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Out-of-time managers? Educational leaders’ use of time in Switzerland
No full textAlthough school leadership is a relatively young topic in the Swiss context, there has been rapid development toward conceptualizing principalship as its own profession. Swiss school principals have their own dedicated qualification, their own professional status, and their own professional association that has some political leverage. They are confronted with demands and expectations to not only administer and manage but also to lead. Furthermore, they come from a tradition in which pedagogical and administrative matters were considered central elements of school management. Finally, there are indications that principalship in Switzerland today is marked by urgency and a multitude of responsibilities. How do principals manage their work time in such a demanding context? This chapter first lays out the context by delving into the Swiss educational system as well as educational leadership in practice and research in Switzerland. Next, data on the time use of principals in the French-speaking part of Switzerland is presented. Finally, these results are put discussed vis-à-vis their implications for professional development as well as future researc
Images of Educational Leadership in Switzerland
No full textThis chapter presents the cultural and social foundations of educational leadership in Switzerland. Switzerland has the particularity of being a federal state with 26 cantons and as many education systems that are different in their specificity and similar in their common and harmonized foundations. We will present the Swiss system and its articulation by linguistic regions before showing how the conception of the role of school leaders is illustrated in this multi-level context and how the notion of leadership is accepted within schools and school principals
Exploring how school principals use their time - Introduction
No full textBackground and purpose of the book.In August 2016 we hosted a research conference on Cross-National Exploration of Principals’ Time Use, funded by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Thirty-two leading researchers on school leadership from ten different countries, covering regions such as Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, Oceania, and North America, participated in the conference. The researchers presented and discussed their cutting-edge studies aligned to the conference theme. This edited volume is a major outcome of the AERA-funded conference. This volume aims to deepen our understanding of principal time use from an international perspective and thereby to advance current knowledge of principal leadership across different countries. Specifically, the edited book aims to (1) document common or particular patterns and effects of principal time use across countries, (2) identify common or major causes that shape principal time use across countries, (3) contribute to theorizing the under-researched area of principal time use, and (4) develop a framework of data collection and related analytical tools of principal time use that can be applied to contexts of different countries. Despite a large body of literature on principal leadership, research focusing on “principal time use” is limited, and a handful of empirical studies exist (see Chapter 1 for details). This relative dearth of studies is surprising given that principal time use is a useful indicator of principal leadership; clearly, principals should spend more time on what is most important for school improvement
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
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