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Conversations with practitioners 2: Phoebe Smith and Dwayne Fields
No full textIn this second conversation with practitioners, we speak to Phoebe and Dwayne, who are explorers, writers, presenters and more, both with a huge passion for the outdoors and promoting diversity amongst those who are able to access it. Together they created the #WeTwo foundation, to give young people from underprivileged backgrounds the opportunity to travel to the Antarctic. The conversation explores their own experiences as young people and their feelings of exclusion and inclusion (due to race, gender and class) across a range of landscapes, whilst going on to examine their contemporary experience of the outdoor industry and the ongoing prejudices and exclusions they have encountered there. They talk about the challenges of introducing young people to new landscapes, whilst also unpacking the concept of unfamiliar landscapes as productive of tackling ongoing exclusions and prejudices
‘But, would we be the odd family?’: Encountering and producing unfamiliar bodies and landscapes
No full textWhose unfamiliar landscape? Reflecting on the diversity of young people’s encounters with nature and the outdoors
No full textThis final chapter considers the practice-based implications of this book, whilst also pointing to future directions for research in unfamiliar landscapes. Bringing together a diversity of young people’s experiences, this book has forwarded a critical reflection on whether the work of environmental education and outdoor activities, and more broadly interventions with young people in unfamiliar spaces, is working for young people themselves. This chapter critically reflects on the term ‘unfamiliar landscapes’, how it can be productive, but also potentially restrictive in addressing young people’s access to the outdoors. It questions the kinds of landscapes to which young people are typically introduced through interventions, and the role of adults, coaches, guides and parents in these interventions. The chapter brings to the fore the injustices and discomforts that young people experience in unfamiliar landscapes, whilst also offering a hopeful account of how thinking through unfamiliarity and familiarity might address and challenge now-normative ideas about the ‘nature disconnect’ for young people
Unfamiliar landscapes: an introduction
No full textUnfamiliar landscapes is a term used in this book as an opening to explore how and why certain landscapes are deemed unfamiliar to young people, and in turn, how some young people are perceived to be unfamiliar in them. This introductory chapter explores the key themes of the book, explaining how we begin to understand ‘unfamiliar landscapes’, and the opportunities that thinking with this idea brings to evaluating, understanding and taking forward work with young people in the outdoors. It explains how young people are often assumed to be ‘unfamiliar’ with certain kinds of landscapes, and how these assumptions guide practices of outdoor education and activity instruction. It further examines how the bodily presences of certain young people are perceived as unfamiliar in some landscapes, whether due to gender, race, class or other forms of social difference, and how this book turns to the experiences of marginalised young people in the outdoors to better understand them. To guide readers, this chapter summarises the book as a whole, explaining each theme and chapter in turn
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
Using core assessment criteria to improve essay writing
Full text linkHarrington, Elander, Jo Lusher, Aiyegbayo, Pitt, , Hannah Robinso
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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