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Amplifying voices, redefining roles: exploring the experiences and aspirations of Teaching Assistants in English mainstream schools
No full textTeaching Assistants (TAs) comprise nearly a third of the school workforce in England and play a crucial role in supporting student learning, inclusion, and well-being. Despite their growing responsibilities, TAs often face professional ambiguity, limited recognition, and low pay, with systemic issues that remain largely unaddressed. This thesis seeks to deepen the understanding of the evolving TA role through two qualitative enquiries, each with distinct yet complementary aims. The first study, a systematic literature review, thematically synthesises findings from the past decade to identify persistent challenges and changes in the TA role, particularly during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. By analysing patterns across qualitative studies, the review highlights the need for clearer definitions, stronger support systems, and more inclusive policies for TAs. Building on this, the second study adopts a collaborative and social constructionist approach, working directly with TAs to co-construct knowledge about their experiences, challenges, and hopes for their profession. Through focus groups, TAs identified key priorities for change and assessed the impact that embedding these changes would have on them, teachers, and students. Together, these studies aim to centre TA voices, which are often absent in research and policy, to inform ongoing national dialogue, particularly in light of the recent reinstatement of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB). This thesis aims to provide timely, TA-centred insights for school leaders, external professionals, and policymakers committed to a more equitable and sustainable future for TAs in schools
Desafios na formação de professores : um olhar para a potência na abordagem histórica e epistemológica
No full textO presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar o benefício dos desdobramentos do uso de perspectivas históricas e epistemológicas na formação de professores. Para tanto, iremos discorrer sobre o alinhamento com as noções propostas por Gaston Bachelard de Perfil Epistemológico. Portanto, pontuaremos questões que o autor aborda e as possíveis relações com o Ensino de Química, além de realizar uma breve revisão de trabalhos que utilizam as noções de Perfil Epistemológico e, por fim, uma breve revisão da literatura. Diante das discussões que serão abordadas, podemos considerar que o Ensino de Química pode ser enriquecido ao introduzir a HFEC, pois isso ajuda os estudantes na compreensão de como o conhecimento químico é fundamentado, bem como na identificação da natureza temporária e construída das teorias científicas, promovendo uma compreensão mais significativa e crítica da disciplina.Fil: Dutra Da Silva, Fernanda Karolaine. UFPel.Fil: Schiavon Da Silva, Vitória. UFPel.Fil: Dos Santos Pastoriza, Bruno. UFPel
The implications of bureaucracy in society and its repercussions in the social service
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Previous issue date: 2015This text brings reflections on the issue of bureaucracy in the context of capitalist society and its implications for the development of the work of social worker. Therefore, we use the bibliographic research in order to deepen the theme. Based on the literature review was found that although the bureaucracy is a rationally organized control system, useful for meeting organizational objectives and its satisfactory operation, leaves margins for failures, where problems arise. Bureaucratic rigidity tends to undermine their effectiveness because their heavy structure makes it difficult to cope with unexpected and new situations. In systematic division of labor, the specialized staff becomes a gear together with the rest of the organization. This characteristic of bureaucracy is needed both to maximize productivity while keeping the labor as a prisoner of its functions and hampered the tangle of role, fulfilling determinations pragmatically and mechanically. The work of Social Worker is not exempt of formal bureaucratic apparatus, necessary element according to institutional standards requirements. These context affects the Social Worker intervention deeply, since tends to prioritize institutional requests in detriment to social rights demands of social services users who seeks their social rights access, besides induces to routine and mechanistic professional practices. It is considered that to meet the ethical prerogatives of Social Service, it is essential that the professional appropriates strategies to enhance its interventional field and contribute to reduce bureaucracy to its relationship with users.[Faermann, Lindamar; da Silva, Fernanda Cristina] Univ Catolica Sao Paulo, , Dept Serv Social, Sao Paulo, Brazi
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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