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Fifty Years of Traditional Gender Roles on Mexican Textbooks for Elementary School
Mayra Margarito Gaspar,
Silvia Quezada Camberos
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2019
Pages:
1-9
Received:
13 November 2018
Accepted:
29 November 2018
Published:
21 January 2019
Abstract: This research observes the construction of gender roles throughout the action of basic education school, taking as a guiding axis how textbooks depict the feminine and masculine figures. The Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (CONALITEG - National Commission of Free Textbooks) distributes the official textbooks for basic education to all public or private Mexican schools. This government agency is also responsible for designing and editing books and printed materials to complement the programs and educational reforms to be implemented. The volumes intended for primary school students constitute the object of this research, since they have become the main teaching tool. The corpus consists of editions from 1960 to 2009; these books correspond to three educational reforms. The use of texts of different periods allowed to establish a comparison between the men’s and women’s functions in fifty years. The theoretical-methodological approach of this paper is based on the Barthes’ iconographic proposal. This author explains the social nature of speech figures, analyzing the denoted and connoted messages of visual texts. Following this perspective, images of different decades were reviewed to observe the dialogue they establish and through which two gender figures are constructed: the female motherhood and the male productiveness.
Abstract: This research observes the construction of gender roles throughout the action of basic education school, taking as a guiding axis how textbooks depict the feminine and masculine figures. The Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (CONALITEG - National Commission of Free Textbooks) distributes the official textbooks for basic education to al...
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Construction of Online Dispute Resolution Mechanism---Chinese Internet Court Under Comparative Law
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2019
Pages:
10-19
Received:
23 November 2018
Accepted:
29 December 2018
Published:
31 January 2019
Abstract: In the information age, the Internet has become an integral part of social life. With the rapid development of e-commerce industry, more and more e-commerce disputes are happening. Whether these problems can be solved quickly will seriously affect the normal operation and healthy development of the Internet industry. Therefore, Internet courts emerge as the times require. This paper puts forward an online dispute resolution mechanism, which has gained valuable experience from the legislation and practice of Internet courts in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, and provides a reference for the development of Internet courts in China. Since 2000, China has been trying to resolve disputes through the Internet. It has gone through three stages, what is, recognition and exploration, establishment of pilot projects, expansion of pilot projects and promotion of pilot projects. Although great progress has been made in the construction of network courts in China in terms of legal norms and technical application, there are still many internal problems. In the future, professional person should start with perfecting laws and regulations, upgrading technology and training future talents, so that the network court can become the “test ground” and “demonstration area” of the comprehensive reform of the judicial system and the reform of the network governance mode. professional person need to cultivate new judicial momentum, also use new momentum to promote the new development of intelligent court construction, as professional personll as create new brilliance of judicial cause with new development.
Abstract: In the information age, the Internet has become an integral part of social life. With the rapid development of e-commerce industry, more and more e-commerce disputes are happening. Whether these problems can be solved quickly will seriously affect the normal operation and healthy development of the Internet industry. Therefore, Internet courts emer...
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Science Learner’s Material for Grade 10: Examining Multicultural and Gender Representation
Norjanah Umpara Derico,
Wardah Dirampatun Guimba,
Jerryk Comawas Alico
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2019
Pages:
20-26
Received:
17 December 2018
Accepted:
16 January 2019
Published:
9 February 2019
Abstract: Science textbooks are presumed to be indigenized, culturally sensitive, integrated with personal and ethical aspect of life and socially and environmentally aligned to the basic tenets of the k-12 basic education curriculum. This study is conducted to add to scanty literature on textbook analysis using Bennett's four core values of comprehensive multicultural curriculum in the Philippine context. These four core values are: (i) respect for human rights and human dignity, (ii) acceptance and appreciation and diversity, (iii) responsibility to the world community, and (iv) respect to the earth. Content analysis was employed in this study where both “manifest content” i.e. the visible, surface content and “latent content” or the underlying meaning of manifest content was examined. The researchers read and analyzed the content of the textbook based on the definition or set of words given then transcribed it on the checklist developed based on Bennett Conceptual model of comprehensive multiculturalism. After analyzing the data, the distribution and frequency of the core values were tallied, and calculated for its percentage and chi square test. Findings revealed that the Science Learner’s Material for Grade 10 elusively reflected multiculturalism in the textbook. However, portrayals of gender inequalities appeared in the textbook, males outnumbered the females. Teachers play major roles infusing and emphasizing multicultural elements in the teaching and learning process in the classroom. Textbooks developers need to pay more attention in incorporating multicultural elements in the Science textbooks and should promote gender equality representation in the textbook.
Abstract: Science textbooks are presumed to be indigenized, culturally sensitive, integrated with personal and ethical aspect of life and socially and environmentally aligned to the basic tenets of the k-12 basic education curriculum. This study is conducted to add to scanty literature on textbook analysis using Bennett's four core values of comprehensive mu...
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Effect of Human Capital Development on Economic Growth of Ecowas Member States
Fadila Kabir Usman,
Olure-Bank Adeyinka
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2019
Pages:
27-42
Received:
21 December 2018
Accepted:
10 January 2019
Published:
30 March 2019
Abstract: This study examines the random effect of human capital development on economic growth of ECOWAS member states for the period of thirty seven years from 1980-2016, the measurement of random effect of human capital development on economic growth of ECOWAS member countries encompasses World Development Indicator and human capital index, four human capital variables are used, namely: expenditures on education (EED), expenditures on health (EHE), gross domestic product (GDP) and school enrollment (SCE), these variables were transformed to logarithm of base ten (10) to give more robust estimates,the economic growth was proxied by GDP, which is dependent variable, the empirical evidence is based on the Pedroni residual co-integration approach to test for the long-run relationship among the variables, the findings show that there is positive and significant relationship between GDP and government expenditure on education, expenditure on health and school enrollment in the ECOWAS counties, the study concludes that human capital development has an effect on economic growth in the ECOWAS region,the study is very relevant to the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals agendas for two fundamental reasons: (a) Exclusive development is a critical policy syndrome in ECOWAS region where human capital development is a key to attain the SDGs extreme poverty target despite enjoying more than two decades of growth resurgence in some member states. (b) Growth in the region can primarily be driven by high human capital with the population of member countries expected to double in about 30 years, high investment on education and health for inclusive development is very welcome. This is essential because studies have shown that the increase in human capital development (resulting from increasing investment in education and health) would be enhances economic growth and development.
Abstract: This study examines the random effect of human capital development on economic growth of ECOWAS member states for the period of thirty seven years from 1980-2016, the measurement of random effect of human capital development on economic growth of ECOWAS member countries encompasses World Development Indicator and human capital index, four human cap...
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