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The Experiences of First Generation Learners during Transition from a Government School to a Private Inclusive School in a Tribal Region of Maharashtra, India
Get PDFThis chapter reports a study of school provision for first generation learners in a tribal community in Maharashtra, India. The chapter considers how a group of children transferred from a government school provision of poor quality into a new and inclusive privately funded school with a more child centred approach. It examines issues relating both, to access and the quality of education available to meet the needs of first generation learners. The main aim of this study was to investigate educational opportunities and the challenges of this change in provision from the perspectives of children and their parents. This study used qualitative research methods including semi-structured interviews and observations to investigate the experiences of ten children, and to identify processes and structures that support or hinder the students from achieving their educational goals. The research recognised the complex nature of the circumstances and responsibilities the children have towards their families and how these influence and impact on their learning and progression through their school years. The research study gathered generic data to identify good practice and areas needing improvement to help students successfully complete statutory schooling. Finally, using Capability Approach Theory as a normative framework for the study, it allowed researchers to gain insight into the effectiveness of the support structures set up for students as they progressed through their schooling; such as provision of a relevant and varied curriculum, counselling for students, the positive attitude of teachers working with these children and support for parents to understand and navigate the school system. This study provides unique insights into the needs of first generation learners by presenting their own voices as a means of articulating their experiences through a process of transition
“Diagnosing” the Need or in “Need” of a Diagnosis? Reconceptualizing Educational Need
No full textThis chapter is based on compulsory school experiences of students diagnosed with Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their parents in the educational context of
Finland. Located in the theoretical framework of Disability Studies, the chapter aims to
contribute to theory of inclusive education by initiating a new dialogue on conceptual
foundations of inclusive schooling. In this regard, the chapter first deconstructs the concept of
educational need that stems from the field of traditional special education as contradictory to
the original ideals of inclusive education. It then moves on to reconstruct the concept of
educational need in accordance with the foundational values of inclusion, that is celebration
of human diversity and resistance to dichotomies of ab-/normality and dis-/ability and
proposes an approach for future implementation of inclusive education.peerReviewe
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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