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Anitha Devi. V¹ & K. Revathi²

¹Associate Professor of English in VIT University Vellore. Email: vanithadevi@vit.ac.in. ²Professor of English in VIT University Vellore.

Volume 8, Number 3, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n3.27

Received January 30, 2016; Revised May 13, 2016; Accepted July 25, 2016; Published August 18, 2016

Abstract

The role of computer and technology in education is a subject which still shows a lot of scope for further exploration. Out of myriad possibilities that computer offer, the advantage of immediate feedback that it provides, forms the center of discussion in this paper. The paper puts forth certain research questions such as how the provision of immediate feedback works amongst the language learners and what its advantages are over traditional corrective feedback. The answers to these questions are sought through integrated cross sectional literature review which is very much related to this subject and is potent enough to provide explanation to these questions. This paper reviews the literature on the studies on immediate feedback in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).Technology and Computer based learning is all pervasive in language education for its quick response. The use of feedback through computers being significant, it is necessary to look at how immediate feedback has been effectively used in the past two decades. The paper further develops discussion various advantages of the possibilities of immediate feedback from computer and technology in education.

Keywords: Computer, technology, education, self-study, feedback.

Arijit Ghosh¹ & Madhumathi Pasupathi²

^1,2Assistant Professors in the Department of English, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. ORCID Ids: 0000-0001-9424-8223 &  0000-0001-7751-4470. Email: arijit2net@gmail.com

Volume 8, Number 3, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n3.28

Received June 02, 2016; Revised July 21, 2016; Accepted July 28, 2016; Published August 18, 2016

Abstract

Violence against children is continuing in schools across India in spite of the strict laws against the use of Corporal Punishment (CP) at schools. The purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for the perpetration of corporal punishments at a random selection of Indian schools as experienced by the students. The population of the sample is small but and the result may be indicative and at the same time may not reflect the condition in the whole of India. The study focuses on the notions of violence within family and the actions of violence which are socio-culturally judged as acceptable in the form of CP at school. The findings show that students moderately approve violence in the form of CP at schools. The findings also suggest that perceived parental approval of CP highly influenced the children to psychologically adjust and approve the violence at schools. The study further suggests the need to strengthen the bonds of trust among parents-child relationships in order to curb the menace of CP at schools.

 Keywords: Corporal Punishment; Indian students; SPCP; parent-child relationship; child abuse

Rohit K Dasgupta, University of Southampton

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n3.29 I Volume 8, Number 3, 2016 I Full Text PDF

Received May 19, 2016; Accepted July 28, 2016; Published August 18, 2016

Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Heteromedia gaze in Film and Television, Christopher Pullen, 2016 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 9780748694846

Same Sex desire in Indian Culture: Representations in Literature and Film 1970-2015, Oliver Ross, 2016 London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781137570758

Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places, Jin Haritaworn, 2015, London: Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745330617

Entering Transmasculinity: The inevitability of Discourse, Matthew Heinz, 2016 Bristol: Intellect, ISBN 9781783205684

Scholarship on queer studies has grown exponentially in the last two decades ever since it emerged in the 1990’s. They have all contributed significantly to various cross-disciplinary fields and regional studies. In this short piece I offer a review of four recent books which have taken queer studies to new forms of critical advancement. All four books offer diverse forms of disciplinary and theoretical grounding and different methodological approaches towards studying queer texts and cultures. Keep Reading

Reviewed by Rohit K Dasgupta, University of Southampton

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n3.30 I Volume 8, Number 3, 2016 I Full Text PDF

 Received May 19, 2016; Accepted July 28, 2016; Published August 18, 2016

The Anonymous Revolutionary: A Collection of Communist Writings, Max Edwards, 2016 London: Short Books, ISBN 9781780722948

To simple say I have been eagerly waiting to read and review this book would be an understatement. I have been reading Max Edward’s blog of the same name since around May, 2015 and was quite impressed with this sixteen year old’s nuanced observations of everyday politics around the world. Edwards who died earlier this year whilst battling cancer began his blog in the winter of 2014 sharing his ideas of Marxism and communism with an ever-growing reader base. This blog went on to become the basis of the book which was published in February of this year. Keep Reading

Postcolonial, antistereotypical gender radicalism, and identity constitute the themes of this issue of Rupkatha. Political dimensions of any discourse analysis is always relevant and literary texts which break  down walls are therefore revalorized because of this importantly continuing trend in literary studies. Rupkatha has never been unfaithful to the agenda of open and subverted criticism of totalitarian strategies in politics, discourse and the languages of the arts and literature. The analysis of discourse assumes importance in the context of recent political and socioeconomic campaign, all over the world.

