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Unshackling Bule Dependence
No full textThe importance of building local talent within the VET sector of a developing nation should not be underestimated, particularly when carried out in the environment of a mixture of cultures. Often, even with the best of intentions, vocational interventions by external organisations have, in the past, lacked appropriate consideration for ensuring the ongoing sustainability of Indonesian specialist human capability. While foreign skills and talent can unquestionably play a pivotal role in developing local human capability, it also must be recognised that these interventions must imbued with culturally appropriate considerations, allowing them to look forward to the creation and building of the ability of indigenous human resources. In this Chapter, thought is given to how future interventions can be framed and carried out to give local perspectives and knowledge equal standing with wider notions of human capabilit
Building human capability to ensure halal supply chain compliance
Full text linkHalal supply chain compliance is fundamentally built on trust. A trust that all supply chain actors will ensure the hygiene, cleanliness, safety and wholesomeness of the product and the services they provide from origin to consumption. Halal supply chain compliance is not just the responsibility of regulators, certifiers and other quality assurance stakeholders. It involves a fundamental commitment to managing the product, communication and financial practices within the supply chain so that they comply with Shariah Law. With the making of this commitment come unique Human Resource Development (HRD) challenges and opportunities to ensure all supply chain actors have the skills, knowledge and attitudes to ensure that trust and respect are maintained. This paper focuses on the human capability development interventions needed to ensure Halal supply chain compliance and to assure brand claims remain consistent with the expectations of Muslim and non-Muslim consumers. The growing complexity of global supply chains, along with the interdependency of the actors involved at each stage, means that considerable effort and investment should be made on better understanding the management human actors within this process. The people component is a fundamental piece of the compliance puzzle, in not only meeting the regulatory and certification requirements of Halal but also establishing the respectful practice of all stakeholders needed to maintain trust within the system
Vocational Imperialism
Full text linkAn important message in the various Chapters of this book was that the discipline of Applied Learning involves engaging in meaningful and authentic learning experiences, where learning activities are structured to encourage and support learners to think, collaborate, communicate and engage positively with the world around them. Applied Learning activities involve creative student-focused learning projects, independent and directed research, or simulated real-world situations, and should be directly informed by a real world context through the strategic application of skills, theories and models. Pivotal to the successful application of the Applied Learning process, is for the learners to immerse themselves in critical reflection so as to (i) cement learning, (ii) enhance application, (iii) transfer retention and (iv) sharpen powers of recall (Stanchfield 2013). Authors in this Book have applied this critical reflection to the subject of their individual chapters
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
Cultural Challenges-Building culturally respectful relations
No full textRecalling that Chapter Two has outlined the need to address international engagement and to challenge the role played by foreigners in developing Vocational Education and Training, this chapter has been constructed to investigate possible details of this path. With the increasing demands for the Indonesian education sector to respond to the needs of Industry and international global markets, it has been noted (Leggett 2005) that the manner and conduct of foreign models of engagement impact on the outcomes in nuanced and culturally sensitive ways. Whilst aspects of such foreign models may be still applicable in an Indonesian context, it is becoming increasingly important to clearly appreciate to what extent these models are culturally applicable in an Indonesian milieu (Phillips and Ochs 2003). This Chapter aims to examine the approach used by Australian facilitators in developing the Malang Declaration, which was an attempt to embrace a shared model of program outcomes which we believe is critical for establishing a meaningful practice intervention model (Fairman 2018) within an Indonesian training context
Vocational Imperialism
No full textAn important message in the various Chapters of this book was that the discipline of Applied Learning involves engaging in meaningful and authentic learning experiences, where learning activities are structured to encourage and support learners to think, collaborate, communicate and engage positively with the world around them. Applied Learning activities involve creative student-focused learning projects, independent and directed research, or simulated real-world situations, and should be directly informed by a real world context through the strategic application of skills, theories and models. Pivotal to the successful application of the Applied Learning process, is for the learners to immerse themselves in critical reflection so as to (i) cement learning, (ii) enhance application, (iii) transfer retention and (iv) sharpen powers of recall (Stanchfield 2013). Authors in this Book have applied this critical reflection to the subject of their individual chapters
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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