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Identità e professionalità nel terzo settore : orientamento strategico di fondo con uno sguardo internazionale
No full textA fronte della crisi sistemica che ha investito tutto il comparto del Terzo settore italiano, il volume presenta una ricerca finalizzata a comprendere e approfondire il tema del riorientamento strategico di fondo di imprese e cooperative sociali in un’ottica comparata internazionale, valutando la possibilità di una nuova figura professionale dotata di un set di conoscenze, competenze e atteggiamenti codificati e validati. Sullo sfondo dei panorami sociali entro i quali vive e si proietta il Terzo settore, dunque, il testo riflette sull’osf (Orientamento strategico di fondo) e sull’eventuale necessità di un orientatore/accompagnatore capace di agire sull’identità profonda dell’impresa sociale e più in generale delle organizzazioni della cooperazione sociale (sia di quelle in fase di start-up che in fase di consolidamento), accompagnando le stesse verso una ricollocazione e revisione della propria mission e della propria vision. La proposta si articola a partire da studi di caso che hanno coinvolto cooperative sociali, consorzi di cooperative e imprese sociali in Italia e imprese sociali in Colombia
La Verifica come Elemento di Sistema
No full textEuropean Commissioner Janez Potocnik has affirmed that "for Europe and European industry to build sustainable leadership is to fully exploit the knowledge triangle: the creation, transmission and use of knowledge, through research, education and training and innovation."; Thus, education is necessarily one of the main ways for nurturing individuals capable of exploiting the knowledge triangle by interacting on a common ground of knowledge and skills. However, providing the students with common contents is not sufficient if such contents are not organized so that each student is presented with tasks difficult enough to be challenging but easy enough to be reachable.
Thus, effective and replicable teaching activities require reliable data on student knowledge and skills, teacher expertise, and school organization and climate.
Such information may only be gathered through an accountability system that provides data to a plurality of stake-holders such as:
- families and students, who are interested in the actual level of knowledge and competences achieved by each student in a regional, national, and international perspective;
- schools and other educational institutions, which are interested in reciprocal comparisons of the value added to the knowledge and skills of the students;
- the university system, which is interested in knowing the actual level of knowledge and skills possessed by the students who are entering a university career;
- the job market, which is interested in reducing on-site formation costs and better and better matching individual skills with the occupied positions.
The Lombardia experiment, carried out along three years, provides an example of the use of testing for creating an accountability system based on measuring the value added by the school to student knowledge and skills. The project makes use of statistical methodologies such as Rasch analysis and Growth models to build reliable and valid measures of student achievement. The results of the project indicate possible uses of the data in terms of system and school management, issues related to data analysis and methodological development of the system, and possibilities for further research.JRC.G.9 - Econometrics and statistical support to antifrau
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
Lavorare nel campo della formazione. Una Facoltà specifica ed una professionalità 'larga'
No full textVariations 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
Differenze non solo culturali: identità e orientamento sessuale tra ricerca e intervento
No full textIn Italia e in altri paesi del mondo (Batini, Fucile, 2012) si tende a leggere nelle caratteristiche dei soggetti rese manifeste dai comportamentali significati di tipo dicotomico: un comportamento è, prima di tutto, maschile o femminile. Dicotomie e unicità: due i sessi, due i generi, due le identità di genere, due i ruoli di genere, uno solo l'orientamento sessuale possibile, uno solo il modello di famiglia.
La scarsa conoscenza e il basso livello informativo sui modelli che rappresentano l'identità sessuale di ciascuno di noi, la modalità con la quale essa si sviluppa, il suo la sua formazione, le influenze della decisionalità individuale e della cultura su questi processi, fanno sì che lo stereotipo assuma spesso un ruolo centrale nei confronti, nell'attribuzione di significato alle azioni, nel modo di giudicare gli altri e le loro intenzioni (i motivi per i quali si comportano in un modo o in un altro). Gli stereotipi si mescolano a vere e proprie sovrapposizioni: confusioni tra identità di genere e orientamento sessuale, confusioni tra identità di genere e orientamento sessuale, confusioni tra sesso biologico e identità di genere, tra sesso biologico e orientamento sessuale sono all'ordine del giorno nel dibattito politico come nelle discussioni al bar sotto casa
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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