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Lifelong Learning and Life-Wide Challenges: Toward the Uncertainty of Sustainable Futures
No full textScenarios for the future of humanity move along a continuum between dystopian and utopian forecasts. Moderately optimistic predictions on this continuum call for the power of learning and education, human creativity, and technological innovation. Regardless of the differences between predictions, their common characteristic is a call for a paradigm shift and a return to core values.
The UN global development strategy translated into the 2030 Agenda focuses on lifelong learning (LLL) and shared responsibility for applying the principles and postulates of the “sustainable worldview.” The paradigm shift should happen with the support of LLL which, however, itself reflects old patterns of (non)solving problems at the global level: fragmentary policies, different treatments of youth and adult education, as well as insufficient financial support – to name but a few examples.
Upon consideration of some of the current projections for the future, this chapter highlights lessons that are relevant to the application of the concept of lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep learning and to acting in accordance with the principles of sustainability. Common points in LLL and a sustainable worldview are analyzed, as a potential compass not only for living with crisis and uncertainty but to strengthen resilience and the willingness to reconsider both our habits and our perspectives on crises, uncertainty, and the future
Good language teachers:a systematic review
No full textThis chapter systematically reviews empirical studies on good language teachers (GLTs) published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2020. The review seeks to examine the primary research aims, methodologies, profiles of participating teachers, and their teaching contexts and synthesizes relevant key findings from the GLT literature. To fulfill these aims, a comprehensive search of Scopus and Web of Science databases was conducted, yielding 62 studies that met the inclusion and quality assessment criteria. The review shows that the main research aims were to explore stakeholders’ perceptions of GLT characteristics, factors related to teacher effectiveness, and the development and assessment of teacher expertise. Interestingly, studies employed a balanced mix of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Based on the findings, the chapter proposes a model of language teacher expertise comprising three core domains, namely attributes, knowledge, and contextual adaptability, to underscore the multifaceted nature of language teacher expertise and highlight the importance of both intrinsic qualities and situational factors. The chapter concludes by suggesting a holistic approach for language teacher education programs, outlining the limitations of the review, and making recommendations for future GLT research
Changing practice and enabling development: the impact of technology on teaching and language teacher education in UAE federal institutions
No full textHelen Donaghue - ORCID: 0000-0002-7227-7864
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7227-7864Item not available in this repository.The global trend of increased technology use for information access, communication and entertainment is extending into educational settings, prompting educators to consider the role of technology and review more traditional teaching and learning methodologies. Whether or not we agree with the growing opinion that “Traditional teaching and learning methods are becoming less effective at engaging students and motivating them to achieve” (Gitsaki et al., 2013: 1), the use of technology in English language teaching and learning is increasing. Technology is moving from being a supplementary resource (e.g. language labs, Computer Assisted Language Learning) to a means of language instruction and practice, made increasingly easier by personal and mobile devices. However, it is well recognized that the successful integration of new technologies in education is dependent on teachers (Mumtaz, 2000; Albrini, 2004; Judson, 2006; Keengwe et al., 2008; Rossing et al., 2012). Their personal beliefs, assumptions and attitudes to technology will influence the acceptance, use, effectiveness and success of new initiatives; therefore, teachers who are required to implement change need sufficient time, support and training, without which they are unlikely to see the value and affordances of new technology. It is important, then, that teachers in this environment are effectively prepared for potential changes in classroom practice (Ess, 2009) and supported in ongoing learning (Abadiano & Turner, 2004; Borko, 2004).https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440068_9pubpu
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
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
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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