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T@sk Project between opportunities and challenges
No full textContestualizzazione e sfide del progetto europeo T@s
T@Sk Project: building bridges between University and society through social work
Full text linkProfessionalization, modernization and Europeanization of Social Services in Albania have been the main goals of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building T@sk Project “Towards Increased Awareness, Responsibility and Shared Quality in Social Work” (2017-2020).
T@sk Project pursued these aims through three main actions:
1) Internationalisation and 'Europeanisation' of Albanian Higher Education Institutions;
2) Knowledge triangulation between university lecturers, students, and social stakeholders;
3) Networking of social and political stakeholders.
T@sk methodology was based on a subsidiary and multilevel approach agreed amongst the project consortium composed of the University of Florence, the Complutense University of Madrid, the ISCTE of Lisbon, the Professional Order of Social Workers of Tuscany and the three Albanian public universities that offer Bachelor and Master courses in Social Work: University of Tirana, University of Elbasan, University of Shkodra.
T@sk project achieved its objectives thanks to the engagement of Higher Education staff with the changing social work environment in Albania and in the participating countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal). The promotion of a constant dialogue with social services on the ground in the four countries, the identification of the respective social needs and the reflection on theoretical and empirical research were the key actions of the project. A dense network of associated partners (social workers operating in the public and in the private sectors, NGOS, institutional stakeholders) complemented the peer-to-peer training programme for teachers, students and trainers.
During the three years of the project, participants were confronted with problems related to the regulation of the social work profession in their own country. Those experiences have supported the production of 3 volumes dedicated to the Albanian Social Services, standardized guidelines for social workers, and a code of ethics (all publications and training materials are available and downloadable from the project website: https://www.taskproject.eu). The project followed the creation of the professional Order of Social Workers in Albania, finally accomplished in 2022.
By the end of the project 50 university teachers, 140 social workers and 500 students had been trained. A total of 21 memoranda of understanding were signed by local and central policy makers, new agreements implemented, and 2 ICT laboratories created. The investment of T@sk in the digitalisation of teaching and learning activities in Albania proved to be strategic at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic made the use of online learning management systems indispensable.
Despite the fact that Albania was the beneficiary partner, the co-design of training activities allowed a cross-reflection on the welfare models adopted by the participating countries. The translation of universal social rights into tailored interventions rests upon institutional, economic and cultural variables, all taken into account through the comparative approach of the project.
Currently, project members are continuing to collaborate on specific research project focusing on the resiliency of Social Services in the face of new challenges (digitalization; new forms of poverty, epidemiological, social and economic effects of COIVD-19) that strongly question the capacity of any Welfare system
History, routes and new challenges of social work education in the University of Florence
No full textThe chapter presents and discusses the tradition of the school of social work at the University off Florence: its history, approach and methods
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
El 2000 visto desde el People’s Party
Full text linkFor a few years (1890–1896), the People’s Party was the “third party” of the United States and it changed the rhetoric of the two major parties into which it “dissolved” (especially in the case of the Democratic Party represented by William Jennings Bryan in 1896). The aim of the article is to test the political-narrative background which includes, among other productions in 1888, the first edition of Looking Backward. 2000–1887 by Edward Bellamy. One million copies of this book were sold and its readers created half a thousand nationalist clubs in the US. Caesar’s Column by Ignatius L. Donnelly’s (1890), author of the Preamble of the Party, was also widely sold.El People’s Party ha sido para algunos el “tercer partido” de los Estados Unidos (1890–1896), el cual cambió la retórica de los dos partidos principales en los que se “disolvió”, de forma más evidente en el caso del Partido Democrático, representado por William Jennings Bryan en 1896. El artículo se propone evaluar el background político-narrativo que cuenta, entre otras producciones en 1888, con la primera edición de Looking Backward. 2000–1887 de Edward Bellamy, la cual vendió un millón de copias y suscitó el nacimiento de medio millar de sociedades de tipo nacionalista en los USA, así como lo hizo la novela Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century de Ignatius L. Donnelly (1890), autor del Preámbulo del Partido.Libro publicado gracias al apoyo de la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad de Łódź, del Instituto de Estudios Románicos y de Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Akademickich na Rzecz Krzewienia Kultury Języków Europejskic
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