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The power and possibility of narrative research: challenges and opportunities
No full textFrom the very conception of this book project, we have been concerned about the confusion that can arise for novice researchers due to the lack of transparency in the various ways narrative methods are theorised and applied. As we have seen in the previous chapters, research that is informed by narrative can take a variety of forms, and may be called any number of things (narrative inquiry, narrative studies, narrative research, narrative focus). As Rachael and elke pointed out in Chap. 1 (this volume), this can be viewed as either a strength or a weakness; as diverse applications of a flexible approach, and/or as inconsistent interpretations of theory. There are certainly examples of both, and the difference is not always clear. Our intention in this chapter is to explore the current and future perspectives on working with narrative methods, by drawing on the perspectives of leading scholars in the field
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
[Guest editorial] Qualitative Research Journal special issue: Approaches to researching masculinities
No full textIn 1993 the journal <i>Theory and Society</i> published, within their twenty-second volume, a special issue, Number 5: Masculinities. This publication constituted 8 papers gleaned from two international conferences held in 1991, one California and in Sydney, Australia. Both meetings discussed Masculinities as an emerging ‘set of issues … (namely:) sexuality and its social meaning, systems of domination …, construction and deconstruction of cultural representations of the masculine, men's material interests and the divisions among men’[1]. Both conferences were situated as a response to the popularity of an essentialist men’s movement that had peaked in momentum due to the publication of Robert Bly’s Iron John [2] a year earlier. This collection of papers sought to problematise masculinity as a field of academic interest and has become influential in later years as heralding a way forward.\ud
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Twenty years later the <i>Qualitative Research Journal</i> is including within its fifteenth volume, a special edition, issue number 3: Approaches to Masculinities. The journal is currently seeking papers, which delineate approaches to research in this area by exploring new methods, theories, or conceptual constructions. R. W. Connell suggested, in the editorial of the 1993 issue, what was being presented was in fact a ‘meeting, where a number of projects illuminate (d) each other’[1]. In keeping with this spirit of collegiality the QRJ editorial team will co-ordinate a review process that will initially only include invited contributors. It is the hope that through a process of focused interdisciplinary peer review we will indeed illuminate our activity, progress the work within this field, be able to respond generously to our peers, and forge increased understanding between disciplines.\ud
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For the publication we commissioned 10 papers, reviews or commentaries from the field
Narrative identity and the semantics of desire: Developing a methodological approach
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The larger study, Teaching Men, proposes that histories of masculinity are encapsulated within fictional and literary texts and these directly influence masculine practices both within and beyond the classroom. Teaching Men is an exploration of how teachers and institutions are vulnerable to the masculine constructions that fictional narratives help design, promote and sustain. In fieldwork I investigate how male teachers appropriate fictional narratives and specifically how this impacts on forms of masculinity practiced within an educational environment. \ud
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As part of the larger study this paper explores the development of a robust narrative research methodology. Ricoeur’s reading of Freud reclassifies ‘desire’ as a pursuit for identity and sublimation, I will argue that this economy of desire is a primary motivator at critical points in the development of a person’s narrative. This new methodology will focus on answering an enduring difficulty of using narrative analysis in a research setting, namely; how do we assess the motivations behind an individual’s emplotment of their narrative? Ricoeur developed four stages of mimesis, namely: pre-figuration, figuration, configuration and re-configuration. Between figuration and configuration, or the experiencing of an action and the emplotment of that action, desire has a significant organizational role. Desire is also influential as it occurs between configuration and re-configuration; that is the telling of a narrative and the receiving and interpretation of that narrative. We can use Ricoeur’s ‘semantics of desire’ to assist in our comprehension and insight of narrative research data at both of these critical sites. This paper will explore the questions arising from this assertion as well as illustrate the process through a brief presentation of current research data. \ud
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This paper relates to five of the stated criteria of the conference, namely: reality and fantasy, the teacher/student relationship, the relationship between school and society, positioning of blame for underachievement and finally education and learning as a transitional space
Stories of men and teaching: A new approach to understanding masculinity and education
No full textThis book investigates the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching answering one central question. How are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? It achieves this in three major steps: by describing a methodological system of narrative analysis that is able to account for the influence of a fictional text alongside a reading of interview data, by focusing on a specific cohort of male teachers in order to measure the influence of a fictional text and the literary tropes they contain, both widening and restricting perceptions of teachers and teaching. The book demonstrates how fictional narratives and their encompassing ideologies can become a powerful force in the shaping of male teachers professional identities. The book focuses on a collection of 22 fictional narratives drawn from the teacher text genre. Each text describes the world of teachers and teaching from differing perspectives, in differing forms including, literary texts; dramatic works such as plays or musicals; feature films; and television and radio series. The teacher text is a popular and prolific genre. As part of the analysis the book pilots an innovative methodological process hat reconciles the structural and textual differences between fictional texts and interview data in an effort to find points of commonality and mutual influence. Stories of Men and Teaching reveals how teaching professionals utilise tropes found in fictional texts in chaotic and unstructured ways to manage points of professional intensity as they arise. Key features such as legacy, fear, belonging, reparation and violence are identified as themes that occupy male teachers most when considering their own identity and professional performance, and each is also represented in the fictional teacher text canon
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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