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UNDERSTANDING MATHS ANXIETY IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS THROUGH A QUALITY OF LIFE FRAMEWORK
No full textThis article analyzes pre-service primary teachers’ written reflections using the Quality of Life conceptual framework, with its three domains of being, belonging, and becoming, as a lens to elucidate the concepts of identity and projective identity. Data collected via Critical Incident Technique were used to investigate the antecedents of mathematics anxiety as perceived and identified by pre-service teachers. When not addressed, high levels of mathematics anxiety in primary pre-service teachers’ affect their future teaching of mathematics and the achievement of their students. The results show that using the framework contributes to an understanding of primary pre-service teachers’ mathematics anxiety and its implications for their identity development. The article concludes with recommendations and practical implications
Politics of Violence in the Second Intifada: An Analysis of Social Conditions and Suicide Campaigns
No full textVery jolly and really wild: Development in Victoria English intensifiers
No full textThis paper quantitatively examines variable usage of intensifiers—adverbs that give force or emphasis—in a corpus of Victoria English. In this pilot study, intensifier tokens from speakers born between 1879 and 1990 were collected and analyzed. The data comprises of 510 adjectival heads, as in It was a really interesting conversation (CL41m/1970), of which 44.3 per cent were intensified. Overall distributions are presented for very, really, pretty, quite, and so. For the two most frequent intensifiers, very and really, multivariate analyses show that very is favored by the oldest speakers, while really shows an increase in preference among the middle aged and youngest speakers. The fact that, over time, really shows greater diffusion across semantic adjective types and syntactic structures seems to point at progression in its delexicalization process, confirming previous findings for this lexical intensifier (e.g. Ito & Tagliamonte, 2003)
Public Sector Privacy Breaches: should British Columbians have a cause of action for damages under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act?
No full textThe Impact of NSC-68 on American Foreign Policy During the Cold War
No full textFollowing the end of World War II, the strenuous relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, which had arisen due to the urgent need to counter the Nazi German threat during WWII, disintegrated and hostilities between the US and USSR erupted. The resulting post-WWII international order constituted a bipolar system, which was characterized by the establishment of the two superpowers of the capitalist USA and the communist USSR. This international order pitted the two superpowers against one another and launched the global competition for power and prestige, which would persist until the collapse of the USSR in December 1991, and the ensuing conclusion of the Cold War. This competition for global supremacy produces the question: what guided American foreign policy throughout the Cold War? This paper examines the policies and recommendations contained within the National Security Report 68 (NSC-68) and analyses how this document constituted the guiding framework for the US’ foreign policy decisions throughout the Cold War. To demonstrate the connection between NSC-68 and American foreign policy in the Cold War, the paper begins by examining the content within NSC-68 and then proceeds to apply NSC-68’s policies and recommendations to the decisions that America made during the Cold War, which include: the massive buildup of the US’s military, the pursuit of containment, the development of the thermonuclear bomb, and finally the decision to enter Vietnam. Throughout these analyses, the paper asserts that the policies within NSC-68 constituted the principal guiding force behind American foreign policy decisions throughout the Cold War, regardless of the Party or President in power
Lazarus Theatre\u27s All-Female Henry V at The Union Theatre, London
No full textFor the production: Henry V (2015, Lazarus Theatre Company, England)