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Being undone by each other: An ecofeminist ontological offering for peace education in the Anthropocene
No full textIn the challenges of the Anthropocene, peace education has yet to fully address and analyze the linked violences of gender and the earth. This thesis will explore those shortcomings, as well as make an ecofeminist ontological offering that extends peace education to address these issues. An ecofeminist offering includes a critique of capitalist patriarchy and colonial structures that subjugate women and the earth along various intersections, linking sociological and ecological destruction; posits an interconnected world of humans and non-humans; and presses toward caring ways of being that focus on dismantling structural violences for the sake of communal flourishing that includes humans and non-humans. Using a post-oppositional framework (Keating, 2013) this thesis will extend peace education using ecofeminist theory and specifically address educational sites and narratives within Hickory County, Missouri using this pedagogical practice
Coordinated effort: (Re)imagining a world for individuals with dyspraxia/DCD
No full textThis interpretivist arts-based narrative inquiry (ABNI) explores the lived social and educational experiences of “experts by experience” (Shakespeare, 2022), a diverse body of adults, individuals 18 and older living with dyspraxia, developmental coordination disorder (DCD), or other coordination disorders. It focuses on their intersectional experiences within broader social, cultural, and ableist contexts, particularly their stories and perceptions of schools and learning environments. The study presents the analysis of accessible public narratives alongside semi-structured dialogue sessions with six participants - five from the United States and one from the United Kingdom -, four of whom engaged in collaborative collaging alongside the researcher for meaning making. Using narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2006) and nonfiction comics (Galman, 2021), the study presents participants’ stories and experiences. It integrates multiple analytical methods, Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA), Pursuing Members’ Meaning (PMM), and Thematic Analysis (TA), informed by the social-relational and political/relational models of disability and intersectionality. Key findings reveal a persistent lack of dyspraxia/DCD awareness, systemic educational shortcomings, and the critical role of intersectionality in shaping experiences. Narrators highlight their adaptability, resilience, and reframing of deficit-based narratives to view dyspraxia/DCD as a source of strength. This study contributes to qualitative and educational literature by offering a unique arts-based methodology of collaborative collaging and storying experience that expands understanding and amplifies voices of individuals with dyspraxia, developmental coordination disorder (DCD), or other coordination disorders, particularly U.S. adults, through an intersectional lens that considers race, socio-economic status, and cultural background
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
Re-envisioning Community-Engaged Healing for Black Women
Get PDFBlack women in the United States continue to face multilayered forms of anti-Black gendered oppression leading to severe health disparities and inequities that have a dire impact on their well-being. This paper recognizes the urgency to attend to Black women’s health and healing in the pursuit of creating health equity. The authors call for the creation of sacred spaces for Black women to participate in embodied and community-engaged healing, grounded in a gender justice that is inextricably tied to racial justice. This research is inspired by the long, rich line of Black American women activist-healers that have called for the radical healing of Black women. Therefore, the authors root their work in an ethical health justice ethos, honoring the humanity of Black women through a recognition of their sacredness, guided by the principles of justice, truth-telling, love, and respect that emphasizes that Black women’s lives matter. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors braid together healing narratives from the fields of Public Health, Black Psychology, Africana Studies, and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Underscoring the importance of Black women reclaiming their radical healing, this paper at the same time underlines resisting anti-Black gendered racism and interlocking forms of oppression. The authors emphasize gender and racial justice while endorsing collectivistic orientations, grounded in an African-centered worldview, that support Black women’s embodied and community-engaged healing. As a result, the authors also draw from healing narratives in their fields that include cultural paradigms, socially engaged spirituality, and generational and gendered wisdom. Connecting historical to present-day medical/mental health encounters, the authors underscore inhumane, racist, and sexist pseudoscience, medical treatment, and research experiments on Black women’s bodies. The authors also address social injustices, isolation, and (dis)ease while foregrounding gender and racial justice in the creation of health equity for Black women
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
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