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Schools principals’ career path: Ireland, Cyprus and Malta sample
Get PDFLeadership studies have been conducted for decades; however one of the leading studies about principals’ career path belongs to Peter Ribbins who carried it out in the United Kingdom in 1997. After this research a collective research project involving Singapore, Hong Kong, Cyprus and Malta was carried out under the leadership of Peter Gronn and Peter Ribbins.
The purpose of this study is exploring principals’ career path as well as updating the previous research in Cyprus (Pashiardis & Ribbins, 2003) and Malta (Bezzina & Cassar, 2003) in the same field. The study has been carried out in Ireland, Cyprus and Malta with fifteen primary school principals, five principals from each country. In order to have an in depth idea about their career development, one of the qualitative methods, the interview method, was used for gathering the data.
The analysis showed that the reasons for becoming a teacher are various; on the other hand the reasons for becoming a principal are similar. The majority of them wanted to become a principal to have power and because they believed they could manage the school better than the previous principals as they had the managerial skills to do the job. However there is no initial training to prepare the principals for the role. In terms of management they all stated that they are supportive, respectful, democratic, a role model, honest, collaborate and approachable and that they delegate, give responsibility and pay attention to good communication. Irish principals stated that they use these features in enabling more effecting teaching and learning. However both Cypriot and Maltese principals said bureaucracy and administrational work does not allow them to be involved in the teaching and learning process, and this is the reason that they cannot play an effective role in enabling better teaching and learning in the school. Their educational and managerial values include being democratic, collegial, a team worker, fair, transparent and respectful. However sometimes they experience difficulties in putting these values into practice. All of the principals stated that they dislike managerial tasks and bureaucracy as well as dealing with difficult people. On the other hand in spite of these difficulties, the majority of the principals stated they still enjoy principalship.
In conclusion the results show that the findings of this study correspond to previous research in Cyprus and Malta. However some differences were spotted. Results also show that principals experience similar challenges to those they stated in earlier studies.
These results can hopefully be used by policy makers to design new policies and improve the education of principals for the future
The construction of childhood in the early Republican period and children’s literature as a tool
Get PDFErken cumhuriyet döneminde, ülke nüfusunu nicelik olarak artırırken niteliğinin iyileştirilmesi de önemli
bir husus olmuştur. Bu noktada “nasıl bir nesil istiyoruz” sorusunun cevaplanması ve modern çocuğun
inşasına başlanması gerekli görülmüştür. Kurucu ve koruyucu Gazi imgesine sahip çıkan, cumhuriyetin
değerleri ve Atatürk inkılaplarına bağlı bir nesil yetiştirmek, genç cumhuriyetin temel amaçlarından birisi
olmuştur. Bununla beraber, bilimsel bakış açısına sahip, kültürel anlamda kendini geliştirip sanatla
besleyen, sosyal hayatında modern davranışları benimsemiş, dürüst, çalışkan, yardımlaşmaya önem veren,
eşitlikçi, cumhuriyete sadık, giyim kuşamında modern ve beden sağlığına dikkat eden yeni bir nesil
yetiştirilmesi hedeflenmiştir. Tüm bu gelişmeler dahilinde edebiyatın etkin bir araç olarak kullanılması da
kaçınılmaz olmuştur. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı Himaye-i Etfal Cemiyeti külliyatında yer alan Çocuk
Ansiklopedisi‟ni incelemek ve erken cumhuriyet döneminde çocukluğun inşası üzerine
değerlendirmelerde bulunmaktadır. Çalışmada doküman inceleme yöntemi kullanılmış; yapılan içerik
analizi sonucunda elde edilen veri kodlanarak çözümlenmiştir. İncelenen ansiklopedide bilim ve aklın
gücü ön plana çıkartılmış, ekonomik anlamda gelişmenin en önemli öncülerinden birisi olan teknolojinin
önemi vurgulanmış, coğrafya, biyoloji, fizik gibi bilimler temelinde konular aktarılmış, doğa ve insan
sevgisi üzerinde durulmuştur. Ülkeyi çağdaş medeniyet seviyesine ulaştıracak olan yeni nesil, dünyadaki
değişimlere ve yeniliklere ayak uydurabilecek bilgi ile donatılmaya çalışılmış; bunu yaparken milli
duyarlılık korunmuştur. Bugün yüz yaşında olan Türkiye Cumhuriyeti‟nin bu denli sağlam temeller
üzerinde oturmasının sebebinin cumhuriyetin ilk yıllarında izlenen politikalarla ilgili olduğu
düşünülmektedir.With the establishment of the republic, it was deemed necessary to start the construction of the modern
child. It was aimed to raise a new generation that was loyal to the values of the republic and Atatürk's
reforms; has a scientific perspective, self-development in the cultural sense, adopting the modern world,
honest, hardworking, and paying attention to health. To reach these goals, it was inevitable to use
literature as an effective tool. The main purpose of this study is to examine the Child Encyclopedia in the
corpus of the Himaye-i Etfal Society and to make evaluations on the construction of childhood in the
early republican period. As a result of the content analysis, the findings show that the encyclopedia
emphasizes the power of science and the importance of technology; also focuses on science-based
subjects and underlines the love of nature. The new generation, which will raise the country to the level of
contemporary civilizations, has been tried to be equipped with the knowledge that can keep up with the
changes and innovations in the world by adhering to national sensitivity. It is thought that the hundredyear-old Republic of Türkiye, sitting on such solid foundations today, is related to the policies followed in
the early republican period
WHAT CYPRIOT CHILDREN THINK ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF PEACE?
Get PDFCyprus is a Mediterranean island inhabited by two communities with a common culture, although they speak different languages. Since 1974, efforts to reconcile these two communities, living apart from each other in different parts of the island, have become more important in recent years and efforts have been made to ensure a lasting solution on the island. Within the scope of these efforts, non-governmental organizations in Cyprus are also carrying out various studies with the support of the European Union. This is one of those studies, which was carried out with the support of the Grow Civil Program. The purpose of this study is to examine the metaphors of the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot children created about the concept of peace. The study group consists of 23 children, aged between six and ten. Children were given a form written in Turkish and Greek languages with an expression on it as "Peace is like........ because.........." and they were asked to fill in the gaps. The obtained data were analyzed and reported by the content analysis method. Results indicate that the metaphors produced by Turkish Cypriot children are related to emotions, behaviors and individuals, while the Greek Cypriots’ are related to space, aesthetic perception, and individuals. While politicians are seeking for a permanent solution on the island, non-governmental organizations and activists have been organizing various activities to increase mutual trust between the two communities. It is thought that this study will contribute to the bi-communal studies in Cyprus
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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