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TALIS video study and professional development
No full textThe Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) Video Study, run by the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provides new
information on the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools across the eight
participating countries/economies: Biobío, Metropolitana and Valparaíso (Chile),
Colombia, England (UK), Germany1, Kumagaya, Shizuoka and Toda (Japan), Madrid
(Spain), Mexico, and Shanghai (China). Later in the report these regions are referred to
by country name only. Data collection was conducted in England between October 2017
and October 2018. The TALIS Video Study complements the existing TALIS and
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) studies by providing additional
evidence on classroom processes, drawing on direct measures of classroom teaching
and instruction. By looking directly into the classroom through video-recorded
observation and lesson artefact collection, the TALIS Video Study addresses some of the
limitations of using teacher self-reported data. The study aims to provide new and rich
information about classroom processes and practices and contributes to current
understanding of how they are related to student learning and other outcomes. The
Department for Education (DfE) commissioned Education Development Trust and the
University of Oxford to conduct the TALIS Video Study in England
The Drawing Bureau: an overview with notes toward an event
Get PDF'Drawing Bureau' was a project presented at the exhibition 'Centre of Gravity', which took place between October 2nd and November 1st, 2020, at the former Gardiner Haskins building, now The Soapworks, in Bristol
Inside the human remains store: the impact of repatriation on museum practice in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThe repatriation of the human remains of Indigenous people collected within a colonial context has been the subject of controversy and debate within UK museums over the last thirty years. Although the main focus of the debates has been the arguments for and against return, the discussions have also formed part of a wider social dialogue about human remains and body parts that has raised questions around consent and the dead as objects of display. These ongoing debates about the display of remains, and the engagement with alternative narratives precipitated by repatriation claims, has led to a reconsideration of all human remains held in UK museum collections, something that was both influenced by, and contributed to, the development of New Museology and a broader re-articulation of museum ethics. The result of this process has been guidelines and human remains policies that have respectful treatment at their core, however this is such a contextual concept it has proved difficult to link ideology to practice. Therefore to gain a better understanding of the impacts of repatriation on museum practice this paper departs from the discussions that focus on policy and the display of human remains to instead consider human remains within UK museum stores and the meanings that they hold for the people that work with them. Incorporating field diary entries and interview extracts from my research in five UK museums, this paper builds on recent on work in cultural geography and museum studies on materiality and the relations between people, things, practices and buildings. By comparing and contrasting how human remains are conceptualised and treated with respect across the different institutions the multiplicity of competing and cohering meanings are revealed. This focus on materiality allows the simplistic framing of human remains as ‘objects’ or ‘ancestors’ to be left behind, enabling the agency of the remains themselves, and the impact repatriation has had on that agency, to be made explict
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and media culture
No full textThis thesis explores the context of media culture in mid-twentieth-century America alongside pertinent examples in the poetry and prose of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Through an exploration of the development of print advertising, radio and television, it aims to elucidate how these articles intersect with Sexton and Plath's poetry and prose. Media culture encompasses both media products and media technologies, and products such as radio and television programmes, print and televisual advertisements, comic strips, and brand characters are discussed alongside media objects like the television and radio set. I trace the appearance of these artefacts in the literature, demonstrating that, taken together, these cultural and literary texts form a nuanced and multifaceted dialogue with the contemporaneous social, political and intellectual situation in America. This represents a new intervention in Plath and Sexton studies, and one which builds upon recent developments in literary criticism.
In this work, I take a chronological approach to media in the twentieth century, exploring debates around media audiences, media consumption, and new technologies, and use media cultural theory to offer new readings of the poets' work. A particular focus on gender construction, enculturation and audience across both literature and media reveals the ways in which both forms subvert and challenge societal and gendered conventions, and demonstrates that the literary texts form an intertextual, or transmedial, dialogue with cultural artefacts. As a final investigation, I examine the digital afterlives of Sexton and Plath in relation to transmedia storytelling, and social media culture
Sympathy for the devil: Faust, history and poetics in my novels
No full textI explore the devil's paradox, of acting for the bad and causing the opposite, and how my protagonists, intending good, are drawn to the dark following a Faustian bargain, amid themes of authoritarianism, rebellion and war, described from an absurdist perspective with black humour, a synthesis I show breaks new ground. I discuss my work in the context of Faust, historically my post-colonial perspective and the tropes and methodologies I employ, and poetics. I consider 'Wild About Harry' (1985) and 'The Blue Gate of Babylon' (1989) in separate chapters and then the remaining four novels, 'Perfect English' (1986), 'Charlie Peace' (1991), 'The Leopard's Wife' (2010) and 'Over the Rainbow' (2011 ), and explain the direction of new work, all in the framework of my influences with reference to two important Faustian novels, 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov (Glenny translation, 1967) and 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov (1955). I show how my fiction further reveals the destructive protagonist and links with major psychological studies, for example 'The Authoritarian Personality', Adorno et al, Berkeley (1950). I discuss the poetics of my work from the importance of colour to the humour needed to achieve my particular style
The embodied nature of physical literacy: interconnectedness of lived experience and meaning
Get PDFThis article discusses the embodied nature of physical literacy with specific attention given to the interconnectedness of embodiment, lived experience, and meaning (assemblage). Through the exploration of these concepts, it is possible to understand how physical literacy is centered on monist, existential, and phenomenological philosophical schools of thought
Feminism's critique of the Anthropocene
Get PDFThe Anthropocene is the new designation for our current geological epoch in which human activity has decisively altered earth ecosystems and the fossil record in ways that will be measurable by the geologists of our uncertain future. This chapter investigates the relationship between feminist thinking and the Anthropocene, establishing the gendered dimensions of environmental crisis, and considering how feminist thinkers have approached a range of ‘environment’ topics, including feminised constructions of ‘Nature’; the masculinism of capitalism, technology, science, and environmentalism; and the colonial erasures of the ‘Anthropocene’. This critical work is part of a long-tradition of intersectional environmental activism, which intersects with wider gender-rights campaigns, including reproductive rights and health, autonomy and equality, representation and participation, struggles against class oppression and racism, and feminist and queer critiques of militarisation, extractionism, and colonialism. Ultimately, new feminist understandings of the Anthropocene investigate and further intersectional ecological activism and seek to improve the material conditions of women’s lives
Barriers to transformation towards participatory adaptation decision-making: lessons from the Cork flood defences dispute
Get PDFThis paper analyses the causes and consequences of public participation failures in flood hazards management and the important lessons they offer for climate change adaptation. Despite the potential for participatory adaptation decision-making, scholarship on adaptation has remained largely separate from the literature on participatory environmental governance. This paper brings these literatures into conversation by applying the concept of transformation to both adaptation outcomes and adaptation decision-making. Through an examination of a disputed flood relief scheme in Cork, Ireland this paper develops three main arguments. (1) It demonstrates the need for analytical approaches which recognise that what constitutes transformative adaptation will vary depending on the definitions of transformation that are used, the contexts in which these definitions are applied, and the perspectives of local stakeholders. (2) It argues that by producing an intractable conflict and damaging the reputation of the organisations responsible for hazards management, public participation failures create formidable new barriers to transformative adaptation outcomes. (3) It concludes that incremental changes to the decision-making process will prove insufficient to overcome these barriers. In order to facilitate more effective public participation in hazards management and climate change adaptation, much wider change in hazards management policy and resourcing will be required