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DOES INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION AFFECT TEACHER CANDIDATE BELIEFS ABOUT EQUITY AND DIVERSITY?: DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE TEACHER CANDIDATE BELIEFS ABOUT EQUITY AND DIVERSITY MEASURE
No full textAbstract
What teacher candidates believe â and whether those beliefs change during their initial
teacher education â has important implications for their future students. In this three paper
dissertation, the first two papers describe the development, refinement, and psychometric
properties testing of the Teacher Candidate Beliefs about Equity and Diversity (TCBED)
measure. The TCBED was designed to answer the main research question â does initial
teacher education (ITE) affect teacher candidate beliefs about equity and diversity? The third
paper presents the findings from administering the TCBED at the beginning and ending of an
initial teacher education (ITE) program. More than 150 teacher candidates attending a large
one-year consecutive ITE program in 2012-2013 answered the TCBED measure at both the
beginning and end of the program. Most teacher candidates had moderately to very positive
beliefs about teaching for social justice, their equity and diversity beliefs, and their sense of selfefficacy regarding teaching for social justice, and showed little change in their beliefs. To better
understand the teacher candidates who did not fit this pattern, several who had consistently low
scores across parts of the TCBED measure and across time or who varied in their scores were
selected for closer analysis of their responses to open-ended items on the TCBED measure. In
general, the ideas teacher candidates wrote about did not change over time except to show
some development of already expressed beliefs. Implications of the findings and usefulness of
the TCBED measure are discussed.Ph.D
DOES INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION AFFECT TEACHER CANDIDATE BELIEFS ABOUT EQUITY AND DIVERSITY?: DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE TEACHER CANDIDATE BELIEFS ABOUT EQUITY AND DIVERSITY MEASURE
No full textAbstract
What teacher candidates believe â and whether those beliefs change during their initial
teacher education â has important implications for their future students. In this three paper
dissertation, the first two papers describe the development, refinement, and psychometric
properties testing of the Teacher Candidate Beliefs about Equity and Diversity (TCBED)
measure. The TCBED was designed to answer the main research question â does initial
teacher education (ITE) affect teacher candidate beliefs about equity and diversity? The third
paper presents the findings from administering the TCBED at the beginning and ending of an
initial teacher education (ITE) program. More than 150 teacher candidates attending a large
one-year consecutive ITE program in 2012-2013 answered the TCBED measure at both the
beginning and end of the program. Most teacher candidates had moderately to very positive
beliefs about teaching for social justice, their equity and diversity beliefs, and their sense of selfefficacy regarding teaching for social justice, and showed little change in their beliefs. To better
understand the teacher candidates who did not fit this pattern, several who had consistently low
scores across parts of the TCBED measure and across time or who varied in their scores were
selected for closer analysis of their responses to open-ended items on the TCBED measure. In
general, the ideas teacher candidates wrote about did not change over time except to show
some development of already expressed beliefs. Implications of the findings and usefulness of
the TCBED measure are discussed.Ph.D
Sumatran tigres monitoring during ZSL London zoo events (panthera tigris Sumatrae)
No full textThe main focus of this research is to investigate the response of five Sumatran tigers in the zoo
environment, during evening events. Animal response is behavioural as well as physiological and the
zoo environment includes climatic, intraspecific and interspecific contact factors that can vary
significantly from the in-situ habitat where the species evolved. Monitoring these responses is
essential to animal welfare and offer insight of the species’ behaviour and ex-situ adaptability,
producing valuable data relevant for their husbandry. For this project, we monitored a group of five
Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) comparing their behaviour during evening social events
(Zoo late Nights and Sunset Safari) and control evening during Summer 2014 and 2015. Tiger
behaviour was monitored using focal animal sampling technique, crowd level around tiger enclosure
recorded every minute, flash photography as it occurred, and noise levels (maximum and minimum
levels) every five minutes using a portable decibel reader. In order to evaluate the potential
disturbance of the aforementioned factors on tigers, the probability of changing a zone of a subject in
the 9-minute period of observation was analysed by a logistic regression model. Direct observations
indicate that the behaviour of these species was not significantly altered on Zoo Lates while the
logistic model applied underlined the significance impact of several variables on the displacement of
subjects. In particular, the total camera flashes and the maximum decibels resulted statistically
significant, whereas the minimum decibels were borderline for significance. Qualitative variables
(subject, crowd, and year) did not influence the displacement, although a slight difference between
subjects was observed. The distribution of the subjects on the zones for the three degrees of crowd
was analysed by the chi-square test. This study outlines the importance of monitoring animal
behaviour during potential stressing events and individual response to environment stimuli
The theatre of promiscuity : a comparative study of the dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker
No full textThe word 'artist serves as a pivot to the major concerns of this study. Consideration of its application and meaning in relation to contemporary society facilitates a detailed exploration and analysis of selected dramatic writings by Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker. The comparative nature of this work begins by charting the parallel journeys of these writers - within widely differing cultural contexts - from a critique of social determinations which serve to define and bound authorial intent to a process of "promiscuous" self-definition whereby the artistic imagination is used to name and designate a specific relationship to the cultural and social structures within which their work will be received.
