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Unschooling in Italy: Navigating Idealisation, Constraints, and Decolonising Promises
No full textUnschooling represents a philosophy of education that challenges con-
ventional paradigms, advocating for learner autonomy and a departure
from institutionalised schooling. This paper offers reflections informed by
research insights and framed within an anthropological perspective, fo-
cusing on the unschooling experience in Italy. It explores the tensions be-
tween the idealised principles of unschooling and the realities of their im-
plementation. Drawing on mixed-methods research, the study highlights
how home-educating families navigate “pedagogic compromises” as they
reconcile their aspirational visions with sociocultural and institutional
constraints. Key challenges identified include the deschooling of en-
trenched behavioural patterns, negotiating societal integration, and meet-
ing formal assessment requirements. Rather than interpreting these com-
promises as shortcomings, the paper reframes them as dynamic and gen-
erative spaces for educational transformation. The findings suggest that
the potential of unschooling lies not in rigid ideological adherence, but in
creative adaptations that foster personalised learning, challenge domi-
nant epistemic frameworks, and advance more equitable educational
possibilities
Istruzione parentale come spazio soglia. Relazioni, luoghi e responsabilità educative in prospettiva critica
Full text linkHomeschooling is a complex socio-educational phenomenon that resists
straightforward classification. We introduce the metaphor of the ‘threshold space’
to avoid ideological binaries and to frame it not as an opposition to the institutional
educational system but as a liminal, intermediary space—a confluence of diverse values, cultures, and languages. Its hybrid nature makes it a dynamic site capable of
catalyzing social transformation. Homeschooling, understood as a threshold space,
emerges as a practice that challenges entrenched certainties, opening up new per-
spectives for rethinking education as a whole. This article explores how home edu-
cation can contribute to a cultural critique of the school system.L'istruzione parentale è un fenomeno socio-educativo complesso che rifugge facili categorizzazioni. Introduciamo la metafora dello ‘spazio soglia’ per evitare binarismi ideologici e per descriverla non in contrapposizione al sistema educativo istituzionale, bensì come uno spazio liminale, intermedio, luogo di incontro tra valori, culture e linguaggi differenti, un contesto che, proprio per la sua natura ibrida, può attivare processi di trasformazione sociale.
L’istruzione parentale, intesa come spazio soglia, emerge come una pratica che sfida le certezze consolidate, aprendo nuove prospettive per ripensare l'educazione nel suo complesso: l’articolo esplora il modo come l’istruzione parentale può contribuire a una critica culturale del sistema scolastico
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
Situazioni cliniche particolari: sincope in pazienti anziani.
No full textIl capitolo riguarda la sincope nel paziente anziano, con particolare riferimento agli effetti avversi dei farmaci
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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