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Lunch and Learn: Riding the Pandemic Roller Coaster with St. Benedict
No full textWhat a year and a half!! If only we had some guidance to help us during such turbulent times. Oh, but we do! In his Rule, Saint Benedict laid out a set of practices that point to principles we can use, even today in our divisive and Covid-ridden world. Join Benedictine Institute Director Rodger Narloch as he shares his reflections on how Benedictine principles provide a particular way of thinking about life during the pandemic. He will provide ways in which Benedictine values are extraordinarily challenging, yet can bring a sense of peace
College students\u27 conceptions of vocation and the role of the higher education mentoring community
No full textOne way in which spirituality can be expressed is through its influence on and integration with career choice. Recently, the relationship between spirituality and occupation has been promoted through the Lilly Endowment\u27s Theological Exploration of Vocation Programs. As Parks (2000) and Fowler (2000) describe, the mentoring community can play a large role in the developmental process of students\u27 faith and the identification of their vocation. Acknowledging the importance of mentoring, St. John\u27s University has chosen to focus its Vocation Project initiative on programming aimed at educating faculty and administrative and support staff on the concept of vocation and how they may be able to facilitate the spiritual development and vocational discernment of their students
Cultivating sacramentality through administrative work: Guidance from St. Benedict on being a Catholic department chair
Full text linkOne dilemma encountered by department chairs and administrators at Catholic colleges and universities is how to respect the pluralistic religious views of the faculty while being faithful to one\u27s own and the institution\u27s Catholic tradition. The Rule of St. Benedict offers guidance that can result in deepening the respect for all individuals by welcoming all as Christ, adapting to the temperament of the individual, and listening with the ear of one\u27s heart. Through these practices one may cultivate a sacramental vision of the world in oneself and within the academic culture of the department or institution, creating an environment in which all can feel valued
Not knowing where to begin? An approach for incorporating the Catholic/Benedictine mission into social science courses
No full textIn the past couple decades, many Catholic universities have placed greater emphasis on infusing the Catholic part of their mission throughout the academic curriculum. A challenging question that gets to the heart of this matter is: How are my courses at a Catholic university different than if I were teaching them elsewhere? For social scientists, such a question often elicits blank stares and silence! Indeed, allowing a religious perspective to have any bearing on our disciplinary content or how we communicate it to students is largely counter-cultural within the social sciences, particularly psychology. In this talk, I provided some rationale as to why thinking about the connections between Catholicism and the social sciences is an endeavor that faculty at a Catholic university should care about, even if one does not personally hold Catholic beliefs. I then articulated a set of ideas for how to begin incorporating elements of a Catholic perspective into your work, especially your courses
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
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