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Representations of death and of spirituality in an experience of death education in a nursery school
No full textDeath fear and cultural censorship characterizes Western history
starting from the twentieth century till nowadays. The effort
of forbidding a philosophy of pain and of denying the salvific
value of suffering is leading our culture toward a policy of total
anesthesia of grief and pain. Death unawareness usually causes
unhealthy behaviors and traumas hard to solve when we face
with life frailty. In the past ten years the Chizzolini nursery
school, thanks to expressly trained teachers, has been setting
up a program on grief related to one of the biggest losses in
life: the death of a beloved one. Emotional-affective and death
education paths enable to face death fear. In 2013/2014 school
year it was introduced a further step toward spiritual education.
Spirituality concerns everybody, including children. It has to do
with the whole person, with his vision of world, life, death and
with his way of relating to reality. Spiritual education is essential.
It consists of a path of awareness concerning our perception
of being beyond our body. It allows to face and overcome
dying fears. The research involves 49 five years old children
and their 50 parents (age range 31-45). It aims to investigate
death and spirituality representations and if the path is helpful
to recognize, work through and be responsible of emotions. The
Death Education experience began in October and finished in
December. Children’s replies to a death fear managing interview
were analyzed with the Atlas.ti qualitative analysis software to
identify ways children discursively construct emotions, especially
fear and representation of death. The Spiritual Education experience
(January-March) followed the death education phase.
Children’s responses to the interview on spirituality meaning
were analyzed (Atlas.ti) to detect ways children discursively
construct the representation of spiritual dimension. How the
path reflected on children’s families was also observed. Parents
completed two questionnaires, one at the beginning and one
at the end of the path. Answers were analyzed through SPAD
5.6, qualitative analysis software, to detect ways parents discursively
construct representations of death, spirituality and related
emotions. Finally, through the Semantic Differential, ways
parents define death and spirituality representation in relation
to their symbolic values were detected. Results confirm that
emotional/death education paths from childhood, seems to be
undoubtedly the best way to work through grief. In earlier years
(2005), children’s death representation was hardly violent and
there was not room to think of illness and aging. There was
death awareness, but with lot of sadness and violence due to
departure. Our qualitative analysis reveals that children’s death
representation is linked with aging, illness and spiritual believes.
Violence is present, but it is slightly significant in relation to
the cause of death. Generally, death strikes elderly people, but
it can also be caused by illness or accidents, showing children’s
considerable understanding that death can occur. There is still
separation fear, but deep spiritual beliefs opposed to material
ones were detected. Children show a dualist representation of
death: death is the end of vital functions, but not the end of
existence. Concerning spirituality, results reveal that children
have a remarkable ability to keep in touch with their interior
life associating this dimension with inner strength that everybody
has. Children learnt to listen to their body, to search their interior
strength and happiness that helps overcome difficulties. Thanks
to this path with children, familiesare enabled to openly discuss
this argument. Parents are more likely to talk about death and
spirituality not only for a more aware and mature children’s
growth but also because, maybe thanks to a new awareness of
death, it is useful for themselves. In conclusion it is possible to
assert the importance of starting death education programs from
childhood and especially of planning paths to enhance deep selfawareness
and to develop strong beliefs to rely on during difficult
times
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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