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Good and serious readers: the place of reading in the secondary English curriculum
No full textThis article explores three different areas connected to how trainee English teachers approach teaching fiction in early secondary classrooms in the UK. It begins with exploring the prior knowledge and experience trainee teachers bring to the training year and details some of the training experience they encounter in one particular course. The article progresses with a brief analysis of different philosophies for teaching reading: the central government strategy for raising standards in literacy, and an experiential model of teaching reading which allows for submersion in narrative without study. The latter position is not a pedagogic one as much as a discursive one offered by prominent authors and framed by the national press. Despite its detachment from government strategies it is a powerful discourse in terms of the way English teaching has been argued for and shaped in the past. In two case studies at the end I detail how trainee teachers negotiate their approaches to teaching texts between all of these positions and leave open for debate what the future of teaching reading in English classrooms might be.<br/
Becoming Teacher 08: changing identities within ethnographic inquiry – reflecting on the rules of ethical clearance
No full textManaging the complexities of a naturalistic research position in ethnographic work alongside a need for declaring the ethics of the research to all involved in it can be a high demand on the novice researcher. Consulting protocols from the wider academic arena, such as national Research Association Ethical Guidelines, is clearly a starting point but as joined with some of the unpredictabilities of ethnography, holding true to the declared ethical protocols of the research can seem difficult as the context, participants and research questions shift and slide across the course of the study. This paper explores the tensions involved in an increasingly declarative arena of research ethics and the methods of ethnographic inquiry and draws on one specific incident in my own study where my identity was changed outside of myself occasioning an ethical crisis whilst in the field. Using this account I explore the need to extend research training programmes for doctoral students to provide space to develop dynamic ethics procedures suited to working with ethnographic methods. I argue for a need to have ethical protocols that satisfy the participants, the regulators and the research community but can also operate as support to the guilt-ridden researcher self
Partnerships for learning: extending knowledge and understanding of creative writing processes in the ITT year
No full textThis article explores the idea that in order to improve the ways we teach children to write creatively it is worth exploring how we, as teachers and writers, do that ourselves. It describes some of the stages of a curriculum development project undertaken in the Portsmouth and Southampton Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) English teams begun in 2004. The project was supported by funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and was designed to foster a range of learning activities for trainee teachers in the area of teaching creative writing to pupils in schools. The project that was developed had multiple aims: subject knowledge development in trainee English teachers; pedagogic exploration amongst all teachers involved – essentially looking at how the difficult area of teaching creative writing might be better addressed. This article evaluates the aims of the project and some of the outcomes and argues for recognition of the training year as a vital area for exploring issues in teaching, beyond competence. The article draws on a variety of sources, including participant observation notes made in writing workshops, responses to a questionnaire completed by project participants and excerpts from writing collected across the project produced by teachers and pupils
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
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