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Earth: digging deep in British art 1781 - 2022 [group exhibition]
No full textEarth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022 is a major exhibition spanning four centuries of artwork.
The final instalment of the RWA’s elements series, Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022 tackles the most expansive and urgent of subject matters, bringing together important modern, historical and contemporary artworks, co-curated by artist Emma Stibbon RA RWA, art historian Professor Emerita Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes University) and Nathalie Levi (Head of Programme – Curator of Exhibitions, RWA). It follows The Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014 (2014), Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017 (2017) and Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692-2019 (2019).
Earth examines how attitudes towards the landscape have evolved over the centuries and how artists’ approaches have changed over time; from the pastoral idylls of the 18th century, through representations of the Romantic Sublime, to present-day confrontations of the climate emergency. Encompassing depictions of the natural world from geological, spiritual, industrial, cultural and scientific perspectives.
This exhibition goes deep beneath the earth, exposes the core materiality of its elements, explores the substance of the surface, climbs dizzying heights and perches perilously on its edges. It bears witness to the earth’s mistreatment and its magnificence, its fullness and its fragility. Earth surveys the representation of our environment across four centuries, inviting us to consider our planet in all its abundance, precarity and preciousness.
Earth is accompanied by a full-colour publication by Sansom and Co including three essays and over 50 images of work which can be purchased online or in the Shop.
Exhibiting artists: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Samuel John Lamorna Birch, William Blake, Mary Buckland, Edward Calvert, Edward Chell, George Clausen, John Constable, Edward William Cooke, John Sell Cotman, Alice Cunningham, Dalziel + Scullion, Susan Derges, Thomas Gainsborough, Anya Gallaccio, Anthony Gross, Andrew Hardwick, Rodney Harris, William Henry Hunt, Fiona Hingston, Kabir Hussain, Samuel Jackson, Laura Knight, Tania Kovats, Abigail Lane, Richard Long, Philip James De Loutherbourg, Siobhán McDonald, John Martin, David Nash, John Nash, Paul Nash, Mariele Neudeker, Samuel Palmer, Katie Paterson, Julian Perry, John Piper, Michael Porter, Kathy Prendergast, Eric Ravilious, Carol Rhodes, Yinka Shonibare, Stanley Spencer, Emma Stibbon, Graham Sutherland, Francis Towne, J. M. W. Turner, Anthony Whishaw
Casting Mr Collins; or how a zombie film returned us to the novel
No full textMr William Collins, perhaps the most misunderstood character in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, is a character of contradictions. He thinks of himself as serious but is dismissed as silly, is at once obsessively formal but completely inappropriate, obsequious but constantly offending. It is fitting that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a screen adaptation we initially overlooked, would leave us wondering what would happen if we took Mr Collins as seriously as he takes himself. What would that say about the entailment, Elizabeth’s refusal, and Charlotte’s decision to marry him?
To answer this question, we watched every English language screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice available (76 years’ worth of Mr Collins) and brushed up on our eighteenth-century moral theory.
Focusing on six on-screen characterisations of Mr Collins, we examined the shorthand used by filmmakers to support Elizabeth’s rejection. We analysed how Austen satirised eighteenth-century moral theory and what these texts tell us about Mr Collins and his romantic rivals. We looked closely at the money (who has it, who wants it, who will get it) and how it impacts the character’s moral conduct and motivations to marry.
In reviewing how Mr Collins is portrayed on screen and investigating the ways Austen invites comparison in the text, we confirmed that, indeed, he is pretty desirable in terms of eligibility. We discovered that money is the most significant moral motivator in Pride and Prejudice and that there is no better character to track the movement of money than Mr Collins. It is this understanding that allows us to recognise what Mr Collins has to offer, why a rejection from Elizabeth Bennet was so radical, and, to appreciate Charlotte Lucas as more than a desperate woman on the verge of spinsterhood
Cognitive behaviour therapy, multi-convergent therapy, and the mood and cognitive performance of chronic fatigue syndrome patients
No full textBackground: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been recommended as a suitable treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, recently it has been suggested that the efficacy of CBT is limited, and there is little evidence that it changes objective outcomes. Objectives: The aim of the present analyses were to determine whether group CBT changed the mood and cognitive performance of CFS patients. CBT was compared to two conditions from the same study, namely education and support and standard medical care. Further analyses compared these conditions with a longitudinal study of untreated CFS patients, healthy controls and those having Multi-Convergent Therapy (MCT). Methods: CFS patients were referred to a pain management clinic and randomly assigned to CBT (N=53), education and support (N=49) or standard medical care (N=49). Mood and cognitive performance were measured pre-treatment and again at six and twelve months post-treatment. Comparisons were also made with a sample of untreated CFS patients (N = 195) and those who had participated in a study of MCT (N=35). Results: At baseline, the CFS patients showed the usual differences from healthy controls, namely a more negative mood, slower reaction times, and impaired recall and sustained attention. Analyses of the post-treatment data revealed little evidence of CBT leading to significant changes. In contrast, MCT was associated with significant improvements in mood and performance. Conclusions: Group CBT leads to a significant reduction in subjective symptoms but does not improve cognitive performance, whereas individual MCT does improve mood and performance
Introduction: developing expertise for teaching in higher education
No full textIn this introduction, the editor discusses the background and context to the book, setting out an argument for the use of the term ‘expertise’ rather than ‘excellence’ for teaching in higher education. It is suggested that the concept of expertise has the potential to offer a new approach to thinking about high quality teaching in higher education, and a new discourse founded on an academic field of study with strong empirical foundations that provides a springboard for further research and educational development. The structure of the book, based around the editor’s model of expertise described in Chapter 1, is set out together with a brief outline of each chapter. The introduction concludes with the proposition that a conception of expertise is required that is dynamic, socially constructed and recognises the complexities of a profession that engages with humans - teachers and students. It also recognises that expertise in teaching is not simply about practised routines but requires creativity, improvisation and curiosity for what is going on in the learning space. Expertise is characterised theoretically and illustrated empirically as an ongoing developmental journey motivated by our curiosity as teacher-evaluators and our care for effective student learning. Echoing a conclusion of Chapter 1, it is noted that excellence in higher education is commonly assessed at institutional level through output measures such as student satisfaction or graduate outcomes; this effectively ignores a critical feature that distinguishes those with expertise from those with experience: a commitment to professional learning
Prayers no.1-39
No full textThis work takes a photo archive of Korea’s modern and contemporary history as a starting point. The archives she used in the work are related to the urban landscape of Korea during the modernization and the history of resistance for freedom. In this work, the artist selects partial silhouettes in photos depicting specific events and situations, creating embroidery in very simple lines. Through this process, the image as a specific event captured in photo documentation is re-described as a ‘photo-score.’ Each embroidered stitch of a drawing becomes a musical note while intersecting threads become a score to play an event. The bodies of the crowd that reacted to the event, gunpowder smoke, and slogans take different forms of lines, notes, and sheet music. They spread out as they become songs and scores for words that reinterpret the event.
