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Swedish experiences of the Reggio Emilia Approach Inspired schools: an explorative study on history, inclusion and learning environments
No full textThe Reggio Emilia Approach (REA) is briefly defined as an educational approach based on pedagogical pillars such as child-centred education, the importance of the environment as the third educator, and the recognition of the existence of 100 children’s languages. Originally developed during the period of the Post World War II in the city of Reggio Emilia,in Italy, in a special context of traditions, political and cultural movements, and now exists as a global phenomenon. Alongside the pillars that structure the approach, we considered it important to highlight one particular aspect: its ability to inspire different cultures and to challenge them in return, particularly through a process of cultural comparison carried out by teachers.This study first explores how the REA was introduced in the 1960s through the contemporary vision of education professionals in Reggio Emilia inspired schools and the Reggio Emilia Institutet based in Stockholm. Secondly, it focuses more precisely on how the approach is currently contextualised in modern Sweden (Stockholm and its surroundings), particularly by concentrating on aspects related to the learning environment and inclusion. In order to conduct this study, we applied a qualitative methodology involving interviews with the staff and collaborators of the Reggio Emilia Institutet, as well as with education professionals in Swedish schools all inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach, in the city of Stockholm and surroundings, with the status of atelierista, pedagogista, educators, teachers and school headmasters. The interviews were exploratory, semi-structured, anonymised, voluntary and conducted at the workplace of the interviewed, in Sweden. A thematic analysis was then carried out using a coding system based on a deductive approach, allowing space for innovation. Moreover, for the focus on the environment, we also used photographs and videos of Reggio Emilia inspired schools. Data triangulation was performed using existing literature in order to analyse, in a recursive process, what emerged from the interviews and the elements detected in the learning contexts. Three main points emerged from this research work. The first aspect concerns a range of historical, political, and cultural factors in the Swedish context, as mentioned in the interviews and narratives, which facilitated the arrival of the REA in Sweden. This leads to the point of convergence between the Swedish context and the REA, highlighting the key introductory factors that contributed to the approach’s introduction and appropriation within Swedish culture. Secondly, referring specifically to the environment, the values and qualities that characterize these learning contexts turn out to be a valid interpretation of the REA to which the Swedish schools explicitly refer.
The attention, care, functionality and support for learning, the coherence with the educational objectives of the materials and tools present, make it that third educator to which Loris Malaguzzi referred when speaking of the learning environment, albeit in the different connotations that another culture offered it. Thirdly, following the broad concept of Inclusion as grounded in the perspective of removing barriers to learning and participation and enhancing the potential of every child, the interviews highlights both continuities, such as active pedagogy, the image of the competent child, and collaborative project work, and differences, particularly regarding inclusive practices, where the presence of a specialized co-teacher emerges as a key enabling factor. Through this investigation, we show how via a process of careful revision and deconstruction of different meanings, elements specific to REA culture are transposed and incorporated into the culture of the Swedish schools visited
Ultrastructural and biochemical investigations of protein mobilization of Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC cotyledons and embryo axis.
No full textThe mobilization of storage reserves, with particular emphasis on storage proteins of Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC., cotyledons, and embryo was investigated from the ultrastructural and biochemical points of view. Proteins and starch were the two main storage substances in cotyledons, and proteins and lipids were the main ones in the embryo. Embryo protein bodies were smaller and fewer in number than those of cotyledons. Structural and ultrastructural data determined between 24 and 48 h after imbibition and between 48 and 72 h after imbibition, the end of significant embryo and cotyledon protein mobilization, respectively, indicating more precocious storage protein mobilization in the axis than cotyledons. Moreover, storage protein mobilization in embryo and cotyledons occurred before the end of germination. Water soluble proteins were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, producing 29 bands with molecular weights from 14 to 90 KDa. Embryo extract contained more proteins than cotyledon extract, contained seven characteristic bands, and showed a higher variability of the optical density trend than cotyledon
Effects of snake venom proteases on human fibrinogen chains
No full textProteomic approach is an effective method to study changes in human plasma proteome. Coagulopathies are commonly encountered in victims of viper envenomation which were treated with an administration of immunoglobulin. Unfortunately, this treatment shows significant risk to the patient due to an anaphylactic reaction. Since Echis carinatus Venom (EV) toxins mainly acts both directly and indirectly on fibrinogen, we planned to establish a suitable analysis of its beta (FIBB) e gamma (FIBG) chains. This study will help us to understand the mechanism of envenomation and to find alternative treatments other than the common treatment with the administration of IgG
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
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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