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No full textHyvän tulevaisuuden rakentaminen on ihmisen velvollisuus. Ihmiset määrittävät maapallon tulevaisuutta enemmän kuin koskaan aikaisemmin. Tämä johtuu siitä, että meitä ihmisiä on paljon, elämä on muuttunut yhä yksilökeskeisemmäksi ja kuluttamisesta on tullut normaali tapa tavoitella hyvää elämää eri puolilla maailmaa. Maapallon rajallisen luonteen vuoksi on ratkaisevan tärkeää, millaisilla ihmisyyden piirteillä ja teoilla hyvää elämää tavoitellaan tulevaisuudessa. Mikäli jatkamme kuten tähän asti, tuhoamme elinympäristömme ja samalla Homo sapiens -lajimme tulevaisuuden monien muiden lajien lisäksi. Ei ihme, että yhä useammin nousee esiin kysymys, onko meillä toivoa – vai onko ihmiskunta kulkemassa väistämättömästi kohti synkkyyttä ja epätoivoa?nonPeerReviewe
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
The Pedagogy of Recognition. Dancing Identity and Mutuality
No full textVastavuoroinen tunnustus on hyvinvoinnin perusta
Maailmassa, joka jatkuvasti asettaa minulle paineita olla jotakin, mitä en ole, ei kai mikään tunnu niin hyvältä kuin hyväksynnän ja tunnustuksen saaminen juuri sellaisena kuin olen, pohtii Raisa Foster.
Raisa Foster tarkastelee väitöskirjassaan tunnustuksen antamisen ja saamisen merkitystä kasvatuksessa. Tutkimuksen keskeisin havainto on se, että vastavuoroinen tunnustus syntyy erilaisuuden arvostamisesta ja maailman moninaisuuden ymmärtämisestä.
Tutkimus muotoilee uudenlaisen pedagogisen ajattelun mallin, tunnustuksen pedagogian, tanssi-innostamisen käytännönprojektin kautta.
Tanssi tutkimusmenetelmänä
Tutkimus käynnistyi kesällä 2007 tutkija tanssi-innostaja Raisa Fosterin, musiikin säveltäjä Maija Koskenalustan ja viiden nuoren miehen välisenä taiteellisena projektina. Taiteellisessa tutkimusprosessissa syntyi monitaiteellinen Katiska-teos, joka kutsuu yleisön kuuntelemaan ja katselemaan nuorten miesten omaa tarinaa liikkeen ja laulun keinoin kerrottuna. Katiskaa on esitetty vuosina 2008 2011 yhteensä 32 kertaa: kuudessa Suomen kaupungissa ja lisäksi neljässä muussa Euroopan maassa.
Median antama kuva nuorista miehistä on hyvin surullinen. He ovat joko rattijuoppoja, kouluampujia tai ainakin syrjäytymisvaarassa. Minua kiinnosti toisenlaisen tarinan kertominen. Halusin tietää, mitä nuoret miehet kertoisivat itse itsestään, Foster sanoo.
Tanssi-innostamisessa ei ole kyse minkään tietyn tanssitekniikan opettelusta tai tanssilajin hallinnasta, vaan oman ilmaisun löytämisestä tanssi-improvisaatioharjoitusten avulla. Pyrkimyksenä on löytää kunkin oma luonteva tapa liikkua ja ilmaista liikkeen avulla, mutta myös tutkia omaa minuutta ja ympäröivään maailmaa.
Tutkimusprosessi kulki läpi improvisaatioiden, esitysten, keskustelujen ja analyysien, jotka lomittuivat lukemiseen ja kirjoittamiseen päätyen lopulta vastaamaan kysymykseen: Miten tanssi-innostaminen luo pedagogisen tunnustuksen tilan?
Pedagoginen tunnustus
Tunnustuksen pedagogia ehdottaa kasvatusajattelun muutosta kolmella eri tasolla: Ensinnäkin se pyrkii muuttamaan kasvatusta suorittamista korostavasta opetustekniikasta kohti improvisoivaa ja kokemuksellista kasvatuskohtaamista. Toiseksi se kritisoi egoistisen itsevarmuuden korostamista ja painottaa toisten ihmisten merkitystä itsetuntemuksen muodostumisessa. Kolmanneksi se ehdottaa siirtymistä suvaitsevaisuudesta erilaisuuden sietämisenä kohti tunnustuksen antamista ja vastaanottamista, eli minän ja toisen aitoa vastavuoroisuutta, jossa ilmiöiden sekä ihmisten moninaisuus ymmärretään rikkautena.
