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Rooms that Awaken Us: A Poetic Inquiry of Multiple Selves
Get PDFUsing poetry as a research method, the author wrote for self-expression, self-discovery and self-healing during the pandemic. As she wrote, she realized that she is a different person in different settings with differ- ent people. Without intending to ever share this work, she then examines her multiple selves’ learning-teach- ing dance with life using literature by Aoki, Leggo, Dewey, Tajfel and others. She even discusses the notion of multiple selves in life with her young children and is fascinated by their artistic response
Social and learning context profiles of, barriers faced by and proposed solutions for at-risk emerging adults in Montreal adult education centres
No full textUsing Arnett's (2000) coined term "emerging adults" to refer to youths between the ages of 17 and 25 years old, this thesis aims to honour the perspectives of emerging adults attending adult education centres in Montreal, document a glimpse of their successes and obstacles, and be witness to their journey. This thesis constructs and discusses a social and learning context profile of emerging adults that is inclusive of their identities, their living and learning contexts and the obstacles they are facing and proposes possible actions to mitigate those issues. To this end, it leverages a literary review, the author's professional experiences as an adult educator, and data from an anonymous survey of 240 students fitting this profile. An additional summary of feedback provided by adult learners who identified as 25+ years old is attached as an appendix – though they fell outside the scope of this research, they nonetheless constitute an important part of the adult education population, and their stories should be heard.En utilisant le terme « adultes émergents » d'Arnett (2000) pour parler des jeunes âgés de 17 à 25 ans, Cette thèse vise à honorer les points de vue des adultes émergents qui fréquentent des centres d'éducation des adultes à Montréal, à documenter un aperçu de leurs réussites et de leurs obstacles, et à témoigner de leur parcours. En utilisant une revue littéraire, les expériences professionnelles de l'auteur en tant qu'éducateur d'adultes et les résultats d'un sondage anonyme auprès de 240 étudiants correspondant à ce profil, cette thèse construit et discute un profil de contexte social et d'apprentissage des adultes émergents qui inclut leurs identités, leurs contextes de vie et d'apprentissage ainsi que les obstacles auxquels ils sont confrontés, puis propose des actions possibles pour atténuer ces problèmes. Il y a également un résumé des résultats sur les apprenants adultes de plus de 25 ans joints en annexe, car ils constituent une partie importante de la population de l'éducation des adultes, et leurs histoires doivent être entendues
‘Our Dreams on Life Support’: Exploring Signs of Integration, Post-Traumatic Growth and Resilience Among Quebec’s Marginalized Immigrants
No full textThis study explores the integration experiences of immigrants who hold intersecting identities—such as being of color, queer, from marginalized ethnic and/or socioeconomic backgrounds. Quebec’s context presents additional challenges compared to other jurisdictions, including non-recognition of foreign credentials and strict secularism and language laws, such as Bill 21 and Bill 96. Through a phenomenological ethnographic research design, this study addresses aspects of sociology, psychology and education and aims to provide insights regarding the subjective experiences of these individuals. The project also allows for a creative output generated by the research itself.
A review of prior research literature addresses linguistic challenges faced by newcomers, the impact of imposed acculturation processes, gender inequality in immigrant integration, and challenges posed by discriminatory policies of the host land.
The study reflects these trends and themes with a focus on ten individual stories that give human voices to the voiceless statistics that underpin the study of immigrant integration.
The research ultimately reveals that true integration is unattainable for many due to factors like race, language fluency, and religious or sexual identity, especially within Quebec’s distinct identity and historical response to immigration. The findings suggest that systemic barriers, integration challenges, inadequate support for trauma and language acquisition hinder newcomers' successful integration. The dissertation presents recommendations for policymakers and educators, including removing systemic barriers to credential recognition, supporting inclusive cultural integration, and enhancing emotional support services for immigrants.
Keywords: Quebec, immigration, integration, francisation, assimilation, acculturation, credential recognition, Bill 21, Bill 96, immigrant trauma, Queer, BIPOC, systemic barriers
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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