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A Call to Action for Embedding Creative Pragmatics in STEM Education
No full textThis final chapter provides a call to action for STEM educators, policymakers, and educational institutions to adopt a Creative Pragmatics approach to enhance existing models of learning with more participatory, hands-on, and student-directed features. Based on the wide range of case studies and methodologies presented in our book, this chapter presents multiple implications of Creative Pragmatics for educational policy, funding models, and pedagogical practice. By bolstering STEM education through Creative Pragmatics, all stakeholder groups involved in the educational ecosystem can ensure a healthy pipeline of scientific and technical talent and foster future generations of adaptive thinkers who can navigate the intricate landscape of real-world complexity.</p
Creative Pragmatics—Situated Performances of Knowing
No full textThis chapter explores the concept of Creative Pragmatics, highlighting its role in fostering situated performances of knowing and dynamic sensemaking. By integrating theoretical perspectives from pragmatism, science and technology studies (STS), and social theory, Creative Pragmatics offers a framework for understanding knowledge as an active, performative and evolving process. The chapter highlights the importance of agency and creativity as iterative elements of learning, encouraging practical engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration and the active construction of knowledge. It examines how art and design practices inform Creative Pragmatics, particularly in developing adaptability, flexible problem-solving and innovation through creative approaches. By drawing connections between interdisciplinarity and performative knowledge-making, pedagogy in Creative Pragmatics prepares learners to become “wicked scientists,” individuals capable of navigating complex challenges and fostering sustainable solutions in an ever-changing world.</p
Creative Pragmatics—Knowing and Competence in a Complex World
No full textThis chapter provides the theoretical and philosophical foundations for Creative Pragmatics, exploring the nature of complexity and its implications for knowledge, skills, and competence development. It explains what complexity is, highlights the limits of reductive and predictive models of knowing, and clarifies that complexity is neither chaos nor mere complication. The chapter contrasts representational approaches to science and knowledge with performative understandings, where knowledge is actively constructed through engagement with the world. These shifts have significant implications for educational practice and policy, particularly the growing global focus on competence-based learning frameworks like the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). Emphasising transversal competencies, interdisciplinary collaboration, and autonomy in navigating complex and unpredictable environments, the chapter introduces the concept of wicked scientists—professionals equipped to address ‘wicked problems’ in a rapidly changing world. The chapter situates Creative Pragmatics as a guiding framework for competence-based education, preparing students to think critically, collaborate across boundaries, and engage with complexity and uncertainty in real-world contexts.</p
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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