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Uczenie (się) w ponowoczesności. Rola zawodowa nauczycieli i nauczycielek akademickich języka angielskiego specjalistycznego
No full textIn a globalising world, knowledge of language for specific purposes (LSP) opens up worldwide career opportunities. Do those teaching LSP at Polish universities have a status relevant to the importance of what they teach? How do they see their role and what shapes it? The author of Teaching and Learning in Postmodernity is interested both in how cultural shifts affect the teaching-to-learn paradigm and how teachers of English for specific purposes (ESP) respond to such challenges. The research has identified certain new, disturbing issues.The monograph is part of the socio-pedagogical directions of pedeutological research carried out in the qualitative paradigm. The aim of the study was to describe the professional role of academic English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers in the context of postmodernity. The author was interested both in how the ongoing cultural changes shift the teaching paradigm towards learning and in how academic ESP teachers respond to such challenges, as well as what problems and limitations may stand in their way of consciously transcending their professional role. In her research, the author used the narrative interview method, and the analysis of the conducted interviews allowed her to address the above research problems. The work consists of five main chapters: a methodological chapter, two theoretical chapters and two empirical chapters, as well as an introduction, conclusions and a post scriptum chapter. In the methodological chapter, the author presents the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the qualitative paradigm, under which the research is carried out, as well as the research method. In the second chapter, the author shows the cultural and social context of postmodernity and the individual immersed in it. The third chapter focuses on the social and professional roles of teachers and presents a glottodidactic perspective on ESP teachers. In the empirical part, in the fourth chapter, the author presents the knowledge of the study participants about their world and themselves using the holistic model of learning in the working life by Knud Illeris and his associates, as well as about “self- -world” relations using the author’s original interpretation of the professional role prescription. In the next empirical chapter (fifth chapter), the author focuses on a critical analysis, which revealed the oppression to which the participants of the study were subjected. The last part of the work is a ”post scriptum” chapter, showing the autoethnographic roots of the research
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
Uczenie (się) w ponowoczesności. Rola zawodowa nauczycieli i nauczycielek akademickich języka angielskiego specjalistycznego
Full text linkMonografia wpisuje się w socjologiczno-pedagogiczne kierunki badań pedeutologicznych realizowanych w paradygmacie jakościowym. Celem badań było opisanie roli zawodowej nauczycieli i nauczycielek akademickich języka angielskiego specjalistycznego w kontekście ponowoczesności. Autorkę interesował zarówno sposób, w jaki zachodzące zmiany kulturowe zmieniają paradygmat nauczania na rzecz uczenia się, jak i to, jak na takie wyzwania odpowiadają nauczyciele(ki) języka angielskiego specjalistycznego oraz jakie problemy i ograniczenia mogą stanąć na drodze ku świadomemu przekraczaniu ich roli zawodowej. W badaniach posłużono się metodą wywiadu narracyjnego, a analiza przeprowadzonych wywiadów pozwoliła na odpowiedź na powyższe cele badawcze. Praca składa się z pięciu rozdziałów głównych: metodologicznego, dwóch rozdziałów teoretycznych, dwóch rozdziałów empirycznych, wstępu i zakończenia oraz rozdziału Post scriptum – osobistego odniesienia do prezentowanych badań. W rozdziale metodologicznym Autorka przedstawiła ontologiczne i epistemologiczne założenia paradygmatu jakościowego, w którym realizowane są badania, oraz samą metodę badawczą. W rozdziale drugim zaprezentowała kontekst kulturowo-społeczny ponowoczesności oraz zanurzoną w nim jednostkę. Trzeci rozdział koncentruje się na rolach społecznych i zawodowych oraz prezentuje glottodydaktyczne spojrzenie na nauczycieli(ki) języka obcego specjalistycznego. W części empirycznej, w czwartym rozdziale, Autorka przedstawiła wiedzę uczestniczek badania o ich świecie i o nich samych, wykorzystując do tego holistyczny model uczenia się w życiu zawodowym autorstwa Knuda Illerisa i jego współpracowników (2011) oraz opisując relacje ‘Ja–świat’ w oparciu o autorskie ujęcie przepisu roli zawodowej. W kolejnym (piątym) rozdziale empirycznym zajęto się analizą krytyczną, która uwidoczniła zjawisko opresji, której poddane były uczestniczki badania. Ostatnią częścią pracy jest rozdział zatytułowany Post scriptum, ukazujący autoetnograficzne zakorzenienie badań.Publikacja została wydana przy wsparciu finansowym Komisji Europejskiej w ramach programu Erasmus+
FACEBOOK – OPTIONAL OR ALREADY OBLIGATORY? EXAMPLE OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT’S FANPAGE
No full textArtykuł koncentruje się wokół użycia nowych mediów do celów edukacyjnych i dydaktycznych. Część teoretyczna określa miejsce nowych mediów w ponowoczesnym kontekście edukacyjnym. W części badawczej, na przykładzie Fanpage’a Studium Języków Obcych, ukazane są możliwe cele wykorzystania tego narzędzia w edukacji. Pokazane są także przykładowe wpisy umieszczone w serwisie Facebook.An article focuses on the use of new media for the educational and didactic purposes. The theoretical part determines the place of new media in the postmodern educational context. In the empirical part, the possible goals of using the tool in education are shown on the example of the Fanpage of Foreign Language Department. The possible entries posted on Facebook are also presented
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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