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Effective partnership with parents
No full textThis chapter draws on current research highlighting the optimum conditions contributing to successful parent partnership. It includes contributions from practitioners who have developed their own effective parent partnership process, including the difference this process has made for their shared support for their children. This chapter finishes with a summary of the key points to provide a takeaway for readers
Residual mass-independently fractionated oxygen present in solids accreted during planetesimal formation in the early Solar System: potential evidence from main group pallasites
No full textRefractory Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) in chondritic meteorites, the oldest known solids in the Solar System, are characterised by ‘mass-independently fractionated’ (MIF) oxygen isotopic compositions, with δ17O variations approximately equal to those of δ18O. The apparent absence of this characteristic from nearly all other oxygen-bearing constituents of early-formed asteroids, together with the brief formation interval for CAIs, indicates that the process responsible was localised and of short duration in the context of Solar System evolution. From reassessing a recent study of main group pallasite meteorites, it is argued that the oxygen isotopic compositions of their coexisting olivine and chromite potentially provide evidence that a minor component of solids containing MIF oxygen was accreted during formation of the parent planetesimal, or its precursors, shortly after CAI formation. Modelling indicates that a contribution of ∼1.6 ± 0.3 % conforming to δ17O ∼ δ18O – γ, for γ assigned as –1.21 or –3.45 (from literature data) is consistent with the reported measurements. If true, and the pallasite olivine and chromite derived from the mantle of an impacted planetesimal and the IIIAB parent body respectively, as proposed elsewhere, then a ‘residual’ MIF oxygen component must have been present in solids accreted by those early planetesimals, probably in the same feeder zone. A testable prediction is that such residual MIF oxygen may similarly have been accreted in more early-formed planetesimals than recognised hitherto. If so, its presence should be detectable from comparable measurements of coexisting oxygen-bearing minerals in the associated meteorites, subject to the δ18O range being of sufficient magnitude
<i>From legitimate to illegitimate violence</i>: Violations of the experimenter's instructions in Stanley Milgram's “obedience to authority” studies
Get PDFStanley Milgram's Obedience to authority experiments are widely known to have demonstrated the human proclivity to follow violent orders coming from a legitimate authority. The present paper examines the extent to which Milgram's participants, during the obedient phase of their sessions, did in fact follow the full set of instructions that was given by the experimenter: a recursive sequence of procedures in a fake laboratory experiment on “Memory and learning.” Results show that while participants did not fail to administer electric shocks, (1) no entirely “fully obedient” participant fully obeyed the procedures Milgram's experimenter instructed them to do; (2) violations of the procedures occurred on average 48.4% of the time in “fully obedient” sessions; and (3) violations occurred significantly more frequently in “fully obedient” than in the obedient phase of “disobedient” sessions. In sum, in sessions traditionally regarded as fully obedient legitimate violence got to a substantial extent transformed into illegitimate violence. The paper concludes with the possibility that, the context of illegitimate violence that has been constructed implicitly by the experimenter constituted a coercive environment and thus made a causal contribution to obedient participants' inability to resist the experimenter to the point of disobedience
Conferences as heterotopic spaces: gendered subjectivity, academic legitimacy, and the politics of participation
No full textAspects of gender have received limited critical attention in the literature on conferences, particularly regarding how these events are experienced. This paper brings together an example of women academics’ participation in international conferences with a critical investigation of their experiences in relation to established notions of academic identity. Using Foucault’s concept of heterotopias as a theoretical lens and collaborative autoethnography as a method, we explore three dimensions shaping the gendering of academic work: the commodification of scholarly work, discourses of participation and legitimacy, and thresholds of academic roles. In doing so, we reflect on our own experiences and examine how academic norms and subjectivities are expressed, reinforced, or contested. The paper concludes with a call to action, urging both individuals and institutions to engage in relational work that problematizes existing practices and co-constructs more equitable spaces for academic becoming
A more collaborative way of governing? Lessons from Australia and Canada for the UK’s Council of the Nations and Regions
