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"Man får inte bestämma allt"
No full textLundborg, Heléne & Persson, Anna (2013) Man får inte bestämma allt – en studie av pedagogers och barns uppfattning om inflytande.
Malmö: Lärarutbildningen Malmö Högskola
Vårt syfte med denna studie är att undersöka hur arbetet med barnens inflytande i förskolan uppfattas av pedagoger och barn. I Läroplanen för förskolan (Lpfö 98/10) står det att pedagogerna skall arbeta med barns delaktighet och inflytande men enligt forskning i ämnet finner många det svårt att särskilja begreppen och vad de står för (Pramling Samuelsson & Sommer 2011; Arnér 2012; Tullgren 2003; Westlund 2011 m.fl.).
Vi har utgått från frågeställningarna: Hur uppfattar pedagoger begreppen inflytande och delaktighet? Hur ser pedagoger på arbetet med barns inflytande i den dagliga verksamheten? Vad upplever barnen att de har inflytande över på förskolan?
Som metod för att få svar på dessa frågor har vi använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer. Sammanlagt har åtta pedagoger och femton barn intervjuats. Vi har valt att inrikta vår studie på barns inflytande som vi menar är något annat än delaktighet. Resultatet visar att personalen har en vilja att ge barnen inflytande men att de stöter på många hinder på vägen. Det verkar också vara en svår balansgång att ta sitt ansvar som vuxen men att ändå ge barnen frihet att bestämma. Barnen i sin tur upplever sig ha ett visst inflytande men inte alltid över saker som är viktiga för dem
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
The Institutional Sources of Statehood. Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textPersson, Anna (2008) The Institutional Sources of Statehood. Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa. English text. Göteborg Studies in Politics 111. Department of Political Science, Box 711, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Göteborg 2008. 273 pages. ISBN: 978-91-89246-36-2. ISSN: 0346-5942. Abstract Today, almost all states are, or at least claim to be, nation-states. As such, they subscribe to the legitimating doctrine of national sovereignty and claim to derive state power from, as well as exercise it for, a nation. Yet, despite great similarities in terms of juridical statehood, empirically, states vary a lot in terms of how successful they are in governing their societies. This study asks how we can understand this variation in empirical statehood and, more specifically, it asks how we can understand the varying abilities of states to solve the collective action dilemma of taxation. Following a historical institutional approach, the argument developed and tested in this study relates the ability of states to solve the collective action dilemma of taxation to the formal criteria for citizenship specified in key legal and policy documents during formative periods of state development. More specifically, building on the argument that a shared national identity is decisive for solving collective action problems such as the one of taxation, this study contends that the degree to which the national political community is officially recognized as ethnically diverse influences notions of us and them and, ultimately, tax state development. The empirical investigation a comparative case study of Botswana, Zambia, and Uganda reveals that there is an unambiguous causal relationship between the degree to which ethnic diversity becomes recognized in key legal and policy documents during formative periods of state development and the ability of states to collect taxes. The results reveal that the non-recognition of ethnic diversity in the form of an assimilative approach towards citizenship is more conducive to the development of a shared national identity and, ultimately, the ability of states to solve the collective action dilemma of taxation than is official recognition. Yet, even though non-recognition is comparatively more conducive to tax state development than is recognition, depending on how many ethnic cleavages that are officially recognized within a multicultural approach, states are likely to achieve very different outcomes. The study reveals how a multi-dimensional multicultural approach recognizing a larger number of ethnic cleavages leads to less conflict along ethnic lines than does a multicultural approach recognizing only one dimension of ethnicity, in the end making a multi-dimensional multicultural approach towards citizenship more conducive to tax state development than a one-dimensional approach. Keywords: Institutions, institutional theory, states, statehood, taxation, taxes, citizenship, assimilation, multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, ethnicity, identity, sub- Saharan Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Uganda
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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