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Female representation in Junior primary English textbooks in Namibia
Full text linkThesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2022.This study is aimed at critically examining the representation of females in junior primary English textbooks in Namibia. The study gauged how females are represented in these textbooks, as well as why they are represented in particular ways. This was done by analysing 12 English textbooks used for the teaching of English first language at junior primary level in Namibia. Texts and visual images in these textbooks were the units of analysis. The study adopted a qualitative approach and was guided by a critical paradigm. For the theoretical framework, six feminist theories formed a bricolage: liberal, socialist, radical, Marxist, black and African feminisms. These feminist theories were employed as theoretical lenses for interpreting the data. In addition, critical discourse analysis and thematic analysis were used to interrogate the data. The study concluded that in the sample studied, females were underrepresented, subordinated, stereotyped, oppressed and segregated, as well as being omitted in different ways. Further more, patriarchy was evident in the oppression and subordination of females. The findings reveal that females were involved in stereotypical parental, domestic and occupational roles, as well as in games and activities and were presented almost exclusively as wives and mothers. The responsibility for taking care of the family and children was solely depicted as resting on females. Literature reveals that such responsibilities prevent females from actively participating in careers and the means of production. Although females were slightly overrepresented in the images their presence remained in stereotypical roles. In the texts, on the other hand, there was an underrepresentation of females, who were either silenced or ignored. Females were further depicted as being victims or weaklings without agency. This contribution adds to the vast literature on the portrayal of females in textbooks and in the present circumstances, the knowledge contributed by the study is contextual in nature. Neither textbooks nor female representation seen through a critical lens have been investigated in Namibia thus far and, as a result, this study might have opened a new research chapter in a country where more literature in the field of textbook analysis is imperative.
Key words: feminism; critical discourse analysis; thematic analysis; visual images; patriarchy; subordination; oppression; society.University of PretoriaDistance EducationPhDUnrestricte
IS WHAT YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET? A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF FEMALES IN JUNIOR PRIMARY ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS IN NAMIBIA
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This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of twelve junior primary English First language (EFL) textbooks in Namibia using visual images as units of analysis. We assumed there is gender inequality in textbooks. The aim of this study is to investigate how females are represented in these textbooks and why females are presented the way they are. The study is informed by the principles of feminist theory which is premised on the subordination and oppression of females in society. This led to the adaptation of the critical paradigm which also aims at bringing justice to the oppressed. The critical paradigm works well with the qualitative approach design chosen. The images were analysed using themes from the thematic analysis approach and were critiqued using the critical discourse analysis. In this article, we argue that females were oppressed, subordinated and stereotyped in various ways in the sampled textbooks. Findings reveal that females were stereotyped in domestic roles, parental roles, occupational roles, activities and games and were depicted as patients or victims who had no agency. Females were subordinated in occupations. This study was conducted in an African country and its findings are similar to those of other studies from other parts of the world which point out that patriarchy and politics influence the way females are portrayed in textbooks.
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
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
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