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Values-based education through physical education and sport: A toolkit for teachers
No full textIt is commonly spread the idea that sport and physical education (PE) allows the youth to experience a wide range of situations which enable them with the shaping of different forms of global citizenship. However, nowadays young people can be highly affected by complexity and rapid changes of modern societies, and this condition can hamper the quality of educational experiences. For purposes of this chapter, school PE can offer an ideal setting to apply innovative educative tools to develop significant values-based experiences, thus the “One resource kit for teachers” research project is presented in its constitutive phases.
In the first part of the chapter, the theoretical framework surrounding the development of values and life skills education within PE and school sport programs is detailed. In the second part of the chapter, the different phases of the project (mapping curriculum requirements for values education across the globe, developing and piloting a contemporary resource kit for teachers that supports the delivery of their existing curriculum requirements for values-based education through sport and PE) are showed. The chapter concludes with brief information concerning investigations currently in place aimed at testing the developed material among some Italian schools
Il monitoraggio di donne in post-menopausa in trattamento con tamoxifene per carcinoma mammario
No full textAnalisi dell`attivita` elettrica del miometrio in gravidanza ed in travaglio di parto: dati preliminari
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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
Interventions for the promotion of motor activities in primary schools in Italy. The SBAM project. Results of the first monitoring of motor development.
No full textPhysical education in primary school significantly contributes to the educational process of a person promoting physical active lifestyles for all disabled and able-bodied children. Various studies have presented good practices through the school organizational curriculums and teacher trainings in order to increase motor learning opportunities, develop interdisciplinary relationships and raise the levels of physical activity in accordance with the HEPA recommendations. Among the activities carried out at schools for promoting health through proper eating habits and active lifestyles, there has been the three-year program called SBAM (linked to sports, wellness, nutrition, and mobility) in the Apulian region of Italy. It was attended by 207 schools, 15,260 children, and 140 experienced physical education teachers. The program integrated three curricular courses: physical education, eating habits and urban mobility. In each school, physical education was the main action and connection with other measures including nutrition education and mobility. In the following study, we will present the preliminary results of the motor monitoring and document the results of the project establishing a regional observatory on the motor development during childhood and adolescence. The results will confirm previous evidence: body mass index affects the motor development, the physical efficiency and the gross motor coordination. The normative data distributed in deciles will prove to be useful reference for the transverse-longitudinal studies in the motor development of children, in the implementation of the territorial interventions, as well as in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational process
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
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