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First-Generation Women of the African Diaspora Collective: Finding Fullness Through (Re)membering, an Endarkened Feminist Participatory Action Research Project
No full textThis work is embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until May 2028.In the midst of a global pandemic and during a time of emboldened white supremacy, a group of women of the African diaspora created a collective to examine our experiences as first-generation college students navigating college. What started off as a conversation about the ways in which Black women’s voices are often silenced in the academy through misogynoir, developed into our search for fullness through the act of (re)membering. Together as a collective, 22 undergraduate and graduate first-generation women of the African diaspora (FGWAD) represented a wide range of the transnational African diaspora (Black, African American, African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Latina), having allegiances to multiple nation states ranging in age from early 20s to mid-50s. Engaging in the three-manuscript format method, this project examined the impact of systemic racism in higher education and explored our intersectional identities as first-generation college students. The author realized early on that the power of this research collective was not only to discover the impact of social injustice in the academy but also revealed a Black woman’s way of knowing. Along our journey for clarity, we created an endarkened feminist participatory research methodological approach (Collins, 1990; Cooper, 1892; Dillard, 2000; Drame & Irby, 2016). Black participatory research informed our work and members of the collective took part in each aspect of the research process, including research design, collection of data, analysis of data, establishment of findings, and their meaning. Each of these manuscripts were concerned with the larger implications of deficit-based ideologies, systemic oppressive structures that maintain power, and the collective grappling with complex and messy binary constructs such as race/gender, superhuman/ subhuman, and trauma/resilience. While co-researchers conversed about the ways in which the academy was suspicious of their stories, members of the collective came to trust and honor their complex and multiple truths through our collective storytelling. For example, the research demonstrated that FGWAD were expected to exhibit strength and exceptionality. On one hand, strong Black woman or Black girl magic ideas created a specific type of capital to navigate the university space or exceed their ancestors’ wildest dreams (Nell & Dunn, 2020), but on the other hand, it was also the site of great pain as members of the collective were expected to maintain excellence at all costs. This research project sought to transcend Black women’s experiences in which their knowledge was questioned, misunderstood, and oftentimes disrupted. Not only is this work significant to sabotage normative claims around research and knowledge, but it is also important in creating a new trajectory for future research.2028-05-1
Strategies To Increase Active Reading And Engagement Among Students
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This session is for faculty members who are frustrated when students come to class without completing the assigned reading. This session will provide strategies and recommendations to increase active reading, critical thinking, and engagement in the classroom. Are you tired of coming to class excited and ready for students to engage in the reading, only to find a handful of students, at best, have actually completed the reading? Participants will learn multiple strategies and recommendations to increase active reading and engagement. As students implement these interlocking strategies they gain valuable techniques of how to read more effectively and have greater agency over their learning experience. Each of the strategies can be adopted and edited to meet student needs and course requirements. Presenters will demonstrate the ways in which these strategies assist in holding students accountable to the course readings, while also increasing reading comprehension. Additionally, they will discuss how the strategies have been implemented in 100 to 500 level courses. As a result of this session, instructors will be able to implement various interlocking strategies to increase student's active reading skills, critical thinking, and engagement. In turn, faculty members will find that more students are willing to productively participate, ask questions, and interrogate course concepts
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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