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Book Review: Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
No full textAuthor: Martha C. Nussbaum
Reviewer: Carrie Griffin Basas, J.D.
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard, 2007
ISBN: Paper 978-0674024106, 512 pages
Cost: Available at amazon.com for 18.95
Book Review: Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
No full textAuthor: Robert McRuer
Reviewer: Carrie Griffin Basas, J.D.
Publisher: New York University Press, 2006
Cloth, ISBN: 081475712X, 299 pages
Paper, ISBN: 0814757138
Cost: Cloth 22.00 US
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
Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession
No full textProf. Carrie Basas discusses disability gender and disability law
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
ADVOCACY FATIGUE: SELF-CARE, PROTEST, AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
No full textMuch of the literature in education has focused on the experiences of teachers and school leaders as they encounter students with individualized or “special” learning needs and their families. This body of literature places the professional at the center of its concern by studying such phenomena as burnout and compassion fatigue. In this article, the Author argues that this vigilance for the experience of schools has overlooked the material, psychological, and social impact on families that must advocate for their students in the U.S. educational system. Examining educational conflicts that occur in special education and English Language Learner [ELL] settings, the Author defines this “advocacy fatigue” as the increased strain on resources that comes from continued exposure to system inequities and inequalities. In the final section of the Article, she identifies strategies for collaboratively addressing educational equity that range from resistance to self-care, community wholeness to professional development.
Une bonne partie de la littérature en matière d’éducation a été consacrée aux expériences que vivent les enseignants et les directeurs d’école lorsqu’ils doivent interagir avec des élèves ayant des besoins d’apprentissage individuels ou « spéciaux » et leurs familles. Cette littérature place le professionnel au cœur des préoccupations en mettant l’accent sur des phénomènes comme l’épuisement professionnel et l’usure de compassion. Dans cet article, l’auteure déplore que l’on ait ainsi occulté les répercussions matérielles, psychologiques et sociales auxquelles font face les familles qui doivent défendre les intérêts de leurs enfants dans le système d’éducation américain. Examinant les conflits pédagogiques qui surviennent dans les milieux de l’éducation spécialisée et de l’apprentissage de l’anglais [ELL], l’auteure définit le phénomène qu’elle appelle « advocacy fatigue » (« usure de défense ») comme l’intensification des pressions exercées sur les ressources par suite de l’exposition constante aux iniquités et inégalités du système. Dans la dernière section de l’article, l’auteure propose différentes stratégies visant à promouvoir l’équité pédagogique par la collaboration, notamment la résistance à l’autothérapie, la promotion du bien-être collectif et le perfectionnement professionnel
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
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