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Education for Sustainability Through Internationalisation: Transnational Knowledge Exchange and Global Citizenship
No full textThis book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries. Establishing links between the internationalisation of education and the ideal of global sustainability, the author presents innovative alternative solutions to address the pressing social, environmental and ethical problems of our age, a global priority demanding an educational response. By engaging with the Hindi concept of tri-vid, the three-in-one unification of knowledge, the author reassesses the very nature of knowledge through the intellectual agency of both students and educators. Once opportunities for alternatives not available in dominant Western knowledge traditions are recognised, the development of an innovative alternative perspective becomes possible. This pioneering book will be of interest to students and scholars of international education, sustainability education and globalisation
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
What else did I need to bring with me? : international students and their dilemma
No full textAustralian universities, providing higher education to the multicultural cohort of their local as well as international students mirror the plethora of colour and creed of Australian society. Multitudes of international students besides bringing their diverse culture along bring substantial monetary benefits to this country. Many Asian students continue to choose Australia as their first choice to study abroad because of its proximity to Asia as well as because of its cheaper dollar. Australian universities, to replenish their fading funds pursue these students and welcome their interest in studying here. However, does the moveable feast of dollar change its tune once the money has exchanged hands and the celebration of diversity change into carping about the differences? This paper discusses the responses of international students, LAS and international student advisors and academics. Looking at the scenario from different perspectives, the paper aspires to bring a touch of reflection and improvement to fill some of the gaps that remain in the full realisation of the internationalisation of higher education. It proposes to accomplish its aim by contributing to the discourse that universities involved in internationalisation of higher education need to have an international philosophy (Welch, 2002) to create inter connectedness in the world (Dewitt, 2002)
Engaging non-Western international students' intellectual agency in the internationalisation of Australian teacher education : a case study of possibilities for transnational knowledge exchange
No full textThis study attributes non-Western international students with agency to bring non-Western theoretic-linguistic assets to bear in Australian higher education. Reconsidering these students as intellectual agents creates possibilities for internationalising Australian higher education. By engaging with the complex and contested roles international students play in the realisation of the internationalisation of Australian teacher education in both policy and pedagogy this thesis makes contribution to the growing field of internationalisation of higher education. Through the combination of interviews, focus groups and classroom observations as well as researcher reflexivity, the case study reported in this thesis explores possibilities for non-Western international students to engage their linguistic and theoretical knowledge in Australian teacher education. The evidence from this study confirms that teacher education in Australian universities engages in a one-way knowledge transfer which is largely from the Western Euro-American world to the non-Western world. While this thesis shows that non-Western international students’ intellectual resources remain unacknowledged in Australian teacher education, it indicates their potential to use these resources in their studies. To have them make a productive contribution to teacher education, Australian teacher educators’ acknowledgement of their ignorance of intellectual inequalities might be deployed pedagogically, An engagement with a non-Western theoretic tool ‘tri-vid’, the three-in-one unification of knowledge; the knowledge, the knower and the process of knowledge production brings to the fore possibility for creating innovative pedagogies to engage both Western and non-Western students in the co-development of knowledge. This innovative approach provides a vehicle for creating intellectual spaces for all students to be exposed to Western, Southern and Eastern theoretical knowledge for better preparing them for a global culture. By redefining the internationalisation of higher education as the transnational exchange of knowledge, it proposes a transformation of Australian teacher education from Westernised internationalisation to worldly internationalisation thus providing opportunities for bringing innovative alternatives not available in the dominant Western knowledge traditions. The development of an innovative alternative perspective brings a possibility for addressing the complex and controversial dilemmas of sustainability of the planet, a global priority demanding an educational response
From literature to literacy : some reflections on my personal journey and some thoughts for the future
No full textThe paper is based on my metamorphosis into a university learning advisor giving academic literacy advice to students, in a language which had been equally foreign to me, or maybe more so as compared to that of many of my students. My initiation into English had come via all manner of poetry from Donne, Eliot and Sarojini Naidu to Michael Jackson and through the novels of Jane Austen, Anita Desai and Jackie Collins and by drama from Shakespeare to Dirty Dancing. The two phases of this metamorphosis, studying at university and then teaching English as a Second language in Australia had already proved to be rather
confronting experiences for me. However teaching academic literacy here at university has posed an even greater challenge. As I look through my newly acquired 'glasses' I can see that in my role as a LAS advisor, I am now asking my students to give up what I myself had cherished; a way of thinking, studying and writing, as it is not congruent with the conventions of western academic culture. In a shrinking world where boundaries have blurred, surely the internationalisation of higher education should recognise more than just curries and currencies of the east. Should not there be some confluence of the east and the west forming an academic culture, which recognises the strengths of both? This paper invites colleagues to share many such qualms and challenges of this personal odyssey into the academic world 'downunder'
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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