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Educational Leadership and Asian Culture: Culturally Sensitive Leadership Practice
No full textProviding a window on educational leadership from an Asian cultural perspective, Liu and Thien\u27s edited collection explains how educational leadership is linked to national culture in the context of various Asian countries. While most studies on this topic are built on the Western paradigm, this book examines the measurement of school leadership from diverse perspectives by considering the cultural context when studying educational leadership. With reference to cross-cultural perspectives, the authors investigate the relationship between leadership for learning and community culture, in addition to the relationship between leadership style and culture. The text provides a theoretical basis for understanding leadership in the context of Asian countries, and offers practical suggestions for identifying effective and culturally sensitive leadership practices in similar cultural contexts
Gender and Power in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia
No full textEarly childhood education (ECE) plays a crucial role in shaping children\u27s identities, including their understanding of gender. However, in the Indonesian context, gender issues are still often overlooked in education policies and practices, even though social norms developed in schools indirectly reinforce traditional gender stereotypes. This book explores how gender and power are constructed in early childhood education in Indonesia through an ethnographic approach as well as post-structuralist and post-colonial feminist theories. By observing the interactions of children, teachers and education policies, the book shows that education is not a neutral space, but a place where gender norms are continuously reproduced and negotiated. In addition to exposing gender bias in the ECD system, this book also offers an alternative, more inclusive pedagogy. Teachers have a huge role in shaping children\u27s gender understanding, but often unconsciously maintain traditional norms. Therefore, education should be a flexible space where children can express their identities without rigid gender boundaries
Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia: Perspectives from Indigenous Knowledge, Gender and Instructional Practices
No full textThis book examines how Indigenous knowledge and customs can improve literacy outcomes, teacher development practices and children\u27s learning outcomes in Ethiopia. Research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway is shown in it. The research shows how students can be supported to learn critically, think logically and acquire the citizenship skills needed to live in a multilingual environment. The authors honour multilingualism and lift up Indigenous traditions such as speech, storytelling and folklore, showing their positive impact on educational outcomes. The book plays a vital role in introducing Ethiopia\u27s cultural heritage to the West and bridging cultural differences between north and south by addressing the issues of language diversity and systematic ignorance of Indigenous literacy practices
Empowering Digital Education with ChatGPT: From Theoretical to Practical
No full textThe book ‘Empowering Digital Education with ChatGPT’ by Mohamed Lahby offers a fresh look at how ChatGPT can revolutionize language teaching through innovative approaches. The technology enables personalization of learning, simulation of context-based conversations and provision of real-time feedback, allowing students to learn independently and interactively. The book also highlights the integration of gamification and collaboration elements to increase student motivation and support cross-cultural understanding in language learning. While optimistic, the authors also recognize challenges in implementing these technologies, such as AI bias and technology access gaps. With realistic and inspiring insights, this book is an essential reference for educators who want to explore more effective and inclusive technology-based language teaching
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
Communicating Around Interculturality in Research and Education
No full textThe book instructs readers on how to communicate interculturally and supports them in reflecting on how they can renegotiate and reconstruct knowledge, ideologies, and relationships around the notion of interculturality. Anchored in the author's original and thought-provoking perspectives on interculturality, this interdisciplinary and globally insightful book explores how communicating around such notions cannot exclude ideologism, language, and translation issues or problematizing voice and silence in research and education. Written in an original and stimulating way, relying on a variety of genres and writing styles to mimic the dynamism and flexibility of the ideas under review, the authors urge us to (un)voice, scrutinize, nurture and galvanize our ways of dealing with interculturality ourselves and together with others in academia. The book's very specific focus on communicating around interculturality (rather than 'doing' interculturality) is a new and important step towards observing, analyzing, talking about, and contributing to today's complex and fragmented world
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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