for engaged protection of the environment, can be fostered. This study offers some insights into higher education students’ perceptions of the media’s role in environmental issues.

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A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE PERCEIVED IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS ON BAHRAINI USERS’ ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

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Al Jahromi D.

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tom 20

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nr 4

23-40

EN

The various facets and networks of social media have had significantly phenomenal influence on the individual life and on the societal, economic, and political status of their users. The linguistic discourse of interlocutors on social media has also been influenced. The current study aims at measuring how the English language learning process of non-native Bahrainis has been affected by the use of social media. To explore such effects, a quantitative methodological measure was used in the form of an online questionnaire administered to a random sample of L2 Bahrainis. Responses from 330 respondents from different age groups and gender types were analysed using measures of central tendency and other statistical measures such as t-tests and ANOVA using SPSS. Findings have revealed that the utilization of social media has been perceived to have positively impacted interlocutors’ lexical variation, writing style, reading skills, and communication skills. These findings were subjective to variables related to gender, age, and the multimodality of particular social media facets. Accordingly, some significant implications and recommendations are drawn, the most important of which is the provision of mechanisms to ensure the effective utilisation and employment of social media in the pedagogical practices in L2 contexts.

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Online teaching readiness of staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ege University sample

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Kiliç M. , Ateç-Çobanoğlu A.

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nr 2

54-63

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The instant transition to online learning during the pandemic led to some neglections in instructional design and planning, with online teaching readiness seen as a major issue within this context. The authors of this study therefore believe that the readiness of instructors for providing online learning is a critical concern for such a transition and its future implications. In this survey/descriptive study, the authors investigated instructors’ online teaching readiness through an adapted version of Chi’s Online Teaching Readiness Questionnaire, which includes both open-ended and multiple-option questions, with code-theme relationships also presented. The data collection tool was administered to 200 instructors from different faculties working at Ege University, which is a western state university in Turkey. The findings from the questionnaire show that to a large extent, the instructors feel ready for online teaching. The authors share their suggestions on future research and applications in the last section of the paper.

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A comparative look at perceptions of physical and mental accessibility as a means to integrate people with disabilities into Bedouin society in the Negev

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AJAJ I. A.

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nr 1(55)

221-238

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Do tej pory zagadnieniu dostępności wśród osób z różnymi niepełnosprawnościami żyjących w społeczeństwie arabskim ogólnie, a w społeczeństwie Beduinów w szczególności, poświęcono niewiele badań. Prezentowane w artykule badania to pionierskie studium pilotażowe, które skupia się na kwestii dostępności wśród osób z niepełnosprawnościami w społeczeństwie Beduinów w regionie Negew. Badania zgłębiają problem dostępności oraz główne potrzeby osób z niepełnosprawnościami żyjących w uznanych społecznościach. W toku badań przeprowadzono sto (100) wywiadów z osobami z niepełnosprawnościami żyjącymi w regionie Negew. Część badanych była członkami społeczności uznanych, a część społeczności nieuznanych. Z wyników badań wyłania się ponury i trudny obraz psychicznego i społecznego stanu osób z niepełnosprawnościami w kontekście dostępności instytucji oświatowych i publicznych.

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Few research studies have addressed the topic of accessibility among people with different disabilities who live in Arab society in general, and Bedouin society in particular. The present research study is a pilot study, the first of its kind, and addresses the topic of accessibility among those with disabilities in Bedouin society in the Negev. The research examines in-depth the issue of accessibility and the main needs of people with disabilities who live in recognized communities. The research process entailed one hundred (100) interviews with people with disabilities who live in the Negev, some in recognized communities and some in unrecognized communities.The research findings portray a bleak and difficult picture of the mental and social state of people with disabilities in the context of accessibility to educational and public institutions.