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Existential threats of immigration and terrorism predict voting for Brexit and Trump
No full text2016 witnessed historic political change with the ascension to power of Donald Trump and the UK’s vote to leave the European Union (i.e., Brexit). Research has sought to explain these once-deemed unlikely events, yet an evolutionary theoretical account remains unexplored. From a life-history perspective, a rise in existential threat, potentially caused by increased media coverage of the War in Syria and immigration issues, may have prompted a shift to a faster life-history strategy (LHS)/pace of life syndrome (POLS). Immediate answers were sought despite long-term consequences. In this multiple study paper, we shed light on this thesis. Firstly, in establishing a perceived increase in existential threats between 2014 and 2016. Secondly, by examining if LHS/POLS and associated proxies, as well as fear of terrorism and immigration predicted voting for Brexit or Trump. Trump voters feared terrorism, and Brexit voters feared immigration, but LHS/POLS was not directly, nor ultimately influential in their vote choice, however, for those that did not vote, it was. Nevertheless, other life-history proxies were important factors in voting. Thus, the link between LHS/POLS and voting is complex but affords new insight into voter psychology during the EU referendum and US presidential election
Trunk call
No full textTrunk Call is an exhibition that signals the end of a short residency at General Practice Studios and includes work developed during the time at GP and also recent practice. Previous artworks have touch on broken or disconnected systems found in language, communications, technologies and biology -obfuscation, falsehoods, viruses and disease.
In the residency John has employed variations of the children’s game known as; Broken Telephone’ Rumors’ or Pass the Message to generate unpredictable starting points (titles) in image making. The process is like a chain letter, starting with an original message and altered via a sequence of delivered txt’s or emails which are either deliberately tampered with or altered, through the act of re-transcribing. The terminal returned message forms the title of the artwork
Best Practice Standards in Animal-Assisted Interventions: How the LEAD Risk Assessment Tool Can Help
No full textAnimal-assisted interventions (AAI) in educational and other settings have steadily increased over the last fifty years and a steep rise in AAI has been observed in many countries and settings in recent years. Surprisingly, while different providers and organisations provide a range of guidelines, no unified, standardised guidelines or risk assessment tools for AAI exist. This means that in practice AAI takes place in an unregulated manner and without a gold standard of best practice. In addition, knowledge of which interventions are effective is still scarce and the mechanisms of successful interventions are not yet fully understood. This is partly due to AAI being a relatively new research field and standards of research and practice have often lacked rigour in the past. Furthermore, knowledge and experience of providers undertaking interventions varies greatly as there is no standardised training either. We address the striking lack of standardised guidelines and procedures. In all AAI, high importance should be placed on safety and welfare of all involved. Children and other AAI participants, staff and animals should be given equal consideration when assessing risks and welfare needs. To ensure safe AAI worldwide, we provide urgently needed guidelines on best practice in relation to risk assessment, safeguarding and animal welfare priorities. The guidelines were developed for a large-scale longitudinal, randomised controlled trial AAI project and are relevant to AAIs within educational and other settings. We also provide the first set of comprehensive risk assessment and animal welfare tools to achieve consistent welfare and safety standards for best practice across educational and other settings around the worl
RE leader connectedness: a theology of the lived reality of Catholic education
No full textThe relationships between RE leaders in Catholic education and their schools and their religious communities may be ambiguous. RE leaders often appear disconnected from both ‘ordinary’ teacher issues and ‘ordinary’ leadership issues because of their religious responsibilities. In this innovative research project, the authors have explored RE leader connectedness and disconnectedness in Catholic schools around the world. Visual research methods are used, as respondents make use of artistic representations of both connectedness and disconnectedness, to describe (by explaining their choice of picture) the nature of their connectedness. Responses from Australia, Hong Kong in China, the USA, the UK and Germany are presented here, generating an initial account of the lived reality of RE leaders in Catholic schooling systems. Responses range from those who seem to integrate their accountabilities to school and church systems to those who seem more ‘torn’ between those systems and disconnected from one or both of school and church. The authors suggest this has implications for practical-empirical theology, and education more generally, based on the idea of the ‘bi-dimensionality’ of the RE leader role in Catholic schools, and on the role of the school in Catholic theology which, according to D’Souza, ‘cannot help but be one of the intersecting points where the problems and challenges of society are encountered’
A 'Baby GDA': Norwich's Airspace during the Second World War
