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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN PRACTICE
No full textEmphasizing on many other collaborative learning or co-labouring(Latin-based term) and co-teaching approaches nowadays is wellknownas an essential 21st century skill that brings educational andsocial benefits identified on educational research studies. In order toestablish a common approach, we can use the definition of Smith andMacGregor (1992) in which it’s acknowledged that “collaborativelearning“ is an umbrella term for a variety of educationalapproaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or studentsand teachers together. In most collaborative learning situationsstudents are working in groups of two or more, collaborativelysearching for understanding, solutions, or meanings, or creating aproduct.â€(p. 11).The difficulties regarding the implementation ofactivities in collaborative learning are of different nature, butfrequently relate to the inability of the teacher to organizecooperative groups effectively and to transfer the findings of theinvestigation in this area of knowledge and its practical use in theclassroom (Gillies, Ashman, & Terwel, 2008, p. 2). Despite thedifficulty of transferring theory to practice, we can also highlight that“many teachers noted that constraints to moving beyond pedagogyincluded lack of time and the need to cover the curriculum†(Cohen,Brody, & Sapon-Shevin, 2004, p. 63).So the main question remainshow to improve children`s learning quality and teachingeffectiveness. The advantages of collaborative learning on engagingstudents in active learning are obvious when related to traditionalmethods and strategies co-labouring brings to large group activities.The benefits include the importance of sharing ideas, resources,outcomes, peers and blended features, facilitated learning by aflexible, interactive classroom, project-based learning, collective andreflective learning and leadership forming competences
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
THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS KEY COMPETENCES ANDTRANSVERSAL SKILLS THROUGHT PRACTICE TEACHING ACTIVITIES
No full textInitial and life-long learning teachers` training on designing, implementing and evaluating programs competence approach is based on the concept of cumulative development acquired in formal, non-formal and informal context. (European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (NQF) 2009. Learning based on development key competences is recognised as being an independent and colaborating activity as well and it use rational knowledges. It requires deep changes in classroom practice comprehensive and coherent policies at national, regional and local school levels, investments in both human and material resources and supports, and time for teachers to change mind-sets and develop new pedagogical approaches and practices. (The European Reference Framework of Key Competences defined in the Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning adopted by the Council and the European Parliament in December 2006).The Recommendation on key competences for life –long learning identifies eight key competences and various transversal themes – which combine knowledge, skills and attitudes – considered as necessary for personal fulfillment and development on becaming active citizens, future teachers for social inclusion and employment in the 21st century. (The Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning adopted by the Council and the European Parliament in December 2006).Â
INTEGRATING THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE CHILDREN’S RESILIENCE AND FOSTER POSITIVE PARENTING: 10.24250/jpe/si/2025/AR/
No full textThis article explores how the integration of key theoreticalframeworks and collaborative learning strategies canenhance children’s resilience and support the developmentof positive parenting practices. Drawing from ecologicalsystems theory, social learning theory, and socioculturaltheory, the paper offers a conceptual model that bridgesdevelopmental psychology and educational intervention.Results highlight that collaborative learning environmentsthrough group interaction, guided reflection, and sharedparent-child activities can strengthen emotional regulation,adaptability, and interpersonal skills in children, whilealso empowering caregivers to adopt more effective andempathetic parenting behaviors. The study underscores thevalue of multi-level, theory-driven programs that fosterresilience through structured collaboration. Implicationsfor educators, psychologists, and policy makers arediscussed
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
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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