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Adatti e quasi adatti a scuola.La valutazione del rischio psicosociale nei contesti educativi
Full text linkQuesto contributo, nella sua dimensione teorica ed empirica, intende suggerire a coloro che si occupano di formazione e di traiettorie di sviluppo, l’assunzione costante di una prospettiva “in positivo” nella valutazione del rischio psicosociale. Si tratta, in altre parole, del tentativo di incentivare una cultura professionale orientata a fronteggiare la tendenza (presente nel quotidiano quanto, talvolta, nell’ambito degli interventi psicosociali) ad utilizzare forme di categorizzazione sociale semplificate e stereotipate in presenza di comportamenti che non rientrano nella canonicità. Questo volume vuole costituire una sorta di cartina di tornasole per far emergere, nell’ambito degli interventi psicosociali, i problemi indotti da visioni semplificate della realtà e soprattutto dall’assunzione, in negativo, di una prospettiva di sviluppo stereotipata. Proprio per questa ragione, gli stessi strumenti di indagine proposti nella seconda parte del volume assolvono alla duplice funzione di evidenziare situazioni “critiche” nei contesti educativi ma al tempo stesso affinare le competenze del lettore nell’evitare pericolose semplificazioni, traendo conclusioni affrettate da valutazioni spontanee. In questa prospettiva, il percorso di ricerca-azione, documentato nel volume, ha voluto deliberatamente situarsi al punto di intersezione fra il mondo dei minori ed il contesto scolastico e sociale, nel tentativo di far emergere le dinamiche, le difficoltà e le risorse per promuovere e ristabilire le opportunità di crescita inscritte nell’esperienza formativa
Psychology of Reflexivity and reflexivity for psychology
No full textA long tradition has produced a misleading interpretation of the categories
of idiographic and nomothetic. Such an interpretation has hindered
the development of psychology and more in general of social science. “Idiographic”
has been treated as a matter of identity, an ideological approach
that continues to be reproduced through the conflict with what-is-outside-it
viii S. Salvatore, G. Marsico, and R. Andrisano-Ruggieri
(i.e., nomothetic mainstream psychology). Far from such a militant ritualization
of the concept, YIS aims at promoting a return to the origin of
what Windelband (1904/1998) proposed, namely the idea of idiographic
and nomothetic as categories depicting two complementary—rather than
alternative - forms of knowledge building
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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