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“BEING ON GUARD” VS “BEING IN BLINKERS”: PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE WITH FOREIGN MEDICAL STUDENTS IN ROMANIA. ASPECTS OF EVALUATION
Full text linkBeing on guard vs being in blinkers: perspectives on the intercultural competence with foreign medical students in Romania. Aspects of evaluation. The development of intercultural competence (IC) in the 21st century is a clear necessity, and not a socio-political trend. If in the United States circumstances have imposed for decades the establishment of a new discipline, Europe sees itself now confronted with the emergency of establishing intercultural teaching principles, in the face of massive immigration and an explosion in educational and occupational mobility. If we relate to the second category, foreign medical students in Romania respond to a double wager of understanding Romanians: the street and the hospital medium. From a pedagogical perspective, the work group is homogeneous, so that teaching transcultural knowledge, attitudes and abilities does not raise major problems. However, evaluation represents a challenge: it is not a question of knowledge, where there already are multiple instruments that have been verified, but about attitudes and abilities, which are monitored in time and in specific contexts, and the RFL teacher rarely benefits from such circumstances. In the present study, „ Being on Guard Vs Being in Blinkers: Perspectives on the Intercultural Competence with Foreign Medical Students in Romania. Aspects Of Evaluation”, we try to build some evaluation activities and exercises that are specific for each component of the intercultural competence, and which are adapted to the students’ curriculum and schedule.
Rezumat. Cu ochii în patru vs. cu ochelari de cal: perspective asupra competenței interculturale la studenții mediciniști străini din România. Aspecte ale evaluării. Dezvoltarea competenței interculturale în secolul XXI este o necesitate clară, nu un trend sociopolitic. Dacă în Statele Unite circumstanțele au impus de câteva decenii deja constituirea noii discipline, Europa se vede acum confruntată cu urgența constituirii principiilor didactice interculturale, în fața imigrației masive și a exploziei mobilităților educaționale. Dacă ne raportăm la a doua categorie, studenții străini mediciniști din România răspund unui dublu pariu al înțelegerii românilor: strada și mediul spitalicesc. Din perspectivă pedagogică, grupul de lucru e omogen, deci predarea cunoștințelor, atitudinilor și abilităților transculturale nu ridică probleme majore. Însă evaluarea e o provocare: nu e vorba de cunoștințe, unde deja există intrumente multiple și verificate, ci de atitudini și abilități, care se monitorizează în timp și în contexte specifice, iar profesorul de RLS dispune rareori de asemenea circumstanțe. În studiul de față încercăm să construim câteva activități și exerciții de evaluare specifice pentru fiecare componentă a competenței interculturale, adaptate la curriculumul și orarul studenților noștri.
Cuvinte cheie: competență interculturală, metode de evaluare, atitudini, abilități, activități integrate
BOOK REVIEW: “ALFABETUL LUI HIPODOR. LIMBA ROMÂNĂ CA LIMBĂ NEMATERNĂ. CLASA A II-A (HIPODOR’S ALPHABET. ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AS SECOND LANGUAGE. SECOND GRADE)”, BY ANTONELA ARIEȘAN, ANDA BRATU (COORD. ELENA PLATON), VOL. I-II-III, EDITURA CASA CĂRŢII DE ŞTIINŢĂ, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2014-2016, VOL. I - 174P., VOL. II - 196P., VOL. III - 162P.
Full text linkHow would you like for the textbook your child is learning the letters from to look like? Which would be the eligibility criteria if you had several variants before you? Would it be the playful aspect or the exactness of the content? Colourful and airy pages or pages that are filled with useful activities? A rich vocabulary or an authentic one? Humour or efficiency? Alfabetul lui Hipodor (Hipodor’s Alphabet), which appeared in three volumes at the Casa Cărții de Știință publishing house in 2014, aims to satisfy all of these expectations and, to a great extent, it actually succeeds in doing so. The ABC is part of a more ample project, coordinated by Elena Platon, of producing a series of textbooks for Romanian, for primary and middle school, specially designed for children who are non-native Romanian speakers. This undertaking is not a new one, there have been other course materials that were created and that specifically addressed national minorities, but this is a new communicative and friendly approach to learning, which is essential for the children’s subsequent approach to reading and learning in general. Information about the series as well as the audio support for the listening exercises can be found on the project’s website, www.invatam.ro
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
HAND OVER HEART: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND RITUAL IN THE ROMANIAN ANTHEM
Full text linkHand over heart: National Identity and Ritual in the Romanian Anthem. In the past 150 years Romania has had five anthems that appeared in different stages of the nation that they symbolically legitimized. The present anthem, Deșteptă-te, române! (Awaken thee, Romanian!), based on the lyrics of a poem created during the 1848 revolution, is the product of the 19th-century romantic imaginary and thematizes important values for the moment of the creation/discovery of the ethnic-national solidarity, similar to the majority of European manifestos from that time. However, the former revolutionary song becomes an official national anthem in 1990, when the social projections and national values had long belonged to another paradigm, and it continues to dominate community rituals through unexpected structuring mechanisms.
