Cultura

Culture and Technology: Reconfiguring the Attitudes of Pre-Service Science Teachers

VOLUME 21, 2024

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Oscar Jardey Suárez, María Lorcy Rosero Mora

Abstract

Pre-service science teacher education faces the challenge of integrating technology in culturally diverse settings, where attitudes toward it shape its educational appropriation. This study analyzes changes in attitudes toward technology among pre-service science teachers at a public university in southwestern Colombia, before and after a teaching sequence oriented toward computational thinking. Using a quantitative approach and a one-group quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design, the Pupils Attitude Towards Technology (PATT) instrument was administered to twenty-five pre-service teachers enrolled in a Natural Sciences and Environmental Education program. Results show statistically significant differences between both observations, a low overall Hake gain alongside a substantial shift in attitudes toward technology-related careers, and a reconfiguration of the underlying attitudes identified through exploratory factor analysis. The discussion reads these changes through a semiotic understanding of culture, arguing that the reported attitudes encode locally meaningful associations between technology and cultural practices such as the Black and White Carnival, agriculture, and the arts. The study concludes that the teaching sequence had a positive, culturally situated effect on pre-service teachers' attitudes toward technology.

Keywords : Technology attitudes, computational thinking, cultural diversity, pre-service teacher education, science education, PATT instrument.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty