Foreword to the Thematic Section - Methods of Comparative Education

Bartlett, Lesley; Krawczyk, Nora

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“…Multi-case study design produces utmost sturdiness to the conclusions to proceed out of the study. The use of multi-case studies is synonymous to replication of a study or experiment (Bartlett and Krawczyk, 2017). This means that results from one case should be simultaneously equated with the results from other cases.…”

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Adaptation strategies employed by rural women in the face of climate change impacts in Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa

Nyahunda

Tirivangasi

2022

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PurposeThis study documented adaptation strategies employed by rural women in Vhembe district as they reel with climate change impacts. Women are heavily plagued by climate change impacts than any other genders worldwide. This is attributed to their high dependence on the natural resources for survival, low adaptive capacity, illiteracy, social ascribed roles that limit their participation in climate change initiatives like men and high poverty levels. Despite the daunting fact of women's vulnerability to climate change and its vagary impacts, women are agents of social change who have not remained passive victims to climate change and its impacts.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a qualitative methodology guided by multi-case study design. A sample of 25 participants was selected through simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Data were collected using Focus Group Discussions and individual interviews and analysed thematically. Rural women and traditional leaders served as key informants and participated in the study.FindingsThe study established that the effects of climate change on rural women are real; however, there is a cocktail of strategies employed by women in Vhembe district in response to these effects. The strategies include livelihood and crop diversification, use of indigenous knowledge systems and harnessing of social capital among other household-based adaptation strategies.Originality/valueThe study recommends that the best way of assisting rural women in adapting to climate change is through the amelioration of poverty, enhancing capacity building for women and elimination of all systems that serve as barriers to effective adaptation.

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Adaptation strategies employed by rural women in the face of climate change impacts in Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa

Nyahunda

Tirivangasi

2022

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“…Em face aos citados desdobramentos epistemológicos e contextuais, a década de 1990 se constitui em marco histórico para as discussões sobre as reconfigurações teórico e metodológicas da educação comparada em função de questionar o seu papel no atual contexto dos sistemas de ensino nas sociedades capitalistas (Schriewer, 2002). A argumentação consensual é que o campo internacional da educação segue embasado na noção de comparação (Bartlett & Krawczyk, 2017). Com efeito, as teorias críticas e pós-críticas despontam oferecendo novos olhares para a educação comparada, que estaria transitando dos sistemas de ensino para as escolas, das estruturas e instituições para os atores sociais, do plano das ideias para o do discurso, dos fatos sociais para a dimensão política (Souza & Batista, 2017).…”

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A gestão democrática da escola pública em contextos de reformas educacionais locais: Estudo comparado entre Brasil e Espanha

Batista

Pereyra

2020

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Democratic management as a way of organizing the public school can be translated in its contemporary historicity as a collective action that demands changes in the autocratic and hierarchical structure of the school unit. In this article, we analyze the process of constructing legislation on democratic school management in contexts of local educational reforms, based on Brazilian and Spanish cases. Methodologically, we understand educational legislation as documents that incorporate discourses with legitimate authority, especially of the State, and that spread conceptions of the world as a result of disputes over hegemony in the field of educational policies. In terms of results, our study points out that throughout the process of producing legislation for the democratic management of schools, the two countries showed advances and setbacks regarding the specification of the school actors who should participate in decision-making processes, as well as the instances of participation in school management.

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Identifying Difficulties of Software Modeling Through Class Diagrams: A Long-Term Comparative Analysis

2022

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Software modeling is a creative activity in which software components and their relationships are identified based on customer requirements. Based on the literature, object-oriented software modeling is based on four fundamental pillars which are abstraction, encapsulation, decomposition, and inheritance. However, despite the existence of guidelines and recommendations for implementing the object-oriented approach, novice software designers do not make good design decisions, leading to inefficient designs that cannot be modifiable, understandable, or user-friendly distribute at the development level. The literature reveals that the most common difficulties faced by software designers is a lack of understanding and confusion of concepts related to the object-oriented approach, as well as difficulties in creating Unified Modeling Language diagrams, especially class diagrams. The work presented in this article uses a qualitative and quantitative approach to determine, in a group of university students, what are the most recurrent difficulties and their persistence during the time. The qualitative case study is the method that allowed to generate the documents: diagnostic and evaluation tests. Additionally, a thematic analysis was used to identify, analyze and report patterns within the data. In order to know the occurrences of the problems in the case study, as part of our quantitative approach, a comparative study was applied to compare the results obtained between the diagnostic and evaluation tests and thus establish the similarities and differences among the cases observed, through the hierarchical clustering technique. The findings of this study show us 16 difficulties identified after the qualitative analysis, while the quantitative analysis shows us the number of occurrences and their persistence over time. The difficulties reported in both analyzes focus on these three difficulties: a) Definition of attributes that could be a class, b) Classes with inadequate or insufficient behavior and, c) Incorrect use of multiplicity between classes. Each of these difficulties is analyzed in depth in this study.

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Foreword to the Thematic Section - Methods of Comparative Education

Cited by 3 publications

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Adaptation strategies employed by rural women in the face of climate change impacts in Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa

Adaptation strategies employed by rural women in the face of climate change impacts in Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa

A gestão democrática da escola pública em contextos de reformas educacionais locais: Estudo comparado entre Brasil e Espanha

Identifying Difficulties of Software Modeling Through Class Diagrams: A Long-Term Comparative Analysis

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