353 research outputs found
UniCat library catalogue dataset
No full textThis dataset was created in the context of a project about libcitations or library catalogue analysis of book publications by Flemish Social Sciences and Humanities researchers.
The dataset was constructed on the basis of the openly available API of the Belgian UniCat library catalogue (UniCat-Search). The library catalogue was searched in September 2021 by a matching of the catalogue against the ISBNs present in the VABB-SHW database (see Aspeslagh, Peter, Guns, Raf, & Engels, Tim C.E. (2021). VABB-SHW: Dataset of Flemish Academic Bibliography for the Social Sciences and Humanities (edition 11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5795899)
<b>NWB2023_20 years of performance-based research funding in Flanders, Belgium</b>
No full textIn 2003 the Flemish Government introduced performance-based research funding for universities in Flanders (Debackere & Glänzel, 2004; Engels & Guns, 2018; Luwel, 2021). Every five years the government procures a consulting team and panels of international experts to evaluate the effects and the effectiveness of these research and innovation subsidies to the universities. During the workshop we will share and discuss our observations regarding the gradual changes of the Flemish PRFSs since 2003, the possible effects of these PRFSs (including on support offices at universities), and the feasibility in terms of complexity of data collection, curation, transparency and validation.ReferencesDebackere, K., & Glänzel, W. (2004). Using a bibliometric approach to support research policy making: The case of the Flemish BOF-key. Scientometrics, 59(2), 253–276.Engels, T. C. E., & Guns, R. (2018). The Flemish performance-based research funding system: A unique variant of the Norwegian model. Journal of Data and Information Science, 3(4), 45–60. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0020Luwel, M. (2021). Performance-based Institutional Research Funding in Flanders, Belgium. Scholarly Assessment Reports, 3(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.29024/sar.29</p
Corrigendum to “Is the expertise of evaluation panels congruent with the research interests of the research groups: a quantitative approach based on barycenters” [Journal of Informetrics 9(4) (2015) 704-721]
No full textIn Rahman, Guns, Rousseau, and Engels (2015) we described several approaches to determine the cognitive distance between two units. One of these approaches was based on what we called barycenters in N dimensions. This note corrects this terminology and introduces the more adequate term ‘similarity-adapted publication vectors’
The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS)
No full textThis paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis (Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to (Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson, Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities. It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences. It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and wisdom (Fleissner and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle classes for their benefit against working class
Identifying Research Quality in the Social Sciences
No full textWhat is good research? A seemingly simple question reveals itself difficult to answer. The current methods for identifying research quality come with validity issues due to a lack of conceptual scrutiny. I argue that research quality is a context dependent latent construct. While identifying research quality is a difficult task, it is not impossible. The methodological toolbox of the social sciences provides instruments to capture such latent constructs. I propose a method to conceptualise research quality in its context and argue that it is fruitful to combine peer review and indicator-based evaluations rather than playing them off against each other. Similarly, instead of juxtaposing notions of quality of different stakeholders, it is more promising to start from the scholars’ notions of quality and to add other stakeholders’ notions of quality in a communicative process arriving at a context-specific definition of research quality
Gender research in academia: a closer look at variables.
