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Field-Based Training for Early Childhood Education Teachers in Solomon Islands
Full text linkThis study examined the impact of a recently introduced field-based training programme on the roles, relationships and activities of early childhood education teachers working in the Solomon Islands kindergartens, identifying and analysing any possible changes to their professional behaviour and teaching practice as a result of the training. It investigated the quality of the curriculum programmes being implemented, and parent and community people's views of the early childhood education programme and how the new approach to kindergarten education had generally impacted on families and the communities. The research study also considered how well the training programme suited the unique Solomon Islands cultural and geographic context. The project adopted a qualitative, formative and evaluative methodology that included in-depth interviews, participant observation and examination of appropriate documents. Sixteen early childhood education teachers who had received field-based training were interviewed for their perspectives of the training programme. Thirteen early childhood administrators and thirty-five representatives of members of the community were also interviewed to obtain their views of the programme. Participant observations were carried out in two kindergartens for the duration of a week in each kindergarten. The thesis reports that the field-based training programme has succeeded in fulfilling its goal of training employed untrained kindergarten teachers throughout Solomon Islands. The educators have made significant gains in higher levels of reflection, confidence, sensitivity and competence and have engaged in reflective practice. The training programme is the first of its kind and the only field-based training programme currently operating in Solomon Islands. The training programme has important implications for foreign aid donors to majority nations like the Solomon Islands, and has promoted another way of viewing early childhood education. It has reinforced Solomon Islanders' indigenous pride and identity and has emerged as a mechanism for a gender-sensitive perspective in the Solomon Islands' communities
Field-Based Training for Early Childhood Education Teachers in Solomon Islands
No full textThis study examined the impact of a recently introduced field-based training programme on the roles, relationships and activities of early childhood education teachers working in the Solomon Islands kindergartens, identifying and analysing any possible changes to their professional behaviour and teaching practice as a result of the training. It investigated the quality of the curriculum programmes being implemented, and parent and community people's views of the early childhood education programme and how the new approach to kindergarten education had generally impacted on families and the communities. The research study also considered how well the training programme suited the unique Solomon Islands cultural and geographic context. The project adopted a qualitative, formative and evaluative methodology that included in-depth interviews, participant observation and examination of appropriate documents. Sixteen early childhood education teachers who had received field-based training were interviewed for their perspectives of the training programme. Thirteen early childhood administrators and thirty-five representatives of members of the community were also interviewed to obtain their views of the programme. Participant observations were carried out in two kindergartens for the duration of a week in each kindergarten. The thesis reports that the field-based training programme has succeeded in fulfilling its goal of training employed untrained kindergarten teachers throughout Solomon Islands. The educators have made significant gains in higher levels of reflection, confidence, sensitivity and competence and have engaged in reflective practice. The training programme is the first of its kind and the only field-based training programme currently operating in Solomon Islands. The training programme has important implications for foreign aid donors to majority nations like the Solomon Islands, and has promoted another way of viewing early childhood education. It has reinforced Solomon Islanders' indigenous pride and identity and has emerged as a mechanism for a gender-sensitive perspective in the Solomon Islands' communities
Funds of knowledge: Developing a Diploma in Teaching in Early Childhood Education in the Solomon Islands.
No full textThis article discusses how three early childhood teacher educators, from the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education School of Education and the University of Waikato Faculty of Education, worked in partnership together and with others to develop a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education (ECE) for the Solomon Islands. We argue that the knowledge and understandings that we shared about New Zealand early childhood education and its bicultural curriculum Te Whāriki made our task easier from the outset. So too did our shared "funds of knowledge" and expertise, particularly the Solomon Islands women's indigenous knowledge and abilities to reflect on teaching and learning in their nation and New Zealand, two contexts they understood well. As we worked through a range of issues related to the development and delivery of courses, the primacy of relationships and historical, cultural and social contexts for learning were reinforced. Broad understandings of relevant education pedagogy for adults and young children were incorporated through the diploma development process. The result was a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education and new ways of teaching and learning embedded in Solomon Islands contexts, blending the best of local and imported knowledge. This article adds to a small body of literature related to ECE in the Solomon Islands and the Pacific region
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
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
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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