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New public management for Adult School Centers
No full textThinking sociologically through education is a preparatory part in the constitution of an interdisciplinary approach capable of making discussions on the geographies of globalization and knowledge society meaningful (Thiem, 2009). This work present the perspective in which those interventions can be understood - the evolution of Adult Education in the “social investment welfare state” (Giddens, 2014) - through a case of study that analyses the new public management of educational institutions in Italy.
The institutional dimension of lifelong learning policies have the new feature of the Adult School Centers, link between the education system entrusted to the state and the training system entrusted to the Regions. The Adult School Centers as eterotopic space? Although Foucault describes heterotopia as a actually existent utopia (1984), the conception is not tied to a space that promotes any promise, or any form of change.
The research design has proposed an analysis of the mechanisms and of the processes that led the Campanian institutions’ activities to build an integrated education and lifelong learning system. The legal and institutional dimension has highlighted the contextual conditions and the survey tools. Starting with the interviews to “preferential witnesses” about the implementation of administrative procedures, used both as categorical overall framework as well as specific “medium of communication” (De Luca Picione, 2017).
The empirical results present the role played by the institutional actors and the learners of the adult evening classes to understand what kind of people reenters in educational processes (Formenti, West & Horsdal, 2014). The participation of people belonging to very different social categories – including those very far from some social vulnerability stereotypes – shows Adult Education becoming meaningful also in the perspective of an investment in active citizenship and not just as a means of individual empowerment in the labor market, and defines some possible action models on the territory in order to encourage to return adults to training. The target is to contribute to the discussion about the results of the policies in the public sphere, by sharing the elements of the produced analysis with the scientific community
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
Conclusioni. Attori, riflessività e strategie. Una prima valutazione partecipata del Sistema di Istruzione degli Adulti in Campania
No full textUnstable lives. Regulatory changes of the labour market and social mechanisms
No full textThe sociological literature has always paid great attention to the role of work in structuring the life courses of young people (Cavalli, 1980; Giddens, 1991; Blossfeld, 2011). The processes of renovation of the labor market of the last twenty years, consequence of regulatory changes in Europe (Fudge & Strauss, 2013; Elia, 2013), «did not deliver enough “good jobs” » (Schmid, 2015. 70), need an even more deep and accurate analysis of the contractual positions. This is true especially regarding the analysis of how the professional status (employed or unemployed) and the type of contract (stable in time or temporary) influence the empowerment process in the different institutional frameworks (Bertolini, Hofäcker & Torrioni, 2014).
With the end of the old system of social security based on the role of the male breadwinner as head of a nuclear family and holder of the typical form of so-called “stable and employed work” (Jansen, 2011), the adaptability to the new labor market is leading to an ever more stringent process of individualization (Standing, 2014). How the young couples with unstable employment build the basis of their independent life together ?
In an effort to explore this complexity, in this paper we try to shift the focus of the analysis from the simple comparison of the general conditions of young couples, to the differences emerging by comparing their situation to what we defined “dimensions of precariousness”. These are five different areas of insecurity - each distinct from the other - representing two possible threats to the creation and continuation of the daily life of the couple: working and occupational.
The interviews conducted in our empirical research (Bronner, 2015), highlight the concerns for the renewal of the contract (Gallino, 2007), in the absence of a true realization, in Italy, of a social security system that gives the opportunity to live less harsh and uncertain transitions between different unstable employments
Europe of knowledge. Actors and contexts of lifelong learning policies in Italy and France
No full textThe emphasis of the new spirit of capitalism about “employability” has affected the european educational policies of the last decades (Boltanski, Chiapello, 2005). In particular, at Community level, the rhetoric of lifelong learning has been always linked to a strong neo-liberal sense, emphasizing the presence of both winners and losers, as the inevitable result of a changing economy (Holford, 2008).
Within a political agenda strongly oriented to conceive a new stra-tegic vision for the realization of the welfare measures, Lifelong learn-ing is actually the focus of the new social policies (Griffin, 2002). In this sense, if learnfare is the promotion of skills through lifelong learn-ing (De Luca Picione, 2015), a reform of the educational system con-cerning the whole period of formal studies, from the first years of school to the higher education experiences and lifelong training, is of primary importance (Giddens, 2014). How to rethink the policies of Adult education in the XXI century in the different national contexts? (Milana, 2017).
The study that is presented here, as a result of a substantive curiosi-ty about the mechanisms and processes that have guided social action of the institutions of Italy and France in the path towards the estab-lishment of the national system of adult education in a lifelong learn-ing perspective emphasizing the role of various actors in different lo-cal contexts in which policies are implemented, is located in this per-spective.
Given the need for shared survey on social basic tools and the actu-al function of capacitation of these interventions, that are able to offer a structured framework, rooted in reality (Holford, 2014) of the trajec-tories of inclusion / exclusion of citizens-users, who do not disregard the recognition of "voices" of learners (Formenti, 2014), we propose the first empirical evidence of exploratory field survey on the adult population
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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