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Perpetually "needs improvement": pre-service teachers' knowledge of social justice and education
Get PDFThe author of this thesis uses grounded theory methodology to illuminate pre-service
teachers’ understandings of social justice concepts, theories, and perspectives at the beginning of
their teacher education programs. Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of inequity, marginalization,
and deep systematic oppression, and how these perceptions are influenced by their positionalities
and inform their views of social justice education, are explored. Such an exploration involves an
analysis of how inequality, power, and privilege are embedded within social structures and
perpetuated through socialization in educational contexts. In analysis of their experiences shared
through online surveys, the author uncovers multiple complexities in pre-service teachers’
understandings of social justice and social justice education. While the majority of participants
felt a moral responsibility to engage in social justice education, their conceptualization of such
concepts was heavily influenced by discourses of tolerance and individualism, both of which
serve to perpetuate social injustices. Recommendations for teacher education programs are
provided in an attempt to increase pre-service teacher understanding of social justice, and their
roles and responsibilities in relation to social justice in their future work as educators
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
Indigenous representations in novels used in the Ontario Secondary English classroom
Get PDFThis study analyzes representations of Indigenous Peoples in novels used in the Ontario
secondary English classroom. This research identifies the impacts that inaccurate or limited
representations of Indigenous Peoples can have when used as curriculum material. Critical
Discourse Analysis was used to analyze the 20 most commonly used novels used in the
secondary English classroom, drawn from the Ontario Book Publisher’s Organization’s (2017)
study. Representations were found in two of the top 20 novels and an analysis was conducted
based on physical representations, social representations, representations of racial inequality,
terminology use, and author background. The two novels included in this analysis are Sherman
Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) and Joseph Boyden’s Three
Day Road (2005). The analysis addresses representations of Indigenous characters, leading to a
deeper analysis of the representations within two novels for the development of
recommendations to increase Indigenous Peoples representations in the secondary English
classroom. Analysis of the two novels indicates a narrow and similar representations of
Indigenous Peoples. The findings support the necessity for increased and diverse representations
of Indigenous Peoples in secondary English curriculum, specifically fiction
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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