J.G. Kheswa
University of Fort Hare, South Africa

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 2, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n2.17

Abstract
An exposure to homophobic attacks may vary by a person’s place of residency, and at the university, lesbians may function at their optimal level when receiving social and emotional support from the significant others. The aim of this study was to investigate how lesbian students at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, deal with discrimination. Twenty- one lesbians, aged between 19 and 37 years old, were selected using snowball technique and they gave their informed consent to participate in a qualitative study.  Drawing from resilience theory as a theoretical framework of this study, the findings showed that lesbian students experience unconditional positive regard from their lecturers and reported high levels of psychological well-being, namely, self-acceptance, self-autonomy, purpose and meaning in life, positive relationship with others and environmental mastery. In conclusion, this study recommends the implementation of policies on transformation to address diversity at the universities.

Keywords: lesbians, discrimination, self-esteem, university, psychological well-being.

E. A. Martynova, E. N. Rodina, E. N. Chekushkina & R. G. Kostina
Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Russia

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 2, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n2.16

Abstract

The article considers the innovative resources dynamics of vocational educational establishment in the context of the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M. E. Evseviev. Today, in the context of innovative economy formation in Russia, numerous social changes are taking place due to increasing integration of science, education and production. These trends require initiation of the research on the interaction of institutions in complex economic systems. One of the key areas concerns the study of science and education integration forms as exemplified by contemporary higher education institutions, which are transforming into an innovative organizations, as well as quality assessment of their intellectual and creative capacity development. The aim of this work is to identify changes in the contemporary pedagogical higher educational institution, conditioned by general trends in the transformation of socio-economic systems. The complexity and diversity of the research subject predetermined the use of the approaches, such as comparative historical method, document analysis, as well as axiological and systemic analysis. The analytical results of scientific-research and scientific-pedagogical practical work of the pedagogical institute allow talking about significant innovative capacity of its intellectual resources, which has been rapidly and considerably increased over the past five years. This is evidenced from the results of the creative work undertaken by the higher educational institution’s staff.

Keywords. Vocational education, pedagogical higher educational institution, innovative educational organization, innovative capacity, innovative resource, evolution dynamics of the innovation resources at the institution of higher pedagogical education.

I. Ilina, E. Kryukova, A. Zotova & E. Kuznetsova & E. Nakhratova
Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 2, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n2.15

Abstract

The article analyses the relative position of the Russian teachers from higher education institutions in professional labor market in transition. The specificity of teachers’ situation in the labor market is revealed in conditions of shift from administrative command system to market relations. There are distinguished the factors that increase the risk of job loss risk by teachers of different categories. The characteristics of main forms and types of “professorate” unemployment in modern stage are discussed. Based on the results of sociological survey, the relation of teachers to the market economy is analyzed and an attempt is made to find out the way which can stabilize teachers’ professional position at the time when new educational policies are being implemented in order to optimize the field of higher education.

Keywords: Labor market, academic teachers, unemployment, employment, higher school upgrading.

Nurbol Koyshybaevich Abishev
Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan

 Victor Alekseevich Dalinger
Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russia

Yessen Yklasovich Bidaibekov
Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan

Oleg Victorovich Knyazyev
Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russia

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 2, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n2.14

Abstract

This article discusses changes happening in higher education systems of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan namely  diversification,  democratization, globalization and regionalization of education, as well as the main directions of modernization of these systems according to the Bologna Declaration: increased access to the European education, improving the quality of higher education, introducing comprehensible, comparable qualifications in higher education, introducing assessment of study attainment and performance in terms of credit points, inclusion of the curriculum in the diploma supplement, the increased mobility of students, teachers and administrative staff. The article also deals with the problems of higher education in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, and analyzes competency-based approach to the construction of the educational process in higher education, and comments on the shortcomings of the competency-based approach. It also covers the basics of active and interactive learning technologies and methods for the diagnosis and assessment of learning outcomes (NPS – technology of assessment of the quality of learning outcomes, the system of expert assessments and the method of calculating Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient).

Keywords: higher education, competency-based approach, NPS-technology of assessment of the quality of learning outcomes, the system of expert evaluations.