Authors:Halil ŞİMDİ; Büşra GARİP Abstract: We examine the trends in the studies published in international trade journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS) before and after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This study investigates the 5001 abstracts of trade articles starting from the post-millennium period by addressing issues in WoS database trade journals using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model. The purpose of the study is to evaluate whether topics and words differ that have been discussed in international trade literature before and after GFC. Mostly, contain topics differ when two periods are compared, although trade agreements and disputes, stock markets, and growth issues are frequently mentioned in both periods. In the post-crisis period, volatility, banks, and firm-specific issues are more popular. It is also among the findings that Asian economies gained importance after GFC. Generally, it has been revealed that the topics and titles in the trade literature can reflect current developments in international economics. Therefore, probably for next years, advances in technology as blockchain, emerging economies –especially China and India – and firm-based micro-scale papers will dominate the trade journals. PubDate: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Çiğdem İNCİ KUZU; Mounzer MLEHAN AL JADAAN Abstract: This research is aimed to determine the general problems that the students encounter in the education-teaching environment and especially their difficulties in mathematics education, in line with the opinions of the Syrian refugee students studying in Şanlıurfa and the teachers who teach mathematics courses. The case study approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The research participants are mathematics teachers who teach Syrian refugee students in Şanlıurfa in the 2020-2021 academic year, Syrian refugee students have been educated in these schools, and a national education inspector have been working in this province. Participants were formed according to easily accessible situation sampling, one of the purposeful sampling methods. The eight of the participants are students, the four of them are mathematics teachers, and one is a national education inspector. The data of the research were collected by semi-structured interview technique and analysed in accordance with the content analysis technique. In the analysis of the data, the descriptive analysis technique was used. According to the research findings, it has been determined that solving Syrian refugee students’ educational problems, especially the language problem, should be resolved. The appropriate education program should be planned. The course hours should be arranged, the right resources should be prepared and used for mathematics education, and the necessary psychological support should be provided to the refugee students. It is among the results that the mathematics teachers, who stated that they tried to exhibit an attitude in the classroom environment in a way that would enable students to integrate with each other, had consistent experiences. In addition, according to the findings obtained from the opinions of mathematics teachers, it was determined that refugee students could not understand mathematical problems correctly. It is recommended that curricula should be planned in a suitable way for refugee children and that this issue should be arranged in a long-term manner. PubDate: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Abdurrahim GÜLER; Murat YILDIRIM Abstract: Today, international migration has caused many ethnic groups to live in culturally diverse societies. Turkish immigrants in the United States is one of those ethnic groups whose population is growing. Despite the growing Turkish population, there is currently little research on how acculturation can influence the subjective wellbeing of Turkish immigrants living in the United States. This study sought to examine to what extent heritage and host acculturations were associated with the subjective wellbeing of Turkish immigrants residing in the United States. The study included 306 foreign-born Turkish Americans who are between 19 to 69 years old (mean = 39.39). They completed the Vancouver Index of Acculturation, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and Short-Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. The results showed that participants reported higher levels of heritage and host acculturation, satisfaction with life and positive affect, and lower levels of negative affect. No gender differences were reported across these variables. Acculturation was positively related to satisfaction with life and positive affect and negatively related with negative affect. Host acculturation uniquely predicted satisfaction with life, positive affect, and negative affect after controlling for demographic characteristics. These findings highlight the unique importance of host acculturation in enhancing subjective wellbeing for Turkish immigrants and advance future research in this area. PubDate: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +030
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