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Archaeological heritage and education: An international perspective on History Education
Full text linkThis series of papers on the role of archaeology and heritage in history lessons in elementary and secondary schools is a unique volume of archaeology in history textbooks and classrooms as well as teaching and learning archaeology through museums and historical sites. Diverse in approach and scope, the book brings forth epistemologies and ontologies of teaching archaeology in elementary and secondary schools ornamented with case-studies from four continents and twelve countries. Crosscutting issues between archaeology and history particularly in translating knowledge in education and positively impacting the communities’ understanding of the significance of history and heritage in their daily lives makes this book relevant to anyone interested in how the past is taught and learned
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
History teachers and the use of History textbooks in Africa – From textbook to ‘desa’: A personal narrative of teaching History in Tanzania
Full text linkDispelling 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
Remembering the Majimaji Trauma in Tanzania
Full text linkZur Erinnerung an den Kolonialismus und seine Bedeutung für die afrikanische Bevölkerung heute besteht immer noch ein Mangel an wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen. Diese Frage ist wichtig, um einerseits die generationenübergreifende Erinnerung und das Trauma aufzudecken, das den heutigen afrikanischen Gesellschaften zugrunde liegt, und andererseits um die Perspektive der betroffenen Gemeinschaften in den Auseinandersetzungen um Repatriierung, Wiedergutmachung und Völkermord auf regionaler und politischer Ebene offenzulegen. Die Betonung der ‚betroffenen Gemeinschaften‘ hat das Potenzial wieder hervorzuheben, welche Bedeutung nichtschriftliche Darstellungen in Form von mündlichen Erzählungen, Bildern und Artefakten haben, die sonst verschwiegen oder vergessen blieben. In diesem Beitrag wird daher untersucht, wie der Majimaji-Krieg erinnert wird, wobei das Trauma und die Digitalisierung des Widerstands gegen den deutschen Kolonialismus, der vor mehr als einem Jahrhundert stattfand, im Vordergrund stehen.A paucity of scholarship exists on what is remembered about colonialism and what it means to Africans today. This question is pertinent to the unveiling of the transgenerational memory and trauma that lies underneath contemporary African landscapes, on the one hand, and the disclosure of contestation over repatriation, reparation, genocide and remedy both regionally and politically from the affected communities’ vantage point on the other. Emphasis on ‘affected communities’ has the potential to revitalize the significance of non-archived stories in the form of oral narratives, images and artefacts which would otherwise remain silent or forgotten. This paper thus delves into how the Majimaji War is remembered, while emphasizing the trauma and digitization of resistance to German colonialism that took place more than a century ago
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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