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No full textWhat will the future look like for disabled people? How will we think of disability in the context of posthuman thinking and scientific advances that will enable us to create human / technology hybrids? The D4D team did a call-out for contributions in the form of artwork, photographs, short prose pieces, short stories, poetry, reflections about places, spaces or artefacts, manifestos for the future. The general theme related from general expectations about the future to concerns and hopes around our own lives
Charles Lamb, Captain Starkey and the eccentrics of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: a lecture for Richard Terry
Get PDFMusic and time: psychology, philosophy, practice
No full textHow does music manifest through time and, simultaneously, how does time manifest through music?
For the experimental psychologist, the experience of time during music listening or performance is something that may be studied empirically. For philosophers, fundamental questions of time continue to be the subject of ongoing debate in philosophy: is time linear? What are past, present and future? What is duration and what makes a perceptual present, or moment? For the performer, musical time can exist as a subjective vehicle of expression. Although any of the three could be chosen as a starting point, the order presented in the text's structure offers a journey from empiricism to application, via contemplation
Engaging trainee teachers with neuroscience and cognitive psychology
Get PDFInitial teacher education (ITE) needs to respond to the huge increase in research in
neuroscience that informs our understanding of learning. Educational applications of cognitive
psychology, in particular from the field of memory, are strongly evident in government policy documents
in England, but as yet the wider contribution of educational neuroscience is not explicit. ITE needs to
open trainee teachers’ thinking to these perspectives and what can be learned from them, but also
needs to examine them critically and in relation to other forms of educational knowledge and aims.
This article explains how one university is taking an interdisciplinary approach to this challenge to
develop their ITE curriculum
Packaging prenatal tests and information for pregnant women: enhancement or dilution of informational interests?
No full textThis chapter considers the contingent use of prenatal DNA tests for anomaly pregnancy screening and examines the informational and ethical implications of different test variants for pregnant women. The focus is on the recall and reflex test variants. The recall method uses a two-stage screening process, whereby higher risk patients are recalled for the option of stage 2 DNA or invasive testing. The reflex method retains a separate blood sample at stage 1, which is automatically used for DNA testing if the stage 1 markers identify a higher risk case. Here the patient receives an amalgam of the test results from both stages in a single data report. The question is whether these different packaging variants have any implications for the informational interests of pregnant women
Loot box spending is associated with problem gambling but not mental wellbeing
Get PDFThere are emerging concerns that loot boxes—digital video game items that can be purchased for a chance at randomized rewards—are associated with problematic gambling behaviours and, in turn, are potentially harmful. Current research suggests consistent correlations between loot box spending (LS) and problematic gambling symptomology; however, little research has looked at relationships with mental wellbeing. Here, we used a Bayesian hypothesis testing framework to assess the relative strength of evidence for relationships between LS, excessive gaming, problem gambling, mental wellbeing and psychological distress. Two thousand seven hundred twenty-eight participants who reported playing games containing loot box mechanics in the past month answered a survey assessing the above measures, as well as other forms of digital spending. The results showed extremely strong evidence for a positive correlation between LS and problem gambling; however, there was no evidence to suggest relationships between such spending and mental wellbeing or psychological distress. Exploratory results suggested that individuals who spend money on loot boxes also spend more across a range of digital purchases generally. The findings highlight an urgent need to understand what constitutes harm when considering LS effects and provide further context for discussions regarding how best to regulate such mechanisms
Examining barriers to participation in further and continuing education in Germany: why a regional perspective is (still) important
Get PDFFurther and continuing education is not only important for individual employability, but also for regional development. Therefore, improving participation in further and continuing education and removing barriers to participation are key concerns of regional education governance. The present study was conducted in a peripheral region of Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany, where the annual participation rate in continuing education is relatively low compared to other geographic areas in Germany. This quantitative study was designed to understand: (1) To what extent do adult learners engage in continuing education within their habitual lifelong learning process? (2) Which circumstantial factors influence their participation in continuing education? And (3) What are the barriers hindering their participation? The authors found that for two-thirds of adult learners, a precondition for their enrolment in a continuing education course was the satisfaction of both work-related and private life-related factors. The authors’ findings point towards the need for flexible study programmes which learners can fit to the demands of their work and life
The voice behind the curtain: Hollywood, the metamodern and the sense of loss & Dinosaurs: a novel
Get PDFThis thesis will reflect upon specific narrative structures, and the application of narrative devices, explored in the creation of my novel Dinosaurs. The object of this research is to examine the effects/affects of these creative choices within a critical framework using comparative texts and films that employ similar techniques or share, to my eye, similar aesthetic and thematic concerns that could be said to interrupt a habituative reading of the novel form. The central focus of this thesis will be to examine how effective I have been in creating empathy towards a misogynistic, solipsistic protagonist who has little regard for the people in his life, or society at large. As with Meursault, Walter exhibits signs of anomie that prevent him from engaging with the world in a meaningful way, and thus excuse his behaviour by a process of sophisticated self-rationalisation.
As the novel progresses, there are questions surrounding Walter’s perception of reality: of who is narrating the novel and from what point of view are we experiencing the narrative. This raises questions of male identity and selfhood predominant in contextual works from the 80s and 90s within this thesis, while also examining the schizophrenic nature of certain texts. I intend to explore the effectiveness of distancing my subject as a means of creating empathy. This technique of a narrator perceived at a distance from subject to create a sense of danger can be seen in several of my comparative texts and bares exploration in terms of its application to a single individual. By examining contemporary novels and films that have experimented with various postmodern and metamodern techniques, I hope to understand how specific characteristics of such fiction negotiate the space between signifier and signified, and thus afford an opportunity for a discourse between reader and text that occupies a space outside of the narrative. I am also aware that much of my contextual fiction is based in the 90s and focuses, it seems, on the fragility of the male ego. I have therefore experimented with certain references and technologies within my novel that deliberately blur time in order to reflect similar themes that might serve to critique the male ego and highlight a lack of emotional progression within my own protagonist
