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"The Ideal Citizen", Globalization, and the Japanese Response:Risk, gate-keeping and moral education in Japan
No full textIn 2006 the Fundamental Law on Education was revised and later the curriculum guidelines for Moral Education were revised accordingly; revisions concerned emphasis on individual responsibility, respect for life, environment, nation, and other countries, understanding of differences, and strengthening of moral capabilities in children. It has been common to view initiatives concerning Japanese moral education as conservative/traditionalist attempts to re-introduce pre-war practices. I would suggest that a more productive point of departure would be to look at it as “gate-keeping”, where what is considered basic and inalienable in Japanese culture and morality by those in a position of influence is kept safe. In this sense it concerns the “immunology” (Cowen) of moral education in Japan, but the other component of Cowen’s pair of terms, “permiology” must also be included. The contents of moral education can be seen as a reaction to the challenges of globalization, the risks and anxieites experienced in globalized society. In understanding the aspects of immunity and permeability of moral education and the education of the ideal citizen in Japan it will be useful to employ theories of globalization by people such as Robertson as well as Beck’s thinking on world risk society and reflexive modernity and the work done on cosmopolitanism by Beck and Appiah among others. The paper at hand is an attempt to make sense of the new curriculum guidelines in the light of gate-keeping, the challenges posed by globalization and changing social conditions as represented by increased perceptions of “risk” and anxiety
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
現代社会におけるスピリチュアルケア－現場実践と基盤世界観－
Get PDF京都大学新制・論文博士博士(教育学)乙第13432号論教博第178号新制||教||205(附属図書館)北海道大学大学院文学研究科(主査)教授 西平 直, 教授 田中 康裕, 准教授 Rappleye Jeremy学位規則第4条第2項該当Doctor of Philosophy (Education)Kyoto UniversityDGA
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
Revisiting the metaphor of the island: challenging ‘world culture’ from an island misunderstood
No full textThis article revisits the newly ‘discovered’ island that world culture theorists have repeatedly utilised to explain their theoretical stance, conceptual preferences and methodological approach. Yet, it seeks to (re)connect world culture with the real world by replacing their imagined atoll with a real one – the island-nation of Japan. In descending to understand social and educational change on the ‘island’ that may appear – from afar – to be consensually convergent on purported world models, this article challenges the ways that world culture theory suggests we read both individual nations and the wider World.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
Towards an original contribution based on “Asian education”?: A review of existing theories of educational expansion
No full textThis chapter outlines the major theoretical touchstones of Anglo-American sociological debates on the drivers of educational expansion: structural-functionalism, Marxism, status-competition, world culture, Archer’s morphogenetic approach, Green’s state-theory approach, and Dore’s theory of credential inflation. It seeks to provide a roadmap for thinking theoretically through the empirical chapters that follow, as well raise the question of to what extent accounts developed based on European and American history can accurately capture the processes at work in East Asia. It concludes by raising one possibility for original theoretical elaboration: Koto Yusuke’s theory of externally driven modernity derived from the distinct East Asian experience.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
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