Paitsi Katiska-projekti myös työni taitelijana sekä opettajana, eri kouluasteilla peruskoulusta ammattikorkeakouluun, ovat auttaneet minua ymmärtämään tunnustuksen merkityksen hyvinvoinnille. Pedagoginen tunnustus syntyy yhdessä tekemisestä ja siitä tunteesta, että minua kuunnellaan ja että minä myös olen tärkeä, painottaa Foster.
Lisätietoja: Raisa Foster, 050 345 1847, [email protected], www.raisafoster.com
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Raisa Foster on vapaa tutkija, kasvattaja ja tanssi-innostaja. Hän työskentelee tämän kalenterivuoden lehtorin sijaisena Mikkelin ammattikorkeakoulun Kansalaistoiminnan ja nuorisotyön koulutusohjelmassa. Foster on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi Tampereen yliopistosta vuonna 2001 ja tanssi-innostajaksi Melbournen yliopistosta Australiasta vuonna 2006. Hän on työskennellyt Kangasalla peruskoulun ja lukion äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden lehtorina vuosina 2001 2009.This dissertation describes an educational space in which the questions of identity as well as mutuality are brought to the fore. It concerns a dance animateuring project called Katiska, which started in summer 2007 in Finland.
Dance animateuring refers to the practice of artistic creation, where the steps of the dancers originate not from a choreographer, but from collaborative improvisatory work by performers under the guidance of an animateur. Dance animateuring means dance activity which aims to celebrate every person s own natural way of expression through movement. Therefore the purpose of dance animateuring is not to achieve a mastery of any particular dance technique or style, but rather to discover everyone s own expressing, moving, living body. On the other hand, through body and movement, a specific theme can also be investigated. By increasing body awareness, dance animateuring aims to dig deeper into the means of identity and self and by doing so, support the growth of humanity. Dance animateuring intertwines the body and the mind; therefore it is an attempt to return to the understanding of humans as holistic beings.
The artistic exploration was built on a marked interest for the emancipation of the suppressed voices of young men. It was guided by the question: What would these young men tell about themselves? The answer to this question was presented through movement and music in Katiska, which premiered on the 8th of May 2008 in Tampere, Finland.
The practice-led research journeyed through various phases of improvisation, performance, discussion, analyses, reading and writing, on its way to answer to this question: How dance animateuring creates a space for recognition; understood broadly as identification, self-recognition and mutual recognition?
First the book presents the theoretical background for the bodily-practice-based inquiry. The whole practice is built on the phenomenological understanding of the body as lived. The ontological and epistemological position is mostly derived from Maurice Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology.
Then the book moves on to the methodological discussion and proposes a new practice based method, eragraphy, which was inspired by the North American new paradigm qualitative research methodologies such as a/r/tography and crystallization. I coined the term eragraphy by combining the words education, research and animateuring. The name eragraphy also refers to a description of an era. In other words it is, borrowing from ethnography, a thick description of a chosen aspect of human existence in this case of recognition in the context of postmodern era. The eragraphical practice requires the mind of a nomad, the willingness to wander about especially on the pathways of the previously unknown.
Second, the book presents a new pedagogical theory, pedagogy of recognition. It mainly follows Paul Ricoeur s The Course of Recognition which offers a template to organize more analytically what is practised intuitively; the experienced, the artistically initiated and the empirically collected material of this research.
The section suggests a change of pedagogical thought on three levels. First, it proposes an attitude of improvising instead of producing. In other words, it claims that new understanding can occur when we shift our action from knowing to recognizing. The second section of this chapter describes the concepts of identity as narrative and performative. It also presents self-recognition as a way of recognizing personal capacities and responsibility. In the third section the course of recognition ends with mutual recognition, where the questions of love, justice and esteem are brought to the fore as well as the conceptions of alterity, ambiguity and dialogue. The section also proposes a new concept, I-lessness, the disappearance of the object self, which can be experienced in dancing with others.
This dissertation does not aim to promote dance as its main goal; dance is not the object of the examination, but rather an example of various possible venues, in which individuals can meet in the spirit of recognition. In this research, dance has served as one of the methods of collecting research data (the dance animateuring project) as well as a way of reporting findings (the Katiska performance); but most of all, it has been, for its part, a space for people to come together and to understand a little more of life, the world and human existence
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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