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Democracy, Education and the public space; When do students become citizens? A teacher’s reflections on a protest at school
No full textThis article describes a funding announcement by the prime minister of Canada at a high school in Winnipeg in February of 1998. The announcement was interrupted by a student protest, one that invoked harsh public criticism. Written from the perspective of a high school social studies teacher of 24 years, and drawing on eminent philosophers of politics and education, the paper discusses several implications for the practice of democracy and the involvement of youth in the public arena. The author concludes that youth involvement in public protest should be seen as an act that preserves democracy and one that serves as citizenship pedagogy. If so, teachers must navigate a pedagogic dilemma at the heart of citizenship education. Given the recent passage of Bill C 55 by the Canadian Parliament and the questions it raised over the role of public dissent, this discussion may be as relevant and necessary today as it was in 1998. / En février 1998 à Winnipeg, le Premier du Canada annonça un financement dans une école secondaire. Les élèves interrompirent l’annonce par une protestation qui fut vivement critiquée par le public. Ecrit du point de vue d’un enseignant en instruction civique depuis vingt ans à l’école secondaire et inspiré d’éminents philosophes en politique et en éducation, l’auteur traite plusieurs répercussions de principes démocratiques et de participation des jeunes dans la sphère publique. Pour finir, il considère que la participation des jeunes dans une protestation publique devrait être vue comme un acte qui préserve la démocratie et qui sert de pédagogie civique. S’il en est ainsi, les enseignants doivent gérer un dilemme pédagogique au sein de l’instruction civique. Compte-tenu de l’adoption récente du projet de loi C 55 par le parlement canadien et les questions qui se sont soulevées sur le rôle de la divergence d’opinion, le sujet peut être aussi percutant aujourd’hui qu’il ne le fut en 1998.https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jet/article/view/4629
Canadians Do Oral History?
No full texthttps://oralhistorycentre.ca/2016/02/02/canadians-do-oral-history
Optical and radiometric models of the NOMAD instrument part II: the infrared channels - SO and LNO
Get PDFNOMAD is a suite of three spectrometers that will be launched in 2016 as part of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission. The instrument contains three channels that cover the IR and UV spectral ranges and can perform solar occultation, nadir and limb observations, to detect and map a wide variety of Martian atmospheric
gases and trace species. Part I of this work described the models of the UVIS channel; in this second part, we present the optical models representing the two IR channels, SO (Solar Occultation) and LNO (Limb, Nadir and Occultation), and use them to determine signal to noise ratios (SNRs) for many expected observational cases. In solar occultation mode, both the SO and LNO channel exhibit very high SNRs >5000. SNRs of
around 100 were found for the LNO channel in nadir mode, depending on the atmospheric conditions, Martian surface properties, and observation geometry.NOMAD has been made possible thanks to funding by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and financial and contractual coordination by the ESA Prodex Office. The research was performed as part of the “Inter university Attraction Poles” programme financed by the Belgian government (Planet TOPERS). UK funding is acknowledged under the UK Space Agency grant ST/I003061/1.https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-24-4-379
Preparing Manitoba's Non-Profit Housing Secotr
Get PDFThe Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association (MNPHA) contracted the Institute of Urban Studies (IUS) at The University of Winnipeg to undertake research on the End of Operating Agreements (EOA) in Manitoba. The ultimate goals of the project are to assist social housing providers in Manitoba plan and prepare for the end of their individual agreements, to strengthen each provider’s capacity, and to increase their sustainability. The primary intended outcome is the development of a comprehensive ‘training’ program or tool that can be used to assist individual providers with the creation of individualized plans for EOA
Growth rate of binary words avoiding xxxR
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Consider the set of those binary words with no non-empty factors of the form
xxx^R. Du, Mousavi, Schaeffer, and Shallit asked whether this set of words grows
polynomially or exponentially with length. In this paper, we demonstrate the
existence of upper and lower bounds of the form n^{lg n+o(lg n)} on the number of
such words of length n, where lg n denotes the base-2 logarithm of n.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2015.11.00
Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question
Get PDFA review of two recently-released books, The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays and Stephen Grant’s Collecting Shakespeare, both of which explore Henry and Emily Folgers’ shared obsession with collecting First Folios and other Shakespeareana, and the development of the Folger Shakespeare Library.https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/looking-not-on-his-picture-but-his-books-two-new-histories-of-folgers-quest-for-first-folios-shed-unintended-light-on-the-authorship-question
A chrono-geographic look at Mesolithic burials: an initial study
No full textOver the past decade we have focused on two interrelated topics within Mesolithic burial studies, the relationship between burial number and burial date, and the chronology of Mesolithic sites with burials. Related to this has been construction of a database of metric variability and chronology for the period, an up-to-date list of known human bone finds, burial type, number of individuals, and geographic coordinates.
