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Le politiche sociali nella città: sguardi, prospettive, pubblici diversi.
No full textIl saggio presentato analizza l’evoluzione storica e territoriale delle politiche sociali nella città di Bari, evidenziando come queste abbiano lasciato tracce materiali e simboliche nei quartieri urbani. A partire dalle prime forme di mutualismo solidale, fino alla nascita del welfare moderno viene ricostruita la stratificazione di interventi, cause ed effetti di cambiamenti normativi, culturali e sociali.
Interventi innovativi rilevanti sono quelli di riqualificazione urbana in aree periferiche della città, con la realizzazione di spazi verdi e aree giochi. Tali policies, sebbene virtuose, rischiano di generare nuove forme di esclusione, pertanto è necessario ri-considerare questi spazi come “terzi luoghi” (Bhabha), potenzialmente capaci di favorire processi di incontro, appartenenza e rinegoziazione identitaria. Infine, un altra dimensione esplorata nel saggio è quella della coniugazione tra le politiche "soft" di benessere urbano e le politiche "strong" strutturali, capaci di contrastare la povertà e l’emarginazione: attraverso una lettura integrata dei bisogni territoriali, viene proposta una visione di welfare urbano sostenibile e partecipato, superando le logiche di marginalità diffuse nella città, puntando alla co-costruzione degli interventi sociali con la cittadinanza stessa
RECOGNIZING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES OF MIGRANTS: FROM EXPERIMENTATION TO THIRD MISSION SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BARI “ALDO MORO”
No full textThe paper is focused on the ‘in house’ third mission service of “A. Moro” Bari University for recognition, validation and certification of competences (RVCC), in order to award regional professional qualifications in view of improving labour inclusion processes for migrant people and citizens from Apulia. This service is the result of an experimental path started in 2019 with the Apulia Regional Administration, for two people from Afghanistan, refugees in Italy for several years, with various work experiences in the intercultural mediation field. In this case, such experiences weren’t conceivable as a real formal professional qualification, which has instead been the service final output.
Starting from this pioneristic experience (in Italy, the first recognition path of informal ‘on the job’ professional experiences, including the two refugees from Afghanistan, which have been qualified as Intercultural Mediation Technicians), today the “A. Moro” Bari University can provide, by the means of the Academic Center for Lifelong Learning (in italian: Centro per l’Apprendimento Permanente, CAP), Recognition, Validation and Certification of Competences (RVCC) services, with respect of EQF (European Qualification Framework) and national/regional normative framework for professional qualifications awarding
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
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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