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The Jonathan Jansen Collection and beyond
Full text linkPresented at the Seminar on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 24 October, Bloemfontein, University of the Free State.This presentation gives an overview of the Jonathan Jansen collection in the UPSpace repository at the University of Pretoria, the goal and characteristics of the Open scholarship Unit as well as the problems and highlights of this unit
Book Discussion : As by Fire : the End of the South African University by Prof Jonathan Jansen
No full textINVITATION UJ SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy and the UJ Library in partnership with NB Publishers, invite you to a discussion with PROFESSOR JONATHAN JANSEN author of As by Fire: The End of the South African University DATE: 27 July 2017 TIME: 16h30 for 17h00 VENUE: Chinua Achebe Auditorium (6th Floor), APK Library, University of Johannesburg, (corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park) RSVP by Tuesday 25 July 2017 to Theodorah Modise on [email protected] / 011 559 2264 FACILITATOR: Prof Chris Landsberg (SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Prof Jonathan Jansen is a leading South African educationist, commentator and the author of several books including the bestselling, Letters to My Children. He is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, where he earned a reputation for transformation and a deep commitment to reconciliation. He is married with two children. ABOUT THE BOOK: What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did so many protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn, and do the students know how to end the protests? Former Free State University Vice-Chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities
Jonathan Jansen: servant leader
No full textThese sentiments by erstwhile Stanford University colleagues capture two of the essential qualities of Jonathan Jansen: his courage and his forthrightness. The attribution 'public intellectual' is itself a two-way street, however. Jansen is recognised by others for his public contributions to society, but his own words convey in their recognition of others' contributions to society an essence of hope. 'My South Africa is the working-class man who called from the airport to return my wallet without a cent missing. It is the white woman who put all three of her domestic worker's children through ... the same school that her own child attended', begins an address by Jansen delivered in 2013 that went viral 18 months later, and again in December 2018. But as this chapter will show, Jansen's profile on social media is surpassed by his academic credentials and by the awards he has received, key measures of his profile as a public intellectual.
Farewell function of Prof. Jonathan Jansen 27 March 2007
No full textIn order to view this farewell function and speeches, please download Windows Media Player, for this is a Windows Media Audio/Video file (size 131 MB). Download Windows Media Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/default.aspx. The total time is 49:27.The University of Pretoria bids farewell to prof. Jonathan Jansen with an official ceremony at the Groenkloof campus. During this farewell function he is thanked for all his contributions during the past seven years. Tribute was paid to prof. Jonathan Jansen by the following colleagues: Mr. Willie Potgieter (Education Faculty Manager), Prof. Christof Heyns (Dean Faculty of Law), Prof. Kobus Maree (Department Curriculum Studies), Mr. Donavan Pietersen (representing the Groenkloof students), Dr. Rinelle Evans (Department Social Studies), Dr. Chika Sehoole (Department Education Management). Lastly, prof. Jansen made his final speech as Dean of the Faculty of Education
Launching the Dean digitally : the Jonathan Jansen Collection in UPSpace
Full text linkThis presentation was delivered during the Institutional Repositories workshop on creating an information infrastructure for the scholarly community, 17 - 19 July 2007, WITS (Johannesburg). It describes the development of a personalized collection in UPSPace of the former dean of the Faculty of Education, prof. Jonathan Jansen
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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