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Center Point School
No full textBlack and white photograph of the elementary school in the community of Center Point made about 1940. Other schools also built using field rocks were in Huffman and Mount Pinson. 2227 Center Point Parkway, Birmingham, AL 35215-460
Developing locating information in books in the fifth grade of the elementary school.
Get PDFThe aim of this research is to investigate the development of
locating information in books in the fifth grade of the elementary
school.
The dilemma, according to the review of the literature, is that many
students are not competent to locate information even in the most
common source, the book, and that those who are responsible for
developing these skills in schools are themselves suffering from
some kind of weakness. Indeed, there is not even a program which is
accepted by the whole scientific community in this area. The review
of the literature also provides us with some idea about bridging the
gaps of those who are responsible for the development of these
skills in schools, and brings us closer to the very heart of the
contents of these skills.
Based on this state-of-the-art, the researcher designed a learning
package program relating to the location of information in books for
fifth graders of the elementary school, and he also designed a test
for measuring the efficiency of this program.
The learning package program was implemented and tested in Israel in
two elementary schools with teacher-librarians and with well
equipped libraries through collaboration between the researcher and
the educational context. One of the schools was of a low
socio-economic status, and the other was of a high socio-economic
status. On the one hand the results strengthen the findings of the
literature regarding the skill gaps of students and the lack of
sufficient stimulation in schools, and on the other hand the results
also reveal the possibility of improving, in many cases
significantly, the location of information in books, by exposing
students to the learning package program.
This study reveals, moreover, that it is possible to bring teachers
closer to the area of locating information in books in particular,
and even to close the gaps between information skills and the
educational context in general.
Implications for teachers and librarians are included as well as
recommendations for future research
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
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