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Empowering minds and fostering inclusion: ELT graduate students' experiences with critical pedagogy
(FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2025) Zaimoğlu, Senem; Dağtaş, Aysun
Introduction This research focuses on how graduate students in a Master's level English Language Teaching (ELT) program in T & uuml;rkiye experienced transformative learning through a course on critical pedagogy (CP). Grounded in Mezirow's transformative learning theory and Freirean principles, the study explores how engagement with the sociopolitical dimensions of language education challenged participants' assumptions and transformed their cognitive, emotional, and relational understandings of teaching.Methods Data were collected from eight participants through weekly reflective journals structured around Gibbs' Reflective Cycle that guides individuals to reflect systematically on their experiences and follow-up semistructured interviews. Following Braun and Clarke's six-phase framework to thematic analysis, five overarching themes were identified that encapsulate the participants' experiences: Confronting Disorienting Dilemmas, Shifting Perspectives (Cognitive Transformations), Navigating Emotional Journeys, Evolving Classroom Relationships, and Embracing Transformative Learning Processes.Results The results revealed that participants encountered disorienting dilemmas that prompted self-examination and shifts in identity, beliefs, and pedagogical stances. While students valued dialogic learning, critical inquiry, and real-world connections, some reported discomfort when addressing controversial topics-highlighting persistent hierarchical dynamics within educational settings.Discussion Despite these tensions, participants demonstrated growing commitment to inclusive and socially engaged teaching. This research contributes to inclusive teacher education by demonstrating how structured reflection and emotionally responsive learning environments can foster transformation. It also calls for further research on the long-term enactment of critical pedagogy in diverse institutional contexts.
Assessment of Green Logistics Market Performance of Selected Countries: A Comprehensive and Novel Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach
(WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, 2025) Özekenci, Emre Kadir
This study assesses the green logistics market performance of the top twenty emerging markets identified in the Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index (AEMLI) report. The primary emerging markets-China, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, Qatar, Thailand, Vietnam, Chile, T & uuml;rkiye, Brazil, Oman, Russia, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Uruguay, and South Africa-serve as benchmarks for evaluating logistics efficiency and environmental performance. The decision model for this study encompasses seven criteria: Domestic Logistics Opportunity, International Logistics Opportunity, Business Fundamentals, Digital Readiness, Ecosystem Vitality, Environmental Health, and Climate Change. These criteria were derived from a thorough literature review. Data were obtained from the AEMLI and Environmental Performance Index (EPI) reports published by Agility & Transport Intelligence and the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. Criterion weights were established using the Symmetry Point of Criterion (SPC). The ranking of alternatives employed several MCDM methods: Ranking of Alternatives with Weights of Criterion (RAWEC), Ranking the Solutions based on the Mean Value of Criteria (RSMVC), Stable Preference Ordering Towards Ideal Solution (SPOTIS), and the Extended Alternative Ranking Order Method with two-step normalization (AROMAN). The results were aggregated using the Borda Count Method. Findings from the SPC reveal that the international logistics opportunity is the most significant criterion, whereas business fundamentals rank as the least important. The Borda Count analysis indicates that China, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil consistently rank as top performers across various methods. Conversely, T & uuml;rkiye, Indonesia, Kuwait, Bahrain, South Africa, and Vietnam generally show lower rankings across most methods. Additionally, sensitivity and comparative analyses were conducted to enhance the robustness of the findings. The results of this study are anticipated to provide valuable insights into the green logistics market performance of selecting emerging markets.
