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The alpha and omega of living together: humanism and the modernisation of higher education
No full textIl contributo discute sulle ragioni storiche e sulle possibilità di risposta pratica alle sfide poste dalla società contemporanea polarizzata tra opposte tendenze di incontro e di scontro tra le culture. Si esaminano i concetti fondamentali per il cambiamento come quelli di pace, intercultura, cittadinanza attiva e si presentano alcune possibilità di modernizzazione dell’insegnamento superiore. Sono considerati i caratteri distintivi della trasformazione dell’azione educativa. Un ruolo cruciale è rappresentato dalla ricerca pedagogica nell’università quale momento di partecipazione attiva e di autoformazione degli insegnanti. Dopo il secondo conflitto mondiale i governi a livello mondiale ponevano nella propria agenda l’obiettivo dell’educazione alla pace come condizione culturale di prevenzione della guerra e di formazione di coscienze aperte all’incontro tra le persone. Nuovi impegni venivano rivolti al superamento delle discriminazioni, dei pregiudizi e dei razzismi considerati causa di conflitto e separazione. Nelle scuole il lento cammino verso la democrazia continua a richiedere azioni che possano elevare i livelli di istruzione, combattere l’abbandono, favorire la crescita culturale di tutti i cittadini, inventare strategie di attrazione agli studi affinché ognuno trovi il posto giusto nella società contribuendo allo sviluppo comune con competenza e creatività. L’articolo considera la validità dell’umanesimo (punto alfa) come teoria pedagogica dalla quale far scaturire l’innovazione (punto omega). Il cuore della missione educativa resta quello di imparare a vivere insieme e per questo si propongono buone pratiche per il miglioramento della qualità dell’insegnamento superiore. Si evidenzia il percorso messo in atto nel passaggio dalla teoria alla pratica, condotto con la metodologia dell’interazionismo simbolico. Infine vengono presentati i risultati della ricerca qualitativa svolta nella scuola primaria italiana sull’impatto della preparazione dei docenti nella gestione dell’insegnamento anche in contesti di emergenza sociale come Lampedusa.This paper discusses the historic reasons and good practices of teaching and learning citizenship as replies to the challenges faced by today’s society, split between the opposing trends of the meeting of cultures and sharing knowledge. The fundamental concepts of change, such as peace, interculture, and active citizenship are examined and possibilities for the modernisation of teaching in higher education are presented. The distinctive features of transforming educational action are studied. A crucial role is pedagogic research at university as a time of active participation and self-education of teachers. After the second world conflict, world governments laid down the target of educating to peace as a cultural condition for preventing war and forming open insights to encounters among persons. New commitments were aimed at overcoming discrimination, prejudice and racism, considered the causes of conflict. The slow path towards democracy continues to require actions in schools that can raise the levels of education, fight against drop-outs and early school leavers, support the cultural growth of all citizens and think up strategies of attraction towards studying so that each person finds the right place in society and contributes to mutual development with competence and creativity. The article considers the validity of Humanism (alpha point) as a pedagogical theory from which innovation (omega point) originates. The core of the educational mission remains that of learning to live together; hence, good practices are proposed for improving the quality of higher education. To be pointed out is the path put into effect in the transition from theory to practice, conducted by the symbolic interactionism approach. The paper also refers about the results of the qualitative research carried out in Italian primary schools on the impact of the preparation of teachers for teaching in multi-faith classes, particularly in contexts of social emergency, such as in Lampedusa
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
Cunningham, Nathan
No full textSee entry in Russell County, volume 1, page 32: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/253
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
Teachers’ citizenship competences: a comparative research
No full textEducation represents an important aspect in the development of the needed skills for a life of democratic citizens in diverse democratic societies. The teacher's role and competences become a crucial element in the development of children and their capacity to exercise citizenship in the most constructive way, preparing them to be democratic citizens, for their future world of work and for the development of their personality (Pestalozzi Programme of the Council of Europe, The Professional Image and Ethos of Teachers, 2014). The Council of Europe's Parliament adopted Resolution 1849 (October 3, 2008) recommended the promotion of a culture of democracy and human rights in schools through teacher education. The necessary teaching competences involved would include aspects as the ability to create learning environments beyond the classroom, allowing community to engage in partnerships and making learning more significant. Moreover, the Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council (2006/0962/EC) on the eight key competences for Lifelong learning stressed that the social and civic competences should be acquired by all students through schooling. How are teachers integrating cognitive, ethical and action-related competences in their practice as Citizenship educators? And how are the students experiencing this teaching? These are some of the questions that our research aims to answer. The research will combine quantitative and qualitative research, comparing perceptions of both teachers and students on Citizenship Competences in three European countries: Poland, Italy and Portugal. The sample of this research consists of primary and secondary school teachers and students. The sample consists of 219 Italian and 235 Portuguese teachers and 3572 Italian and 315 Portuguese students. In Poland the research is not yet completed. Statistical analyses of the results aim to show similarities and differences between teachers understanding of their teaching and students experiences in light of important aspects of citizenship educatio
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
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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