Peace for Kashmir: A Worldview,Psychological Intervention     

Farah?A.?IbrahimEmail author 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2005,27(2):289-297

This paper reviews the current situation in Kashmir, the historical roots of the conflict and considers the possibilities for peace in the region. Given the nuclear arms proliferation in the region, war can have devastating outcomes not just for the people in the region but also for the people and the ecology of our planet. It is imperative that a peaceful solution to the crisis in the region is sought. Further, the situation in Kashmir must be resolved from a human rights perspective and the people of Kashmir must be assisted in achieving peace and safety in their own homeland. It is noted that counselors and psychologists can play a role in bringing about peace using worldview research, and Carl Rogers’ model of conflict resolution.  相似文献   

Science Letters: Dendritic cell therapy with improved outcome in glioma multiforme--a case report     

KHAN Jamal A  YAQIN Sharmin 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2006,7(2)

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Not just racial quotas: affirmative action in Brazilian higher education 10 years later     

Luisa Farah Schwartzman  Angela Randolpho Paiva 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2016,37(4):548-566

This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were initially thought of as racial quotas, class-based criteria have predominated, while the racial criteria became relatively circumscribed. Within the institutions, affirmative action brought new concerns about how to support and retain low-income students, as well as a discussion about racism, although the latter remains controversial.  相似文献   

Book Review: Intentional Group Counseling: A Microskills Approach By Allen E. Ivey, Paul P. Pedersen, & Mary Bradford Ivey. Brooks/Cole/Wadsworth, 2001, 293 pp     

Farah A. Ibrahim 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2004,26(2):213-214

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Culture-specific counselling strategies for Japanese nationals in the United States of America     

Hifumi Ohnishi  Farah A. Ibrahim 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》1999,21(3):189-206

The article provides an understanding of unique characteristics of Japanese nationals in the United States of America (USA), their possible acculturation and assimilation levels, Japanese world view (assumptions, values and beliefs), and Japanese developmental psychological functions (Amae, On, Giri, Ninjo, and Ajase Complex). All these factors affect the determination of culturally sensitive techniques and approaches that would be best suited for each Japanese client. Information about assessment tools, and counselling and therapeutic strategies and techniques that may be effective is presented.  相似文献   

Māori feminism and sport leadership: Exploring Māori women's experiences     

Farah R. Palmer  Tina M. Masters 《Sport Management Review》2010,13(4):331-344

This paper utilizes Māori Feminism from an Indigenous, intersectionality perspective in order to give four Māori women sport leaders an opportunity to voice their experiences, especially with regards to ethnocultural and gendered identities. In particular, this paper explores pathways for these Māori women into and within sport leadership. It identifies barriers they experienced and strategies used to negotiate them; it analyses the affect of various identities during their experiences of sport leadership; and it critically analyses the impact that socio-cultural and structural factors have had on the well-being of these Māori women, and their effectiveness within the sport organizations they worked. The findings suggest the participants had a strong passion for sport, experienced mana (status and prestige) due to their sporting experiences and were motivated to take on leadership roles in order to give back (mahi aroha) to sport and/or their Māori communities. Barriers they faced included being whakaiti (modest and humble) in a male-dominated, highly competitive setting, institutional racism, sexism, marginalization due to their ethnocultural and gendered identities, as well as limited resources and lack of support from governing bodies. These barriers were negotiated by having suitable mentors, utilising their sporting and community networks, by brokering relationships with members of the governing body, adopting a partnership approach, and challenging ethnocultural and gendered expectations. All of the participants incorporated aspects of Māori culture and values such as whanaungatanga (kinship), manaakitanga (support) and aroha (compassion) into their leadership style and organizational culture with mainly positive outcomes. Catering to the quadruple bottom line (economic, environmental, social and cultural measures of business success) and adhering to culturally preferred ways of communicating and consulting did, however, place additional strain on these women. The participants reflected a hybrid style of leadership that integrated values and behaviours associated with their sporting, gendered and ethnocultural identities. Further studies on indigenous women in sport leadership need to take place in order to bring to the fore socio-cultural and structural issues that arise due to the intersecting of Indigeneity and gender. In addition, the combined impact that diversity management and gender equity policies have on Indigenous women needs investigating in order to progress the ‘managing diversity’ discussion in sport.  相似文献   

Effective Integration of ICT in Jordanian Schools: An Analysis of Pedagogical and Contextual Impediments in the Science Classroom     

Ahmad Mohammad Qablan  Amjad Abuloum  Jamal Abu Al-Ruz 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2009,18(3):291-300

