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102. Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson
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Smith, Kurt
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Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson (Book) -- Lennon, Thomas M. ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Literature/writing - Abstract
Thomas M. Lennon, ed. Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 116. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xii + 240 pp. index. [...]
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- 2004
103. Making the Implicit Explicit: The Grammar of Inferential Reasoning in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Luckett, Kathy
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This is a theoretical paper that addresses the challenge of educational access to the Humanities and Social Sciences. It plots a theoretical quest to develop an explicit pedagogy to give "disadvantaged" students in the Humanities ways of working successfully with texts. In doing so it draws on Bernstein, Moore and Maton's work to theorize the nature of knowledge in the Humanities, and also on Brandom's analysis of inferential reasoning. It uses elements of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to analyse student texts. The empirical work reported on here is work-in-progress and represents no more than an indication of the approach advocated. The approach is illustrated by examples from comprehension exercises designed to promote students' inferential reasoning. Selected findings are presented to illustrate the extent of the challenge entailed in facilitating access to Humanities texts. The paper concludes by suggesting that mastery of ways of working with texts in the Humanities entails attending to the acquisition of both recognition and realization rules for reading and writing.
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- 2016
104. Reflection in Medical Education
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Hargreaves, Ken
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This paper offers a medical-education perspective that I will hope complement other disciplinary perspectives in examining the value of reflection for learning in tertiary education. The paper outlines some of the theoretical strands of reflective practice facilitated in a unique course subject for professionalism and patient safety, within the new spiral curriculum at Leeds University School of Medicine. The material presented in this paper outlines some of what is delivered during the medical students' interactive sessions; this material is continually modified based on feedback from both students and learning facilitators. The paper discusses why both students and clinicians need to reflect, some of the theoretical dimensions and models and examples from the Leeds context of how reflective competence can be progressively developed over the course of an undergraduate program. The focus of the final section suggests directions for reflective practice in the future, where reflexivity takes the form of more collective endeavours requiring some change in culture and perceptions of professional identity. The paper concludes with the proposition that collaborative forms of reflection need to include more involvement of patients, interprofessional communities of practice and the use of learning from other disciplines; all of these require different levels of thinking and different ways of working.
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- 2016
105. Xenophon and his World: Papers from a Conference Held in Liverpool in July 1999
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Gera, Deborah Levine
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Xenophon and His World: Papers from a Conference Held in Liverpool in July 1999 (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Published
- 2006
106. Human Rights Education and Language Learning in Pakistan: An EFL Perspective
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Tehseem, Tazanfal, Bokhari, Zahra, and Zulfiqar, Saba
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This paper explores the dissemination of human rights through English language learning in Pakistan and builds on the knowledge that contributes to the development of democratic educational outcomes. Textbook discourses have long been the domain of critical linguistics; critical linguists understand textbook discourse primarily as a language in the context of schooling while the discourse analysts understand such discourses as systems of knowledge and ideology. The question of how the learners are expected to engage with the subject knowledge is explored from two theoretical perspectives: linguistic analyses are executed using tools such as choice of pronouns, mood, and modality from Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday et al., 2014), a social semiotic theory of language as a meaning potential, and reinterpreted according to the intercultural paradigm (Piller, 2010) to familiarize the ways interactants choose to build relations in the textbook narratives because in exploring interpersonal meanings it is very easy to focus on what is said and why. Additionally, the image analysis is done by representational analysis that of how images reflect ideologies (Kress & Van Leeuwen., 2006). The contributions of this study are of particular importance to make visible elements of interpersonal meaning-making which were explored in the context of cumulative knowledge building in humanities.
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- 2020
107. False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust. (Book Reviews)
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Haas, Peter J.
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False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (Book) ,Books -- Book reviews ,Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies ,Humanities ,Philosophy and religion - Abstract
False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust, by Robert Melson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 199 pp. $26.95. There is certainly no shortage of Holocaust survival accounts. We [...]
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- 2002
108. HOPOS 2000. Call for Papers. THIRD INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE
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Science -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes ,Science -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Humanities - Abstract
Article History: Registration Date: 05/10/2004
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- 2000
109. The Elusive Siloed Subjects: Sacrificing Humanities to Techno-Tehan
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Daly, Jim
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This article questions the use of the term 'siloed' to describe certain degrees or subjects in the Australian university curriculum. Education Minister Dan Tehan used the term as part of a justification of a re-set of funding priorities for university education from 2021 which he announced in June 2020. The Minister partly turned his argument on the floating of an impression that humanities degrees are 'siloed'. They or, more specifically, units within them, would become more expensive for students since 'job readiness' needs to be prioritised. The author analyses the term, its uses and applications to fields of knowledge, and concludes that such a term is neither accurate nor useful. He suggests that focusing on needs arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic might provide a less conflicted and future-oriented way of thinking about the problem rather than making superficial judgments of the merits of particular undergraduate degrees as a foundation for dictating education and education funding policy.
