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Vol51#1_Challenges and New Directions of Literature Education in Asia: A Book Review of Literature Education in the Asia Pacific: Policies, Practices, and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018)
No full textThe Trouble With Reader-response Theory in Reading Multicultural Literature: A Critique of Dana Fox’s and Kathy Short's Stories Matter
No full textThis book review of Kathy Short’s and Dana Fox’s collection of essays on multicultural literature (Stories Matter, 2003) offers a summary of the views expressed and finds that authors in the debate over what counts as multicultural literature take up either a reader-response approach or cultural studies approach to reading literature. Edited by two of the major figures on multicultural literature in education today, Stories Matter raises a number of important disagreements and confusions over definitions of multicultural children’s literature that continue to be debated over today. The book review offers a useful summary and provides a framework for making sense of the many voices in this debate
Obstacles to Internationalizing American High School Curricula: Teacher Perspectives on Teaching World Literature in Hawai‘i
Get PDFFor over a hundred years, the course called World Literature has attempted to broaden American high school curriculum beyond British and American worldviews. In spite of these historical purposes and the stated interest in “global citizenship” articulated in many school mission statements, World Literature courses, in many of today’s high schools, remain decidedly un-international reviews mainly of British and American literature. This dominance of English language texts in World Literature reflects and perpetuates British and American political hegemony and may be inadequate in an increasingly globalized world defined by increased political, economic, and cultural interactions between people of different nations. While teacher preparation and a dearth of works in translations have been cited as contributing to this problem, the experiences of high school teachers remain largely absent from discussion on internationalizing curriculum. This dissertation presents a multiple case study analysis of eight high school teachers of World Literature in Hawai‘i. Teachers were selected from schools with a wide range of purposes. These schools included two parochial Christian schools, a Buddhist/international school, an International Baccalaureate school, a private school for Hawaiians1, a public school, and a charter school. This study also includes the views of a retired teacher, a former supervisor of the author. Using cosmopolitanism on the ground, a theory of cosmopolitanism that investigates cosmopolitanism in education, this study draws from individual interviews and a focus group to find (a) while some teachers 1 Here and throughout this study, “Hawaiian” refers to persons of Hawaiian ancestry or to recognized Hawaiian cultural knowledge and/or practices. prioritized global citizenship, a number of factors take priority over internationalizing curriculum, and (b) teachers did not equate global citizenship with internationalizing curriculum. Finally, in keeping with cosmopolitanism on the ground, this study finds that enacting cosmopolitanism means (c) students’ local identities need to be privileged before international contexts, a counter-intuitive understanding of cosmopolitanism. In addition to these findings, this study identifies six definitions of World Literature and ten common criteria for text selections.Ph.D. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2017
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
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