No full textGender-as-variable is used in many areas of research, but often in the evaluation of academic achievements and research performance. A large portion of this literature examines gender representation in STEM (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine); however, there is evidence of gender disparities in the social sciences as well. In fact, no academic field is fully exempt from issues regarding gender, since it is a complex and significant part of the human condition. In this chapter, gender is therefore examined according to the work of scholars from various academic contexts. Our thematic focus is on research variables: those that are typically used for measurement compared to those that are phenomenological (i.e., experienced or perceived). When it comes to gender inequality in academia, there is more to know than what can be measured
O trabalho associado em Karl Marx: contribuição ao debate acerca do cooperativismo e da transição
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Politica, Florianópolis, 2008Esta dissertação consiste numa pesquisa sobre o cooperativismo, tendo como referencial teórico um autor específico, Karl Marx. Tem como objetivo principal contribuir, do ponto de vista teórico-interpretativo, para a compreensão da importância que podem assumir as experiências cooperativistas para os trabalhadores em termos de luta de classes. A emergência de várias iniciativas autogestionárias, sobretudo a partir de 1990, reacende o debate sobre as alternativas ao capitalismo. Num contexto adverso para os trabalhadores, marcado pelo fim da experiência social-democrata e stalinista-soviética na Europa, ressurgem formulações inspiradas nos precursores do cooperativismo da primeira metade do século XIX, em geral, negligenciando a crítica de Marx. Reconhece a importância das experiências autogestionárias para a manutenção de uma significativa parcela da população e do debate no campo teórico sobre suas possibilidades e limites. As referências às cooperativas operárias em Marx, não obstante a ausência de um tratamento sistemático, insere-se na sua perspectiva mais ampla sobre a transição do modo de produção capitalista ao modo de produção associado ou comunista. Na busca par compreender a relação dos trabalhadores com o cooperativismo, na perspectiva de Marx, revisa sua crítica aos socialistas utópicos e a Proudhon, ao mesmo tempo em que explora a relação das fábricas cooperativas com a luta de classes e com as contradições do modo de produção capitalista. O estudo evidencia que a positividade do cooperativismo em Marx está relacionada com a classe trabalhadora em sua luta contra o capital, necessitando, porém, atuar sobre as modernas forças produtivas e, dessa forma, não mantém correspondência com as propostas utópicas e reformadoras do capitalismo. Discute o trabalho associado no interior das fábricas cooperativas, o qual, além de negar o trabalho assalariado, aponta para um novo modo de produção. Conclui que os limites das fábricas cooperativas, enquanto formas de transição dentro do sistema capitalista, relacionam-se com a luta de classes, de forma que o trabalho associado não pode abranger a totalidade das forças produtivas sem que os trabalhadores assumam o poder político.This dissertation involves a study of the cooperative movement. Its theoretical reference is one specific author, Karl Marx. Its principal objective is to contribute from a theoreticalinterpretive perspective to understanding the importance cooperative experiences can have for workers in terms of class struggle. It discuss the emergence of various self-management initiatives, above all since 1990, wich triggers new debate about alternatives to capitalism. In an adverse context for workers, marked by the end of social-democratic and Stalinist-Soviet experiences in Europe, formulations arise inspired in the precursors of the cooperative movement of the first half of the 19th century in general neglecting Marx#s criticism. Reconize the importance of self-management experiences for the maintenance of a significant portion of the population and of debate in the theoretical field about their possibilities and limits. The references to workers cooperatives in Marx, notwithstanding the absence of a systematic analysis, are inserted in his broader perspective about the transition from the capitalist mode of production to the associated or communist mode of production. In an effort to understand the relationship of workers with the cooperative movement, from Marx#s perspective, it reviews his criticism of the Utopian Socialists and Proudhon; explores the relation of the cooperative factories with the class struggle and with the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production. The study revealed that the positivity of cooperativism in Marx is related to the working class# struggle against capital, requiring action on the modern productive forces and, in this way, does not correspond to the utopian and reformist proposals of capitalism. It concludes that the associated work within cooperative factories, in addition to rejecting salaried labor, point to a new mode of production. But points out that the limits of the cooperative factories as forms of transition within the capitalist system are related to the class struggle in that associated work cannot encompass the totality of the productive forces without the workers assuming political power
Creating inclusive classrooms in primary and secondary schools: From noticing to differentiated practices
No full textDifferentiated instruction is advocated as a means to create inclusive classrooms. The hypothesis guiding this study is that teachers' ability to notice inclusive teaching practices and to reason about it are connected to their differentiated practices. Two instruments are adopted to measure this: the e-PIC videography tool, that maps teachers' professional vision, and the DI-Quest, that measures self-reported differentiated practices. Clustering teachers' noticing and reasoning, this study found two groups of teachers. Results reveal that teachers who are more proficient at noticing inclusive practices, also report implementing more differentiated practices, compared to teachers who are less able at noticing them. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The adopted e-PIC videography instrument in this study was developed within the Potential project in cooperation with IMEC and the following people: Dr. Karolien Keppens, Iris Roose, Dr. Esther Gheyssens, Dr. Julia Griful-Freixenet, Prof. Dr. Katrien Struyven, Prof. Dr. Piet Van Avermaet, Prof. Dr. Ruben Vanderlinde, Prof. Dr. Els Consuegra, Dr. Wendelien Vantieghem, Kristof Van Damme and Martin Vanbrabant. We would like to thank them for their engagement. In addition, the authors of this study gratefully acknowledge the support of the POTENTIAL research and valorisation project (www.potentialproject.be) funded by the Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO).Gheyssens, E (corresponding author), Vrije Univ Brussel, Pl Laan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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