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- 2020
110. Student Response Systems: A Multidisciplinary Analysis Using Visual Analytics
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Herrada, Rosario I., Baños, Raúl, and Alcayde, Alfredo
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In recent years, several innovations have emerged in the field of education, including Blended-Learning, Massive Open Online Courses, Flipped Classroom and Gamification. In particular, several investigations have highlighted the effectiveness of student response systems, or clickers, in different subjects and disciplines. Although some literature reviews have been published on this subject, none of them offer a review of a large volume of publications from a multidisciplinary approach. Similarly, in the literature there are no studies that have analyzed scientific collaborations on this subject. To respond to these concerns, we proposed the use of a bot to retrieve information from a large number of papers (1696 documents co-authored by a total of 4091 researchers) included in the Scopus database. The disciplines covered include natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agricultural and veterinary sciences, social sciences and humanities, and the arts. The review of the literature reveals that student response systems are generally well-perceived by teachers and students in all the disciplines. Another interesting result achieved from visual data obtained using network visualization software and word clouds is that student response systems are mainly used in some disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, medicine, and nursing. It is clearly observed that the relationship between researchers from the same country is stronger than between researchers from different countries. Finally, some reflections are included on the role of student response systems in online teaching, especially regarding the changes experienced after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 2020
111. Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns.
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Haustein, Stefanie, Costas, Rodrigo, and Larivière, Vincent
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SOCIAL media , *CITATION analysis , *SOCIAL sciences , *HUMANITIES - Abstract
A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research impact. Despite their current popularity, there is a lack of information regarding the determinants of these metrics. Using publication and citation data from 1.3 million papers published in 2012 and covered in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science as well as social media counts from Altmetric.com, this paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations. Results show that the presence of papers on social media is low, with 21.5% of papers receiving at least one tweet, 4.7% being shared on Facebook, 1.9% mentioned on blogs, 0.8% found on Google+ and 0.7% discussed in mainstream media. By contrast, 66.8% of papers have received at least one citation. Our findings show that both citations and social media metrics increase with the extent of collaboration and the length of the references list. On the other hand, while editorials and news items are seldom cited, it is these types of document that are the most popular on Twitter. Similarly, while longer papers typically attract more citations, an opposite trend is seen on social media platforms. Finally, contrary to what is observed for citations, it is papers in the Social Sciences and humanities that are the most often found on social media platforms. On the whole, these findings suggest that factors driving social media and citations are different. Therefore, social media metrics cannot actually be seen as alternatives to citations; at most, they may function as complements to other type of indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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112. The Decline of Literature: A Public Perspective
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Albalawi, Mohamm
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After centuries of dominance, literature has not been in a robust health for the last few decades. Several scholars have addressed the decline of literature in a number of books and articles attributing it to institutional and economic reasons. However, a major factor has not been taken into account. It is the larger audience who receives and absorbs literature. In this paper, I argue that the decline of literature emanates from the lack of appreciation of literature among the public who have deserted this field of humanity in the present days. I will investigate the causes of this desertion and explore its consequences in the field of literature. Through using a questionnaire, this paper looks and evaluates the experiences and perspectives of public. It is expected that the findings will contribute to literature to better understanding the decline.
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- 2015
113. Deconstructive Misalignment: Archives, Events, and Humanities Approaches in Academic Development
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Holmes, Trevor M. and Sutherland, Kathryn A.
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Using poetry, role play, readers' theatre, and creative manipulations of space through yarn and paper weaving, a workshop in 2008 challenged one of educational development's more pervasive and least questioned notions ("constructive alignment" associated most often with the work of John Biggs). This paper describes the reasoning behind using humanities approaches specifically in this case and more generally in the Challenging Academic Development Collective's work, as well as problematising the notions of "experiment" and "results" by unarchiving and re-archiving such a nonce-event. The critical stakes in using an anti-empirical method are broached, and readers are encouraged to experience their own version of the emergent truths of such approaches by drawing their own conclusions.
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- 2015
114. New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985-1991
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Mitchell, Elizabeth
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New Ways of Looking at Old Texts (Book) ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Literature/writing - Abstract
Since W.W. Greg first articulated the theory of copy-text in 1949 for a generation of scholars editing Renaissance texts, the copy-text edition, predicated on a bibliographic analysis to determine which [...]
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- 1996
115. چالهها و چالشهای پژوهش در علوم انسانی در ا...
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بهروز رسولی and پرویز شهریاری
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CONFERENCE papers ,PERIODICAL articles ,ORGANIZATION management ,SOCIAL context ,EXPERIMENTAL design - Abstract
Copyright of Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management is the property of Iranian Information & Documentation Center (IRANDOC) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
116. Writing aids for term papers: Notebook II Plus; Notebook II, bibliography, and citation
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Irizzary, Estelle
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Database management systems -- Evaluation ,Computers ,Humanities ,Notebook II (Text processing software) - Published
- 1992
117. The Necessity of Narrative: Linking Literature and Health Care in Higher Education Curricula
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Essary, Alison C. and Lussier, Mark
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As programs in medical humanities continue to emerge in the curricula of institutions of higher education, the most prominent thread connecting medical and humanities disciplines has been "narrative medicine," which is a prominent presence in numerous previously established programs across the United States, including Columbia, NYU, Oregon State, Baylor and Stanford Universities (to identify some of the most prominent programs in this rapidly expanding field). One consensus view emerges in unambiguous fashion from such a survey of programs and courses: the necessity of narrative to any program or course of study. Our paper will initially trace the rise of narrative as the sought skillset in such collaborative and trans-disciplinary programs, contextualizing our thoughts in innovative activities currently at work within and without the university. The subsequent sections of our paper establish the evolving nature of narrative as the spinal structure for medical humanities programs, identify potential weaknesses in current approaches, and explore a somewhat hidden dimension of narrative research emerging from neurological studies. The paper will close with collaborations and innovations designed to connect both internal programs to external entities, although the largest goal of our presentation is to stimulate response and subsequent discussion. As Arizona State University intensifies its relationship with the Mayo Clinic (Scottsdale), the trans-disciplinary element of narrative in all its dimensions has assumed the preliminary core for this collaboration and the projected collaboration of the College of Nursing & Health Innovation, the College of Health Solutions, and the Department of English.
