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Società e tras-formazione. Itinerari di Ermeneutica pedagogica in Zygmunt Bauman.
No full textThis research paper attempts to reconstruct, from a socio-pedagogical viewpoint, the fundamental weave of thought of the social scientist Zygmunt Bauman and his intellectual connection with other scholars. Particular attention has been paid to the discovery of certain conceptual categories
of formative importance (social order, responsibility, ethics, democracy, uncertainty, identity, wasted lives, community, belonging...). These categories were hermeneutically adopted within two ethnographic investigations, with the objective to study the formative responses of young people staying in a comunità per minori (children’s home) and the processes concerning the
construction of their identity. The research process has closely examined the author’s thoughts, and, at the same time, endeavoured to understand and investigate specific formative contexts.
Finally, this study aims to offer a reflection, which is central to the scholar’s work, on the theme of democracy and, predominantly, on the theme of the uncertain identity (individual or guardian?) of ontemporary man
Le scienze dell'innovazione. Nuove frontiere dell'educazione
No full textLa cultura dell'innovazione disegnata dai grandi potentati finanziari e dalle sigle ricorrenti dei loro fedeli (WTO, FMI, Banca mondiale, ecc.) non ha alcuna simpatia per il sapere complesso, né per i suoi approcci epistemologici ed ermeneutici. La complessità non piace all'ottimismo melenso e semplicistico dei mezzi d'informazione di massa, ben poco inclini ad informare o a confrontarsi con la "crisi" delle certezze, scientifiche innanzitutto, che ha caratterizzato questo modello di pensiero, fin dal suo affacciarsi nella seconda metà del Novecento. L'innovazione così reclamizzata sembra voler trascendere il nodo plurimo delle emergenze che attanagliano l'umanità (fame, povertà, guerre, disastri ambientali, siccità, ingiustizie, genocidi), quasi che la loro soluzione richieda solo un intervento tecnocratico, non appena l'economia globale ci renderà partecipi dei suoi prodigi. Così la questione formativa diviene oggi un fondamentale banco di prova per valutare, ad esempio, le modalità di trasmissione del sapere scientifico, così come le implicazioni etiche che dovrebbero accompagnare un'autentica ricerca innovativa.
Il testo, destinato a ricercatori, docenti, ed operatori sociali, ridisegna il mito contemporaneo dell'innovazione, per svelarne sia le trappole retoriche, che le amare conseguenze. Ma apre anche la riflessione ai semi fecondi di un approccio scientifico ed educativo che progetta un'innovazione differente
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
Società e tras-formazione. Itinerari di Ermeneutica pedagogica in Zygmunt Bauman.
No full textThis research paper attempts to reconstruct, from a socio-pedagogical viewpoint, the fundamental weave of thought of the social scientist Zygmunt Bauman and his intellectual connection with other scholars. Particular attention has been paid to the discovery of certain conceptual categories
of formative importance (social order, responsibility, ethics, democracy, uncertainty, identity, wasted lives, community, belonging…). These categories were hermeneutically adopted within two ethnographic investigations, with the objective to study the formative responses of young people staying in a comunità per minori (children’s home) and the processes concerning the
construction of their identity. The research process has closely examined the author’s thoughts, and, at the same time, endeavoured to understand and investigate specific formative contexts.
Finally, this study aims to offer a reflection, which is central to the scholar’s work, on the theme of democracy and, predominantly, on the theme of the uncertain identity (individual or guardian?) of ontemporary man
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
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
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