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Untitled: My Great Northern Dream
No full textA poem about Whitehorse, Yukon; Chinatown, BC; Vancouver Island, and Kamloops, BC
Meetings with R. Murray Schafer: Composer, educator and founder of Soundscape Studies
Get PDFLaura De Caro: Mr. Schafer, what were your primary objectives when you wrote The Tuning of the World? You claim at the beginning of the book that your work is essentially lyrical in character, yet you state elsewhere that acoustic design can only be effective if it assumes a political and social responsibility. Was it also your intention to make a political statement?
R. Murray Schafer: Oh I think so, yes. When I wrote The Tuning of the World, I was in university, teaching in a Communication department. I was expected to do some research and it had to be an objective sort of approach to a new subject, soundscape, which no one had researched at that time. I actually had to invent new words to describe what I was going to study. At the same time, I was giving anti-noise workshops in the Vancouver area, because I was a member of the Citizens Committee against noise..
STEAM and English For Specific Purposes: Online Courses For Brazilian Students In Technology
Get PDFNowadays, we have an increase in informal online courses in Brazil with a variety of subjects, according to the student’s needs and interests. These informal courses could complement the knowledge learned in schools and universities, associating formal and informal learning, as defended by the Education 4.0 model. Additional languages, especially the English language, represent a great part of these courses as our society now understands the importance of English in a digital and technological world. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is an area of English teaching-learning that takes into consideration the student’s needs in the curriculum design, focusing on a context where learners will use the language in real life. This area is also interdisciplinary because it connects linguistic structures with professional fields. For this reason, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education could be an interesting approach in ESP courses by providing an integrative method. Thus, this paper aims to analyze three informal online English courses designed for Brazilian students/professionals in Technology, considering the ESP and STEAM approaches, and compare them with university learners’ needs. After the analysis, we understand in this paper that informal English courses, particularly ESP ones, should be designed by an interdisciplinary group of professionals, such as language teachers and specialists in the area, in order to show a meaningful learning experience. Besides, it is important to go beyond a list of vocabulary, integrating the four language skills and working with genres connected to the student’s own area of study. 
Understanding the manifestation of conflict between traditional leaders and ward committees, A case of Greater Giyani Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Get PDFIn South Africa's municipalities, there has been an age-old coexistence between elected and traditional leaders. This coexistence has, however, been threatened by numerous multi-dimensional conflicts. These conflicts undermine the government's efforts at co-operative governance and can spiral out of control if not handled carefully. However, it appears priority has been given to violent conflicts, making it critical to understand and deal with all forms of conflicts before they escalate. This study attempts to address and reconcile this disjunction by offering informed insights on how conflicts between traditional leaders and ward committees in South Africa's Greater Giyani Municipality and elsewhere can be amicably resolved. This was done by using purposive sampling in which 33 participants were interviewed to solicit their insights and perceptions on this and other misunderstandings. The information they provided was analysed in ATLAS ti.22 and purposefully structured to provide work-around strategies for the way forward. The findings provided in this contribution are helpful because they offer empirically informed perspectives on enhancing the assimilation of tractable conflict resolution strategies between traditional leaders and ward committees
Neo-Middle Power Diplomacy In The Age Of Power Transition
Get PDFOn April 24, 2023, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Vancouver hosted its monthly Digital Roundtable with Dr. Stephen Nagy, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the International Christian University of Tokyo, who spoke on Canada's middle power diplomacy in the modern era of strategic competition between international powers. Dr. Nagy defined what it means to be a middle power, neo-middle power diplomacy in theory and practice, Canada's role in international relations, and provided policy suggestions
Listening as a Guest through Artistic Inquiries: Winter Walking
No full textMy presentation at the WFAE conference detailed my current research-creation project exploring listening as an artistic methodology, focusing here specifically on walking as a mode of listening. I spent the winter of 2021-22 living in amiskwaciwaskahaikan, also known as Edmonton, Alberta, and during that time I embarked on a daily practice of walking as a way to listen in a place that was new to me, beginning to develop relationships with fellow human and more-than-human inhabitants
HVAC, or Political Ecology as Facts of Pressure
Get PDFDo. Pretend to. Sit with me in a basement office and listen to the small universe we occupied for 7 years as a university worker. The office opens onto a hallway. A plaque on the door names the worker who is remunerated for her time in this office. She, or me, this working subject on university payroll, is joined by myriad bacterial and fungal beings that co-constitute her by virtue of inhabitation, thus the pronoun, “we.” They/we also work, feel, and react, doing their/our own thing and multiplying aural reception to the room, pushing beyond a singular. Together we hear the pressure of air as it moves through a metal duct. More distantly, behind a thin wall, a motor is working hard. It turns a circlet of blades that click-whirr, accelerating airflow through metal ducts. It sounds innocuous, even soothing, like noise generators that parents use to put their babies to sleep, or that therapists place outside the clinical door. The pipes are strapped into the space above a verti- cally suspended grid of compressed paper panels that occasionally jiggle. The blowing hovers just in the background of consciousness as we sit typing at the desk, a shadow in the corner, and certainly this was the intended design. Eventually, however, the sound of forced air emerges from the background fierce and fidgety, until the office becomes crowded with the clamor of numerous relations, many parts working together, well or badly. Metal ducts, corrosion, rust, seams, dust bunnies, dust, galvanized coating, strapping, fan blades, fungal colonies, gratings, barricading filters, motors, and coils shout out their existence, “listen to me!” “I am here too!” The air itself shunts in irregular rhythms as it collides with the duct’s concave interior surface. Operational flaws float in and out of recognition of our narrow human perceptual range. Terrible sounds emerge, inharmonious ones, such as the “diabolic” chord produced by an augmented fourth- a dissonant note in the middle of an otherwise harmonious chord, the stinkbug in the raspberry..
Acoustic Ecology Considered as a Connotation: Semiotic, Post-Colonial and Educational Views of Soundscape
Get PDFJacques Derrida criticized the Cartesian metaphysical view of philosophy as being logo-centric. Derrida thinks that logos is merely a monologue criticized as phono-centrism. Phonocentrism suggests that when one speaks something, one’s speech should express exactly the same contents which one intends to say, in other words, there is no difference between speech and writing..