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it is difficult to find the right way to proceed
Get PDFWhen faced with choices to make regarding an appropriate course of action, there is often a negotiation between a preferred option and the constraints the situation imposes. Sometimes such compromises produce unforeseen results. In it is difficult to find the right way to proceed a labyrinthine collection of material is presented which the pianist must navigate, finding a route between a set of specified points. There are many loops and blockages that disrupt the possible paths, forcing the pianist to split their attention between playing the music and working out how to get to the next point, between thinking and doing
Critical data literacies for good
Get PDFThis chapter offers an illustrative and generative example of a local social and pedagogical problem in a Global South context –students’ engagement with open data for coming up with a climate change solution– to reflect on the importance of understanding the nuance and complex nature of data literacy to transform different aspects of their social reality. This, in turn, opens up a discussion about how and why understanding the complexity of critical data literacy is the foundation of HE for Good
One to One [3-part series]
No full textAuthor and mental health academic Nathan Filer considers the contemporary landscape of internet pornography: what it is, how we live with it and how we can talk to our children about it. Over three candid programmes, he consults comedian and author Sara Pascoe, pornographer Erika Lust, and sex education consultant Justin Hancock
Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his intelligence work: 1702-1708
Get PDFThis article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth-century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative background of Harley's espionage work, and how he handled and processed secret material through his secretarial office. It also explores the cases of some of his secret agents, especially that of the notorious William Greg, who was later exposed as an agent of the French government and cost Harley not only his reputation for astuteness, but his post as Secretary of State. Above all, however, Harley's secretaryship of state shows how by the early eighteenth-century, espionage had become an essential part of the routine of the early modern state
Using mobile technologies to enhance learning and improve student engagement in the dance studio
Get PDFThis collaboration between the dance and learning technology departments at Bath Spa University, sought to develop a dance repertoire module with the use of mobile technologies, in order to enhance collaborative and discursive opportunities for students. The introduction of mobile technologies into a face-to-face teaching environment initiated a blended model of teaching and learning whereby the technology became a partner to the existing practice. The module was taught within the first year of the BA(Hons) Dance course, with 39 female and three male undergraduate students participating over a two-year period.
The purpose of the project was to apply specialist ICT knowledge to teaching spaces, in order to diversify established practices. In light of this purpose, the project design was driven by Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) whereby historically established working methods are brought to question through a new tool; the mobile application ‘Coach’s Eye’. Through the collection of tutor observations, student journals and post-project interviews, it was clear that Coach’s Eye had facilitated a more democratic environment and greater range of activity. The extent to which the addition of technologically-supported learning improved student engagement and enhanced the learning would require further research utilising data designed for that purpose
Ghana ecological risks: a space law and science education approach to the management frameworks
Get PDFThis article discusses what Ghana needs for the development of legal and scientific education programmes to manage framework of biodiversity and the ecosystem. The first part of the article examines literature produced on this topic, which offers many clues about the challenges and opportunities facing Ghana, as well as the lessons that can be learned from both other space nations and actors in this field. When looking at perceptions, the second part explores material taken from ethically approved interviews which were conducted with experts in this field, whilst the third section provides an analysis of data taken from a survey in which respondents were asked targeted questions about Ghana’s space and science education programmes, before summarising the key findings. The findings help to better understand the effect of biodiversity and the ecosystem. Finally, it is recommended that future work is required in the areas of: preserving, sustaining and maintaining biodiversity and the ecosystems; management frameworks for invasive species and biosecurity; management frameworks for environmental degradation and climate change; a management framework that focuses on the fair and equitable access to and sharing of the benefits of biodiversity resources with all communities in Ghana; and assessing and including biodiversity and ecosystem in the development process of space law and science education
Conceptualising discourse: the ancient and modern Greek word of συζητώ - συζητέω (συ+ζητώ) in modern philosophy law
Get PDFThis article undertakes to explain the importance of discourse in the modern
philosophy of law. It conceptualises discourse as a step to the comprehensive
truth of a phenomenon, which does not exist in most forms of modern methods.
Therefore, modern philosophy of law must be sought through a vigorous
application of the method of discourse in deducing the diversity of truth-seeking
in modern legal doctrine and the application of law in contemporary society. In
this article, the author endeavours to systemise that discourse is capable of
comprehending a single absolute fact in legal doctrine and law, which is
necessary to produce the exact procedures in society. Thus, discourse unfolds
the relationship between the known and the unknown into a philosophical
principle. It is then conceivable that discourse by its deduction creates societal
forms and substances for the investigator to understand the true form and
nature of law in society
Methodological guide and case studies
No full textBSU Project Manager Ian Gadd and Academic Lead Jenny Dunseath led on the methodological guide and case studies section of the event, which included work by Dr Matt Freeman, Jonathan Kelham supported by Aimee Lax, and Jon Warmington