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Basket weaving in Advanced level history ... how to plan and teach the 100 year study
No full textThe current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly unfamiliar to students, it raises some challenging questions about how to plan and teach it. It has certainly presented Advanced Level teachers with a new challenge, for even where they were previously teaching a theme over a long time span, they would almost certainly have had more time to do so. But perhaps it is this relative lack of time that frees us to be more creative and to draw meaningfully on current practice at Key Stage 3: there is not enough time to go into huge detail and it is the big pictures that are important. In this article, Richard Harris and Alison Kitson warn against an 'attritional' approach to content and suggest alternative ways of handling the 100 year unit which enable students to focus more on the patterns, the changes and the continuities than on the narrative of events. Through a discussion of both general principles and two specific case studies, they provide us with a rich source of specific, practical ideas about how to plan and teach this unit without drowning in content, running out of time and switching students off
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
Facilitation methods within a project to improve the management of chronic kidney disease in primary care
No full textLiving with ‘wicked’ problems:How should history education respond?
No full textHistory, ‘the unending dialogue between past and present’ (Carr), necessitates continual review of what to teach. The rise of recent national populism notwithstanding, the contemporary world is characterised by increasing connectedness along with apparent impending global crises that are affecting the state of the planet (Stromquist). The (contested) Anthropocene means living with ‘wicked’ problems (Rittel & Webber) while the uncertain future calls for innovation to create solutions to problems that have either not been seen before or not on this scale (Finley). The Anthropocene challenges traditional subject boundaries and for history gives rise to the need for more porous boundaries between natural and human factors in understanding cause and effect. Furthermore, history, if conceived as a continuum between past, present and future (Shemilt) has much to contribute to a proposed futures facing curriculum. The chapter will report a number of initiatives carried out with PGCE students at the University of Bristol
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
Facilitation methods within a project to improve the management of chronic kidney disease in primary care
No full textImplementing Interventions in Indigenous Primary Health Care: A Realist Evaluation
Get PDFImplementation of evidence-based health interventions in Indigenous primary health care is a significant strategy to improve health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. However, the outcomes achieved when implementing interventions in Indigenous primary health care services are variable. Improving implementation depends on understanding the complexities involved in implementing research evidence within this context. Against this background, a realist evaluation, framed by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) conceptual framework, was designed to explore how, for whom, and under what circumstances does new knowledge get implemented in Indigenous primary health care.
This realist evaluation found that implementation success in Indigenous primary health care is likely to be mediated by three types of mechanisms: Firstly, mechanisms that related to the nature of the interventions. Secondly, mechanisms that relate to motivational theories. And thirdly, mechanisms that relate to facilitation processes. Health professionals’ narratives supported the proposed mechanisms of ‘trusting to follow’, ‘sense of direction’ and ‘seeing a use for it’, and for managers and Continuous Quality Improvement facilitators, ‘believing they are making a difference’. Activation of these mechanisms within the local and organisational context is likely to be contingent upon the main contextual influences of: the level of organisational support for change; leadership of cross-cultural teams; workforce stability and synergies with rival programs. The study found no evidence of congruence between the proposed facilitation-related mechanisms of ‘feeling valued’, and ‘connecting and relating’ and the experiences of health professionals. Despite this lack of congruence, facilitation-related mechanisms are considered fundamental for the effective engagement needed with and between Indigenous health professionals, non-Indigenous health professionals and Aboriginal communities for the successful implementation of interventions.
Applying these findings to knowledge translation in Indigenous primary health care requires a shift of focus toward implementation strategies that trigger mechanisms ‘in tune’ with the context of implementation. A path for improving implementation success is presented that integrates collaboration, engagement, facilitation, and capacity building. The strength of this study is threefold: firstly, the use of a realist evaluation design that made explicit the Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO) configurations that resonate for both researchers and health professionals; secondly, the presentation of an integrated approach to improve implementation success that is responsive to context; and thirdly to contribute to the PARIHS mid-range theory of implementation, and more generally the field of Implementation science.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Adelaide Nursing School, 201
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