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The teacher's desk:Re-imagining arts-based inquiry for reflexive professional practice and subjectivity in education
No full textIn this chapter, I demonstrate how objects, real or imagined, might be used to reimagine reflexive professional practice and subjectivity in education. As a self-reflexive arts-based scholar, I am interested in the potential of objects to serve as prompts and nodes of interpretation in arts-based self-reflexive inquiry. In thinking of how to gather data for this work, I use the teacher’s desk as research site
Vampiric Inquiry, or A Review of Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere
No full textThis review explores how Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere effectively utilizes the process of currere as a tool for inquiry as well as an educational experience
ARTiculating currere: Arts-based methods and methodology to facilitate and understand biographic situations
Full text linkThis article explores how an instructor of undergraduate writing courses within a public university used arts-based writing assignments to facilitate the currere process. Throughout the semester, students were asked to complete artistic representations of writing prompts to pair with their assignments. Students completed narrative, analytic, and research-based writing assignments with artistic components. The art-making invited students to include biographical elements of their identities into their compositions, which enabled them to engage with the currere process. Additionally, the instructor’s own knowledge of currere made it possible for her to understand her students’ depth of educational experiences within her curriculum. Through practitioner action research that closely followed voluntary student participants over a semester, this article explores connections between art-making and currere as well as ways the process of currere can function as a curricular method within the undergraduate writing classroom
ARTiculation: Engagement in Composition Courses Through Expressive Arts
No full textComposition courses are some of the most commonly required courses for undergraduate students, but students are often not engaged when completing assignments. Although scholarship supports alternative forms of composition such as arts-based methods, Expressive Arts has yet to be utilized as a curricular method. This article examines literature surrounding art-making with composition and showcases curricular methods used during a semester. The instructor’s practitioner action research assesses the curriculum’s success through narrative analysis of students; data. The study’s results support art-making as a curricular tool that promotes engagement in the forms of increased growth mindset, individualized active learning, and intrinsic motivation
ARTiculating currere: Arts-based methods and methodology to facilitate and understand biographic situations
Full text linkThis article explores how an instructor of undergraduate writing courses within a public university used arts-based writing assignments to facilitate the currere process. Throughout the semester, students were asked to complete artistic representations of writing prompts to pair with their assignments. Students completed narrative, analytic, and research-based writing assignments with artistic components. The art-making invited students to include biographical elements of their identities into their compositions, which enabled them to engage with the currere process. Additionally, the instructor’s own knowledge of currere made it possible for her to understand her students’ depth of educational experiences within her curriculum. Through practitioner action research that closely followed voluntary student participants over a semester, this article explores connections between art-making and currere as well as ways the process of currere can function as a curricular method within the undergraduate writing classroom
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
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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