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Discussions, tensions and criteria in the construction of an agenda for Specific Didactics in Initial English Language Teacher Education
No full textFil: Bonadeo, Flavia Silvina. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias; Argentina.Esta investigación tiene como propósito conocer los saberes que se seleccionan para las unidades curriculares Didáctica Específica 1 y Didáctica Específica 2 en los profesorados de inglés, establecer relaciones entre estas selecciones y los emergentes problemáticos identificados en las prácticas de enseñanza en la educación secundaria y, finalmente, realizar aportes y sugerencias en pos de la construcción de una agenda localmente situada y contextualmente relevante para la Didáctica Específica del inglés.
Se analizaron los planes de cátedra de los espacios curriculares en cuestión de siete instituciones formadoras, como así también los diarios de práctica de nueve estudiantes residentes de dos institutos de la provincia. Asimismo, se encuestó y entrevistó a nueve profesores de inglés recientemente graduados de cuatro instituciones diferentes. Los textos fueron abordados a través del análisis de su contenido, proceso que permitió la construcción y enunciación de los posibles temas y problemas factibles de interpelar a la Didáctica Específica del inglés.
Se concluye – sin pretensión de completitud o definición – que la vigencia de los grandes temas de la didáctica es incuestionable: el contenido de la enseñanza, los materiales didácticos y la evaluación. Empero, se sugiere que el abordaje de estas temáticas no puede desprenderse de los contextos institucionales y socio-políticos en los que acontecen, contextos que inciden y hasta moldean las propuestas didácticas. Asimismo, se proponen modos de aproximación a los saberes de la Didáctica Específica que prioricen la indagación y la construcción de conocimiento local por sobre la adhesión a modelos foráneos y la prescripción.The research work on which this thesis is based purports to find out the subject matter selected for the courses Specific Didactics 1 and Specific Didactics 2 in initial English language teacher education programmes, to establish connections between these themes and the dilemmatic situations faced by student-teachers and newly graduates when teaching English in secondary schools, and to contribute to the construction of a locally relevant agenda for the teaching of English.
Syllabi from seven different teacher education colleges were analized, as well as nine student-teachers’ Practicum jounals. Furthermore, nine graduates from four of these colleges were surveyed and interviewed. The written and oral texts were scrutinized following the principles of content analysis; this process permitted the identification of themes and problems that are or could be directly related to the subject matter of Specific Didactics.
It is concluded that the topics traditionally pertaining to Didactics still remain central in both colleges’ decisions and student-teachers and newly graduates’ concerns: disciplinary content, teaching materials and assessment. However, the author recommends these topics should be addressed in close connection to the institutional and socio-political contexts of teaching since these contexts influence, and even shape, the didactic choices teachers make. In addition, it is suggested that initial teacher educations should opt for inquiry-based methods that aim at constructing local knowledge, instead of relying on foreign, prescriptive models
Discussions, tensions and criteria in the construction of an agenda for Specific Didactics in Initial English Language Teacher Education
No full textFil: Bonadeo, Flavia Silvina. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias; Argentina.Esta investigación tiene como propósito conocer los saberes que se seleccionan para las unidades curriculares Didáctica Específica 1 y Didáctica Específica 2 en los profesorados de inglés, establecer relaciones entre estas selecciones y los emergentes problemáticos identificados en las prácticas de enseñanza en la educación secundaria y, finalmente, realizar aportes y sugerencias en pos de la construcción de una agenda localmente situada y contextualmente relevante para la Didáctica Específica del inglés.
Se analizaron los planes de cátedra de los espacios curriculares en cuestión de siete instituciones formadoras, como así también los diarios de práctica de nueve estudiantes residentes de dos institutos de la provincia. Asimismo, se encuestó y entrevistó a nueve profesores de inglés recientemente graduados de cuatro instituciones diferentes. Los textos fueron abordados a través del análisis de su contenido, proceso que permitió la construcción y enunciación de los posibles temas y problemas factibles de interpelar a la Didáctica Específica del inglés.
Se concluye – sin pretensión de completitud o definición – que la vigencia de los grandes temas de la didáctica es incuestionable: el contenido de la enseñanza, los materiales didácticos y la evaluación. Empero, se sugiere que el abordaje de estas temáticas no puede desprenderse de los contextos institucionales y socio-políticos en los que acontecen, contextos que inciden y hasta moldean las propuestas didácticas. Asimismo, se proponen modos de aproximación a los saberes de la Didáctica Específica que prioricen la indagación y la construcción de conocimiento local por sobre la adhesión a modelos foráneos y la prescripción.The research work on which this thesis is based purports to find out the subject matter selected for the courses Specific Didactics 1 and Specific Didactics 2 in initial English language teacher education programmes, to establish connections between these themes and the dilemmatic situations faced by student-teachers and newly graduates when teaching English in secondary schools, and to contribute to the construction of a locally relevant agenda for the teaching of English.
Syllabi from seven different teacher education colleges were analized, as well as nine student-teachers’ Practicum jounals. Furthermore, nine graduates from four of these colleges were surveyed and interviewed. The written and oral texts were scrutinized following the principles of content analysis; this process permitted the identification of themes and problems that are or could be directly related to the subject matter of Specific Didactics.
It is concluded that the topics traditionally pertaining to Didactics still remain central in both colleges’ decisions and student-teachers and newly graduates’ concerns: disciplinary content, teaching materials and assessment. However, the author recommends these topics should be addressed in close connection to the institutional and socio-political contexts of teaching since these contexts influence, and even shape, the didactic choices teachers make. In addition, it is suggested that initial teacher educations should opt for inquiry-based methods that aim at constructing local knowledge, instead of relying on foreign, prescriptive models
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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