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Activity Sheet II: Find hidden nature
Full text linkHow can a walk in the neighbourhood become a way for students to discover ‘hidden’ plants and animals on human-made structures like walls, fences, roads, and pavements? Why are these forms difficult to spot
Teacher’s Guide: Nature-based outdoor activities
Full text linkMuch of what students learn about the natural world is from textbooks and within a classroom. What can students learn from outdoor activities? What role can teacher's play in helping children uncover the sense of discovery and wonder that the natural world offers
Poster: Giant Milkweed
Full text linkThe giant milkweed is a plant that grows next to roads and in open fields and scrublands. It gets its name from the milky-white juice or sap found in the leaves and stems. The milkweed
the plant is visited by many insects, small insects, and birds
Activity Sheet III: Observe uses of human-made structures
Full text linkDo only humans use human-made structures like roads, pavements, fences, and walls? Or are these structures used by other life forms too? What can students learn about the diversity of life by exploring this question in their own immediate neighbourhood
Connecting learning to the natural world
Full text linkImagine all of nature as a classroom — a space where teachers and students observe, learn, and wonder together. What creatures and phenomena in nature will you chance upon and witness? What are some of the questions and learnings that could emerge from these experiences
Hidden housemates : getting to know nature in our homes
No full textIs that little piece of paint from the wall
moving? Who cleans up the crumbs from
my kitchen while I’m asleep at night? Who
lives in that little white tent in the corner of
the wall?
Have you been asking yourself questions like
these
Activity Sheet I: Explore life on a wall
Full text linkCan encouraging students to ‘look’ for plants and animals in the walls of their home and school help them ‘discover’ that life is everywhere
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
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