Adaptive market hypothesis: insights from BRIC-T countries' stock markets
(WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, 2025) Özekenci, Süreyya Yılmaz
Comparing the Efficient Market Hypothesis and Behavioral Finance, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH), which identifies the extremes of these two hypotheses and adapts them to each other, argues that calendar anomalies can coexist, but also focuses on how investor behavior reacts to changing market conditions. This study aims to investigate whether the stock markets of BRIC-T countries are consistent with the AMH, including crisis periods, using daily data for the period 01.01.2000-31.12.2023. To this end, daily index return series of each country were constructed and analyzed with the help of Wild-bootstrap Variance ratio test, BDS test and Ljung and Box Q Portmanteau tests. According to the Wild-bootstrap Variance ratio test, both EMH and AMH are not valid in the equity markets of BRIC-T countries; according to the BDS test results, AMH is valid and according to the Ljung and Box Q Portmanteau test results, AMH is valid. Therefore, it is concluded that AMH is more successful than EMH in explaining the equity markets of BRIC-T countries.
Looking at the Eastern Mediterranean Through the Lens of Epistemic Community
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2026) Şahin, Sevgi Balkan; Çetiner, Özge
This article examines how scholarly knowledge production shapes prevailing policy narratives regarding the Eastern Mediterranean. Relying on Haas's epistemic community concept, the article investigates how epistemic community on the Eastern Mediterranean influence particular conceptions of collaboration, conflict, and regional order. Rather than accepting academic studies as merely explicators of the regional status quo, the article emphasizes how these studies contribute to the creation and reproduction of Eurocentric, state-centric, and security-oriented perspectives. To provide a more in-depth engagement regarding the production, legitimization, and dissemination of knowledge within the academic community, the article examines academic studies on the Eastern Mediterranean indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection between 1995 and 2025 through a combination of bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review methodologies. By employing a two-pronged methodology, including descriptive statistics, network analysis, textual analysis, and coding of authors' genders, and theoretical and methodological frameworks, this article presents a multifaceted perspective regarding the Eastern Mediterranean, illuminating both biases and knowledge gaps. Findings reveal a prevalence of discursive bias towards conflict rather than cooperation, dominance of Eurocentric approaches at the expense of non-Western or local perspectives, and gender disparities in authorship.
Multidimensional trade performance assessment for integrating sustainability and economic diversification in OECD countries using a spherical fuzzy SIWEC-SPC-based decision support model
(ELSEVIER, 2025) Yalçın, Galip Cihan; Kara, Karahan; Özekenci, Emre Kadir; Simic, Vladimir; Pamucar, Dragan
Countries participate in regional trade blocks to enhance their trade activities and trade performance. This study proposes a novel approach to trade performance assessment, introducing innovations both in terms of performance parameters and methodology. From a performance parameter perspective, the inclusion of sustainable development and economic diversity levels in trade performance evaluation differentiates this study from traditional trade performance measurement approaches. From a methodological perspective, a hybrid model that simultaneously considers both subjective and objective criterion weighting based on expert opinions is introduced. The spherical fuzzy (SF)-simple weight calculation (SIWEC)-symmetry point of criterion (SPC)-opportunity losses-based polar coordinate distance (OPLO-POCOD) model, developed as a decision support system, is proposed for evaluating the trade performance of country blocs. SF-SIWEC is employed as the subjective criterion weighting method, while SPC serves as the objective criterion weighting method. The OPLO-POCOD alternative ranking method is employed to calculate the trade performance of countries. The proposed methodology is applied to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. According to the subjective weighting method, "sustainable development (0.0978)" emerges as the most important criterion, whereas in the objective weighting method, "number of product types (export) (0.1612)" is identified as the most significant one. In the final criterion weights, "number of product types (export) (0.1232)" is also determined to be the most important criterion. Considering the final criterion weights, the United States (0.9871) has the highest trade performance among the OECD countries. Thus, when both sustainability and economic diversification are considered, it is understood that the most influential criteria in determining multidimensional trade performance are the number of exported product types and sustainable development. From this perspective, the United States stands out as the country with the highest multidimensional trade performance among OECD countries. This study contributes to the literature by integrating sustainability and economic diversification parameters into trade performance measurement as well as proposing a comprehensive methodology for performance evaluation in trade blocs.