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- 2014
118. The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow
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Hahn, Jeffrey W.
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The Glasnost Papers (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Published
- 1992
119. Papers in Boiotian Topography and History
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Snodgrass, A.M.
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Papers in Boiotian Topography and History (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Published
- 1992
120. Collected Papers on Greek Tragedy
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Comber, Michael
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Collected Papers on Greek Tragedy (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Published
- 1992
121. Geography and STEM
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Caldis, Susan and Kleeman, Grant
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One of the questions being asked in schools is the extent to which Geography can be considered a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subject. While such a question might be driven by those strategic opportunists seeking to elevate the status of the subject within the school's curriculum, or as a means of leveraging an increase in funding, it is a question worth serious attention. This paper argues that Geography has the potential to play an important role in advancing the objectives of STEM in the Australian educational context. In doing so, Geography's place within the humanities is in no way diminished. The humanities remain central to our understanding of the social world in which we live. It also provides important insights into the context within which science gains its significance and from which it draws its authority. Geography, given that it straddles both the physical and human sciences, can advance both the humanities and STEM.
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- 2019
122. Individual Networks of Practice for PhD Research Socialisation
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Todd, Richard Watson and Louw, Stephen
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A PhD combines experiential learning of the research process with socialisation into the research community. Studying a PhD is a highly individual experience with each student seeking and receiving different types of support from different agents. In this paper we investigate the experiences of four PhD students at a Humanities faculty at a Thai university through a series of interviews. To account for the unique nature of each student's experience, we use Individual Networks of Practice (INoPs) as the main method of analysis. The interviews were first analysed by adapting Sala-Bubaré and Castelló's (2016) model of socialisation, identifying the social agents and the content of the experience shared with each agent, and then constructing an INoP (Zappa-Hollman and Duff 2015) map to visually represent each student's social network. These INoPs served to guide a qualitative analysis of the salient issues in the interviews. The INoPs highlight the unique nature of each student's set of agents and experiences, but there are also commonalities across students showing that peers and faculty staff serve as key social agents.
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- 2019
123. Papers for the Millions: the New Journalism in Britain, 1850's to 1914
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Berridge, Virginia
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Papers for the Millions (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Social sciences - Published
- 1990
124. Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines/Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen: Papers in Honor of Peter Schafer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines/Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen: Papers in Honor of Peter Schafer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Book) -- Herrmann, Klaus -- Schluter, Margarete -- Veltri, Giuseppe ,Books -- Book reviews ,Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies ,Humanities ,Philosophy and religion - Abstract
Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines/Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen: Papers in Honor of Peter Schafer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, edited by Klaus Herrmann, Margarete Schluter, and Giuseppe Veltri. [...]
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- 2004
125. Who Hung the Humanities?
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Lambert, David
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This paper is partly based on a lecture given at the AGTA conference in Perth in January 2013. It argues for a progressive subject based curriculum in which geography plays an essential part. This is based on an analysis of why and how subjects like geography, as part of the humanities, have been undermined and diminished in recent times. In a way the paper offers a challenge: are we ready the grasp the opportunities that a subject based curriculum provides?
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- 2013
126. Building Bridges: Constructing Social Enterprise Curriculum in the Humanities
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Chamberlain, Susanna
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Creating an innovative suite of courses within the Bachelor of Arts has required the development of a complex pedagogy, particularly when the needs of the context require an interdisciplinary approach. This paper, which utilises reflection on practice as its methodology, explores the Social Enterprise core stream which has been a significant element of study since 2008. While the paper deals with some of the particular circumstances of introducing practice learning to traditional theoretical disciplines, it is most concerned with the pedagogical strength of combining inquiry based learning with problem based learning, to lead to work integrated learning, and developing reflective practice to integrate all.
