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‘Beating their unclad chests’
No full textBeset by decades of underfunding, universities are increasingly comporting themselves as entrepreneurial corporations focussed more upon branding, world rankings and quantifiable performance measures than education for social justice. These conditions are opening doors of universities to outside corporations in search of business; for instance, voluntourism is one such industry that is ever more present on Australian campuses advertising ‘transformative’, once in a lifetime journeys overseas. This chapter analyses the hegemonic discourses evident in a set of voluntourism advertising materials before considering the current rise of international service in Australian higher education in the same analytic light. The chapter considers the agency of critical pedagogues inside neoliberal universities to engage students wishing to ‘make a difference’ in ‘disadvantaged’ contexts with dispositions that move beyond self-interest such that ‘transformation’ enables greater social consciousness. These explorations are ultimately used to question how aspects of the marketisation and corporatisation of higher education that frame these ventures might serve as vehicles for turning the analytic gaze back upon the neoliberal university itself.Sam Schul
Re-imagining young children's literacy education for their democratic participation
No full textEarly years literacy education in Australia, USA and UK is increasingly constructed as a de-democratised space—characterised by a growing preoccupation with formalised basic literacy skills instruction, literacy for school readiness, and high stakes accountability. In such a space, children’s agency is diminished, and the full range of capabilities necessary to democratic participation is obfuscated. If literacy education programs are to foster children’s capabilities for engaging in democracy, then meaningful pedagogies are needed that marshal children’s agency, foster children’s reflective literacy practices, and draw children together to help forge collective bonds integral to democratic participation. Framing literacy as social practice in contemporary socio-political contexts in an action research study of 3–8-year olds’ democratic participation, we examine the pedagogies that mobilised and fostered children’s literacy capabilities; and the literacy capabilities that were involve
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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