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<Review> An examination of the vocational education and training system under which working people can choose career change and development with less difficulties : Based on an interview with an electrician in Denmark
Get PDFThe purpose of this note is (1) to describe of how an individual is ‘using’ the Danish IVET system in one’s career, and (2) to offer some thoughts on the conditions under which working people can choose career change and development with less difficulties. In the complicated modern societies, they are sometimes required to (at least think of) career change or development, but it is not so easy for them to do it. For this reason the author tries to give some provisional thoughts for question (2).The Danish IVET system is the upper secondary level of vocational education and training for both youth and adults (Shimauchi 2017, 2018). For readers to understand any foreign education system is not easy, but with an oral or career history (Mikuriya 2004, Tsutsui 2016) of the older workers/students, they will be able to have a livelier image of its functions.Based on an interview with a 40 year-old female electrician who changed her career in her late thirties, this note gives some provisional thoughts for the conditions above; (1) the visibility of the relevance (Honda 2009) between learning/qualification and job/competency, (2) the reliability of qualification, (3) the module type curriculum, (4) the accessibility of education and training in financial, temporal, and psychological terms, (5) good chances to take career consulting.Conditions (1) (2) and (3) are more related to the educational and industrial functionality, whereas conditions (4) and (5) are more related to the civil/social rights. The author provisionally makes the following remark.The arguments on the public education in Japan need to include how to realize of guaranteeing one’s life in a broad sense (Tanaka 2007). It is important that the vocational education and training system functions well in the economy, but also the society needs to guarantee its citizens the civil/social rights to the pursuit of happiness, to work, to lifelong learning, and to a career (Suwa 1998, 2017). With a poor stand point of view as for civil/social rights, the arguments on the vocational education and training are likely to converge to the efficiency of the labour markets and the people’s rights above are likely to be ignored. However, not only by the functionality but also by the universality of the vocational education and training system more people will be encouraged to develop their career
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
<Notes> “Individual development model” and “community embedment model” : an examination based on a fieldwork of job placement at a “disadvantaged non-vocational high school” in Japan
Get PDFThe Japanese high school structure is very hierarchical. At the bottom of this hierarchy are the “disadvantaged non-vocational high schools,” where many students get a permanent job just after graduation, but mainly because of mismatching, many of them quit a job soon. How can these schools improve their job placement?Teachers in Japan are facing various problems: more students are in poverty and with developmental disability than before on the one hand, the outcome-oriented pressure is reinforced under the New Public Management on the other hand.For this reason, in 2015 the government introduced a new policy “School as Team,” which states that schools should share teachers’ work with outside professionals such as school counselors and job placement persons. The collaboration between a public high school and a voluntary association in Osaka City which I have been observing for four year is one of such projects.I found two different ways currently being practiced and I name them “individual development model” and “community embedment model.” The former is the conventional way of seeing education and school, while the latter is an alternative one.This note will not only explain these two models but also show a bigger picture of my research: a trial to contextualize and document what I am observing in the recent history of the labour, civic and social movements in Japan
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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