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‘Theories’ of youth work management
No full textThis chapter aims to do two things: first to outline the main theoretical approaches which underpin current discourses of management in youth work, providing the language through which we attempt to understand and explain management practices; and second to take a step back from these explanations to ask more fundamental questions about the position and role which management has achieved in recent times, and what effects this has had on current practices of youth work
Managing centre-based youth work
No full textIn this chapter we examine the role of the youth centre manager in the changing landscape of youth service provision. The chapter brings into sharp focus the dilemmas faced by many youth work managers in their attempts to reconcile the values, principles and practices of youth work with the culture of managerialism which has shaped many aspects of management and leadership of youth service provision in recent years. The chapter begins with the historical development of centre-based youth provision, highlighting the impact of post-welfarism (Gewirtz, 2002) on centre-based youth work. In this respect, the changing roles and responsibilities of the youth centre manager will be critically examined, particularly in relation to managing buildings and managing provision. This is followed by an analysis of the community context of youth work, and finishes with an attempt to describe the future of youth centre management, at the heart of which is the need to resolve the value conflicts resulting from managing youth work provision within a managerialist culture
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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