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Changing the game in English religious education: 1971 and 2018
No full textIn this chapter, Cush re-examines Schools Council Working Paper 36 (Schools Council 1971), subsequently recognised to be a ‘game-changing’ moment in English religious education (RE), shaping RE for decades and still influential today. Proposals of the ‘working paper’ are explored, as well as some of the criticisms that have been made of both the document and Smart’s ‘phenomenological’ approach to RE which it endorsed. To some extent defending both the working paper and Smart, she also recognises the many developments in both the religious landscape and academic study of religion which necessitate a new ‘game-changing’ move in English RE. Could the recommendations of the Commission on RE (CoRE 2018) mark the beginning of a new era for RE in England
One discipline, many methods? Part 2
No full textA contribution to the debate about disciplines in religious education/religion and worldviews
The authority of women's 'ordinary' experience: Peggy Morgan and the teaching of Buddhism in schools
No full textThis article celebrates the outstanding contribution made by Peggy Morgan to enabling the teaching of Buddhism in UK schools. Peggy was a pioneer in this cause, creating a convincing rationale for including Buddhism in the religious education curriculum, making academic scholarship accessible to teachers without oversimplifying it, drawing on lived religion as well as texts, and addressing the lack of resources by creating them herself. She has persevered through the decades with both her own work and supporting that of others in this cause. Following a personal reminiscence about our first meeting, I look at some of Peggy’s important written contributions. As well as Peggy’s extensive scholarship, it is the way that she can draw upon her lived experience as a teacher, tutor and lecturer, her experience of getting to know many Buddhists from different traditions, and of befriending other scholars and teachers that make her such an authority in this field, and one whom we are all immensely proud to call a friend as well as colleague
Construction waste minimization: a narrative review
Get PDFColossal growth of construction waste (CW) generation worldwide, and its consequential environmental and economic impact, has ensured that construction waste minimization (CWM) practice is critical. Notably, the largest proportion of waste generation that can be actively reduced within the sector lies within the construction/on-site activities stage. As such, a number of waste minimization approaches have been utilized during construction, targeted to reduce/eliminate waste with the aim to support a more sustainable construction agenda. This article provides a narrative review of related literature published in leading journals in Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science databases, to understand the fundamentals of CW and to investigate CWM implementation levels and barriers during the construction stage. This will aid in identifying research gaps for future studies and highlight key findings that will help researchers and construction industry practitioners to understand the principles of, and the need for, CWM, as well as the challenges facing its effective implementation in construction projects
The value of postdigital humans as objects, or subjects, in McDonaldised society
No full textPostdigital human encounters could be said to take shape differently depending on how they are either subjectively valued or objectively evaluated. Digital technologies and humans are now intimately intertwined with shared and sometimes equal capabilities to perform human tasks. Yet still it may be argued that different disciplinary identities prevent computing and the humanities from being thought of as equivalent. Over many decades, humans and computers have been objectively evaluated in McDonaldised society, via rational language and measures where computing techniques are simply applied to improve productivity. Since the Covid-19 lockdown, people have described more personal and subjective digital encounters from their homes, with their virtual identities growing as their physical presence has diminished. This chapter speculates on whether new postdigital positionalities are emerging that might finally challenge more dominant, rational interpretations of what computing means in individual lives. If so, perhaps a more subjective analysis of these new forms of postdigital participation will bring the humanities into computing, instead of vice versa. This could help to reveal the unique positionality in each individual postdigital human encounter, where subjective self-description may now be seen to be more appropriate than objective rationality
Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and freedom of expression: the EU’s online dilemma
Get PDFThis chapter focuses on one of the most heavily disputed legislative acts in the EU history, the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. When it comes to the online enforcement of the IP rights, it is essential to strike the fair balance between fundamental rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular, the freedom of expression, and the right to property, including intellectual property. Thus, this will paper will investigate the negative outcomes of Article 17 by examining the incompatibilities of content recognition and filtering technologies with the freedom of expression under Article 10 of Charter. Also, it will critically examine the safeguards introduced by the CDSM Directive against Article 17’s obligations and suggest a number of necessary safeguards. This paper is based on the in-depth analysis of primary sources like EU legislation: Article 17 of the CDSM Directive with its Recitals 61 and 70; Article 15 of the E-Commerce Directive with its Recitals 47 and 48, Recital 59 and Articles 8 and 15 of The InfoSoc Directive; Article 11 and Article 52 of the EU Charter of Fundamental rights; Article10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); and relevant case law of the CJEU and ECtHR, along with recent academic sources
The role of rhizofiltration and allelopathy on the removal of cyanobacteria in a continuous flow system
No full textA continuous flow filtration system was designed to identify and quantify the removal mechanisms of Cyanobacteria (Microcystis aeruginosa) by hydroponic biofilters of Phalaris arundinacea compared to synthetic filters. The filtration units were continuously fed under plug-flow conditions with Microcystis grown in photobioreactors. Microcystis cells decreased at the two flow rates studied (1.2 ± 0.2 and 54 ± 3 cm3 minˉ1) and results suggested physical and chemical/biological removal mechanisms were involved. Physical interception and deposition was the main removal mechanism with packing density of the media driving the extent of cell removal at high flow, whilst physical and chemical/biological mechanisms were involved at low flow. At low flow, the biofilters decreased Microcystis cell numbers by 70% compared to the controls. The decrease in cell numbers in the biofilters was accompanied by a chlorotic process (loss of green colour), suggesting oxidative processes by the release of allelochemicals from the biofilters