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- 2013
127. Internet Research, Theory, and Practice: Perspectives from Ireland
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Research-publishing.net (France), Fowley, Cathy, English, Claire, Thouësny, Sylvie, Fowley, Cathy, English, Claire, Thouësny, Sylvie, and Research-publishing.net (France)
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From 2000 to 2012 the number of Internet users rose from less than 0.4 billion to 2.4 billion. Scholarly, evidence-based Internet research is of critical importance. The field of Internet research explores the Internet as a social, political and educational phenomenon, providing theoretical and practical contributions to understanding, and informing practice, policy and further research. This new collection is a unique and welcome work. The editors have compiled a diverse range of new scholarly, peer-reviewed research, spanning the fields of education, arts, the social sciences and technology. The authors provide academic perspectives, both theoretical and practical, on the Internet and citizenship, education, employment, gender, identity, friendship, language, poetry, literature and more. The collection comprises a rich resource for researchers and practitioners alike. Following Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, a Foreword, and "Introduction on Internet Research, Theory, and Practice: Perspectives from Ireland" (Cathy Fowley, Claire English, and Sylvie Thouësny), the following sections and papers are included: Section 1: Research and Reflections on Ethics and Digital Culture: (1) "Ethical Issues in Internet Research: International Good Practice and Irish Research Ethics Documents" (Heike Felzmann); (2) "Studying Young "People's Blogs: Ethical Implications" (Cathy Fowley); (3) "Poetic Machines: From Paper to Pixel" (Jeneen Naji); (4) "A Second Level Pictorial Turn? The Emergence of Digital Ekphrasis from the Visuality of New Media" (Nina Shiel); and (5) "Digital Reading: A Question of Prelectio?" (Noel Fitzpatrick). Section 2: Research and Reflections on Societal Practices; (6) "Constructions of Violence and Masculinity in the Digital Age" (Jennifer Patterson); (7) "The Public Sphere and Online Social Media: Exploring the Use of Online Social Media as Discursive Spaces in an Irish Context" (Claire English); (8) "Not Quite Kicking Off Everywhere: Feminist Notes on Digital Liberation" (Angela Nagle); (9) "We are All Friends Nowadays: But What is the Outcome of Online Friendship for Young People in Terms of Individual Social Capital?" (Anne Rice); (10) "Romanian Diaspora in the Making? An Online Ethnography of Romaniancommunity.net" (Gloria Macri); (11) "What's 'Smart' About Working from Home: Telework and the Sustainable Consumption of Distance in Ireland?" (Michael Hynes); and (12) "Surveillance Privacy and Technology: Contemporary Irish Perspectives" (Kenny Doyle). Section 3: Research and Reflections on Educational Practices: (13) Digital Divide in Post-Primary Schools (Ann Marcus-Quinn and Oliver McGarr); (14) "The Use of a Task-Based Online Forum in Language Teaching: Learning Practices and Outcomes (Marie-Thérèse Batardière); (15) "Using Facebook in an Irish Third-Level Education Context: A Case-Study" (Catherine Jeanneau); (16) "Internet-Based Textual Interventions and Interactions: How Language Learners Engage Online in a Written Task" (Sylvie Thouësny); and (17) "Information and Communication Technology in Foreign Language Teaching: Leveraging the Internet to Make Language Learning Real" (Etáin Watson). Section 4: Research and Reflections on Irish Resources: (18) "The Born Digital Graduate: Multiple Representations of and Within Digital Humanities PhD Theses" (Sharon Webb, Aja Teehan, and John Keating); (19) DHO: Discovery--Stargazing from the Ground Up" (Niall O'Leary); (20) "Database in Theory and Practice: The Bibliography of Irish Literary Criticism" (Sonia Howell); (21) "Digital Humanities and Political Innovation: The SOWIT Model" (Vanessa Liston, Clodagh Harris, Mark O'Toole, and Margaret Liston). A Name Index is included.
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- 2013
128. European empires in the east during the early modern period seminar papers
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Ramada Curto, Diogo
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Missionaries -- Services ,Imperialism -- History ,Humanities ,Literature/writing - Abstract
Introduction DIOGO RAMADA CURTO Studies of European Expansion in the East during the Early Modern Period can no longer accommodate the outdated Eurocentric agenda for explaining the rise of the [...]
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- 2000
129. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in U.S. Catholic High Schools: An Answer to the Church's Call to Global Solidarity
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White, John
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The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme provides an academically challenging curriculum that when combined with moral and religious formation prepares graduates of Catholic secondary schools to succeed in college and to live as Christian citizens in an interconnected global society. Although the financial cost of the program is high, this paper will argue that the adoption of the International Baccalaureate Diploma increases academic rigor at the high school level and serves as an effective marketing tool to attract students to Catholic schools. Using examples from several Catholic high schools, this paper will also examine how the International Baccalaureate can help schools deepen the realization of Catholic identity and provide educators with an ordered, humanities-based curriculum that although secular in origin draws on Catholic intellectual tradition.
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- 2012
130. Cabot and his world symposium June 1997: papers and presentations
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Canada -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Humanities ,Science and technology ,Social sciences - Published
- 1999
131. Learners' Needs Analysis for English for Academic Purposes in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Wachemo University Freshman Students
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Chemir, Sileshi and Kitila, Tamene
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This paper discovers the role of learner's needs analysis in English for academic purposes courses in higher education before designing any language curriculum. The research is essential as it can be used to support students to be aware of their motivation to learn and a basis for teachers in helping students improve their learning motivation. Students have either instrumental or integrative or both motivational orientations while studying EAP courses (locally called communicative English skills) for their present and target situation needs. Therefore, 308 first-year students (using systematic sampling) and 41 instructors (using census technique) from the Social Sciences and Humanities College in Wachemo University, Ethiopia, participated in the study. A mixed-methods research design was used to collect the data. Survey questionnaire and interview instruments were employed for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. The findings revealed that the students have instrumental and integrative orientations for learning English. However, instrumental motivation surpassed integrative motivation because most of the study participants thought that the students predominantly need English for practical reasons in the context of the present study than integrative orientations to pursue their academic courses at the university level. When the participants were asked about the students' reasons for learning English, they indicated many aspects related to instrumental and integrative motivation. For reasons related to instrumental motivation, students learn English because it is helpful in getting a good job in the future, studying or working abroad, and passing a test (an exam), while the students who are integratively motivated learn English because they like the language and the culture. Consequently, through thorough needs analysis, course designers and practitioners should identify learners' reasons for learning the EAP course before implementing the material in the EFL classroom.
