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Conclusion to issues around academic freedom and freedom of speech in the 2020s: the way forward
No full textThe ‘free speech on campus problem’ is a symptom of deep societal ills. On campus and in society we urgently need to recover our capacity for using language to experiment with how we think, what we believe, how we want to express ourselves, and in what context. If we can allow ourselves, individually and collectively, to agree boundaries, this will increase the likelihood of finding solutions to our academic freedom problems and cultivating a culture of open inquiry. Apparently paradoxically, setting limits gives us the space to explore controversies more freely, because we can explore agreed territory together. The university sector needs to acknowledge this and make public commitments to facilitating structured engagement. One approach is Communities of Inquiry, which requires exploring meaning, agreeing group regulation, and collectively making decisions. Universities should also expand the potential of academic freedom for solutions beyond the campus, including in the political arena
Introduction to issues around academic freedom and freedom of speech in the 2020s in the UK and internationally
No full textThis edited collection contains contributions by junior and senior scholars from eight countries. They are spread thematically across three parts, each of which addresses a crucial paradox. Part I frames the recent history and limits of free speech legislation in the United Kingdom and the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023; here the paradox lies in the tensions within the law to protect both individual and collective rights. Parts II and III provide an international spread. Part II, ‘Politics and possibilities’, explores the difficulties that arise around political use of legislation to regulate speech; here the paradox lies in how to moderate excessive use of suspicion by government and universities as the latter attempt to navigate legal frameworks. Part III, ‘In the classroom: pedagogy and communities of inquiry’, offers practical pedagogic alternatives; here the paradox lies in tensions inherent in phronesis (practical wisdom): how to square ethical principles with contextual practicalities
Anti-racism and Gaza in UK medical colleges: Developing communication pathways through communities of inquiry
Full text linkHow to Develop Free Speech on Campus: International Controversies and Communities of Inquiry
Full text linkThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share via Elgaronline.com. This How to guide addresses the complex debate around free speech and academic freedom within universities and provides proven pedagogic responses to the issues raised. Contributors showcase and dissect case studies of universities’ failures and successes in dealing with issues including ‘culture wars’, ‘woke’/ ‘antiwoke’ disputes, antisemitism, decolonising the curriculum, Islamophobia, Israel-Palestine and racism. Eighteen chapters encompass eight countries from the UK to North America and Japan
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
Free speech and focussed freewriting: academic freedom and building up a classroom community of dialogue through writing practices
No full textBased on experiences teaching a module on anti-terror laws, this chapter asks two questions: How can writing-based teaching enable a reimagination of academic freedom? How can writing-based teaching help to build a community of thought in a classroom? When anti-terror policies invite self-censorship and restrictions on academic freedom, these writing-based techniques take on a different political ethic: reflection and inhabiting ideas. These forms of writing encourage students not to agree, but to explore the reach and limitations of ideas, even abhorrent ones. In doing so, these techniques enable academic freedom to be rethought in terms of depth rather than breadth of knowledge. In-class writing enables students to think and write collaboratively about ideas. It invites students to produce language about concepts collaboratively, and to respond to these ideas and one another through active reading, listening, and writing
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
The Broken ‘Social Contract’ - Episode 1: Policing (Transcript)
Full text linkBollo Brook Youth Centre, in collaboration with Renata Albuquerque and Simon Tullett, SOAS, 25th September 202
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