REZUMAT. Cu mâna pe inimă: identitate națională și ritual în imnul românesc. În ultimii 150 de ani, România a avut cinci imnuri, apărute în etape diferite ale națiunii, pe care o legitimau simbolic. Imnul actual, Deșteptă-te, române!, pe versurile unui poem creat în timpul revoluției de la 1848, este produsul imaginarului romantic de secol XIX și tematizează valori importante pentru momentul creării/descoperirii solidarității etnic-naționale, ca majoritatea manifestelor europene ale acelui moment. Totuși, fostul cântec revoluționar devine imn național oficial în 1990, când proiecțiile sociale și valorile naționale aparțineau de mult altei paradigme, și continuă să domine ritualurile comunitare prin mecanisme structurante neașteptate.
Cuvinte-cheie: imn național, analiza imaginarului, ritual social, națiune, legitimare identitară
THE LEGITIMIZING TOOLKIT OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST ANTHEMS. IDEOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC IMAGINARY
Full text linkThe Legitimizing Toolkit of the Romanian Communist Anthems. Ideology and Linguistic Imaginary. Anthems are associated with nationhood and are part of its legitimizing toolkit. Their complete interpretation usually goes through the analysis of the linguistic imaginary, namely of the mythemes of the age, of the unconscious representations of the community, identifiable in rhythmical patriotic verses. National myths, recycled in patriotic songs Romanians have created since the 19th century, have been coloured differently, according to the ideology of the era. However, during 1948-1989 a double orientation could be “read” in the three national anthems: the natural insinuation of the community’s unconscious projections on the one hand, and the evidence of ideological charge meant to change Romanians’ representations of national reality on the other. Thus, the anthems Broken Shackles (Zdrobite cătușe), We Glorify Thee, Romania (Te slăvim, Românie), and Three colours (Trei culori) mark different stages in the communist discourse, even if they seemingly reuse the same motifs specific to the imaginary of the time: the country, the flag, the proletariat, the victorious past, the bright future and the “crushed” enemies.
REZUMAT. Instrumentarul legitimator al imnurilor comuniste românești. Ideologie și imaginar lingvistic. Imnurile se asociază cu națiunea și fac parte din instrumentarul ei legitimator. Interpretarea completă a acestor creații trece, de obicei, prin analiza imaginarului lingvistic, respectiv a mitemelor epocii, a reprezentărilor inconștiente ale comunității, identificabile în versurile patriotice ritmate. Miturile naționale, reciclate în cântecele patriotice pe care le-au creat românii începând cu secolul al XIX-lea, au fost colorate diferit, în funcție de ideologia epocii. În perioada 1948-1989, în cele trei imnuri naționale, poate fi „citită” însă o dublă orientare: insinuarea firească a proiecțiilor inconștiente ale comunității, pe de o parte, și evidența încărcăturii ideologice, menite să schimbe reprezentările românilor despre realitatea națională, pe de altă parte. Așadar, imnurile Zdrobite cătușe, Te slăvim, Românie și Trei culori marchează etape diferite ale discursului comunist, chiar dacă aparent reiau aceleași motive specifice imaginarului vremii: patria, drapelul, proletariatul, trecutul victorios, viitorul luminos și dușmanii „zdrobiți”. Explorarea imaginarului lingvistic pune în evidență modificările încărcăturii semantice și simbolice, de la un imn la altul.
Cuvinte-cheie: imaginar național, legitimare identitară, miteme, imnuri, patrie, ritual, comunism, limbă de lemn
Article history: Received 5 December 2022; Revised 10 February 2023; Accepted 24 February 2023; Available online 27 March 2023; Available print 31 March 2023
BOOK REVIEW: “RLNM – PROCESUL DE EVALUARE A RLNM LA CICLUL LICEAL (P6) (ROMANIAN AS SECOND LANGUAGE - THE EVALUATION PROCESS OF RSL DURING THE HIGH SCHOOL)”; COORD.: ELENA PLATON AND DINA VÂLCU; EDITURA CASA CĂRŢII DE ŞTIINŢĂ, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2011. 434P.
Full text linkAfter writing five chapters from the novel Accidentul (The Accident), Mihail Sebastian lost his manuscript or it was stolen from him. This is the most frequently invoked metaphor-episode from the Romanian culture when it comes to the fragility of writing or rather of the scriptural support, maybe also as a result of the depressing confessions made by the journalist Sebastian about the episode. Mutatis mutandis, something similar happened with the volume we are dealing with: it is not about literature or about an actual loss, but about a reduced and incoherent reception of a revolutionary work for the present domain of Romanian language teaching, mainly owed to a weak diffusion of the book. As a rule, in the teaching process there is more attention given to teaching than to evaluating, which makes the book already interesting through the chosen topic. However, the related data, Romanian as a foreign language and the alignment of its evaluation with the Common European Framework for Languages, turn the 434 pages into a stepping stone for the field. This is the reason why I considered that the volume still deserves to be promoted, even though more than five years have passed since its publishing
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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