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Imperialist Desires in English-Only Language Policy
Get PDFThis article tackles the questions around the efficacy of the English language in educational contexts.The author argues that the
answer to these questions has nothing to do with whether English
is a more viable language of instruction or whether it promises
non-English–speaking students full participation both in school
and the society at large. This position, in the author’s view, would
point to an assumption that English is, in fact, a superior language and that we live in a classless, race-blind society. He proposes, instead, that the attempt to institute proper and effective
methods of educating non-English–speaking students rests on a
full understanding of the ideological elements that generate and
sustain linguistic, cultural, and racial discrimination, which represent vestiges of a colonial legacy in our democrac
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
UNA PEDAGOGÍA ANTIMÉTODO. UNA PERSPECTIVA FREIRIANA
Get PDFAnte el fracaso educativo, algunos educadores liberales o neoliberales han redescubierto a Freire como una alternativa a un modelo educacional más conservador. Han reivindicado la pedagogía de Freire al mismo tiempo que una actitud paternalista hacia aquellos estudiantes o comunidades que intentaban dotarse a sí mismos de poder. Estos educadores y educadoras han intentado también estructurar el debate educativo en base a la competitividad y privatización de las escuelas. Han reducido la pedagogía de Freire al método, sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que las ideas principales de Freire trascienden el mero método para guiamos hacia el pensamiento crítico y hacia una toma de conciencia sobre nuestra presencia en el mundo. El método dialógico, entendido como solamente un método, puede consistir en nada más que un mero grupo de terapia. En cambio, si vamos más allá de su contenido metodológico, el diálogo freiriano implica todo un proyecto político dirigido a desmantelar las estructuras opresivas. La pedagogía antimétodo rechaza los rígidos paradigmas metodológicos y nos hace entender el diálogo como una forma de praxis social. En este sentido, el compartir experiencias está enfocado a la reflexión y la acción política. La pedagogía antimétodo nos libera de certezas y especializaciones y estimula nuestra capacidad crítica para entender el mundo y hacemos conscientes de nuestrapresencia en él.ABSTRACTAgainst educational failure, some liberal or neoliberal educators have rediscovered Freire as an altemative to a more conservative educational model. They have claimed Freire's pedagogy while adopting a patemalistic attitude towards those students or communities that try to empower themselves. These educators have also attempted to structure the educational debate in terms ofschool competition and privatization. They have reduced Freiré s pedagogy to a method without taking into account the fact that Freire's leading ideas transcend a mere method to guide us towards critical thinking and towards the awareness of our own presence in the world. The dialogic method, if taken only as a method, can consist of no more than a mere group therapy. Yet if we move beyond its methodological content, Freirean dialogue involves a whole political project that aims to dismantle oppressive structures. The antimethod pedagogy refuses rigid methodological paradigms and makes US view dialogue as a form of social praxis. In this way, the sharing of experiencesis aimed at reflection and political action. The antimethod pedagogy frees us from certainties and specialisms and fosters our critical
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
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