Get PDFOne of the first acts of Sir Keir Starmer’s government was to establish the Council of the Nations and Regions, a potentially landmark innovation in the United Kingdom’s model of territorial government. As of autumn 2025, the Council has met twice. Drawing on lessons from more established intergovernmental structures and relations in Australia and Canada, this article demonstrates how this forum could fill a gap in the United Kingdom’s territorial government, which has historically lacked mechanisms for genuine collaboration. We conducted interviews with key stakeholders from all levels of government, analysed UK and international policy and practice, and identified several challenges and opportunities raised by the establishment of the Council. These include the need for more transparency about UK government’s dual role as the central government and de facto government of England; the need to differentiate between devolution as delivery versus a structure for policy autonomy and learning; and the importance of political good-will. This will be crucial in a period of greater political divergence across the UK’s administrations. We argue there is real potential for the Council of the Nations and Regions to shift the UK towards a more collaborative form of territorial government, encouraging co-operation between and across its governing authorities
Swiss trainee teachers know more about transgender topics but think more positively about intersex people
No full textTransgender and intersex people experience significant social discrimination related to psychological distress. Creating safe school environments and improving attitudes towards trans and intersex people through education are therefore essential. This study investigated Swiss trainee teachers’ (1) knowledge, (2) affective, behavioural, and cognitive attitudes, and (3) predictors of their attitudes towards trans and intersex people. Participants (N = 316) were randomly assigned to complete equivalent items about either trans or intersex issues. Several measures showed that the trainee teachers knew more about trans than intersex issues. Overall, their attitudes were positive towards both groups, but cognitive attitudes were significantly more positive towards intersex people. Hierarchical regression analyses found that lower endorsement of sex and gender binary beliefs most strongly predicted positive attitudes towards both trans and intersex people, underscoring the need for educational interventions that target these binary beliefs. We discuss the implications of these findings for inclusive schooling, taking into account the needs of sex and gender diverse young people
Picturing bodies in medieval and early modern Europe: 'What, then, is everyone writing about?'
Get PDFThis opening essay establishes the rationale and scope of the present issue, which examines how bodies were visually constituted in Europe across the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the notion of images as mere representations, the essays explore how artworks and other forms of visual culture actively shaped, perpetuated and challenged ideas of embodiment. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, contributors investigate the dynamic interplay between the physical and the visual, considering how images informed practices of veneration, medicalisation and sensation, as well as the conceptual boundaries between materiality and representation. By foregrounding the formative role of visualisation in the history of bodies, this collection demonstrates the necessity of interdisciplinary methods for understanding the complex entwinement of images and corporeality in premodern Europe
From Shallow Discourse to Structured Deliberation: The BCause Approach
No full textWe demonstrate BCause, an innovative discussion platform that leverages AI to transform unstructured online dialogue into structured, actionable democratic processes. This interactive demonstration showcases three key innovations: (1) automated transcript analysis and transformation into argumentative format using Large Language Models, (2) intelligent feedback aggregation and argument mining capabilities, and (3) automated reporting with customisable visualisation widgets. The platform exemplifies human-AI collaboration by preserving critical human oversight while leveraging AI’s processing capabilities to enhance deliberation quality, reduce group bias, and improve sensemaking in online discussions
Unruly Modernity: Reconciling Modernity and Decolonisation in Migration Theory
Get PDFThis paper uses unruly modernity as a way of reconciling modernity and decolonisation in migration theory. Migration theory has adopted aspirations and capability as two underpinning concepts for explaining migration. Drawing on empirical research these aspirations and capabilities are usually set within modernity and describe modernity as a driver, condition and/or result of migration. At the same time, another group of migration researchers aims to divest migration thinking from the shackles of modernity, pointing to the different entanglements of coloniality and migration, in terms of migration processes, the topics studied and the peopling of migration research. I call this the coloniality of migration, coloniality in migration and coloniality and migration respectively. These researchers argue for stepping away from modernity/coloniality, to decolonise migration research. Given the centrality of modernity to migration processes and theorisation, how do we decolonise migration theory? This paper deploys unruly modernity as a way of bringing these two perspectives together. Unruly suggests that as modernity and migration are linked, we should explore the inherent plurality of modernity through counter‐hegemonic, alternative and hybrid modernities to decolonise migration theory. Unruly also points to the disruptive ways in which modernity may be lived. It thus offers us the opportunity to disorder the coloniality‐modernity argument to reorder migration theory. The paper outlines how unruly modernities can be operationalised through reflexivity, arguing that one implication of unruliness is that we must analyse reflexivity as a tool among those whom we research and not only that of researchers