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Stimuli pour éliciter des mouvements provoqués. Peut être utiliser pour toutes les langues.
No full text39 dessins animés pour d'éliciter des expressions de différents Mouvements Provoqués. Cette tâche psycholinguistique peut être utilisée pour toute langue
"The Grass is Always Greener" and "Questions for AI"
No full textAs a third-year undergraduate student studying Interactive Systems Design, Kate’s art explores a variety of mediums, in which a focus on the creative aspect of perspective is carried throughout her work. With Kate’s complementary interests in art and technology, she primarily experiments with graphic design, digital illustration, photography, and a combination of these mediums in her projects.
"The Grass Is Always Greener": This piece is a digital print created using Adobe Photoshop that parodies the well-known “grass is greener” proverb.
"Questions for AI": There are some questions out there that are hard to think about or ask. Perhaps even some that we will never have definitive answers for. However, as technology continues on its course of rapid advancement within the landscape of our ever-evolving society, these are the questions that stand between us and our understanding of where the future of humanity lies. As such, “Questions for AI” is a digital print series that prompts viewers to reflect not only upon recent modern development in artificial intelligence, but also on the new realities of the human race.
 
Exploring Children’s Experiences in Circus Club
Full text linkCollege of Kinesiology Research Theme: Child and youth health and development
Introduction. As children spend the majority of their weekdays at school, it is important that there are a wide variety of movement opportunities that align with their broad interests. In an encouraging shift from sport-centered offerings that often dominate school physical activity programming, circus arts is an increasingly popular movement option in physical education and recess/afterschool contexts. Circus has been found to be an optimal way to develop physical literacy and the introduction of circus arts programs in schools has resulted in increased physical literacy outcomes for children and youth. Additionally, student voices are essential in shaping understanding of movement opportunities, furthering a deeper sense of ownership, confidence, and motivation in their physical literacy development.
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to understand the physical literacy experiences of elementary school children who participated in circus club.
Methods. Circus club is a lunch-time program at an elementary school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The program is run by a physical education specialist, and it strives to provide students from grades 3-8 a non-sport movement opportunity. An intrinsic case study method was used to gain an in-depth understanding of the participants\u27 experiences in circus club. Three data collection tools were used: field notes on participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and the write, draw, show, and tell (WDST) method. Data analysis was done by using Braun and Clarke’s six step reflexive thematic analysis.
Results. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 students enrolled in grades 4-8, and four completed the optional WDST activity. Using Braun and Clarke’s (2022) reflexive thematic analysis procedures, three themes were identified: (i) “I know I am getting better”: Enhanced confidence and motivation through challenge, (ii) “Learning together”: Collaboration and social engagement opportunities, and (iii) “Just be creative”: Empowerment through choice and creative freedom. The findings highlighted how physical challenge, collaboration, choice, and creative freedom enhanced the participants’ confidence, motivation, and social engagement.
Conclusion. Circus arts provided a unique opportunity for students to develop various aspects of physical literacy including confidence and competence, shown through positive challenge, as well as motivation, social connection, and creativity. The study also illuminated valuable insights into the participants’ perspectives, highlighting the importance of their experiences in shaping their understanding and engagement with physical activity
Routes et chemins en forêt de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Achères, 78) : étude archéogéographique du domaine royal
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Hardcore Parqueer: The Potential of Parkour for Queer Expression
Full text linkThis paper endeavours to evaluate the accessibility of fringe sports like parkour to queer people, and to ascertain how fringe sports can be used to challenge oppressive systems. Sports such as parkour break the mould established by traditional team sports in how they position their practitioners and use space. Fringe sports are often born from niche interests or subcultures, and are characterized by a lack of major popularity or a widely recognized governing body. In their unique perspectives, interests, and goals, fringe sports like breakdancing or skateboarding are likely to create environments that prioritize individuality, incite creative expression, and allow for subversion of expectation and space. These sports are young and dynamic, with norms that are much more easily swayed and evolved than the long-established norms of sports like football or hockey. Fringe sports therefore have the potential to transgress dominant cultures that seek to categorize and homogenize, which parallels queer existence in societies that are predicated on the systemic oppression of queerness and are threatened by queer perspectives. The perpetuation of cissexist and heteronormative cultures upholds that sexuality is invalid if it does not conform to the heterosexual norm, that gender must exist in a hierarchical and biological binary, and that the expression of anything other than this oppressive binary is to be squandered. Due to its nature as a fringe sport, parkour can thus be seen as a tool for challenging and circumventing harmful cultures. Through autoethnography and a review of literature on public space, queer existence, and parkour culture, this paper analyzes otherness and individualism as tools for both exclusion and queer expression. Ultimately, we find that fringe sports are complex and subversive, and create an important avenue of expression for queer people as we navigate space
A model for framed configuration spaces of points
No full text47 pages, revised and expanded version. Comments are welcomeWe study configuration spaces of framed points on compact manifolds. Such configuration spaces admit natural actions of the framed little discs operads, that play an important role in the study of embedding spaces of manifolds and in factorization homology. We construct real combinatorial models for these operadic modules, for compact smooth manifolds without boundary
All Ears
Full text linkThis piece was drawn for a fundraiser auction put on by the Beef Team at the University of Saskatchewan. It is inspired by a photograph I took last year of one of our Angus bull calves.