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A Course of Becoming: Autobiography, Knowledge, Memory and (Re) Constructing Identity
Get PDFThis major research paper will examine the concept of Toward a Course of Becoming: Autobiography, Knowledge, Memory and (Re) Constructing Identity. Throughout the discussion, significant considerations into possible contributions of William Pinar’s (1975) Currere Method (regressive, progressive, analytical, and synthetical) juxtaposed against Stuart Hall’s theory on Identity will further substantiate my discourse. In addition to Pinar and Hall, autobiographical writing will reflect on American Civil Rights Activist Frederick Douglass’ autobiography Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave written by Himself (1845). Canada’s first Black Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister and Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario; Lincoln M. Alexander’s Go to School, You’re a little black boy (2010) will also focus my discussion on conceptualizing autobiography, knowledge, memory and their interrelationships within the framework of (re) constructing identity. The main aim of this analysis is to derive a sense of the autobiographical course run by the Caribbean (migrant) subject constructing and re-constructing senses of identity, belonging, being, and becoming. The intention of the research is to indicate the potential contribution of specifically Caribbean and African descent, (im) migrant North American autographical experience to the currere approach to curriculum understanding
The post-game: retrospectives of the experiences of Canadian Black student-athletes on US athletic scholarships
Get PDF"The dream of playing basketball in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on an athletic scholarship is shared by many youth, particularly Black youth, across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). However, for Canadian Black youth who ""go south"" (i.e. to the U.S.A.) and return to Canada, their stories are not reported in the same way or do not become as well publicized compared to the publicity before they received athletic scholarships. In this research, I explore and describe the ways in which seven Canadian Black male youth understand and make meaning of their experiences of having pursued and accepted athletic scholarships to play basketball in U.S. post-secondary institutions and having returned to Canada. Critical Race Theory and Bourdieu' s theory of distinction provide the framework for my analysis.
Following the life experiences of participants, this thesis is divided into three interrelated sections: The Pre-Game: Pursuing the Scholarship; Game Time: Life as a College Athlete in the United States and; The Post-Game: Coming Back to Canada. The combination of devotion to developing their athletic and academic abilities, and being in the ""right"" environment, surrounded by a large network of supporters, contributed to their successful attainment of US athletic scholarships. At university, participants gained more than an academic education, learning about the business side of athletics and how to successfully manage several competing demands (academic, athletic and social) leading them to ultimately growing and mature as individuals. Following university graduation, it appeared that a variety of factors related to personal aspirations, and resources (e.g. social, cultural, economic and symbolic capital) were taken into account by participants, leading them to pursue professional careers working with youth or continuing to play basketball professionally. In discussing questions of race, class and gender, I note some implications of this research for students, parents, educators, coaches and educational institutions.
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
In search of intellectual emancipation: reading as inquiry in an elementary science classroom
Get PDF"This dissertation reconceptualizes traditional science education pedagogy and proposes an emancipatory model for students learning science. The foundation for the model is an interpretation of intellectual emancipation as theorized and articulated by Jacque Ranciere (1991) in the Ignorant Schoolmaster. The study focuses on reading as inquiry in school science and the use of a student's first language as a learning resource. The investigation seeks to observe the teacher and students' journey towards intellectual emancipation as students learn science and discover or gain knowledge of their intellectual abilities.
Specifically, my research study presupposes that school science can be a stultifying environment where the teacher heavily controls knowledge. Within this context, learning through inquiry is too often conducted with an emphasis on 'hands-on' activities. This overemphasis leaves little room for the development of inquiry through reading and therefore, implicitly de-emphasizes the importance of reading for the development of independent, autonomous thinkers for a scientifically literate populace.
The experiment is set within the context of teaching science to English language learners. From a stance of ""teacher/researcher"" (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1993), I conduct an action research study with multilingual and multiethnic grade six students within an urban elementary classroom setting. I changed my classroom practices to foster greater 'intellectual emancipation' through the use of reading as a form of science inquiry.
Student behaviors or themes emerged from the data that I associated with expressions of intellectual emancipation. The results of the study and the interpretation of the results add to the discourse of emancipation, inquiry, and learning science. Inquiry is widely advocated in practice, research and policy. A study such as this supports classroom teachers to challenge the dominant approach to inquiry in school science as 'hands-on' and to seize the emancipatory opportunities that inquiry as 'minds-on' offers for the development of the whole learner.
The Caribana Parade: Storming and Issues of Power and Control
Get PDFThe parade is the highlight of the Toronto Carnival/Caribana festival, which has become an important part of Torontos and Canadas identity; but for more than twenty years it has been affected by storming, an act of transgression in which mostly young male individuals breach fences and security along the route to participate for free in the official parade. Their interaction with the scantily clad female masqueraders produce tensions and unwanted conflicts in the space. This study assesses the dynamics of storming and its impact on various positionalities in and outside the parade. The study draws on ethnographic interviews with stormers and female masqueraders, in addition to participant observation, informal conversations and archival research to complete this analysis. Through the lens of Carnival and Performance Theory, it interrogates issues of spatialization, power relations, cultural commodification, and other factors that make the parade a site of contestation in a post-1991 era
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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