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Sociopolitical crisis and non-state schooling in Jordan
No full textNon-state schools, a broad category of educational providers funded, owned or managed by private, philanthropic, or intergovernmental organizations, are increasingly seen by the global donor community as potential partners in meeting national and international educational development goals. The growing presence of non-state schools in the Levant region, particularly Lebanon, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, acutely reflects this trend; every year, more parents choose to send their children to non-state schools in these countries. While these developments have arguably led to increased access to education at all levels, the heavier reliance on non-state schools, especially for-profit private providers, creates new challenges. The departure of higher performing pupils from the public sector weakens the system overall due to peer effects. Furthermore, non-state schools can exit the market when facing financial constraints like during economic or health crises, in turn causing mass inflows of pupils back into an already stressed state school system. This chapter examines the non-state school profile of the Jordanian education system before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at the differential impacts of the pandemic on state and non-state school enrollment. Drawing on a suite of statistical data on educational provision and consumption in Jordan, it follows the sharp withdrawal of private providers in 2020 and increase in state school enrollments, illustrating the underlying risk and limited resilience of non-state educational provision
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Exploring the challenges and practices of citizenship education in national and civic education grades ten and eleven classroom in Lebanon
Full text linkThroughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lebanon's pluralisms of multiconfessional\ud
and multicultural communities continue to sway the nation to and fro\ud
between conflict and post-conflict statuses. Since 1946, however, leaders in government\ud
and education have focused on citizenship education as a fundamental vehicle for social\ud
cohesion, justice and peace. Understandings of citizenship that teachers and students have\ud
as well as their experiences of teaching and learning it inside the National and Civic\ud
Education classroom provide insight into the challenges and practices of learning for\ud
active citizenship.\ud
Across 16 schools, data was collected from 19 civics teachers through semi-structured\ud
interviews. Also, 435 students in years 10 and 11 participated in a self-reflective survey\ud
pack and class discussion. The first section of the survey pack allowed students to\ud
construct their conceptualizations of citizenship while the second section inquired into\ud
their learning experiences.\ud
The teachers presented a nationalist-based citizenship and an education that allowed\ud
students to practice democracy and demanded strategies of memorization for learning\ud
content knowledge. The students conceptualized a maximal notion of citizenship and\ud
argued to replace current practices of memorization with collaborative and dialogic\ud
learning activities. Students also found the textbooks prescriptive and, consequently,\ud
hypocritical. Teachers and students experienced difficulties and limitations with the\ud
curriculum, timetable and the management of emotions during controversial discussions.\ud
Students and teachers in Lebanon have, for the first time to date, described their\ud
conceptions of citizenship and discussed their civic education classroom experiences.\ud
From the evidence, I discovered the limitations of dialogic and participative classroom\ud
learning activities, a catch-22 of citizenship learning and a model of education for active\ud
citizenship. The innovative methodology pioneered a participative learning activity and\ud
an exercise demonstrating the capabilities of students contributing to education reform
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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