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Emotional education within Service Learning experiences in primary school
No full textThe Service Learning (SL) Program promoted by Verona University (Italy) within the Master’s Degree in Primary School Education is structured as follows: with the support of the academic team, the students (pre-service teachers) develop educational projects in schools to address educational problems identified with the help of in-service teachers. Furthermore, pre-service teachers conduct qualitative research, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the realized educational projects. In line with issues highlighted in international literature, a widespread problem in schools is children’s emotional distress and emotional illiteracy (Goleman, 1995; Mundy et al., 2017). These are phenomena with negative consequences also for the relational climate of the classroom. Encouraging pre-service teachers to ascertain the specific emotional needs within a class population and develop educational research to deal with these, significantly contributes to the development of the fourth Sustainable Goal (Quality Education). The presentation will focus on two projects of emotional education realized within different SL experiences which had the following educational purposes: a) to develop emotional self-understanding in 1st grade primary school children (6-7 y.o), by involving them in writing an emotions journal and then analysing their emotions using a vegetable metaphor (Valbusa & Mortari, 2017); b) to help 5th grade primary school children (10-11 y.o.) to learn how to manage emotions, by understanding and transforming beliefs underpinning them, on the basis of the educational interpretation of Ellis’ ABC model (Ellis, 1993; Di Pietro, 2014). Findings emerging from the qualitative research carried out by the pre-service teachers on these projects will be presented, as well as the students’ reflections on their SL experience and on the importance of emotional education to enhance education practices and contexts
Il Metodo Fenomenologico Empirico (MFE) e la sua applicazione in una ricerca educativa
No full textL’articolo presenta un metodo di ricerca innovativo e rigorosamente fondato che si presta particolarmente agli studi empirici in ambito educativo: il Metodo Fenomenologico Empirico (MFE). Dopo aver descritto le basi teoriche e le azioni euristiche del metodo, ne viene mostrata l’applicazione nell’ambito di una ricerca educativa finalizzata a promuovere l’etica per la cittadinanza presso una scuola primaria. L’attenzione è concentrata all’impiego del MFE per l’analisi dei dati relativi a un’attività di conversazione socratica, e ne viene argomentata l’efficacia nel valutare gli esiti dell’attività implementata. L’articolo mira quindi ad offrire un contributo utile a rispondere al bisogno sempre più rilevante di identificare metodi opportuni per verificare la qualità degli interventi attuati nelle scuole, individuandone punti di forza e criticità. Vengono discusse le potenzialità del MFE sia in riferimento al miglioramento delle pratiche educative e didattiche sia nella formazione e valorizzazione della professionalità docente
The Empirical Phenomenological Method: Theoretical Foundation and Research Applications
No full textPhenomenological philosophy was developed by Husserl for the eidetic sciences, which are interested in the general essences or persistent characteristics of things. By contrast, the empirical sciences are sciences of facts, interested in the concrete, singular, contextual and accidental qualities of phenomena. We do not encounter general, pure essences in concrete reality; instead, we meet phenomena, which present themselves as the particular actualisations of the essences. For this reason, it is legitimate to distinguish between the eidetic essence, which is constituted by a set of essential predicates that necessarily belong to the thing, and the essence of the concrete, which is constituted by a set of predicates that characterises that unique and singular thing in the space and time in which it manifests itself. Starting from these considerations, this article presents an original interpretation of Husserl’s phenomenological method to develop an empirical phenomenological theory. The
‘empirical phenomenological method’ (EPM) grounded in this theory will first be described, and two examples of its application, in healthcare and educational research, will then be presented
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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