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Evaluating the physical environment of ecological kindergarten based on the requirements of early environmental education: a case study in Döşemealtı, Antalya
No full textIn recent years, Early Childhood Education has been widely influenced by ecological approaches and sustainable design. The reason for that could be named as the increasing number of studies which claim to invest on promoted awareness of young children towards the natural environment which has roots early childhood education. Environmental education in early childhood is a holistic concept that encompasses knowledge of the natural world parallel with developing children’s emotions, dispositions, and skills. The current study is tracking the architectural features of a newly built ecological kindergarten in Antalya, Turkey that has adopted environmental education to explore its compatibility with the NAAEE guideline for Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs. The methodological approach of this study contains a detail site-analysis, physical environment of the so-called ecological kindergarten, as well as the profound questionnaires for teachers and parents to share their ideas related to the weaknesses and strengths of the physical environment of the kindergarten. Comparing the data collected from the questionnaires with the one from the observation survey, this study concludes that the outdoor space of the kindergarten is more compatible with environmental education. While the architectural features of the ecological kindergarten do not meet the approved requirements of an ecological design, this design approach promotes a noticeable development on the environmental education of the neighborhood and its surrounding.No sponso
Evaluation of the architectural features and physical environment in early childhood education framework
Full text linkMany initial childhood settings worldwide have started to create an environment and educational system that would increase the children’s environmental awareness and the ways to minimize it. A newly built ecological kindergarten in Antalya, Turkey, has adopted an educational system in which children are getting involved with nature in most of their daily routines. This study intended to learn if the physical environment of the declared setting responds to the early childhood environmental education work frame. Accordingly, the study has adopted “Guidelines for Excellence, Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs’’ as the primary resource for an evaluation checklist. Data collection is conducted via an in-depth site analysis, as well as the questionnaire survey of teachers and parents regarding their perception of the kindergarten’s physical environment. The results showed that the physical environment of the kindergarten does not meet the requirements of the early education environmental framework. This study underlines the importance of profound research studies that analyze the architectural features of an early environmental education setting and the ways improving its physical attributes may promote the children environmental education.No sponso
Montreal's superposed flats : the influence of architecture on attachment and sense of place among English-speaking residents of Verdun borough
Full text linkMalgré l'abondance de bâtiments de type Plex (logements superposés) dans plusieurs villes nord-américaines, y compris Montréal, la recherche sur ce type de logement est rare. Le style de vie dynamique et la sécurité qui prévaut dans ce concept de quartier urbain, la variété et l'originalité de ses formes architecturales, l'échelle humaine de ce type de logement, les densités moyennes qu'il atteint, et les différentes formes de propriété qu'il permet peuvent expliquer sa grande popularité et son acceptation par un aussi grand nombre de résidents. Comment a-t-il évolué? Comment a-t-il aidé à orchestrer une sociabilité résidentielle dans de nombreux quartiers? Comment ces environnements sont-ils vécus par les anciens et nouveaux résidents? Voilà quelques-unes des questions auxquelles nous tenterons de répondre dans cette recherche. Plus précisément, cette recherche analyse et explore le « sens du lieu » et « l'attachement au voisinage » des résidents d'un logement de type Plex dans l'arrondissement de Verdun à Montréal (Québec, Canada). Notre étude a été réalisée auprès de jeunes adultes anglophones âgés de 29 et 45 ans. Nos résultats révèlent que les quartiers traditionnels de type Plex continuent d'offrir un logement accessible, abordable, flexible et recherché par les gens de cette génération. Malgré d'importants changements sociaux à travers le temps, nos données confirment que, comme environnement résidentiel, les logements de type Plex génèrent encore un fort « sens du lieu » pour leurs résidents. Compte tenu de leurs caractéristiques physiques et sensorielles, les quartiers de type Plex sont perçus comme amicaux, ouverts, propices à l'établissement de bonnes relations sociales entre les résidents, et fertiles à un sentiment de sécurité plus fort, la sociabilité, l'habitabilité et la communauté. Cette recherche contribue donc de façon importante à la recherche empirique sur l'évolution de la valeur des environnements de type Plex pour la planification urbaine et sociale durables tels qu'ils existent actuellement dans de nombreux quartiers et rues de Montréal et de ses proches banlieues.
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Environnement de type Plex, logements superposés, architecture vernaculaire, sociabilité résidentielle, sécurité, sens du lieu, attachement au voisinage
Investigating AI's Role in Enhancing Multi-Sensory Experiences in Public Spaces
No full textThis research paper investigated the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public spaces, focusing on enhancing multi-sensory experiences that augment psychological comfort and foster social interactions. AI's revolutionary application in public environments, from smart city initiatives to interactive art displays, transforms these spaces into dynamic, responsive environments that adapt to human needs and presence. This study examines how AI can significantly enhance the sensory richness of public spaces in Dubai, UAE, making them more engaging, accessible, and efficient. It reflects a profound understanding of user behaviors and needs. Employing a structured survey to investigate the public's views on AI's influence on city life, the expected outcomes included a deeper understanding of how immersive environments altered human multi-sensory experiences in Dubai public spaces. The paper highlights the importance of multi-sensory experiences in public spaces, where interactions through touch, sight, sound, and scent contribute to a sense of belonging, enhance well-being, and strengthen community bonds. It argues for a human-centric design that prioritizes multi-sensory engagement, offering insights into how AI integration can further enrich these experiences, making public spaces more adaptable and sensitive to users' requirements. The findings of this research will enrich the existing body of knowledge in the professional field of architecture and urban design. It will present practical insights for architects and designers to develop innovative spatial designs that promote the multi-sensory experience of the users in public spaces
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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