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The subject of Britain: 1603-25
No full textThe subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood. This book traces writing on Britain and Britishness in succession literature, panegyric, Union tracts and treatises, play-texts and atlases. Focusing on texts printed in London and Edinburgh, as well as manuscript material that circulated within and across Britain and Ireland, this book sheds valuable light on texts in relation to the wider geopolitical context that informed their production. Combining literary criticism with political analysis and book history, The subject of Britain offers a fresh approach to a significant moment in British history, and will appeal to postgraduates and undergraduates of early modern British literary history
The time is now: addressing missed opportunities for Special Educational Needs Support and Coordination in our schools
No full textIn September 2018, the National Education Union (NEU), nasen and Bath Spa University conducted a joint research project exploring the workload of Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCO) in schools. The National SENCO Workload Survey received over 1900 responses and led to the publication of the report, 'It’s about time: The impact of SENCO workload on the professional and the school' (Curran et al., 2018).
The research team undertook a review of the survey in October 2019, with the aim of exploring whether the report had impacted on SENCOs and, as a consequence, outcomes for children with additional needs. The review also explored the current issues and priorities SENCOs, and others, have identified in relation to the development of Special Educational Needs (SEN) in their settings. The review received over 1800 responses. This report sets out the key findings, and related recommendations, from the review
workshop-word-work
No full textFirst showing of workshop-word-work - a video document of a performative-making-trialogue, between Bruce McLean, Dr Conor Wilson and Richard Winfield (Tuesday 24 July 2018). The artists respond to the video and the trialogue transcript during video playback
It's not too late to do the right thing: moral motivations for climate change action
No full textWhile it is too late to avert some dangerous consequences of climate change, it is not “all-or-nothing” and our actions can still make a difference. Building on social psychology research showing the importance of seeing one's group as moral, one reason people act on climate change is to help create a more moral and caring society. Considering climate change action through this lens gives rise to several challenges, including how people respond to moral threats, who has moral standing as advocates, the consequences of promoting a moral cause through “immoral” actions (e.g., breaking the law), and moral “blind spots” where some emitting behaviors are excluded from scrutiny. Reviewing social psychological bases for these issues suggests potential responses to these challenges, including the importance of engaging people with diverse views and backgrounds (e.g., through citizens' assemblies), advisory personal carbon budgets, and broad-based policies that aim to secure the social well-being of communities as well as the protect the environment (e.g., a Green New Deal). Encouragingly, a recent study suggests that many people are more ready than we might assume to accept the types of changes urgently needed
Accelerating change: engaging local communities in disaster risk reduction in the Indian Himalayan region
No full textA science policy briefing paper from academics in Bath (UK) and Almora (India). This details the problem of increasing disaster risk in mountain regions alongside a gap in local community engagement. The briefing calls for a shift in emphasis, which fosters inclusive community engagement, and takes better account of local knowledge in disaster risk reduction. Specific recommendations are: (i) revision of State and District disaster management plans; (ii) implementation of comprehensive awareness campaigns; and (iii) programmes to capture the diversity of local knowledge
Counterculture, local authorities and British Christianity at the Windsor and Watchfield Free Festivals (1972–5)
No full textFour free pop festivals, held in Windsor and Watchfield in 1972–75, attracted significant public attention. This article discusses the aims and ideals of the festivalgoers, the confused reactions of the authorities, the ambivalence of the Anglican Church and the hostility of some conservative groups. We argue that the free festivals mark an important stage in the constitution of the counterculture and that they created a model which later pop festivals (in particular Glastonbury) attempt to emulate. We show that themes relating to a revival of the pilgrimage experience became important markers of this new type of event, shifting the emphasis from political protest to a memorialized and performative activism
Understanding empathy through a study of autistic life writing: on the importance of neurodiverse morality
Get PDFThis chapter provides a critique of medical and literary writing about autism that maintains it is characterised by empathy deficits and, as a result, leads to morally challenged lives, both for the autistic person and those around them. It draws on a sample of writings by autistic authors, which shows both that autistic individuals recognise themselves to be capable of empathy, and, that their moral lives are represented as equally rich and complex as those of any other group of humans. This contrasts with dominant science writing on autism and empathy, which relies on a foreshortened sense of the latter and implies that there is a benchmark psychological makeup that is both morally valuable and commonplace – and of which autistic people are commonly assumed to fall short. This epistemic assumption is questioned.
While I focus on moral considerations, what I say has implications for the ethics of conventional autism theory. Psychologists who reinforce an essentialist idea of autism in relation to supposed empathy deficits obscure the broader social and environmental contexts in which different configurations of empathy occur in all humans. This recentring of autistic – and neurodivergent – morality, is an essential next step for the neurodiversity paradigm