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- 2022
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132. Moving Ideas and Mobile Researchers: Australia in the Global Context
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Fahey, Johannah and Kenway, Jane
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This paper draws from the ARC Discovery project called "Moving Ideas: Mobile Policies, Researchers and Connections in the Social Sciences and Humanities--Australia in the Global Context" (2006-2009). This project explored the ways that ideas travel and how knowledge transforms through travel. One aspect of the study was the critical examination of various research policies around the world that are associated with moving ideas and moving researchers. These are often coupled with notions of "brain drain-gain/mobility" and diaspora. A second focus was on the mobility biographies of globally mobile intellectuals with various links to Australia and on the implications of their mobility for their ideas, politics and national and trans-national identifications. It is our view that the actual experiences and insights of such people have the potential to enhance researcher (academic) mobility policies. A third concern has been to address the question of what it means to globalise the research imagination. In addressing this question we have drawn on leading researchers from around the globe who undertake research on globalisation itself. The paper to follow draws from selected publications associated with this project. The book from the project, to be completed in 2010, is titled "Moving Ideas and Mobile Intellectuals". It should be noted at the outset that our focus in the project and in this discussion paper is on researchers in the social sciences and humanities including but not exclusively educational researchers. We begin by asking what it means to globalise research and how is this related to the nation-state? (Contains 4 endnotes.)
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- 2010
133. Integrating a Social Justice Perspective in Economics Education: Creating a Distinctly Catholic Education
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Carrithers, David F. and Peterson, Dean
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This paper suggests a way of creating a distinctly Catholic economics education by integrating a social justice perspective into the curriculum through writings from Catholic Social Thought (CST). In so doing, we argue that students of economics will gain a more thorough understanding of the economics discipline. Moreover, a grounding in CST will help business and economics students better negotiate the conflicting view of markets they encounter in the "disconnect" between business courses and humanities/social science core courses. The thesis of the paper is that CST can be a useful mechanism by which to instill a social justice perspective in economics education and to motivate educators to be clear and complete in discussing assumptions that underlie economic theory. We explore reasons economics educators have been reluctant to use tools such as CST to inform their discussion of economic theory. We use the subdiscipline of welfare theory and in particular assumptions regarding the common good, preference satisfaction, and individual and social utility to distinguish between perspectives from CST and what is taught as modern economic theory. Finally we offer some simple curricular changes that can be accomplished with little cost, which can lead to three bold accomplishments: creating a distinctly Catholic economics education, improving students' understanding of their discipline, and diminishing the frustration and confusion students feel when they encounter disconnected messages about the effects of markets and the promotion of social justice. (Contains 5 footnotes.)
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- 2010
134. The Symbiotic Relationship between Liberal Studies and Science
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Unah, Jim I.
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The Artistic and Humanistic studies (liberal studies) and the science and technology disciplines (science) constitute the two dominant cultures in a modern university. Subsumed in these cultures are the professional disciplines of law, architecture, engineering, medicine, accounting, administration and a few others. Essentially, the university idea emerged from the desire to integrate all academic cultures. However, an emerging trend of erecting a dichotomy between these cultures, is beginning to spin controversy, brew academic suspicion and slice off the integrative intentions of the university idea. The responsibility of liberal studies is to develop the academic disposition, to awaken human curiosity, inquisitiveness and creativity, by promoting human values and expressing the spirit of man. Science and technology culture is to leverage on the artistic and humanistic orientation to elevate our standard of practice, our ways of doing, to higher pedestals. This paper argues that neither the liberal orientation alone nor the scientific technological culture exclusively could guarantee the well being of humankind. While it is the responsibility of the humanities to elevate the individual to freedom, it is the obligation of science and technology education to catapult humanity to its proper comfort and happiness. While artistic-humanistic productions should more radically envision a world of mutual interdependence, of shared values, of reciprocal solidarity and a commitment to the aspirations of a common humanity, scientific-technological studies and proposals should demonstrate how outputs-outcomes are adverted to the promotion of human values and virtues, and how they assure the survival of the human race. This paper likens the emerging dichotomy between the two cultures to the dichotomy between mind and body, a dichotomy that developments in cybernetics and parapsychology appear to be grappling with. The two cultures have the obligation to develop the two parts of human nature. To develop one part to the detriment of the other is to demonstrate prejudice in examining the mind-body relationship and, by extension, to seek to abolish a vital part of our humanity.
