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Stuart B. Kaufman papers
No full textStuart Bruce Kaufman (1942-1997) was a professor in the history department at the University of Maryland and an expert on labor history -- in particular, Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor. This collection contains research materials from Kaufman's books, A Vision of Unity: The History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union and Challenge and Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union. Included are correspondence, reports, articles, interviews, and photocopies of documents related to the bakery industry and the tobacco industry ranging from 1900 to the 1970s. The bulk of the collection consists of Kaufman's research notes on typed index cards
Love's gift, or, The ring [music] : wedding ballad /
No full textAlso available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2828328; Library's NL copy is incomplete
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
Sustainability work : an urgent need for a new profession
No full textRecognising that educational efforts to create a more ecologically aware society, and that the mission of social work to facilitate positive social change have so far largely failed to achieve this, we are arguing here for the need to create a profession of “sustainability worker,” professionals who are able to help individuals and groups to develop personal sustainable living and healing pathways. We explore two key shortcomings in the current dominant thinking about ecological change: that technological progress will suffice to create a sustainable world and that generic environmental and sustainability education are able to create a deep ecological consciousness. The experiences of many ecotherapists and ecologically aware counsellors suggest that transformation towards ecological consciousness needs to be developed as part of a whole-person healing journey in which each individual is enabled to enhance their physical and mental health, while developing their ability to live with a reduced ecological footprint. We describe the professional skills required to enable this integrated process, and the educational initiatives needed to make this possible. In considering the most practical pathway for the development of this new profession, we compare sustainability work with social work by highlighting some of their significant differences. Applying a social ecology approach, we review the current critiques of social work theories and practices and argue that the needed social change cannot be achieved by just addressing the needs and disempowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty. Most ecological destruction and ethical decline are caused by people engaging in “retail therapy”: the practice of seeking to manage past traumas and present stresses through the compensatory, unreflective and addictive consumption of non-essential goods and services. The roots of this adaptive behaviour must be recognised and worked with to enable the needed transformation. We conclude that both social work and sustainability work should be regarded as complementary approaches needed to finally effect deep ecological change. We propose that sustainability work programmes initially be offered by ecologically progressive universities as a major in social work studies. The architecture for a related training programme has recently been developed by the first author for an Indian University and can be viewed by interested readers online
Transformative learning priorities
No full textFrom the privilege of retirement, and with time for deep reflection, the transformative moments in my life’s journey, and the connections between them, have been periodically coming into my consciousness, and a story of experiments in transformative learning has been emerging. In this chapter I will share the parts of this story I hope can be most easily used by others to further clarify their stories and help them to engage in meaningful and effective actions that can be taken, individually and collectively, to help heal and enable our world to realise its potential to nurture wellbeing for all. I will also discuss the most valuable enablers and supports that have made these transformational moments possible. Drawing on these experiences, I will finally share the essence of my understandings and hopes for the future. All of this will be illustrated with examples of my transformative initiatives, and supported by the frameworks I constructed to make sense of my experiences
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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