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Transformative Pedagogy in Prison: Exploring the Impact of Humanities-Based Education on System-Impacted Individuals
No full textTransformative Pedagogy in Prison: Exploring the Impact of Humanities-Based Education on Incarcerated Individuals
Examining the transformative potential of humanities-based education for incarcerated individuals draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from pedagogy, digital literacy, and higher education. Through an intensive literature review and a critical analysis of existing educational programs within carceral environments, this study identifies key challenges and opportunities associated with offering humanities courses in prison settings. The research argues that education within these settings should extend beyond traditional metrics like recidivism and tax reduction to foster personal development, critical thinking, and identity reconstruction. This work delves into diverse pedagogical schemas, such as Paul Ricœur’s philosophy of narrative identity and adult education principles, which emphasizes the importance of autonomy and vulnerability in crafting a responsive and humane educational approach. To complement pedagogy, this work also explores the role of digital literacy and cultural rhetoric in empowering incarcerated students to create and share their stories. Through a qualitative assessment of programs like the Inside-Out pedagogy and the Boston University Prison Education Program, this research project highlights the impact of inclusive, community-driven educational experiences that prioritize self-reflection, mutual respect, and non-coercive learning environments. The findings suggest that when implemented thoughtfully, humanities-based prison education can serve as a powerful tool for cognitive liberation, enabling incarcerated individuals to reconceptualize their identities as scholars and active participants in society. Underscoring the ethical complexities of educational initiatives within prisons allows for more careful consideration of the impacts on both students and educators. This enables a nuanced advocacy for a shift in prison education policy and practice toward more holistic and humanizing approaches, ultimately contributing to broader systemic changes and more universal social justice.
Keywords: Prison Education, Humanities, Narrative Identity, Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, Critical Thinking, Autonomy, Social Justice
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
Defining the European Union’s Top Public Health Priorities: What Can be Gleaned From Its Multi-State Interdisciplinary Systems?
No full textDelineation of the European Union’s (EU) contemporary public health agenda is examined within the evolving architecture of a ‘European Health Union.’ Five interdependent domains are synthesized: climate and planetary health, digital transformation, resilient systems and workforce development, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, and cross-sectoral and global leadership. Mutual reinforcement is essential for achieving equitable outcomes. The climate pillar reframes environmental disruption as a public health emergency, embedding adaptation, mitigation, and Planetary/One Health approaches across EU initiatives. The digital pillar examines the European Health Data Space and adjacent tools (telemedicine, e-prescribing, mobile health) as infrastructure for secure interoperability, research, and quality improvement. System resilience is enhanced through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing surveillance, medical supply chains, surge capacity, and a sustainable, ethically recruited workforce. NCD analysis emphasizes the need for coordinated policies addressing tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity, environmental pollution, and mental health, underpinned by the EU’s current framework. A health-in-all-policies lens connects transportation, agriculture, housing, education, and social protection to health equity, while the Global Health Strategy positions the EU as a diplomatic and regulatory actor aligned with the World Health Organization (WHO) and regional partners. Collectively, the findings characterize an anticipatory, data-driven, and solidarity-based model that links domestic reform to action, policy, and security, demonstrating that progress depends on governance mechanisms that integrate evidence across directorates, cohesion instruments, and robust evaluation of distributional effects to prevent widening inequalities among member states. Policy coherence, interoperable data ecosystems, workforce investment, and meaningful civil-society engagement emerge as necessary conditions for durable gains, while transparency in digital and emergency measures remains an ethical guardrail for legitimacy. These recommendations provide a roadmap for resilient and inclusive European health governance.
Keywords: European Health Union; EU Top Public Health Priorities; Planetary Health; European Health Data Space; Health-System Resilience; Workforce; Non-Communicable Diseases; NCDs; Health-in-All-Policies; Health Equity; Global Health Strateg
Mother and Son, by F Odun Balogen, A Brief Analysis Through the Lens of New Historicism
Get PDFThis article employs New Historicism to analyze F. Odun Balogun\u27s short story Mother and Son, exploring its reflection of social, political, and cultural dynamics. By examining the story through a New Historicism lens, this analysis sheds light on the complexities of navigating a rapidly changing society while acknowledging the enduring racial barriers faced by the narrator.
The essay was created in response to an assignment prompt that asked students to choose a literary theory and apply it to a story in order to argue for the story\u27s meaning
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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