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- 2008
135. The Evolution of Identity Research in CALL: From Scripted Chatrooms to Engaged Construction of the Digital Self
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Klimnova, Liudmila
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Drawing on past and current scholarship on digitally mediated communication in language learning, this review article examines the evolution of identity research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) from the 1990s to the present day. The article offers an in-depth overview of critical issues and topics associated with language learner identification in educational digital settings and non-institutionally situated online cultures. A chronological approach is followed, addressing three main historical periods broadly related to the major conceptual shifts in applied linguistics: early developments and the communicative turn (1995-2000), the social and intercultural turns (2000-2010), and the critical and multilingual turns (2010-2020). Thus, this paper seeks to link the research on digital identity in CALL to second language acquisition (SLA) theories and highlight key studies and their importance for the field and the shifting paradigm. The article concludes with a summary of newly emerging themes in digital identity studies and outlines new directions for research on language learner identity in digital spaces. Singling out identity research within the discipline of CALL as a historically evolving topic that reflects the ever-changing realms of the digital world contributes to strengthening interdisciplinary ties between broadly conceptualized digital humanities, digital humanistic pedagogies, and computer-assisted language learning sciences.
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- 2021
136. The fate of epidemiologic manuscripts: a study of papers submitted to epidemiology
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Susan A. Hall and Allen J. Wilcox
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Gerontology ,Publishing ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Epidemiology ,Public health ,education ,Alternative medicine ,MEDLINE ,Retrospective cohort study ,Bibliometrics ,humanities ,Cohort Studies ,Cohort ,medicine ,Periodicals as Topic ,business ,Editorial Policies ,Cohort study ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
Little is known about the success rate of epidemiologic manuscripts, or the number of rejections they may go through before being published.In late 2004 we conducted a retrospective follow-up study of the cohort of manuscripts submitted to Epidemiology in 2002. Using an e-mailed invitation, we conducted an online survey of authors identified from journal records. Authors were asked about submission attempts before and after their submission to Epidemiology.Epidemiology received 371 original articles in 2002, of which it published 101 (27%). Survey response rates were 68% among the authors of accepted manuscripts, and 58% among authors of manuscripts rejected by Epidemiology. These responses provided a total sample of 223 manuscripts for analysis. Of the cohort, 83% (n = 184) were eventually accepted for publication (by Epidemiology or others). The acceptance rate by Epidemiology was the same whether or not the manuscripts had been previously rejected by another journal. Of the 155 manuscripts rejected by Epidemiology, 116 (75%) were eventually published or accepted for publication, 11 (7%) were being prepared for resubmission at the time of follow-up (19-34 months after rejection), 5 (3%) were under review by a journal, and 23 (15%) were inactive. Among the papers we could follow from first submission, 62% of those eventually published had been rejected at least once. In general, papers rejected by one journal were subsequently sent to a journal with lower impact factor.These data suggest most epidemiology manuscripts are eventually published, although some persistence on the part of the authors may be necessary.
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- 2007
137. Augmenting the Simple View of Reading for Struggling Adult Readers: A Unique Role for Background Knowledge
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Talwar, Amani, Tighe, Elizabeth L., and Greenberg, Daphne
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This study explored the background knowledge (BK) and reading comprehension (RC) relationship for struggling adult readers. Using confirmatory factor analyses, a single-factor BK model exhibited better fit than a two-factor model separating academic knowledge and general information, which indicates that BK represents a unidimensional construct for this population. Additionally, one measure of oral vocabulary loaded with a latent factor of BK, which was separable from a latent factor of two additional oral vocabulary subtests. Using structural equation modeling, we found that BK exhibited a direct effect on RC after controlling for participants' grade level, decoding, listening comprehension, and oral vocabulary. [This paper was published in "Scientific Studies of Reading."]
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- 2018
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138. The Transformative Power of Digital Humanities in Teaching Family History Online
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Harman, Kristyn E.
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This paper explores the transformative power of digital humanities in teaching family history online to large cohorts of Australian domestic students. It takes as a case study a unit developed specifically for students to learn about how to research their convict ancestors' lives and how to situate their ancestors' lived experiences within relevant wider contexts. Its focus is twofold. The convergence of rapidly expanding digital repositories and databases of family history-related information and increasingly sophisticated online teaching platforms and how this has facilitated a shift from face-to-face to fully online learning and teaching is examined. The ways in which this transformative change was engineered through the unit design, delivery, and evaluative processes are then canvassed. The case study demonstrates how, with thoughtful, well-structured, and innovative approaches to design and by adopting a bespoke delivery model for online delivery, students can readily learn to access and engage critically with extensive online resources and can be equipped with the digital tools to use these optimally and to their satisfaction.
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- 2018
139. Types, Topics and Trends: A Ten-Year Review of Research Journals in Science Education
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O'Toole, John Mitchell, Freestone, Margaret, McKoy, Karina S., and Duckworth, Brian
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All reviews are selective and this one restricts itself to content analysis of articles published between the beginning of 2005 and the end of 2014 in the premier, generalist, Science-education, research journals: International Journal of Science Education; Journal of Research in Science Teaching; Research in Science Education; Science Education, and Studies in Science Education. The analysis relies on coding of over 2000 abstracts in terms of research method, educational level, disciplinary context and research topic. Articles were tallied within each category for each journal to produce ranks indicating the relative output for that category. Presentation of results in two five-year spans (2005-2009 and 2010-2014) allows comment on variations in output across the ten years reviewed. Such broad reviews provide a useful spur to expert reflection while also mapping the field for novices attempting to enter it. A discussion of the themes of this Special Issue: Interactive Simulations and Innovative Pedagogy for Conceptual Understanding in Science Education provides one example of such use. The paper closes with a comparison with existing reviews and suggestions for further work. This research literature has claims to wider relevance because of its location on the boundary between Science and the Humanities.
