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Special education GOALS program : a case study of great expectations
Get PDFvi, 149 leaves ; 29 cm. --Accountability to the students in special education classrooms is critical and in today's
uncertain political climate it becomes mandatory to ensure that these programs are
successful. How then is it possible to evaluate these programs to determine whether or
not they are successful, given their complexity? Specifically, would an evaluation of the
GOALS (Generating Occupations Academics and Living Skills) program, a special
education classroom designed for students considered EMH (Educable Mentally
Handicapped) demonstrate that the program was successful? An evaluation of this
program was undertaken using triangulation and the hermeneutic phenomenological
human science research method. In this particular triangulation, multiple observers of the
same object are used: the "object" in this case being the ex-students from the GOALS
program. Interviews were conducted with four of the students who passed through the
program; interviews were conducted with significant others of these students; and
research on successful practices employed in special education classrooms was conducted
and the research was compared to the practices employed in the GOALS program.
Finally, the ex-students are narratively researched by the author as teacher, in the stories
written. These narratives are presented in order to speak to "the groundless ground of
ambiguity that marks the human condition, a site of vibrant original difficulty, at times
agonizingly difficult" and the "question of how life together can go on in such a way that
even in difficulties, new life is possible" (Aoki, 1996). The author determined that the
students leaving the program enjoy a high quality of life, and they consider themselves successful. They appreciated the programming provided in the classroom and the
relationship they had with the teacher in the program. The significant others of the
students interviewed felt the relationship with the teacher was the most important aspect
of the program. The research indicates that the teachers in GOALS are using special
education best practices successfully in the program. As a result of these findings the
author finds that GOALS is a successful, meaningful program
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
Purposeful educational relationships : grade 7 students' perceptions of authentic engagement
Get PDFxiv, 168 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cmThis study explores how developing purposeful relationships with students fosters
engagement. Grade seven students were surveyed, interviewed, and given the opportunity
to reflect on the first seven years of their schooling. Based in Appreciative Inquiry (AI),
the students took a closer look at attitudes, teaching skills and the relationship with an
enjoyable teacher and added their own personal experiences to research-based examples
of factors contributing to engagement. The results confirm that developing purposeful
relationships contribute to raising student engagement and yield numerous examples of
what students value. These examples were compiled and highlight that there is an
undeniable human aspect to teaching. Building purposeful relationships does not solve all
school related issues but provides students with a more positive outlook on schooling
Literature-as-lived in practice : young children's sense of voice
Get PDFxii, 151 leaves : col. ill. ; 29 cm.This study, situated in classroom practice and grounded in pedagogic wakefulness
(Clandinin and Connelly, 2000), explores the nature of young children’s sense of
voice as indicated through sustained interactions and representations of experiences
with picturebook literature. The naturalistic research site was a grade one classroom
setting in a large urban school. Student engagement and interactions with read-aloud
events and responses to literature through multi-modal representations perpetuated
meaning making and personal relevance. Coding procedures exemplified the nature
of young children’s sense of voice as falling into two broad conceptual categories: (1)
Situated Nature and (2) Experiential Nature. The Situated Nature of young children’s
sense of voice revealed developmental, exploratory, and social sites of student
engagement to literature. The Experiential Nature of young children’s sense of voice
described three specificities of narrativity in their responses to picturebook literature:
Young children’s multi-modal responses were interpreted as representative of Self-
Narrativity, Interpretive-Narrativity, and Aesthetic-Narrativity. The findings
contribute to a reconceptualized literacy curriculum which illuminates personal,
social, and cultural identities, especially young children’s awareness of their
individual sense of voice, developed through picturebook literature in primary
classrooms
Music : healing and meaning
Get PDFvii, 52 leaves ; 29 cm. --This project considers music's relationship to humanity. A perspective from the
informational basis of academic music therapy is interwoven with reflective theory about
music's healing capacity. The writer's music healing experiences as a professional
musician and apprentice to the music healing tradition of Indigenous South (Quechua) and
Central (Huichol) America guide the reflective theory. In this way, the writer desires to
integrate the Western academic and South/Central indigenous American understandings of
music therapy. Diverse genres are employed, including poetry, narrative, and academic
styles to invoke and relate different perspectives of the same understanding of music's
therapeutic and curative potential
Is curriculum in the closet? Instructors' perceptions about gay and lesbian content in Alberta university gender courses
Get PDFix, 173 leaves ; 29 cm.This study focuses on the nature of university instructors' beliefs and attitudes toward gay and lesbian content in the university Gender course curriculum. It was intended to provide a better understanding of factors such as academic freedom, societal influences, personal opinions, curriculum, and institutional influences that might affect attitudes and thus undermine the inclusion of discussion about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues. Participants in the study were seven instructors from the faculties of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, Applied Psychology, and Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The study revealed that although there was only a slight diversity of beliefs and attitudes about the topic among the participants, a majority of them felt positively toward inclusion of information in the university curricula.
the positive attitudes were expressed as a willingness to teach about the subject matter, and a belief that LGBT content should be integrated throughout the general curriculum. The implications and the challenges of incorporating LGBT issues into the curriculum were also discussed. Participants discuss that LGBT issues are not adequately represented in the curriculum, that there is a need for more public awareness and education about homosexuality, a need for greater inclusion of gay and lesbian issues in university programs, a desire for less marginalization of the LGBT topic, and a vow to provide more respect for LGBT persons
Online paralegal education : a case study of a new curriculum
Get PDFx, 153 leaves ; 29 cm. --This master's project is a case study. It documents my own experience, as a novice
online instructor, through the development of a new online curriculum, in Canada,
for students in the Paralegal Program. It also documents the design, development,
and implementation of curriculum for four real estate courses. Included in this
study is comparative research about courses currently offered for Paralegal
Programs, which are available in-class or online. This project also takes a look at
behaviors and attitudes in both the in-class and online environments and attempts
to determine the effect on each according to perceptions of this researcher
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