Working from a theoretical base which, in the case of Soyinka, finds its foundations in critique and commentary upon nationalist discourse, and in the case of Barker,
rests upon contemporary critiques of Enlightenment reason, the study debates their development of theatrical form within both social and cultural contexts. Emphasis is
placed upon the relationship of the author to the dramatic text, the creation of character and the defined channels of communication through which dramatic performance is to be received by the spectator. The concept of 'transgression' is
explored as a key principle by which to define the 'theatrical' as opposed to the 'social' text.
Chapters Four and Five link the work of Howard Barker and Wole Soyinka through the application of Nietzschean philosophy, with especial emphasis being placed upon
the concept of genealogical history, the creation of the aesthetic, and the consideration of 'tragedy' as a means by which to offer resistant critique to the social
imperative of national citizenship as a badge and boundary to identity. The formation of the 'tragic' or 'catastrophic' individual is explored through key dramatic texts, thus allowing dramatic form the status of a discourse in its own right.
Throughout the study an attempt is made to develop an argument which allows the artist to be distinguished as one who speaks to his nation, rather than for his nation.
With regard to the work of Barker and Soyinka this has involved both the exposure and exploration of a theatrical space unmapped by social cartography, and a peopling
of the stage with creations who could be described as 'ethical' rather than 'political' individuals
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
No full textMaurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Ghosts: Perception, Painting, and the Index
No full textHow does one form a meaningful, generative understanding of the one’s surroundings in contemporary society? Currently, social media and portable electronics appear to serve widely as methods of filtering and segmenting the world around us into easily consumable portions. What is at stake in this kind of mediation and what role can visual art take in encouraging the formulation of knowledge based on primary, rather than prescribed, modes of perception? This paper examines the potential of primary experience in daily life and the hypothesis that modes of perception normally associated with the appreciation of art can be made use of in the context of daily life. Through using established methods of representation, such as painting, to reframe normally unremarkable entities as valuable art objects, the artwork discussed aims to transfer ways of looking at art into the realm of daily life. This fracturing of perceptual conventions is strengthened through the use of the index as a tool of conceptual expansion, directly connecting art objects with the subjects they represent and the processes with which they were made. Working from the pedagogical theories of Joseph Albers, and Rosalind Krauss’ writing on the index and the flatbed picture plane, this research attempts to lay a pathway for the continuation of an investigation of direct perception as a tool of knowledge production. My research is placed in relation to the work of Gerald Ferguson, Ellsworth Kelly and William Anastasi. In looking at the artwork that I have produced over the course of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design Master of Applied Art program, this document is a record of a variety of attempts to trigger the modification of customary patterns of comprehension and the generation of more intimate understandings of our immediate surroundings
Diversity in leadership: Australian women, past and present
No full textThis book provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts.
Overview
While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of skills to be successful leaders are just some of them.
Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts. It brings interdisciplinary expertise to the topic from leading scholars in a range of fields and diverse backgrounds. The aims of the essays in the collection document the extent and diverse nature of women’s social and political leadership across various pursuits and endeavours within democratic political structures
The Missing Piece: Drought Impacts Monitoring Report from a Workshop in Tucson, AZ MARCH 5-6, 2013
No full textBased on a shared interest to better understand the impacts of drought and the potential utility of using drought impacts reporting as a tool for monitoring conditions, researchers from the Carolinas RISA (Dow, Lackstrom, and Brennan), the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (Crimmins and Ferguson), and the Southwest Climate Science Center (Meadow) decided to convene a workshop in Tucson in March 2013. The primary goal was to assemble a small group of university and agency scientists involved with drought impacts monitoring to discuss opportunities and barriers associated with drought impacts reporting, recommend best practices for implementing a drought impacts reporting system, and develop a path forward for addressing or overcoming barriers. The longer-term objective of the initial meeting was to explore the feasibility of creating a community of practice that could share information and integrate activities related to drought impacts research and reporting
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