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- 2018
140. How to Drink from the Pierian Spring: A Liberal Arts and Humanities Question about the Limits of Honors Education
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Keller, Christopher
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Honors educators frequently engage in conversations about the decline of interest in and funding for the liberal arts and humanities. Larry Andrews's essay "The Humanities are Dead! Long Live the Humanities!" is one of several that contributes to a metanarrative about the liberal arts and humanities, playing out along the following lines: workforce-minded politicians, short-sighted university administrators, STEM-related programs, and market-driven students no longer understand the true value of the liberal arts and humanities because they cannot be easily measured in dollars and cents; consequently, higher education today typically narrows students' perspectives, facilitates short-term and uncritical thinking, and fails to adequately enable student growth and development--that is, growth and development of the fully formed person, of the well-rounded individual, and of the caring soul. (For other articles that tie honors education to this narrative, see Blaich and Ditzler; Dooley; Martino; Salas; and Wintrol.) This familiar narrative offers some truths, no doubt, but its simplicity is troubling. It quickly papers over many complexities related both to workplaces and to the liberal arts and humanities, and, followed to its logical conclusion, it becomes less a narrative about education and more a narrative about limits, about who and what provide limits as opposed to who and what provide freedoms, about who and what open minds and who and what close them. Those in higher education who focus too much on careers, as this narrative goes, are in the business of setting limits on what students receive from a college education, which stunts their personal, professional, and intellectual growth; conversely, proponents of the liberal arts and humanities are interested in developing fully formed minds, expanding horizons, and unshackling students from career-based chains that keep them from becoming critical thinkers, strong and empathetic communicators, and seekers of truth.
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- 2018
141. Integrity in Education: William H. Newell in Conversation with P. Sven Arvidson
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Newell, William H. and Arvidson, P. Sven
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This article features a conversation on the occasion of a May 2018 "Festschrift" in "Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies" to honor the work of William Newell, between Newell and P. Sven Arvidson. William Newell is Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University, where he taught interdisciplinary courses full time in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program) from 1975 until his retirement in 2012. He has consulted on interdisciplinary course development and teaching and conducted external reviews of interdisciplinary programs at well over a hundred colleges and universities. He has published numerous articles and chapters on interdisciplinary higher education. P. Sven Arvidson is Associate Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies at Seattle University, where he is also the founding coordinator of the Consortium of Interdisciplinary Scholars. He has been co-editor of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies since 2017. Some topics discussed include whether or not Newell considers himself an academic radical, or academic pioneer, how a liberal arts-educated philosophy major from Amherst College, with a subsequent PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, bloomed into the founding leader of interdisciplinary studies in the U.S., and Newell's thoughts on the historic development of the first European meeting of the annual Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) conference in Fall 2019. Arvidson asks Newell this provocative question: "Having reviewed over a hundred integrative and interdisciplinary programs of all types over the years. What are several things that good programs seem to get right?" Newell's top ten best practices for conducting and teaching interdisciplinary studies listed in "The State of the Field: Interdisciplinary Theory" (2013), are discussed, and he is asked if he would add more to this list now. He is also asked if he would like to modify existing practices he named in that list.
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- 2018
142. Death of a paper wasp
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Duffin, K.E.
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Humanities ,Literature/writing - Abstract
The house has a voice in the deep lull of summer. It seems to drone and whisper in its sleep, answering the soughing of the loblolly pines and the tinkling [...]
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- 2004
143. An experiment with the Federalist Papers
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Merriam, Thomas
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The Federalist -- Authorship ,Style, Literary -- Research ,Authorship, Disputed -- Research ,Binomial distribution -- Usage ,Literary research -- Technology application ,Gaussian distribution -- Usage ,Computers ,Humanities - Abstract
A. Q. Morton has claimed that certain word habits, such as some collocations and proportionate pairs, show random variation in works of a single author and single genre. Conversely, the same habits may show greater than random variation in comparing different authors' works (or works in different genres). One habit, the proportionate pair UPON and ON, illustrates Morton's claim in the well-known context of The Federalist Papers. Hamilton and Madison have internally consistent usage patterns, which differ from each other by amounts in excess of chance variation.
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- 1989
144. Collaboration in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia
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Haddow, Gaby, Xia, Jianhong, and Willson, Michele
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This paper reports on the first large-scale quantitative investigation into collaboration, demonstrated in co-authorship, by Australian humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) researchers. Web of Science data were extracted for Australian HASS publications, with a focus on the softer social sciences, over the period 2004-2013. The findings show that collaboration has increased over the last ten years, with strong intra-region collaboration concentrated on the east coast of Australia. International collaboration occurred most frequently with English speaking countries at vast distances from Australia. On average, fields in the social sciences collaborated at higher rates and attracted higher citations than humanities fields, but co-authorship of any kind was likely to increase citation rates. The results provide a snapshot of collaboration by Australian HASS authors in this time period and can be used as a benchmark to explore collaboration patterns in the future.
