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EcoLogicaCup: Teaching Ecology on a Web Platform
No full textSciences and scientific methodologies cannot today be limited to the small percentage of students in the schools; all students could know and understand the natural processes and the role they will play in their futures. Nowadays, natural sciences and ecology give rise to much interest in many scientific and not scientific areas because studying ecology we can learn more about our ‘natural home’, the biosphere. In this paper, an example of an innovative tool to support and integrate teaching sciences in the school is reported. The initiative, named EcoLogicaCup, is addressed to students of secondary schools in Italy (from eleven to nineteen years) and aims at arousing interest in students and young people about ecological topics or problems concerning the health of our biosphere. EcoLogicaCup is promoted by the Observatory on Marine Mediterranean Ecology of the University of Salento (Italy) in collaboration with the Italian National Society of Ecology (S.It.E.), the Editorial Group ‘L’Espresso’ and other partners. EcoLogicaCup is the first national on-line competition on ecology in Italy, really a game in which students study, practice and finally play a final competition on ecological subjects. Here, we report some details of this initiative and the results about the previous editions. On national scale, EcoLogicaCup achieved excellent results in terms of participating schools and teams and met a remarkable success, on international scale, in terms of website users and visitors
Sustainable food consumption and Nature conservation processes. Educational considerations
No full textThe topic of an agricultural production that respects natural ecosystems is currently very relevant, as it is being tackled by international agencies such as FAO and IPCC, focusing on the double link between biodiversity conservation processes and sustainable agriculture, creating a virtuous circular process. In this context, the adoption of sustainable eating habits, which heavily relies on educational processes, is indispensable. Our contribution describes the relationship between nature conservation and food consumption within a sustainability framework, while also reflecting on the potential impact of educational projects on sustainable food consumption items through a literature analysis. To minimize the impact of food consumption on nature, we propose some considerations on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) environmental education concerning: the potential of SCP nodes in the environmental conceptual education network; the potential of SCP environmental education in the framework of food availability; the pro-environmental behavior research concerning SCP
Working in an ecological research group: a serious game for European students
No full textS1. C13 Working in an ecological research group: a serious game for European students
Sangiorgio F.1*, Lorenzi C.2, Connolly T.3, Fiore N.1, Hoppe U.5, Klotz S.6, Montinaro S.1, Rodrigues A.M.4, Varcin R.7, Basset A.1
1University of Salento – Italy; 2University of Rome “Tor Vergata” – Italy; 3University of the West of Scotland – United Kingdom; 4Universidade de Aveiro – Portugal; 5Bildungswerk der Sächsischen Wirtschaft – Germany; 6European Ecological Federation – United Kingdom; 7Kariyer Danismanligi ve Insan Kaynaklarini Gelistirme Dernegi – Turkey *e-mail: [email protected]
Educators who plan science lessons often underestimate the scientific method concept as a central part of the training activities and the possibility to apply theoretical aspects of science to everyday life. As social constructivism suggests, the learner must be encouraged to make sense of newly developing knowledge within an already established personal knowledge framework or through cognitive connections to the own personal experiences. In this regard, a game that shows how the scientific method is useful for exploring and interpreting the environment may be an effective educational tool for science teachers.
This contribute describes ‘Research Game – The European scientific research game’, an European project (Lifelong Learning Programme-Comenius) where a consortium of six partners has been set, joining together organizations from all Europe (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom). Research Game Project motivates secondary school students by making experience of the excitement of scientific research. Particularly, the game exposes them to the process of scientific methodology through an online education game on ecological subjects.
The game requires students to collaborate internationally across Europe, to build hypotheses, research, test the validity of their hypothesis and finalize a theory based on their findings. On the project platform teachers and students register, create a team, interact on a forum space, play and learn science in a new innovative way. In the last phase of the experience, schools teams from all Europe compete online playing a serious game, produced by Research Game, and showing to be able to apply the scientific method to face ecological problems
Spatial analysis of plant detritus processing in a Mediterranean river type: the case of river Tirso (Sardinia, Italy).
No full textConserving Nature: The contribution of ecological research to education
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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
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