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Participation in Residential Childcare: Safeguarding children's rights through participation and complaint procedures
Full text linkArticle 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right to participation: children and adolescents are entitled to participate and to have their views taken into account in all issues affecting them in accordance to their age and maturity. The volume explores this right to participation in residential care. The impact of participation and complaint procedures in residential care facilities are evaluated by means of crucial results from an empirical study. How do these participation and complaints procedures work? The authors discuss crucial facilitators and barriers with regard to the implementation of children's rights to participate. The edited volume presents the far-reaching research findings of the project "Participation in Organisational Cultures of Residential Education", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), relating them to national and international research findings. In the course of strengthening children’s rights in child and youth welfare due to the current reform through the Child and Youth Strengthening Act on the one hand and incidents of violence in residential institutions for children and young people worldwide on the other, the project on the study of participation and complaint processes covers a wide-ranging topic that is of central interest both internationally and nationally. While the implementation of participation and complaints procedures for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been carried out across the board in residential education in Germany, there are no empirically validated findings to date on how these participation and complaints procedures work. Participation and complaints procedures are assigned protective functions - children and young people should be able to complain about grievances with the help of these procedures. Central research gaps on the aforementioned topic are listed and filled with the help of the research results. The research findings are thereby placed in various discourses: for example, basic theoretical insights into the development of a theory of complaints. This has not been developed to date, although the UN CRC stipulates complaints procedures for children and adolescents to protect their rights, especially in residential education. The volume offers theoretical concepts on this based on the processed research findings. In addition, key insights into the organisational cultures of residential education are presented and how these cultures limit or enable the participation and complaint possibilities of children and young people. These findings are important for both the disciplinary national and international professional discourse, as it very specifically concerns the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the protection of children and young people in institutions. The results are also prepared for professional discourse - what can be learned from the research results with regard to the design of a professional institution? Likewise, complaint processes in the facilities are placed in the context of the children's and young people's experiences of victimisation
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
Participation in Residential Childcare
No full textIn Paragraph 12 der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention ist das Recht auf Partizipation verankert: Kinder und Jugendliche haben das Recht, in allen sie betreffenden Angelegenheiten entsprechend ihrem Alter und ihrer Reife mitzuwirken und ihre Meinung zu äußern. Der Band untersucht dieses Recht auf Partizipation in der Heimerziehung. Die Wirkungsweisen von Beteiligungs- und Beschwerdeverfahren in stationären Einrichtungen werden anhand zentraler Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung bewertet. Wie funktionieren diese Verfahren? Es werden die wichtigsten Möglichkeiten und Hindernisse bei der Umsetzung der Partizipationsrechte von Kindern erörtert.Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right to participation: children and adolescents are entitled to participate and to have their views taken into account in all issues affecting them in accordance to their age and maturity. The volume explores this right to participation in residential care. The impact of participation and complaint procedures in residential care facilities are evaluated by means of crucial results from an empirical study. How do these participation and complaints procedures work? The authors discuss crucial facilitators and barriers with regard to the implementation of children’s rights to participate
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
Fritz Bohnsack: Wie Schüler die Schule erleben. Zur Bedeutung der Anerkennung, der Bestätigung und der Akzeptanz von Schwäche. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2013 (285 S.) [Rezension]
Full text linkRezension von: Fritz Bohnsack: Wie Schüler die Schule erleben. Zur Bedeutung der Anerkennung, der Bestätigung und der Akzeptanz von Schwäche. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2013 (285 S.; ISBN 978-3-8474-0049-3
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