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Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen & Jørgen Elm Larsen (eds.), The Danish Welfare State. A Sociological Investigation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
No full textA review of the book: Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen & Jørgen Elm Larsen (eds.), The Danish Welfare State. A Sociological Investigation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Lighed gennem særbehandling? Heldagsskoler og spredning som ekspliciteret særbehandling af etniske minoritetsbørn og udtryk for aktuelle tendenser.
Get PDFI afhandlingen "Lighed gennem særbehandling?" udforsker Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen to aktuelle former for særbehandling af etniske minoritetsbørn i folkeskolen med øget lighed som formål nemlig heldagsskoler og spredning på baggrund af sprogtest. Via en samtidsdiagnostisk tilgang sættes de to politikker i forbindelse med aktuelle samfundsmæssige tendenser, og dermed gives der bud på, hvorfor det siden 2005 har været legitimt at foretage eksplicit særbehandling, der betyder at etniske minoritetsbørns rettigheder indskrænkes. Med udgangspunkt i dokumenter, interviews og observationer vises det, hvordan særbehandlingspolitikkerne er yderst komplekst begrundet, samt hvordan de konstitueres som særbehandling. Dels medfører de nye kategorier, ekspliciteringer og struktureringer og dels gør de en forskel i etniske minoritetsbørns og deres familiers liv med hensyn til tid, sted og ansvar. Desuden vises det, hvordan tendenser til sprogfokus, undtagelser og national konkurrencestat kan forklare politikkernes fremkomst og legitimitet og hermed præsenterer afhandlingen alternativer til eksisterende kritikker af særbehandling som udtryk for nationalistisk og racistisk motiveret diskrimination.In the PhD thesis "Equality through differential treatment?", Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen explores two current differential treatment policies with equality as aim, namely all day schools and bussing on the basis of language tests. Using a diagnostic approach, the two policies are connected with current societal tendencies, and suggestions are given as to why it since 2005 has been legitimate to practice explicit differential treatment, which implies restriction of rights of ethnic minority children. On the basis of documents, interviews and observations it is shown how the grounds for the differential treatment policies are highly complex and how they are constituted as differential treatment. Thus they result in new categorizations, explicitations and structures and make a difference in the lives of ethnic minority children and their families in regard to time, place and responsibility. Furthermore it is shown how tendencies towards language focus, exceptions and national competitive state may explain the introduction and legitimacy of the policies. Hence the thesis presents alternatives to current critiques of differential treatment as expressing discrimination motivated by nationalism and racism
Multicultural education, learnification, and Bildung in a Nordic perspective
No full textIn recent years, a focus on tests and concepts aimed at effective learning has become widespread in Danish schools, as represented by a comprehensive school reform in 2014, leading to significantly longer school days and an increased focus on learning outcomes. As the official political agreement on the school reform noted, it was seen as “crucial for all students to get the opportunity to unfold their potential fully and for Denmark to be able to compete successfully on the increasingly international market” (Agreement, 2013). The thinking behind the school reform, along with the dissemination of concepts such as visible learning (Hattie, 2012), which were imposed on schools through the municipalities and Ministry of Education, was met with increasing criticism from researchers and teachers, who felt that this was in conflict with their professionalism and understanding of education. Their self-understanding was related to concepts derived from continental educational thinking, such as Bildung and pedagogics (Danish: dannelse; pædagogik), and concerned with normative discussions about community and democracy rather than with how to turn children into effective and employable persons ready for further education and the labour market
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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