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Preparing to observe the impact of therapeutic teaching practices. From Flow to self regulation and learning
Full text linkAbstract: This paper outlines the research process that aimed to evidence the impact of therapeutic
teaching practice within a school for young people with social and emotional challenges resulting
from adverse childhood experiences. It is an issue for society that many children and young people
have traumatic experiences in their lives that seriously impact on their wellbeing, health and capacities
to learn. This paper outlines a New Approach to supporting such vulnerable learners. The project
entitled «Learning in a new key» (LINK) involved music therapists working with non-music specialist
teachers to introduce musical listening and improvisation as a regular group therapeutic experience in
the classroom. The music of our society is a deep cultural reservoir that can be drawn on by teachers
to soothe, nurture and potentially heal our troubled and vulnerable young people. The observational
schedule herein described was developed during the second year of the project to measure the impact
of this work on individual young people. The tool originated from the work of Csikszentmihalyi
(1990), to assess the optimal state of being, he called Flow. The concept was developed further to
enable researchers to observe and measure the Flow experience in classrooms with young children
engaged in active music making (Addessi, Ferrari, & Carugati, 2015). This paper maps the growth of
the observation tool within the LINK Project drawing on ideas from early years education, therapeutic
practice and psychology. Research into the impact of music listening and making on brain development
and healing has also influenced the design of the schedule leading to insights about sensory
processing and relationality (Perry & Hambrick, 2008). The use of Flow variables is a relatively new
approach in education where systems would benefit from being able to develop a rationale for such
practice to meet the challenging needs of children and young people with adverse childhood experiences.
Discussion of the potential for the Flow observation schedule will be explored and recommendations
for the future identified that will include the use by individual teachers
Developing an Observational Schedule using Flow Dimensions
No full textThis chapter introduces the flow observation grids elaborated in the LINK project, an European funded project which aimed at testing the efficacy of the arts and music interventions in the school for promoting the well-being of vulnerable young people and their willingness to engage in continuing learning and school attendance. We will try to highlight the methodological issues encountered, such as the description of observable behaviours, the use of the grid as an indispensable research tool for studying the flow experience in children and as a tool for teachers and music therapists. A brief presentation of Flow theory and flow music studies will be given first; then the description of the characteristics of the observation grid implemented in our previous studies on children interacting with the “flow machine”, as they are at the origin of the grids used in the LINK. Then the way in which the flow theory was used in the LINK project and the two flow grids implemented in the framework of the LINK will be introduced. Some educational implications of our work will be suggested: the flow grids are a tool for researchers but also for teachers, both to observe the experience of musical flow in children, and to identify several strategies which help to create the conditions for the flow experience in educational or therapeutic contexts
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
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
EXPLORING TEACHER COMPETENCES FOR RELATIONAL HEALTH IN SCHOOLS.
Full text linkAbstract: This paper focuses on new professional competences that teachers are developing as they
conjoin with music/arts therapists in face of young people who experience post-traumatic stress
disorder or developmental trauma from earlier adverse childhood experiences. Data have been collected
through the common use of a semi structured interview schedule across the interventions of
the LINK Project. Responses from teachers of three schools in three different countries explore how
educational pursuits are theorised/supported in order to promote relational health in schools. Findings
point to a need to reassert social models of learning for teachers and young people alike. The
consequences of reducing the range of disciplines that influence teacher education become apparent.
It is noted that the disciplines of psychology and philosophy of education are necessary to address
the current demands of inclusive education and inter-professional collaboration. Respondents are
interested in new psychological knowledge that helps them reconceptualise educational rationales
as professional teachers with a difference. These emergent perspectives arise from a re-engagement
at classroom level with significant cultural resources that are already being used by music and artsbased
therapeutic health practitioners
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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