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Throwing away the textbook: a process drama approach to teaching ESL in China
Full text linkThe author considers the effectiveness of process drama as a pedagogical method and questions the difference between process drama and the kinds of role-play commonly used in ESL classes. Adopting a process drama methodology the author delivered two Oral English courses for undergraduate students and at the conclusion of the course invited the students to evaluate their learning in the form of a focus group. The results of the research suggest that there are distinct advantages to using a process drama approach to teaching oral English. Students on the course not only improved their self-confidence and operational performance but also exhibited behaviours commonly attributed to autonomous learners. They were also able to identify these improvements in themselves and engage in goal setting for future learning
The Snow Witch Open Art Exhibition
No full textOver twenty local artists responded to a challenge by local author Matt Wingett to make new work inspired by his novel The Snow Witch novel in some form or other.Funded by Arts Council England and generously supported by Cascades Shopping Centre the exhibition presented a range of work in a number of mediums. It was open daily for three weeks and saw over 1500 people visit the gallery during this time
Unravelling the Hero’s Journey - new narrative paradigms for story, semantics & the psychology of experience
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Time travel as a meditation on grief: mourning and memory in dark
No full textTime travel narratives across cultures often meditate on loss, portraying grief as a central element that shapes identity, relationships, and perceptions of time. Focusing on the German series Dark (2017–2020), this chapter argues that time travel provides a powerful lens for exploring the phenomenology of death, showing how prolonged grief and ambiguous loss inform both narrative and character development
"What we know is a drop”: contextualising Netflix’s Dark
No full textNetflix’s Dark (2017–2020) is a landmark in international television and Netflix’s first German-language original series. Set in Winden, the show intertwines four families across generations and parallel worlds, using time travel to explore trauma, grief, free will, and intergenerational guilt. This edited volume contextualizes Dark’s narrative complexity, philosophical depth, aesthetic strategies, and cultural resonance, including its engaged global fandom. Organized into four thematic sections, the collection highlights the series as storytelling, cultural critique, and philosophical inquiry, demonstrating its enduring relevance and status as a defining work of twenty-first-century global television
Competence or capability:Work-Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning
No full textThere has been increased pressure upon academic institutions to further develop Work-Based Learning (WBL) within the curriculum. Media practice education already includes a significant amount of Work-Related Learning (WRL) although perhaps this is not always made evident in course documents or through specific approaches to the delivery of courses. This paper will begin by reviewing the published definitions and requirements of WBL and look at some of the issues that arise in relation to media practice education. Working with Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), for example, to deliver WBL can be problematic and is not always completely beneficial to students as an experience of the work place: this raises issues particular to media practice education. Using 'Live Projects' to simulate WBL can perhaps offer a more supported and effective learning experience within the context of Higher Education. The paper will look at potential ways that the methodology of Problem-Based Learning could be utilised to work with and assess 'Live Projects', offering guidance on moving from 'project based' to 'problem based' project work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR
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
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