{"title":"Challenges and research gap in project-based learning – A review","authors":"Muhammad Hafeez","doi":"10.18844/ijss.v6i1.5633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijss.v6i1.5633","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st-century learning requirements are different from the 20th-century learning requirements. Critical thinking skills are requirements for learning, and to achieve critical thinking skills, various new learning techniques and strategies have been developed and applied. By applying new learning techniques and strategies, various challenges have been faced by researchers and instructors. The objectives of this study were to highlight the project-based learning (PjBL) used at different educational levels; to discuss the challenges and their solutions; and to present the research gap in the PjBL strategy. This was achieved using the literature review methods, with resources from previous studies. This study will help the researchers and instructors to carry out more research on the challenges and solutions of PjBL.\u0000Keywords: Critical thinking skills, instructors, learners, learning strategies, problems;","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127485415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Literacy: A Bibliometric Analysis for the Period of 1990-2021","authors":"A. A. Alsmadi","doi":"10.18844/ijss.v6i1.7469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijss.v6i1.7469","url":null,"abstract":"Financial literacy can be defined as the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy is the foundation of your relationship with money, and it is a lifelong journey of learning. This paper analyses the publications on Financial literacy, and their intellectual structure and networking. The bibliometric data on Financial literacy research have been extracted from the Scopus database. This study finds the most productive countries, universities, authors, journals, and most prolific publications in Financial literacy, by examining the published works. Also, the study visualizes the intellectual network by mapping bibliographic coupling (BC) and co-citation. The study’s essential contribution is the analysis of Financial literacy developments and trajectories that can help scholars and practitioners to appreciate the trend and future studies. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: Financial literacy; systematic review; future research; bibliometric analysis.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116816046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political participation and perceptions of justice and fairness: evidence from ESS data","authors":"Vitalija Simonaitytė, Ligita Sarkute","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5398","url":null,"abstract":"There is a huge gap in research about the connection between political participation and perception of justice and fairness since few authors have analysed this phenomenon. The purpose of this article is to analyse the connection between political participation and people’s perception of fairness and justice, using a representative sample of the European Social Survey (ESS). This article is based on European Social Survey data of the 9th Round. Interviews were carried out with 47,086 respondents aged 15 and over in 27 European countries. The method of statistical data analysis was the correlation analysis of measures of political participation and measures of perceptions and evaluations of justice and fairness (Pearson’s r coefficient). From the results of the study, it was concluded that people participating in all political activities more often agree that society is fair when the political system allows people to have a say in what the government does.\u0000Keywords: Distributive justice; Europe; fairness; justice; political participation; procedural justice.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126727702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualization of 'Foot' metaphors in Persian and English idioms/proverbs: an intercultural communication study","authors":"A. Rahimi, Z. Karimi","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5879","url":null,"abstract":"Peoples' experiences with their bodies play an essential role in the emergence of figurative thought. Hence, body-organ terms as a mapping process between the two domains are closely connected to the speakers' conceptual system. This study investigates the conceptualization of 'foot' in as many as 10000 Persian proverbs and idioms in six related Iranian proverb books. Conducting a corpus-based analysis, based on Schematic's model of conceptualization of cultural cognition developed by Sharifian (2011). This study elucidates how 'Pa,' the Persian equivalent for Foot, is conceptualized as being either tantamount to or being in the locality of feelings, thoughts, memories, and personality traits. Based on the findings, the body part 'Pa' provides a conceptual foundation for Persian speakers to represent their cognitive, emotional, socio-cultural, and linguistic experiences.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Body organs; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Intercultural communication; Intercultural sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122044779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing women's business skills and entrepreneurial sustainability through informal entrepreneurship education","authors":"Adeola Adesola Essien, A. Adelekan","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5567","url":null,"abstract":" \u0000The role of women in business and how they contribute to national development cannot be overemphasised. There is a need to understand the role of informal education in enhancing the capacity of female managers and sustaining national growth. Hence, this study aims to establish the effect of informal entrepreneurial education on businesswomen management skills and entrepreneurial sustainability. The survey research design was employed in the study. 385 small and medium enterprises owners who are women were sampled. The regression analysis was employed in the study. The findings reveal that informal entrepreneurial education is a positive and significant driver of businesswomen’s management skills and entrepreneurial sustainability. it is recommended that SMEs owners, especially women, should aggressively increase their daily lives' learning capabilities. These will increase their capacity to improve their operations and discover new ways of doing things that will better enterprises' performance in the long run.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Entrepreneurship; informal education; Skills; sustainability; women.