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Progettare, documentare e osservare all’asilo nido: un’esperienza con il software eNido
Full text linkLa ricerca si sviluppa sull’analisi dell’esperienza con il software eNido, in uso dall’anno
educativo 2012-2013 presso l’Asilo nido “le Coccole” di Arzergrande in provincia di Pa-
dova, in gestione alla Cooperativa sociale Cosep di Padova.
L’asilo nido è un servizio per la prima infanzia che non si limita più ad essere un servi-
zio prettamente assistenziale; ma oggi la famiglia e la società attribuisce un importante
compito educativo. I servizi per la prima infanzia sono arrivati oggi a riconoscere la
centralità e valorizzazione del bambino, in quanto soggetto attivo dell’educazione. Tale
concetto deve essere ricordato quando si progetta; gli educatori, infatti, sono chiamati
a progettare, ossia creare contesti capaci di accogliere differenti ambiti, di integrare e
dare senso alle diverse esperienze dei bambini. L’educatore deve anche osservare e
documentare, tenendo traccia di ciò che osserva e progettando possibili rilanci, evi-
denziando l’intento pedagogico e l’azione educativa. Con l’evoluzione delle tecnologie e
del Web 2.0 si sono modificate le modalità di condivisione, documentazione, progetta-
zione e catalogazione delle esperienze. Ed è qui che si inserisce l’analisi del software
eNido, un programma web che automatizza le attività didattiche ed amministrative di
un asilo nido e fornisce uno strumento di comunicazione con i genitori dei bambini
iscritti. Si è cercato di rilevare se l’utilizzo del software abbia aumentato il livello di
competenza delle educatrici nelle aree della progettazione, osservazione e documenta-
zione
Andrej Belyj v Sicilii: imaginativnaja geografija i orientalizirujuscij vzgljad - kogo i na cto?
No full textAndrei Belyi did not see Sicily (many factual mistakes can be pointed at): it was shielded by constantly open books. The author appears, in his travelogue, as a typical Orientalist. Characteristically enough, besides, he sought the Orient in a place a thousand kilometers west of Moscow.
It would be pointless to criticize him from the point of view of a “native in an English hat”; what is interesting is that his Orientalist gaze at Sicily is astonishingly similar to the Orientalist gaze at Russia itself typical of Russian intellectuals.
Alexander Etkind wrote about the “Internal Colonization” of Russia; in Italy a debate has begun about the “Internal Orientalism” of Northern Italians concerning the Southern part of the country – and as well that of Southern-born intellectuals writing about the South for the Northern public; for instance, the case of Giovanni Verga, finding the Orient in his native land, is enlightening.
In his mature work Verga overcomes the Orientalist gaze by moving the focus inside the Sicilian lower classes; we can trace a similar process in Belyi's writings on Russia, but not on Sicily
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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