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Tronsmo, Eli, and Monika Nerland, Local Curriculum Development as Object Construction: A Sociomaterial Analysis, Teaching and Teacher Education, 72(May, 2018), 33-43.
No full textReports an ethnographic analysis of one team of Norwegian teachers doing local curriculum development; the process is examined using Knorr Cetina\u27s notion of knowledge object ; detailed episodes are reported; illustrates three steps found in the process; epistemic considerations are discussed
Investigating teachers’ work with multiple knowledge resources in local curriculum development
No full textThis paper investigates how teachers handle dilemmas generated by the multiplicity of knowledge resources in contexts of local curriculum development. In a study using an ethnographic approach, one team of lower secondary school teachers in Norway, mandated to develop a school based curriculum, was followed closely over a year. Drawing on socio-material perspectives, data from six team meetings were analysed to explore how the team reached decisions in their efforts to develop a subject curriculum. While previous research has paid less attention to what the presence of a diversity of knowledge resources ‘does’ with the epistemic dimension of teachers’ curriculum work, the present study shows that teachers’ engagement with multiple knowledge resources created dilemmas but also greater scope for action in decision-making situations. These processes, however, bring new responsibilities to the fore which require agency from the teachers and should be acknowledged in current discussions of teachers’ work
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
Læreres håndtering av nye kunnskapsutfordringer. En (sekundær)analyse av læreres kunnskapspraksiser relatert til forsterket epistemisk ansvar
No full textMålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hvordan lærere håndterer kunnskapsmessige utfordringer som knytter seg til deres daglige undervisningspraksis. Analysen drøfter læreres gjøremål i relasjon til yrkets epistemiske sider. Med utgangspunkt i begrepet «epistemic cultures of nonknowledge» (Böschen m.fl., 2006; 2010) analyseres lærernes kunnskapsrelasjon for å kartlegge hvordan praktiserende lærere på ulike vis forholder seg til usikkerhet, motsetninger, kunnskapshull eller epistemiske mangler i tilknytning til profesjonelt arbeid. Perspektivet åpner et kikkhull mot læreres utforskende og undersøkende kunnskapspraksiser. Selv om analysens hovedfokus er yrkesutøvernes mikropraksiser, ses disse i sammenheng med dynamikker som utspiller seg rundt skolesektoren på makro- og mesonivå. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i at lærerne, i likhet med andre profesjoner i kunnskapssamfunnet, har fått et forsterket kunnskapsansvar. Spørsmålet er om dette ansvaret omfatter mer enn å være oppdatert på ny kunnskap, men også inkluderer strategier for å håndtere mangelfull kunnskap, irrelevant kunnskap eller motstridende kunnskap som sirkulerer parallelt. Oppgavens problemstilling er: 1. På hvilke måter formes og utvides lærernes kunnskapspraksiser? 2. Hvilke strategier benytter informantene for å håndtere «nonknowledge»
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
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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