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The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice at the Shakespeare Company, Calgary
No full textProduction notice for the 2019 Shakespeare Company productions of The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice in Calgary. Described by Cliff Werier
Représentations du corps ivre dans la fiction romanesque hispanique du Moyen Âge aux Lumières
No full textWine has been linked to Spanish culture since the time of the Romans and early Christianity. In Spain, a land of vines since antiquity, the representation of the drunken body in literature and painting is an omnipresent topos since the Middle Ages. The pros and cons of this are found in medical, philosophical, moral and religious texts, but especially in novels, which warn against excess. This article studies how Spanish painters and writers developed the imaginary of wine in all its forms, be they masculine or feminine, solar or twilight, enthusiastic or drowsy, in their reflections, in their drawings and paintings, in poems or novels, in order to transmit the ideological transformation that was going to occur in Spain around this drink. For only the artist seems to preserve the tradition of the divine origin of wine, reclaiming its thaumaturgical role thanks to the Bacchic nectar. Spanish men and women suffer or benefit from the virtues of wine, the main alcoholic beverage in Spain until the 21st century.Le vin est lié à la culture espagnole depuis le temps des Romains et de la première chrétienté. En Espagne, terre de vignes dès l’Antiquité, la représentation du corps ivre dans la littérature et la peinture est un topos omniprésent depuis le Moyen Âge. Les pour et les contre parcourent textes médicaux, philosophiques, moraux, religieux mais surtout romanesques, qui mettent en garde contre l’excès. Cet article étudie comment les peintres et écrivains espagnols déclinent l’imaginaire du vin sous toutes ses formes, masculines ou féminines, solaires ou crépusculaires, enthousiastes ou assoupies, dans leurs réflexions, dans leurs dessins et tableaux, dans les poèmes ou leurs romans pour transmettre la transformation idéologique qui va se produire en Espagne autour de cette boisson. Car seul l’artiste paraît préserver la tradition de l’origine divine du vin, réclamant son rôle thaumaturgique grâce au nectar bachique. Hommes et femmes espagnols souffrent ou bénéficient ainsi des vertus du vin, la principale boisson alcoolisée en Espagne jusqu’au XXIe siècle
Food, Drink and the Other: Producing Satire and Otherness in Portuguese Literature
No full textPortuguese narrative fiction is plentiful of food and drink references, which vary in meaning and function accordingly to the historical context of production. The peripathetic Portuguese brought culinary knowledge from abroad mainly since the 16th century, merging cultural changes of food and drink with practices from their country of origin. This was a turning point in the history of Portuguese narrative fiction, for it made more present the concept of the "other" through consumption habits. An extremely short travel between 16th and 19th narrrative fiction examples intends to highlight some uses of food and drink as topoi in historical and cultural context, asserting the relevance of this resource to articulate identities and alterities. La fiction narrative portugaise regorge de références au boire et au manger, dont la signification et la fonction varient selon le contexte historique de leur production. Dans leurs périples, les Portugais ont ramené chez eux des savoirs culinaires d\u27ailleurs, surtout depuis le 16ème siècle. Ils ont intégré les changements de nourritures et boissons aux pratiques de leurs pays d\u27origine. Ces échanges marquent un tournant dans l\u27histoire de la fiction narrative portugaise car le concept de l\u27 "autre" fut exprimé, dans sa présence, par les habitudes alimentaires. Un très bref voyage entre la fiction narrative du 16ème siècle et celle du 19ème siècle, à travers quelques exemples, met en lumière quelques utilisations du boire et du manger comme topoi dans un contexte historique et culturel ; il fait voit la pertinence de cet outil pour articuler entre elles identités et altérités
Shifting from a Rules-Based Culture to a Negotiated One in Emergent Curriculum
No full textWritten in the voice of the first author, this article examines how two early childhood educators who practice emergent curriculum shifted from following a rules-based culture in their classroom to a more negotiated one. The voices of the child and educator research participants are excerpts from a larger qualitative study involving five educators who participated in interviews focused on their perceptions of how their understanding of emergent curriculum evolved over time. Using self-selected examples of pedagogical documentation as a catalyst for discussion, the participants reflected on how their experiences with mentors, children, and program administrators influenced their shifts in practice
Unpacking the Childcare and Education Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the Canadian Province of Quebec
No full textBuilding from Blum and Dobrotić’s conceptual framework, this paper shows that the decisions to reopen childcare centres and schools in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2020 were influenced by four goals: (1) protecting public health, (2) promoting academic success / fostering early education, (3) addressing social inequalities, and (4) helping parents to reconcile employment and care activities. Although the first three objectives were considered in the sequence of reopening, the government quickly chose to prioritize work-family reconciliation above other objectives. Quebec’s tight sequence of reopening childcare centres and schools is not simply a consequence of evolving research showing lower risks associated with COVID-19 for young children, it also reflects the province’s cultural norms toward mothers’ employment and the high legitimacy of the state in subsidizing childcare
Toward a Process-Centered Account of Literate Activity in the Classroom
No full textThis paper presents an approach to conceptualizing classroom activities that views teachers, students, and classroom objects as participating in continuous, cyclical processes of “reengaging” and “disengaging.” As an illustration, six episodes in a U.S. preschool classroom of a teacher, nine 4- to 5-year-olds, and a box (which held objects related to a featured letter of the week) were analyzed through a relational-process lens. The box, classroom members, and objects that children brought from home moved through cycles of coming together and moving apart physically and attentionally. Furthermore, these processes metaphorically pulled in other activities across time and space
A Critical Book Review of I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy
No full textThe Land of Hope: Border, Evacuation, and Rejection During a Nuclear Crisis
No full textFilm review of Land of Hope (2012
Cross-border Life in an American Exclave: Point Roberts and the Canada–US Border
No full textBy applying a theoretical framework based on different models proposed in border studies literature, this article analyzes the morphological, functional, institutional and identity characteristics that make Point Roberts—an American exclave in the Pacific Northwest—a “cross-border town”. Using an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the author combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to examine the forces that link Point Roberts and the Canadian city of Delta that lies across the Canada–US border. This paper highlights the specificities of this unique geographic configuration as well the challenges that the border represents