A series of interviews and classroom observations were conducted with a group of in-service science teachers, students, school principal, and computer lab supervisors, from a “Discovery” female school in Jordan to assess their utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching science. The study also intended to determine how these participants were using ICT and if they had any internal and external impediments in the way of the effective integration of ICT in the teaching of science. Results showed that some participants were using ICT creatively in their science teaching. However, despite considerable political pressure to increase ICT use in the classroom, most expressed frustration at the lack of ICT tools, support from the school, from the Ministry of Education, and from the surrounding community. The article proposes possible resolutions to help these participants overcome their impediments. Some of the suggested resolutions for the internal impediments include involving teachers in preparing the school’s time-table, equipping the school with more ICT tools and offering more training courses for teachers. However, the suggested resolutions for the external impediments involve (1) The Ministry of Education to rethink the administration of board examinations, (2) The school to sacrifice scoring higher in board examinations for preparing more creative and more versatile students’ perspectives.  相似文献   

Examining Effectiveness and Validity of Accommodations for English Language Learners in Mathematics: An Evidence-Based Computer Accommodation Decision System     

Jamal Abedi  Yu Zhang  Susan E. Rowe  Hansol Lee 《Educational Measurement》2020,39(4):41-52

Research indicates that the performance-gap between English Language Learners (ELLs) and their non-ELL peers is partly due to ELLs' difficulty in understanding assessment language. Accommodations have been shown to narrow this performance-gap, but many accommodations studies have not used a randomized design and are based on relatively small sample sizes. Addressing such issues, we administered a standard-based mathematics assessment to approximately 3,000 Grade 9 ELL and non-ELL students under five different language-based accommodations. Results indicate that many of these accommodations did not produce significant gains for the recipients. Some even had a negative impact. We believe several factors may explain these findings. First, newer assessments, including those developed for this study, may have been linguistically modified to the point that further modification has only a limited effect. Second, the language of instruction may have not adequately prepared students for the assessment. If the language of instruction (textbook, etc.) contains unnecessary linguistic complexity, then students may not have had the opportunity to learn the assessed content. A third factor is students’ unfamiliarity with these accommodations because they are seldom used in classroom instruction and teacher assessments. We discuss our findings and implications for policymakers, assessment developers, practitioners, and researchers.  相似文献   

A participatory action research approach to developing youth-friendly strategies for the prevention of teenage pregnancy     

Lesley Wood  Farah Hendricks 《Educational Action Research》2017,25(1):103-118

Teenage pregnancy among school-going youth is a concern worldwide, but in socially–economically challenged environments it is a result of, and contributory factor to, a complex web of social injustice. In South Africa, most of the school-based prevention interventions to date have been adult-designed and imparted, with the voice of the target audience – the youth – being ignored. The purpose of this participatory action research study was to involve school-going youth in the research and development of prevention interventions, tailored to meet their perceived needs. This article focuses on the first cycle where 24 high school participants interrogated their own and their peers’ narratives about teenage pregnancy so as to determine a way forward. Findings indicate that, although the youth perceive parenthood while they are still studying to have a negative impact on their future life goals, the prevention messages mediated by educators and other adults do not take into consideration the needs and lifestyle of teenagers within their specific social context. The implications of the three themes which emerged from the thematic analysis of the interviews, open-ended questionnaires and visual data are discussed to provide guidelines for the design of more youth-friendly prevention education to inform the next cycle of the research. Since teenage pregnancy is a global problem, the findings of this study have international relevance.  相似文献   

Modeling and simulation of shear resistance of R/C beams using artificial neural network     

Jamal A. Abdalla  A. Elsanosi 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2007,344(5):741-756

Artificial neural network (ANN) has been used in several engineering application areas including civil engineering. The use of ANN to predict the behavior of reinforced concrete (R/C) members, using the vast amount of experimental data as a test-bed for learning and verification of results, proved to be a viable method for carrying out parametric studies. This paper presents application of ANN for predicting the shear resistance of rectangular R/C beams. Six parameters that influence the shear resistance of beams, mainly shear-span-to-depth ratio, concrete strength, longitudinal reinforcement, shear reinforcement, beam depth and beam width, are used as input for the ANN. A back propagation neural network (BPNN) with different activation functions is used and their results are compared. The sigmoid function with variable threshold is adopted due to its accuracy of prediction. The ANN prediction and the measured experimental values are compared with the shear strength predictions of ACI318-02 and BS8110 codes. A sensitivity study of the parameters that affect shear strength of R/C beams is carried out and the underlying complex nonlinear relationships among these parameters were investigated. Shear response curves and surfaces based on these parameters were generated. It is concluded that ANN can predict, to a great degree of accuracy, the shear resistance of rectangular R/C beams and it is a viable tool for carrying out parametric study of shear behavior of R/C beams.  相似文献