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Ending Up in Academia:A Story of Multiple Transitions
No full textThis chapter presents an autoethnographic account of the transition from a school-leaver teacher trainee to an academic researcher and teacher. The focus is on the notion of ‘becoming’ treading through a range of professional roles and doctoral research. The doctorate explored school transitions by combining Pierre Bourdieu’s and Basil Bernstein’s theoretical concepts. This framework was then utilised to shift attention from the researched to the researcher’s multiple identities and acts as a tool to analyse the transition into academia as a process of becoming
Children's I-poems
Full text linkListening through play-based methods (LIME): Young children’s experiences of family life in the aftermath of a global pandemic is a British Academy funded project that ran between October 2023 and March 2025. The project explored how to capture young children’s voices and experiences of family focusing on their verbal and non-verbal expressions during play. Eighteen children aged 3 to 4 took part in sensory tuff tray activities, storytelling and draw-and-tell play sessions across three early childhood settings. Children’s expressions were recorded and noted down during play. The Listening Guide, a method for analysis that focuses on ‘I’ expressions in the data, was adapted and applied to illustrate children’s voices and experiences. This led to series of I-poems giving us insight into children’s sayings, doings, experiences and playfulness. This collection showcases poems from the project, alongside children’s drawings. It is intended to portray family as 3- and 4-years old children knew it in 2024. <br/
Learning walks:making sense of school through prompts from the physical environment
No full textThis article explores the use of learning walks with children as a participatory research method to make sense of school experiences through prompts from the environment. The method was utilized as a tool to build relationships with the research participants and provide insight into their experiences of school. Seven children learning English as an additional language (EAL) participated in three learning walks and debriefing activities. Key concepts from Laura Lundy’s participation model (2007, 'Voice' is not enough: conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, British educational research journal, 33 (6), 927–942. doi: 10.1080/01411920701657033) were utilized to elicit and amplify children’s voices. The learning walks offered space and time for dialogue outside of the classroom and pedagogic structure, an audience that informed the research and influence communicated back to teachers. Children’s experiences of school included accounts of language, belonging and relationships with peers and adults. Offering children the tools and conditions to explore and share their experiences leads to empowerment and a sense of being ‘seen’ within school contexts.</p
LIME Project Toolkit
No full textListening through play-based methods (LIME): Young children’s experiences of family life in the aftermath of a global pandemic is a British Academy funded project that ran between October 2023 and March 2025. The project explored meaningful ways to capture young children’s voices and experiences of family by focusing on both their verbal and non-verbal expressions. In this toolkit, we illustrate the LIME process that resulted from working with three private day nurseries between December 2023 and May 2024. The project activities were informed by a preliminary questionnaire with parents about what children do with their families, which inspired the design of the kitchen, outdoor and clay trays. The toolkit offers insight, and a set of resources developed during the project, which we hope will encourage anyone working with young children to listen more purposefully and intently to the vast knowledge that the youngest members of society can share with us. <br/
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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