Missing Early Education and Care During the Pandemic: The Socio-Emotional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Young Children

Early Childhood Education Journal - Worldwide, millions of children have missed out on early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to the closure of their settings during the COVID-19 pandemic....     

Combining mapping and citation network analysis for a better understanding of the scientific development: The case of the absorptive capacity field

The general aim of this paper is to show the results of a study in which we combined bibliometric mapping and citation network analysis to investigate the process of creation and transfer of knowledge through scientific publications. The novelty of this approach is the combination of both methods. In this case we analyzed the citations to a very influential paper published in 1990 that contains, for the first time, the term Absorptive Capacity. A bibliometric map identified the terms and the theories associated with the term while two techniques from the citation network analysis recognized the main papers during 15 years. As a result we identified the articles that influenced the research for some time and linked them into a research tradition that can be considered the backbone of the “Absorptive Capacity Field”.     

“You're Just Imagining it,Everything's all Right Really,Don't Worry About it”: the position of women in surveying education and practice

This paper presents aspects of research into the position of women in surveying, highlighting in particular the changes that are occurring in erstwhile ‘male’ technological and professional areas, which are experiencing an unprecedented influx of women. These changes are not taken at face value as necessarily being of long‐term benefit to women, an attempt is made to look beneath the surface to find out what is really going on. The current state of play in the ongoing pursuit of gaining greater equality for women in higher education is considered, with a discussion of organisational structures which are still overwhelmingly male, in which women may have gained some ground, but men have lost few of their advantages in the process.     

The status of speech training in the secondary schools of the western and eastern states

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Shakespeare and the Actors—The Stage Business in His Plays (1660–1905). By Arthur Colby Sprague. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944; pp. xxv + 440. $5.00.

A Handbook of Classical Drama. By Philip Whaley Harsh. Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1944, pp. xii + 526. $4.00.

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The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. By Fremont Rider. New York: Hadham Press, 1944; pp. 236. $4.00.

Representative American Speeches: 1943–1944. Selected by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1944; pp. 360. $1.25.

American Dialect Dictionary. By Harold Wentworth. New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1944; pp. xv + 747. $6.00.     

Science transformed? A comparative analysis of ‘societal relevance’ rhetoric and practices in 14 Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence

One of the most hotly debated ideas in science studies is the claim that contemporary science is in the midst of a transformation. While ‘transformationalist’ arguments and concepts vary, their core principle is that the norms, values and practices that have enforced the separation of science from society are being challenged by new expectations that scientists pursue closer connections with industry, government and/or civil society, and address research questions of immediate value to non-academic partners. While many major funding agencies have embraced this idea and now pressure scientists to enhance the ‘societal relevance’ of their work, the impact of these changes on scientific practices is still unclear. This paper reports findings from a comparative meso-level analysis of 14 large Canadian research networks funded by an agency with an explicit transformationalist mandate – the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) programme. Documents and web communications from these 14 NCEs, as well as from the central programme administration office, are analysed and compared to key transformationalist concepts, such as Mode 2 science, post-normal science, the triple helix model, academic capitalism and strategic science. We find that transformationalist ideas have a strong rhetorical presence across the 14 NCE projects and the central office, but that a great deal of inconsistency and confusion exists at the level of implementation and assessment of outcomes. Easily quantifiable outputs, such as the commercialization of research findings, are favoured over softer qualitative outcomes, such as public engagement and knowledge sharing. We conclude by arguing that the NCE programme is having an observable impact on the rhetoric of science, but any resulting transformations in practice are incremental rather than radical.     

Comunicación y aprendizaje en las primeras edades

RESUMEN

El lenguaje, el dibujo y el gesto son los tres vehículos de comunicación que el preescolar emplea. En la escuela maternal estos tres vehículos pueden convertirse en instrumentos de aprendizaje. Los objetivos pedagógicos del preescolar deben ser: potenciar su autonomía personal y el conocimiento y comprensión de la realidad que le rodea. Tras el análisis de los resultados obtenidos en una experiencia global de comunicación con párvulos de tercer curso, se subraya la importancia de la conversación con el maestro que ayuda a una estructuración correcta de las frases y a una mayor comprensión. Asimismo se destaca la importancia de la mímica para el desarrollo de la función simbólica.