In previous papers we showed that, contrary to expectations, multiple burials or cemeteries (however defined) are not restricted to the Late Mesolithic but occur throughout the sequence, possibly with Upper Palaeolithic roots. Earlier analyses were primarily concerned with number of burials in a site and their absolute date. The geographic aspect, most obviously seen in latitude and longitude, was only explored in passing. We showed that patterns were largely similar for Europe as a whole and for the more circumscribed area of North-western Europe. This paper updates earlier work and uses geostatistical approaches together with other statistical procedures to provide an initial exploration of whether other patterns are hidden within the data. This may assist in answering questions such as whether the overall pattern of burial during the Mesolithic is random or patterned.Travel Grant from the University of Winnipeg Research Committee
Diversidad biocultural: innovando en investigación para la conservación. / Biocultural Diversity: Innovating in Research for Conservation
Get PDFLa conservación de la biodiversidad puede avanzar en forma ética y más eficaz enfocando simultáneamente la erosión biológica y cultural. Esta idea se encuentra en los postulados funcionales y éticos iniciales de la biología de la conservación. Sin embargo la investigación para la conservación ha enfatizado los inventarios, la cuantificación y la georreferenciación de la diversidad biológica con miras a su utilización. Se le asigna poca relevancia al valor intrínseco de la biodiversidad ante lo cual se hacen llamados a explorar formas apropiadas de “vivir con” la biodiversidad. Esta reflexión responde a ese llamado. Introduce el enfoque biocultural como una perspectiva más comprehensiva para reconocer e investigar las complejas interrelaciones entre procesos ecológicos y dinámicas culturales. Para la investigación se resalta de este enfoque la necesidad de reconocer los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales, al igual que las cosmovisiones que le dan sentido a las prácticas y relaciones que las comunidades
establecen con el ambiente. Se explora la base de datos GrupLac del período 1991- 2010 en cuanto al registro de investigaciones sobre biodiversidad que involucran conocimiento tradicional y comunidades. Dado el limitado reconocimiento a las contribuciones de las comunidades, se reseñan las principales barreras que encuentra la adopción del enfoque biocultural en investigación. Se proponen premisas éticas orientadas a transformar actitudes y prácticas en investigación que desconocen derechos ancestrales sobre el territorio y el conocimiento, obstaculizan el reconocimiento del valor intrínseco de la biodiversidad, y como resultado impiden garantizar su conservación en un territorio biodiverso, pluriétnico y multicultural. / The conservation of biodiversity may be deemed ethical and more effective by focusing simultaneously on biological and cultural erosion. This idea was in the functional and ethical principles of the initial understanding in conservation biology. However, biological conservation research has emphasized inventories, quantification and georeferencing biodiversity with utilitarian purposes. Such
research gives little importance to the intrinsic value of biodiversity provoking calls to explore appropriate ways of “living with” biodiversity. This paper responds to that call. The biocultural approach offers a more comprehensive view to recognize and investigate
the complex interrelationships between ecological processes and cultural dynamics. For research, this approach highlights the need to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the community worldviews that infuse meaning to community practices and relations with the environment. This paper explores biodiversity research data involving traditional knowledge and communities during the period 1991- 2010 in the GroupLac Database. Given the limited recognition to the contributions of communities, this paper outlines the main barriers that the adoption of the biocultural approach faces. The paper proposes ethical guidelines to transform research attitudes and practices that ignore ancestral rights over the territory and traditional knowledge, hinder the recognition of the intrinsic value of biodiversity, and as a result, prevent conservation in a biodiverse, multiethnic and multicultural territory.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/actabiol/article/view/5092
Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut
Get PDFInuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut Although positive policies and laws promote the Inuit language and Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) in all sectors of Nunavut society, including at all levels of Inuit schooling, many Nunavut schools are still struggling to overturn colonizing practices and mindsets that have hindered effective education of Inuit youth. In this article, we document perceptions of students, teachers, principals, parents, and community members related to school transformation under the leadership of an Inuk principal and Inuk co-principal in two Nunavut high schools. These oral accounts show that having an Inuit principal enhanced students' opportunities to learn and practise the Inuit language and IQ through enhanced, localized programming and increased exposure to Inuit ways of speaking and being. Parents were mobilized and equipped to support and advocate for their children, including joining local District Education Authorities, when they were able to communicate easily and effectively with the principal, and saw their knowledge, culture, and language valued and practised in the school system. We argue that the strong, community-anchored leadership modelled in these two schools transformed the context for effective intercultural, bilingual education. Results point to the importance of leadership by school principals in actualizing the goals set out in Nunavut's Education Act (2008), governmental mandates, and language laws.The project was funded by ArcticNet, and conducted in partnership with the Nunavut Department of Education and the Coalition of Nunavut District Education Authorities (CNDE).https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2016-v40-n1-etudinuit03089/1040151ar