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Interview with Helen M. Gunter
No full textInterview with Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Education Policy at the School of Environment, Education and Development (University of Manchester) and co-editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and History. Her main area of studying and researching are the processes of restructuring and reculturing of education systems (England and across Europe). Issues discussed are about policy of leadership, New Public Management in education, knowledge production, the european space of sociologly of education, theoretical background and other main interests of research
Leading and managing in educational organizations
No full textIn this chapter, we argue that leaders, leading and leadership of educational organizations generates three main approaches: functional, critical and socially critical. We present three case studies from research in Naples to illustrate each one, and we examine the way that power works, particularly through micropolitical activities in organizations. We focus directly on formal organizations for educational services, that is, kindergarten or nursery, school, college and university. In doing this we are directly concerned with first, the leader: whom this is; second, leading: what a leader does and why; and third, leadership: or how power operates and is exercised. To make our argument that educational leadership has functional, critical and socially critical approaches, we begin with the dynamics of the organization to develop a conceptual framework. We ask you to reflect on three case studies based on empirical research, and to think about emotional intelligence and micropolitical processes
Intellectual Histories, Power and Activism. Understanding and Modeling Plurality within Educational Life in the Works of Helen M. Gunter
No full textThis chapter recognises the intellectual legacy of the works of Helen M. Gunter for my own work as education policy sociologist and more generally for the fields of educational leadership and education policy research. Moving from a brief account of the experience of the Network Le@ds (Leading Democratic Schools) that Helen contributed to create in 2011, the chapter will reflect on the generative interplay in her work of three major intellectual gestures: (a) the use of intellectual histories as a way to understand our social relations, social conditions and abilities as emerging through processes of knowledge production and circulation; (b) the use of the Arendtian concept of ‘action’, intended as an anti-categorical and interrupting dialogical gesture, as a tool to engage with educational institutions as a primary and unavoidable space of inquiry, reflection and involvement; and (c) a practice as public intellectual that proposes a distinctive understanding of the relation between ideas and action, knowledge production and activism. I will argue that these three gestures combine into an intellectual attitude that is about taking action and responsibility, engaging in issues of political educational concern, and exercising judgement to contribute to model democratically plurality and freedom within educational life
Hannah Arendt on Educational Thinking and Practice in Dark Times: Education for a World in Crisis, Wayne Veck and Helen M. Gunter, Eds.
Get PDFHannah Arendt on Educational Thinking and Practice in Dark Times: Education for a World in Crisis, Wayne Veck and Helen M. Gunter, Eds
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
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