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Mobile-mediated home-school partnership: attitudes and expectations of teachers, parents and students
No full textHome school partnership: a glimpse of Italian reality
No full textIn Italy there are few studies in the literature that attempt to analyze the way in which the family and the school share and negotiate their educational duties, and there is no training for teachers in the management of home-school communication and partnership. We went in an Italian primary school to
see how parents and teachers articulate their discourses around the home- school partnership. In the fall of 2010, we organised two focus groups, one involving 9 parents and one involving 6 teachers.
The main points during the focus groups were: What is the parent-school partnership for you? What is its purpose? What is it like now in this school? How would you like it to be?
Parents and teachers agree that home school partnership is essential ”for training future citizens” (parent) and ”to create well-being and achieve educational success for all children” (teacher). Parents and teachers agree that home school partnership should be based on dialogue and mutual respect.
Teacher underline that in the home school partnership it is essential that it is the will of parents to cooperate, if the parents don’t have this will, or they tend to criticize the work of the teachers, the work become more difficult not only for the teachers but also for the children. Since teachers have not
received any teacher training in the management of home-school communication and partnership. Teachers have to learn how to do this through experience and work with the colleagues. To manage
the home school partnership the agreements with colleagues are essential, for example the teacher of
our sample decided a common strategy to communicate with parents: 'When are the interviews with the parents I personally always prefer to have someone (a colleague). We're always two, I mean, a
witness is always better.' (teacher) And agreements between teachers and parents are also very important
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
Net Gens and New Technologies... the other Side of the Coin
No full textOne of the most prominent features of contemporary schools is that students are born and raised within a context which takes for granted and considers as “natural” the existence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet. Our research question was to understand how Net Gens articulate their discourses around the possibility of using their “ubiquitous” and “vital” ICTs in general, and specifically, mobile communication in the home-school relationship.
A qualitative approach to research was chosen and carried out using the focus group technique. We conducted two focus groups, involving students from two high schools. One school is in Milan, a big
industrial city in the north of Italy, while the other is in Piacenza, a much smaller city about 70 kilometers (40
miles) south from Milan. We found many common points and a big difference between students of Milan and students of Piacenza. In Milan social control is very weak, while in small cities like Piacenza there is very strong social control. We found that mobile–mediated home–school communications are more accepted in Piacenza because they do not really change the status quo. In Milan they are more useful, but less accepted, since they do change the status quo
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
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