No full textThroughout the Second World War, the Luftwaffe attacked Norwich on various occasions. The impact this had on the city was recorded visually on the 'Norwich Bomb Map'. This cartographic depiction, however, only records a single 'horizontal' component of the aerial 'battlescape'. In reality, the aerial battlefield comprised a combination of Norwich's air defences and the flightpaths of the Luftwaffe bombers, which existed in three-dimensional space. As other scholars have developed methodologies for reconstructing anti-aircraft 'fire domes', this article will combine these concepts with a new approach that reconstructs historic flightpaths to give a three-dimensional overview of Norwich's 'Gun Defended Area'. By examining all components of Norwich's airspace, this article will demonstrate the importance of considering the vertical component of a battlescape
Provincial newspapers, sports reporting and the origins, rise and fall of women’s football: Lincolnshire, 1880s-1940s
No full textThe history of the modern game of football is well established, but it has stimulated certain areas of fresh focus recently—the ‘origins of [men’s] football’ debate being of prominence. Meanwhile, the success of the women’s game over the last few years, nationally and internationally, has encouraged new and due attention to the study of its long-neglected history, and an appreciation of its significance, past and present. Research has made particular use of provincial newspapers as an essential primary source yielding empirical detail, contemporary discourse, and alternative insight through local and regional case studies. Through the late-nineteenth century and into the twentieth, major urban centres, working-class football and the local press were expanding hand in hand. This article reports on the emergence of women’s football in Lincoln and the wider county, taking as a particular focus the instrumental cultural role of the provincial newspaper in recording, promoting and critiquing sporting activities. The work was undertaken to support the production of a play and exhibition in 2018, marking the contribution of Lincoln ‘munitionette’ workers during the First World War, and their forming of factory football teams. The exhibition was remounted in the summer of 2019, for the duration of the Women’s World Cup. Research concentrated on sampling, analysing and representing the complex, contradictory and changeable language of the press in occasional late-nineteenth century reports, the fuller accounts appearing by 1917, and dwindling coverage up to and following the Football Association’s controversial 1921 ban of the women’s game
Book Review: Contemporary Language Motivation Theory: 60 Years Since Gardner and Lambert (1959)
No full textParents’ perceptions of the impact of early stage exam tests on anxiety levels in young children with and without Autism.
No full textThe study explores parental perceptions of the impacts of Key Stage One (KS1) Standard
Attainment Tests (SAT’s) on anxiety and the extent to which this may impact children with
autism. In the end, it will provide possible suggestions on how to reduce any negative impacts experienced by test anxiety. A mixed method research design was used, employing both questionnaires and interviews. Questionnaires were distributed to participants for structured interviews. The sample consisted of 32 parents with children aged between 6 and 7 years old attending primary schools across England. Participants were mothers (aged 28-34 years old) of which 28 were parents of children either with an official diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or currently awaiting an official diagnosis. The other four were parents of neuro-typical (NT) children. Data derived from parents of children with ASD were compared to data from parents of NT children. The data were gathered through both qualitative and quantitative measures. Overall, the findings suggest that parents of children with ASD reported an increase in the anxiety levels of their children during exam preparation, while parents of NT did not report any behavioural changes during this period due to anxiety. Findings suggest that exams at this early stage may have a detrimental effect on the well-being of children with ASD; therefore, implications for educational policy changes are made
Learning and teaching approaches
No full textIdeas change over time and teachers implement approaches to learning in different ways for their pupils. Sometimes certain approaches (such as a mastery or topic-based approach) are seen in schools, or a specific theme is used that takes its lead from National Curriculum subjects (such as Space, or The Victorian Era). There are many differing approaches; such as a cross-curricular approach, immersive learning, enquiry-based learning or the Forest Schools approach. In schools, you may see other methods such as the International Primary Curriculum (topic), Mantle of the Expert (pupils in role working on a commission for a client), Take One Picture and Montessori philosophy (play based), to name a few. Not all of these can be covered in this chapter but below are links to finding out more about some approaches not discussed
Pilot study: Can the draft film Broken support trainee teachers’ understanding of autism communication issues in mainstream classrooms?
No full textThe draft film Broken (Rimmer, 2020) is an artistic impression that aims to articulate dysfluency from an autistic viewpoint. This paper reports on a pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of the film as a tool to support trainee teachers’ understanding of fluency issues in autistic pupils in the mainstream classroom. The study positions what is a personal perspective as articulated in the film within the wider autism literature, and reports and discusses trainees’ responses to the film. Implications for future Initial Teacher Education in this area – including resultant adaptations of the film – are discussed