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Beyond school-related learning : parent-child homework talk as a morality building activity
Full text linkFamily interactions constitute an arena for children's moral development: it is indeed through ordinary talk, and shared, task-oriented activities that children are socialized into moral orders and culturally informed ways of thinking and acting. Drawing on a video-based study on the everyday life of 19 middle-class families and adopting a discourse analytic approach, the paper sheds light on the socializing function of a domestic activity: homework. We illustrate that, when it unfolds as a family activity, the issues at stake go far beyond its school-oriented goals: homework provides ‘ethical affordances’ that make relevant moral talk whereby parents introduce children to some unquestioned principles such as homework must be done neatly and it is part of the child's duties. We contend that, by participating in morally loaded homework interactions, children are socialized not only into a school-aligned cultural list concerning what is right and what is wrong about homework, but moreover into a constitutive, taken-for-granted pillar of human sociality: the moral assessability of human conduct, i.e., its being subject to evaluations informed by the ‘right vs. wrong’ category. Implications for teacher training and parent education programs are discussed in the conclusion
Pratiche di (dis)alleanza : la rilevanza della socio-materialità nelle interazioni tra genitori e figli durante i compiti a casa
No full textNelle ultime decadi, sulla base di numerosi studi che hanno presentato
come positivo e auspicabile il coinvolgimento dei genitori nelle esperienze
scolastiche dei figli (per una rassegna vedi Hoover-Dempsey et alii, 2001),
le politiche educative in diversi stati hanno promosso la cosiddetta “alleanza
scuola-famiglia” come formula per il successo scolastico e per un’efficace
educazione alla cittadinanza (ad es., in Italia: Nota MIUR del 22/11/2012,
Prot. n.00032141 – Trasmissione LINEE DI INDIRIZZO “Partecipazione
dei genitori e corresponsabilità educativa”; negli Stati Uniti: No Child Left
Behind Act). A partire dal concetto di “corresponsabilità educativa”, sono
state progettate specifiche attività con l’obiettivo di incentivare la collaborazione
e la condivisione di esperienze tra il “mondo della scuola” e il
“mondo della casa” (Contini, 2012; Pati, 2018). Tra le “buone pratiche”
deputate a creare connessioni mesosistemiche (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Arcidiacono,
2013) tra le “piccole culture” della casa e la cultura della scuola
(Holliday, 1999), le più diffuse sono i colloqui genitori-insegnanti e il coinvolgimento
dei genitori durante i compiti a casa. Tuttavia, mentre gli incontri
genitori-insegnanti sono stati ampiamente studiati come attività
interazionale (ad es. Pillet-Shore 2012, 2015; Caronia e Dalledonne Vandini,
2019), le pratiche concrete e interattive del coinvolgimento dei genitori nei compiti a casa sono ancora poco studiate (ma vedi Forsberg, 2007;
Wingard e Forsberg, 2009; Pontecorvo et alii, 2013).
Questo contributo intende colmare questa relativa lacuna: attraverso la
videoanalisi delle interazioni tra genitori e figli durante i compiti a casa, indagheremo
le forme concrete di costruzione dell’“alleanza scuola-famiglia”,
evidenziando al tempo stesso la portata educativa delle pratiche discorsive
in famiglia, con particolare attenzione alle interazioni mediate da artefatti
semiotici
Neuro-Wavelet Characterization of Jominy Profiles of Steels
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When school language and culture enter the home : testing children as a ‘school-aligned’ parental activity
Full text linkSince Bronfenbrenner’s claims on the ecology of human development, an
impressive amount of research has explored the ways in which children’s
primary social worlds (i.e., family and school) connect and potentially create an osmotic ecological milieu. In the building of the so-called ‘familyschool partnership’, homework plays a crucial role. Being a school activity
carried out inside the home, it is a key site for implementing parental involvement and a crucial occasion where cultural models of ‘good parent’ and
‘good pupil’ are instantiated. This video-based, conversation analytic study
shows a specific activity taking place while parents assist their children with
homework: testing. The analysis shows that parents deploy a ‘school-like’
interactive conduct by reproducing the standards, morality, and linguistic
practices of the school. In so doing, they comply with the contemporary
model of ‘good parent as school partner’ and socialize their children into
the culture of the school by turning them into ‘good pupils’.
Keywords: homework; family-school partnership; test; parental involvement; ethnography-informed conversation analysis
The agency in language and the professionals’ intercultural competences: A case study on the educators’“pivot move” in medical visits of unaccompanied minors
No full textThe presence of unaccompanied minors (UAM) in the Italian health care system represents a recent phenomenon, not fully investigated from a pedagogical perspective. The article reports findings from an exploratory study on medical visits involving UAMs with low communicative competence in the language of interaction, and their accompanying educators. Adopting a Conversation Analysis-informed approach to a corpus of video-recorded visits, we analyze the “problem presentation” and “history taking” phases. We singled out two resources (the ‘pivot move’ and the ‘oscillating addressivity’) respectively used by the educator and the physician to 1) pursue the “incompatible goals” of their agendas and 2) manage the UAM’s participation in the interaction by attributing him agency (or not). Focusing on the (inter)professional challenges of this triadic medical encounter, in the conclusion we advance that the awareness of the communicative details through which agency can be allocated or revoked is part of the intercultural competences of professionals working for UAM’s inclusion in the host society
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
Practices of Inclusion in Primary Care Visits of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors : Allocating Agency as an Interprofessionally Distributed Intercultural Competence
Full text linkThe presence of unaccompanied foreign minors (hereafter UFMs) is a challenge for the Italian welfare and foreigner reception systems. The chapter builds on an exploratory study on the ways in which professional educators interact with other professionals to manage UFMs’ access to care. In particular, it investigates triadic medical visits involving a general practitioner, an unaccompanied foreign minor, and his educator whose mandatory presence is aimed to support UFM patients throughout the encounter and make patient-physician communication as smooth as possible. Indeed, these institutional encounters constitute a perspicuous case to study how inclusion is performed (or not) through interprofessional interaction and the communicative resources whereby care professionals manage their often-incompatible goals and mandates. Adopting a Conversation Analysis-informed approach to a corpus of video-recorded visits, we describe the “pivot sequence”, a distributed discursive and multimodal practice whereby the educator(s) and the physician differently, but cooperatively manage the inclusion of the UFM as an active participant and intersubjectively overcome the “gathering information vs. allocating agency” dilemma typical of these institutional encounters. By enlightening the “interactive vigilance” of the educators (i.e., their capability to restore UFM’s agency whenever appropriate), we make a case for interprofessionally managed health care as a means to accomplish inclusion in interaction
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
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