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Disability in Greece: Social Perception and Educational Policies
Full text linkThis work examines how the Greek state (under multiple types of governmental regimes) dealt with children with disabilities within the framework of educational and political reforms, and how social perceptions of disability have defined – to a lesser or greater degree - the aforementioned policies. This article covers three basic periods: 1) First steps, starting from the turn of the 20th century until the 1940s; 2) Minimal state intervention to deal with the issue (1948 – 1985), and 3)the most recent period, where children with a disability are dealt with in a more comprehensive way within the terms of a social welfare state (1985 – 2004)
Etre instituteur de maternelle en Grèce : Représentations et choix du métier
Full text linkLa représentation sociale d’un métier participe à la fixation de sa valeur et engendre des pratiques. Partant de cette considération nous allons examiner, sous un angle comparatif, les représentations et le choix du métier de l’instituteur de la maternelle en Grèce. Pour cela nous nous appuierons sur trois indices: la position institutionnelle de l’instituteur, la demande sociale du métier et la composition sociale du corps des instituteurs. Pour donner une assise comparative à notre argumentation, nous allons nous référer, dans un premier temps, à des études relatives dans d’autres pays. Ensuite, nous nous esquisserons un aperçu de l’évolution historique de l’institution en Grèce en fonction de ses objectifs pédagogiques et de son public. Enfin, appuyés essentiellement sur des archives, des rapports d’inspection et des données statistiques nous nous tenterons de sonder la demande du métier et la composition sociale des instituteurs de maternelle. La revalorisation des études et du diplôme de l’instituteur depuis notamment 1982, nous arguons, a été suivie d’une certaine amélioration de sa représentation sociale. Cela se reflète sur la demande du métier et sur la composition sociale des instituteurs
PERCEPTIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL BODIES REGARDING LIFELONG LEARNING AND EDUCATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES OF SOCIAL SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Full text linkIn this paper, part of the results of research conducted within the framework of the PhD studies of the first author is presented. The aim of the research is to explore the variety of perceptions held by institutional social bodies regarding the education of human resources and social services in the field of human rights. A qualitative research method was employed to achieve this goal. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews between February and June 2024. Eight in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants who hold positions within institutional bodies involved in the design and implementation of social policy. The interpretation of the data was carried out using thematic analysis. The results of the research indicated that these institutional bodies support the value of investing in lifelong learning, particularly in the education of human resources in human rights, as a means of building knowledge, cultivating soft skills, and changing attitudes in ways that can subsequently lead to the provision of quality services to vulnerable social groups. Article visualizations
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
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
THE LEVEL OF STUDIES AND LIFELONG LEARNING AS FACTORS SHAPING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTITUDES OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES OF SOCIAL SERVICES REGARDING ISSUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Full text linkThis paper presents part of the results of a study conducted in the context of PhD studies of the first of the authors in order to assess a) the level of knowledge, perceptions, skills, attitudes and mobilization of human resources of social services on issues of protection of Human Rights (HR) of vulnerable social groups (VSG), and b) the impact on this level of both Lifelong Learning (LL) of human resources in the field of Human Rights and their level of studies. For data to be collected, a closed-ended electronic questionnaire was created and completed by four hundred and fifty-three active employees in social services operating in the three Regional Units of Western Greece. The most important results of the survey showed that the knowledge of human resources in the field of Human Rights was moderate. Moreover, it is concluded that the perceptions of human resources regarding the equality which VSG should enjoy in exercising their rights and receiving social benefits from the state range from very high to extremely high levels, respectively. At the same time, the emergence rate of socio-emotional skills during human resources contact with VSG appears to be adequate. On the contrary, the research data showed little mobilization of human resources to defend the rights of VSG within and outside the work environment. In addition, after correlating the categories of LL with the variables under study, the main results showed that the higher the levels of Formal Human Resource Education in the field of Human Rights, the less the various characteristics of VSG (gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental-physical disability, age, racial-ethnic origin, religion, socioeconomic status, language, skin color) constitute a barrier of discrimination during their contact with them, the more their socio-emotional skills emerge and their degree of mobilization increases. Finally, as the levels of studies increase, the higher the level of knowledge developed in the field of Human Rights by the participants in the research and the less the various characteristics of VSG affect the provision of quality services to them. On the contrary, the lower the educational level of human resources, the greater their mobilization within and outside the work environment. Article visualizations
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