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Hegemony through Education and Governance: Re-thinking gender education research and scholarship
No full textIn the increasingly global educational enterprise and all that it entails,a number of substantial changes can be traced in what is commonly viewed as education, its goals, its uses and usefulness. Over and above the broardly defined phenomenon of globalisation, the influence of suprantional regimes can be discerned. Supranational regimes have increasingly grown in power and importance, not least as regards their influence on education. Included in this term are such organizations as Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the European Union (EU) and the European Commission and its many directories.In other contexts two projects, lifelong learning and the Bologna process, have been discussed as regards their influence on education[1]. In this paper a closer look will be taken at the underlying hegemonic gender theory that is apparent in such initiatives as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA), as they function to re-produce what Fennell & Arnot (2008) term metropolitan gender theory."The concept of Education for All (EFA) with its implications for national growth is in effect an incentive to export current hegemonic gender theorising in education globally, encouraging other regions of the world to focus their attention on formal mass school (rather than informal education), open up individual ´choice biogaphies´and cultivate policies that release girls from the traditional cultures. In this context, the lack of critical engagement with and validation of ´Southern´ gender theory arguably disadvantages precisely those countries which are the target of the MGCs" (p. 526). The aim of this paper is to problematise hegemonic gender theory, to discuss the new feminist research agenda advanced by Fennel & Arnot and to contribute to a "more globally informed field of gender education research". [1] The importance of globalisation is acknowledged. However, the scope of this paper does not allow for the inclusion of this discussion here. [i] O’Dowd, M (2009) “ The God that Failed. Lifelong learning: From Utopianism to Instrumentalism”. The Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, Conference proceedings, Vol. 7, 2009. (eds) James Ogunleye, Bruno Leutwyler, Charl Wolhuter and Marinela Mihova and O’Dowd, M. (2010) “The Bologna Process and The Re-structuring of Higher Education: Who will bear the brunt of “unexpected outcomes”? In Vandra Masemann (ed.) Papers in Memory of David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Policies of Minority Quotas and Discrimination in Higher Education: A case from Sweden
No full textLennart Wikander looks at the Swedish example of increasing the proportion of immigrants in Higher Education to illustrate the conflicts between policies in different areas when transformed into action plans. The increasingly multicultural Europe also has to develop a multicultural labour market with representation from different groups in all areas and at all levels. In this chapter the author highlights the conflicts between Minority Quotas and discrimination.</p
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
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No full textQuota regulation or Discrimination?- a case of increasing the proportion of immigrants in Higher Education
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Globalizatio and the New Education Policies : New Challenges for Higher Education in Europe
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