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Teaching Criminal Justice as Feminist Praxis
Full text linkFeminist scholars who teach criminology, criminal justice and/or criminal law modules often find their personal and professional identities intersect when addressing issues of a gendered and intersectional nature. Some have the freedom and autonomy to embed their values and ethics into their teaching approach, while others face institutional resistance and restrictions. Programme requirements may also constrain scholars’ abilities to do justice to a range of competing experiences, perspectives, and critiques. This chapter presents selected findings from a 2019 empirical study into feminist academics’ experiences of teaching gendered and intersectional socio-legal issues in UK universities. It explores the internal and external barriers encountered by participants who sought to effect positive change in their students through their feminist approaches to teaching criminal justice topics. Alongside this, the chapter highlights participants’ examples of best practice in managing student resistance and overcoming institutional barriers to embed intersectional perspectives as part of a feminist commitment to critical and purposeful pedagogy
Student Engagement and Sense of Belonging: Are We Ready for a New Approach?
Full text linkThis conceptual chapter presents the Psychosocial and Academic Trust Alienation (PATA) theory and identifies aspects of barriers to student engagement, which may affect belonging in higher education (HE). By exploring how the PATA theory can be applied to the complexities of student demographics and post-pandemic engagement challenges, practical HE leadership and teaching and learning strategies are highlighted to explore how they enhance student engagement and belonging. Finally, this chapter closes with a critical analysis of the PATA theory, where findings highlight that despite the embryonic status of this theory, the HE community would benefit from knowledge of this approach. In addition, developing student engagement and sense of belonging with the effects of marketisation and neoliberalism in HE can increase challenges. Therefore, to drive change for students from complex demographics, improve equalities, social mobility, and student success in HE in the post-pandemic context, HEIs need to continue to research to develop practice
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
Using Pedagogical Choices to Foster Student Engagement and Belonging
Full text linkI lead a foundation year in education, where the students are often ‘non-traditional students’ or defined as ‘widening participation’, i.e. first in their family to attend university and/or come from low participation neighbourhoods. I have designed the author’s programme with a focus on student belonging and inclusion and employs an ethos and practice of critical, playful and project-based pedagogy. I apply critical pedagogic principles to support, empower and value the positionality of my students, providing a space where they can learn things that are meaningful and transformative on their own terms. I utilise playful and project-based pedagogy as a conduit for developing relationships with staff and peers, and to provide students with choice and, importantly, voice, and opportunities for engaging in meaningful experiences with one another which may contribute to employability. This chapter explores my pedagogic design and the impact this has on students, through my own reflections and data from research conducted with two cohorts of foundation students at the end of their degrees in 2020 and 2022. By discussing the implementation of this pedagogic strategy, the narrative considers student belonging and engagement in higher education
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
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
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