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Lasch, Christopher, \u27Excellence\u27 in Education: Old Refrain or New Departure? Issues in Education, 1(Summer, 1985), 1-12.
No full textLooks at the idea of excellence in historical perspecive
The Modernist Myth of the Future
No full textAs opposed to the current « post-modern » notion that the modernist impulse has pretty much exhausted itself, the pioneers of the movement had a clear picture of the future. Modern art assigned itself the task of humanizing the industrial order. Its sense of social mission is everpresent in its architecture and urban views. However, the modernist outlook was not as popular in inspiration as its promoters thought. The old dream of putting an end to the division of labor was soon abandoned, jeopardizing all chances of altering « materialistic mentalities ».« Le Mythe Moderniste de l'Avenir. »
Par opposition à l'idée « post-moderne » que l'impulsion moderniste est aujourd'hui passablement épuisée, les pionniers du mouvement se faisaient une image claire de l'avenir. L'art moderne se fixait pour tâche d'humaniser l'ordre industriel. Le sens de sa mission sociale est omniprésent dans son architecture et dans son urbanisme. Cependant la vision moderniste n'était pas d'inspiration aussi populaire que le pensaient ses promoteurs. Le vieux rêve qui consistait à mettre un terme à la division du travail fut abandonné, compromettant ainsi toute possibilité de modifier les « mentalités matérialistes ».Lasch Christopher. The Modernist Myth of the Future. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°16, février 1983. Les intellectuels aux Etats-Unis. pp. 31-43
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
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