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La disidencia por la música: Viridiana de Buñuel y Peppermint Frappé de Saura
No full textDurante la dictadura en España el sector creativo fue censurado fuertemente. Aunque esa censura fue “total”, los directores y artistas emplearon técnicas para seguir produciendo bajo la censura. Dos figuras emblemáticas de esa subversión son Luis Buñuel y Carlos Saura. Este breve ensayo explorará los escándalos cinematográficos de los dos directores. Se discutirá el ambiente cultural y represivo en el que las películas fueron dirigidas, y cómo los dos directores usaron la música particularmente para comentar sobre y luchar contra el franquismo. Específicamente, se explorarán las películas Viridiana y Peppermint Frappé y cómo el rocanrol fue empleado por Bunuel y Saura para rechazar al franquismo
Through the Looking Glass: Interpreting Growing Success, The Kindergarten Addendum, Ontario’s Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting Policy Document
No full textTransforming the early years program to re ect changing perspectives is not an easy task, particularly in the context of assessment, evaluation, and reporting. This article explores the interplay of alternative perspectives in a critical look at Ontario, Canada’s newly released policy document Growing Success, The Kindergarten Addendum: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2016b). As the kindergarten program calls for transformation in pedagogical approaches, its assessment policy seems to stutter as it attempts to keep pace. Through unpacking the assessment addendum, this article introduces potential alternative interpretations of the purpose of assessment from constructivist and social constructivist perspectives, illustrating key challenges in the transformation process. This muddled cojoining of perspectives highlights a lack of clarity in purpose of the kindergarten program which has the potential to negatively affect both child and educator, while leaving parents and community confused and befuddled.
Children’s Responses to Different Types of Teacher Involvement During Free Play
No full textThis qualitative study uses secondary data from videos of 11 teachers in community childcare settings to explore the different roles that teachers use to facilitate play and the way children respond to teachers’ behaviours within these roles. Results suggest that specific teacher behaviours within the roles they adopt elicit three types of children’s responses: ignore/reject, evaluative, and acceptance behaviours. The co- player and play leader roles were often associated with children’s acceptance behaviours and were considered more appropriate for teachers to support children’s development.
Medical Clowning: An Embodiment of Transgressive Play
No full text“Medical clowns” are part of a growing field conducting play encounters in hospitals throughout the global community. One intention for a medical clown encounter with a pediatric patient is empowerment, or restoration of agency. This paper explores these encounters through the lens of performance studies, play theory, and the author’s personal praxis as a medical clown to investigate the impact on the multiple audiences involved in a hospital encounter: patient, family, and staff. Medical clown encounters evoke Bernie De Koven’s notions of a “well-played game” and “play community,” and warrant further research to ascertain the impact beyond the initial encounter.