Exhibited at Scoring the Words, Seoul Museum of Art. Scoring the Words reflects on ‘poetry,’ SeMA’s exhibition agenda in 2022. The exhibition proposes itself as a piece of poetry and the practice of artists as poetic words evoking the common imagery or affect. The exhibition observes ‘Asia’ as a field of discourse and expression, ripe with the language of practice. Therefore, the exhibition examines the practice of artists who have been working in Asia or delving with the discourses around Asia, observing them along with the attributes of poetry as a song of the collective and a language of resistance. Observing the political, social, and cultural movements and phenomena that are simultaneously unfolding in and around Asia, the exhibition examines how the common (un)consciousness and senses are constructed and expressed in Asia today with artists who speak about them
Critical realist approach: a solution to tourism’s most pressing matter
Get PDFTourism as a social phenomenon is still in a status of ethicality that we hope can be improved. However, we still do not know how to effectively enhance morally guided tourism. It is argued that this knowledge gap is attributed to the absence of an appropriate philosophical underpinning informing the epistemological approaches adopted in ethical tourism studies. In this paper, the author posits that critical realism is a robust and fruitful underlabourer that will help researchers to uncover the ‘deep’ domain of ethical tourism. It is proposed that future research should investigate (1) what structural, cultural, and agential emergent properties of the systemic components of the ethical tourism system are operant, and (2) how a generative mechanism functions to influence, not determine, the moral conduct of tourism stakeholders. By addressing these two areas of knowledge, we will be able to understand how things work in ethical tourism so that we can make changes to enhance its uptake. Some examples are provided to illustrate how a realist inquiry can be carried out. It is hoped this paper will initiate further discussions on theorizing ethicality in tourism
Longitudinal study of ‘retraining’ non-maths specialist teachers to become capable, confident teachers of mathematics
Get PDFOne of the key problems to be solved in mathematics education in England is that the demand for mathematics teachers is far in excess of the supply. Acknowledging that there are simply too few mathematics teachers, the UK government has invested significantly in retraining programmes. These programmes ‘retrain’ out-of-field teachers, that is, teachers of other subjects or from other phases, to teach secondary mathematics. The increased mathematical demand of the reformed GCSE courses coupled with the expectation that most post-16 students will engage with some mathematics (studying for A and AS levels, a Core Maths qualification or re-sitting GCSE) means many more teachers of mathematics will be needed. We consider the viability of a retraining course as an effective way of alleviating the problem of the lack of well qualified teachers for mathematics. In this four-year longitudinal study, we followed teachers during their year of ‘retraining’ and in the succeeding years. Once a participant completes their part-time one-year course, the teacher is considered ‘retrained’. However, we conclude that without ongoing professional development involving collaborative support retraining courses alone can have little impact on the problem of the lack of competent and confident teachers of mathematics in the secondary sector
Restorative retelling for processing psychedelic experiences: rationale and case study of complicated grief
Get PDFRationale: Many psychedelic experiences are meaningful, but ineffable. Engaging in meaning-making regarding emerging symbolic content and changing previous schemas have been proposed as mechanisms of change in psychedelic therapy.
Objective: Firstly, we suggest the implementation of a Restorative Retelling (RR) technique to process and integrate the psychedelic experience into autobiographical memory, in a way that fosters meaning-making. We also show how ayahuasca has the potential to evoke key psychological content in survivors, during the process of grief adjustment following the death of a loved one.
Methods: The rationale for the implementation of RR to process psychedelic experiences and a case study of a woman suffering from Complicated Grief (CG) after her mother’s suicide are presented.
Results: Evaluations conducted before the ayahuasca experience and after RR suggest the effectiveness of ayahuasca and RR in reducing symptoms of CG and psychopathology.
Conclusion: This case report illustrates an effective adaptation of the RR technique for processing the psychedelic experience. The significance of the study and its limitations are discussed