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- 2017
145. A Corpus-Based Study of Chinese EFL Learners' Employment of 'Although'
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Chen, Jingwen
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"Although" is a frequently used subordinating conjunction in English. However, non-nativeness is often observed in Chinese EFL learners' "although" output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment in Chinese EFL learners' writing. The study is a corpus-based analysis launched under the analytical framework of contrastive interlanguage analysis. The interlanguage hypothesis lays the theoretical foundation of the present study. Texts from two corpora--the Chinese learner English corpus [CLEC] and the "arts and humanities" disciplinary group of the British academic written English corpus [sub-BAWEC]--are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively with the help of concordance software Antconc 3.2.1 and statistics program PASW Statistics 18. Based on the findings, conclusions are drawn as follows: 1) Chinese EFL learners tend to underuse "although" and produce mono-structural "although" clauses in their writing. Nevertheless, they share similar preference on deciding "although" placement in clauses with native English speakers; and 2) Factors such as interlingual difference between English and Mandarin Chinese, pedagogical neglect in English classrooms and different cognitive styles influence Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment.
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- 2017
146. Professional Preparation of Students of Social Pedagogy in the Czech Republic
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Martincová, Jana and Andrysová, Pavla
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This paper addresses the professional preparation of future teachers of social pedagogy (social educators) in the context of current tasks which the social pedagogy in the Czech Republic still has. Based on the results of the research which aims to present the professional characteristics of students of social pedagogy, we propose an innovation of the current curricula in social pedagogy study program and thus strengthen the independence of the profession which has undergone a specific development in our country. BIP questionnaire was used to obtain data. The main aim of the research was to analyze the professional orientation of social pedagogy students with the use of the standardized BIP questionnaire. The research has involved 154 social pedagogy students in a chosen Faculty of Humanities in the Czech Republic. Besides the research of the students' professional characteristics, an analysis of the study program Social Pedagogy has been done in order to create a constructive proposal of innovation of the study program subjects. So the authors call the attention to the fact that the study program must necessarily not only respond to the present demands of the tertiary sector (services marketing) but also be adapted to the professional identity of future social pedagogues and the development of students' competences.
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- 2017
147. In Search of Sir Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium
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Coon, Russell E.
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In Search of Sir Richard Burton (Book) ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Social sciences - Abstract
edited by Alan H. Jutzi; pp. xii + 141. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1993, 516.00 paper, £11.50 paper. In the present volume, the Huntington Library offers a selection of [...]
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- 1995
148. Data and Performativity in Doctoral Education: Information Gaps and Suggestions for Overcoming Them
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Wainerman, Catalina and Matovich, Iván
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Since the mid-1990s, there has been an abrupt growth of doctoral enrollments and doctoral programs in Argentina and Latin America. However, completion rates at this education level are far from satisfying. Attrition rates in Social Sciences doctoral programs "are known" to be high, and higher in Social Sciences and Humanities (which will be later called "Soft Sciences") than in STEM (which will be later called "Hard Sciences") disciplines, although there are no valid and reliable data. In order to address this problem, we carried out an investigation with two objectives: (1) to measure performance (efficiency or productivity) in 18 doctoral programs in STEM disciplines, the Social Sciences, and Humanities at various universities in Buenos Aires city and the surrounding Metropolitan Area; and (2) to design a procedure for collecting valid and reliable information that would allow us to assess doctoral programs' performance. This measure was defined along two dimensions: completion rates (regular time rates and extra time rates) and average time-to-degree by cohort. We compiled data on individuals' academic tracks in each cohort from their enrollment to their completion or dropout by using paper-files and digitized databases provided by academic departments. Information was analyzed by program, by cohort, and by six grouped cohorts for 2001-2006. Substantive and methodological results were found. Among the substantive results, we discovered better performance in STEM disciplines than in the Social Sciences and Humanities. As to the methodological results, postgraduate statistical registering matrix was designed and a series of recommendations are presented for use by doctoral programs and graduate programs generally.
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- 2016
149. Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995
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Robinson, Neil
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Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics (Book) -- Book reviews ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Published
- 1999
150. Global Products, Technologies, and the World Market: Understanding Latin American Development
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Perez-Brignoli, Hector
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Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Nonfiction work) -- Dietrich, Cristopher R.W. ,Palma Africana (Nonfiction work) -- Taussig, Michael ,The Economics of Contemporary Latin America (Nonfiction work) -- Armendariz, Beatriz -- Cambridge, Felipe Larrain B. ,The First Export Era Revisited: Reassessing Its Contribution to Latin American Economies (Essay collection) -- Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra ,Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Nonfiction work) -- Cushman, Gregory T. ,Historia minima de la expansion ferroviaria en America Latina (Essay collection) -- Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra ,Un siglo de economia en Bolivia (1900-2015). Topicos de historia economica (tomo 1) y Working Papers (tomo 2) (Essay collection) -- Velazquez-Castellanos, Ivan -- Torrico, Mario Pacheco ,Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (Nonfiction work) -- Beatty, Edward ,The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch (Essay collection) -- Margulis, Matias E. ,The World Economy Through the Lens of the United Nations (Essay collection) -- Ocampo, Jose Antonio -- Chowdhury, Anis -- Alarcon, Diana ,Books -- Book reviews ,Humanities ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
This essay reviews the following works: The Economics of Contemporary Latin America. By Beatriz Armendariz and Felipe Larrain B. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. xix + 439. $28.95 paperback. [...]
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- 2020
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