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What is inclusion in the Early Years, and how do we teach ITT students to be inclusive practitioners?
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How have we developed learning and teaching around SEND & Adaptive teaching to equip our trainees to become reflective and inclusive practitioners for the future?
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Enabling children on the Autism Spectrum to have an effective voice in their own educational provision.
No full textCurrent legislation embeds a desire to strengthen the ‘voice’ of children to express their views and be part of decision-making processes around their own provision. My professional and personal experiences have highlighted inconsistencies and challenges in these processes in schools. For the specific group of learners on the Autism Spectrum this challenge is intensified by shared core characteristics which can make it challenging for children to communicate reflectively about personal experiences and their aspirations for the future within the rigid structures of review meetings that many schools present. Whilst the United Nations Convention for Rights of the Child (1989) assures that children who are capable of forming their views should be given the right to express these freely, there are complexities around adults’ views of competency in relation to age and verbal communication skills. Younger children may be less likely to participate in decision making processes and differences in communication styles can be a barrier to active participation. Whilst professionals may feel they already understand the voice of the child, this belief carries neurotypical pre-conceptions and places the child in a potentially passive role. The breadth and complexity of the Autism spectrum demands individualised approaches which fully enable children to provide their own unique insights and expert testimony about their own educational experiences
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
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
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