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127323132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of entrepreneurial capabilities in small and medium enterprises’ competitiveness in Lagos State","authors":"O. Ogunkoya, Oladele Ifedayo Agbaje","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5753","url":null,"abstract":"Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are the foundation of any economic activity. As issues arise in the environment, there is a need to incorporate or optimize several other new capabilities to explain small and medium enterprises' competitiveness. The study aims to investigate entrepreneurial capabilities and SMEs' competitiveness in Lagos state. It employs a survey research design. Cross-sectional data from the primary source were collected through the means of a validated and reliable questionnaire. A sample of 400 respondents was purposefully drawn from the population. The data were analyzed using ordinary least square statistics. The results show that entrepreneurial networking is the most significant driver of SMEs' competitiveness, followed by entrepreneurial networking and then by proactiveness. The study concludes that entrepreneurial capabilities are critical to SMEs' competitive advantage. It recommends that entrepreneurs should develop their capabilities to be able to achieve competitiveness.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Entrepreneurial Capabilities; Proactiveness; Marketing Orientation; Networking, SMEs.\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128810133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting future: Language teaching today and tomorrow","authors":"Gabriella Kovács, I. Nagy, Enikő Biró","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5475","url":null,"abstract":"With the present pandemic, a sudden shift away from classrooms has changed the focus of language teaching. New sources, methods, and techniques had to be employed, generating unanticipated changes both for language teachers and language learners. This paper aims to describe the future of language education with the presentation of possible scenarios embedded into the course of paradigm shifts in language teaching. The study analyzes those events, processes, and tendencies which may carry predictive value for the future of language teaching. Those changes which have emerged due to online education, using focus groups and interview-based qualitative research methods for data collection are defined. According to the research results, the future of language teaching and learning is going to be based on four pillars and increased autonomy, which refers to individually tailored methods and contents during online education.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Future; language teaching; online education; qualitative research.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131929546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-Commerce Free Returns: Are they really free?","authors":"Tanvi Sharma","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5493","url":null,"abstract":"The expansion of the e-commerce industry is at the speed of thought. However, a big debate arises out of a small question that can the e-commerce industry be ever considered an environmentally clean way of doing business. This research aims to trace how the e-commerce free returns policy adversely affects the environment. The present study is exploratory cum descriptive in nature. The research work is purely doctrinal and is a result of a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature on the said issue. The researcher seeks to add to the existing literature by providing suggestions and a future action plan for the problem so stated above. Based on the findings of this study, it is evident that the e-commerce industry can lead to environmental pollution, especially with fast fashion. The study makes recommendations based on the findings of the study.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: e-commerce; environment; fast fashion; free returns; online returns.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128756450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysing the effects of Covid-19 on homelessness in Spain during the first quarantine","authors":"Raluca Cosmina Budian, Ligita Sarkute","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5422","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to reflect the difficulties encountered by homeless people and homelessness in general, in the face of the crisis due to Covid-19, focusing on the situation in Spain. The paper describes the different responses carried out by different entities, both Spanish and international when dealing with homeless people. The study explains how the global solution of accommodation in different reception centres or hostels for homeless people, is not a solution that protects this group, but quite the opposite. To this end, we are committed to a model that has been in full development since the 1990s, the Housing First model as well. In conclusion, we focus on the importance of institutional coordination when offering a response to homelessness, regardless of the area where we are, with special attention to the Housing First model as a measure to be considered in the long term.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Covid-19; homeless people; homelessness; housing; shelters.","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116999931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Göç olgusunun sosyal dişlanma ekseninde analizi","authors":"Gülşen Gerşil","doi":"10.18844/ijntss.v4i2.4712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/ijntss.v4i2.4712","url":null,"abstract":"Goc olgusu, sadece goc sorunu ile mucadele eden ulkelerde degil, tum ulkelerin oncelikli olarak tartistiklari konular arasinda yerini almistir. Goclerin nedenleri; issizlik, yoksulluk, egitim cografi yapi, yoksunluk, siyasi veya istihdam kaynakli olabilir. Ancak gocun temel kaynagi isgucunun hareketliligidir. Kuresellesme sureciyle birlikte ortaya cikan gelir esitsizligi nedeniyle isgucu arz ve talebi ulusal sinirlari asarak uluslararasilasmistir. Her ulke gocle farkli bicimlerde; hedef ulke, kaynak ulke, transit ulke kavramlariyla yuzlesmek zorunda kalmistir. Dunyada 20 ila 30 milyon arasinda duzensiz goc gerceklestigi tahmin edilmektedir. Son yillarda, Turkiye cografi konumu nedeniyle gocmenlerin duzensiz olarak gecici ve transit gecis yolu olarak kullandiklari bir ulke durumundadir. Gelismis ulkeler nitelikli gocmenleri kabul etmekte dusuk nitelikli gocmenleri ise kabul etmemektedirler. Bu baglamda, goc sorunu sadece ekonomik boyutlari ile degil sosyal boyutlari ile de oldukca onemli bir sorundur. Gocmenlerin bulunduklari ulkelerde entegrasyon surecleri oldukca uzun ve guc olmaktadir. Gocmen olmalari nedeniyle issizlik ve buna bagli yoksulluk ve sosyal dislanma ile karsi karsiya kalmaktadirlar. Bu calismanin amaci, Son yillarda Turkiye’nin karsi karsiya kaldigi goc olgusunun kavramsal boyutlarinin belirlenerek, gocmenlerin karsi karsiya kaldiklari yoksulluk sorunlarinin yani sira sosyal dislanma boyutunun neden ve sonuclariyla analizi gerceklestirilecektir.\u0000Anahtar Kelimeler: Goc, Gocmen, Issizlik, Yoksulluk, Sosyal Dislanma","PeriodicalId":189745,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126577826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}