104 research outputs found
Parasitic copepods from Egyptian Red Sea fishes: Bomolochidae Claus, 1875
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Testing the vision: preschool settings as places for meeting, bonding and bridging
No full textThe OECD (2006 Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care. OECD Publishing: Paris) envisions early childhood education and care settings as meeting places for diverse social groups; places that build social capital. This vision was assessed in a comparison of three preschools types: full-fee paying, subsidised-fee and publicly funded. The social composition within each was examined and the connectedness of the children (n=472) who attended compared. Publicly funded preschools had more socially diverse populations. The quantity of social connectedness did not differ but children in publicly funded preschools described higher quality social relationships. Not all preschool settings are socially diverse but, where they are, the quality of relationships is highest. © 2010 The Author(s). Children & Societ
‘It’s not only what we say but what we do’: Pay inequalities and gendered workplace democracy in Argentinian worker cooperatives.
No full textIn a study conducted by the author in 2006 of five mixed-sex, worker-led cooperatives in Buenos
Aires, all of the workers in each of the coops were paid exactly the same. Five years later, only
two of the worker cooperatives – both dominated by women – came even close to maintaining
the same pay for everyone. The other three cooperatives, all dominated by male workers, had
instituted hierarchical pay scales which paralleled a concomitant decrease in workplace democracy.
An increase in pay inequities and a decrease in worker democracy went together; moreover, the
two paralleled an increasingly inhospitable workplace for women. This article addresses two,
interconnected, questions: How did this intertwining of pay and worker democracy happen, and
more specifically, how was this process gendered
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
L'influence du stoïcisme sur le De Abstinentia de Porphyre
No full textLe traité De l’abstinence est écrit par Porphyre dans le but de convaincre son ami de revenir à la pratique du végétarisme, qu‟il a récemment abandonnée. Dans ce texte, l‟auteur présente une série d‟arguments anti-végétariens, qu‟il réfutera tout en défendant la pertinence de ce mode de vie pour le philosophe. Parmi les opposants, les stoïciens occupent une place importante, le troisième livre du traité leur étant presque entièrement consacré. En réfutant les arguments anti-végétariens des stoïciens, Porphyre développe ses positions avec un vocabulaire qu‟il leur emprunte. Ce faisant, il teinte son traité de l‟influence stoïcienne. Ce mémoire a pour objectif d‟analyser de quelle manière le dialogue entre Porphyre et les stoïciens influence l‟auteur du De abstinentia. L‟argument anti-végétarien attribué aux stoïciens consiste à dire qu‟il est impossible de demander à ce que les êtres humains épargnent la vie des animaux, puisque ceux-ci ne nous sont pas familiers (oikeion), du fait de leur absence de raison. Or, puisque dans la théorie stoïcienne la justice prend sa source dans les relations de familiarité qui lie les êtres rationnels entre eux, on ne peut considérer que la mise à mort des animaux dans le but de consommer leur chair est un acte injuste, voire impie, comme le soutient Porphyre. Les trois termes de ce débat feront chacun l‟objet d‟un chapitre : oikeiôsis, justice et logos. Ces trois notions permettront d‟approfondir la teneur du désaccord de Porphyre avec les stoïciens et de comprendre de quelle manière ce néoplatonicien se réapproprie le vocabulaire stoïcien pour le pousser à des conclusions qui sont conformes à sa métaphysique. On trouvera que derrière la question du végétarisme, c‟est le thème plus complexe du mode de vie qui anime le débat.The treatise On Abstinence is written by Porphyry in order to convince his friend to return to the practice of vegetarianism, which he recently abandoned. In this text, a series of anti-vegetarian arguments are presented, which the author refutes while defending the relevance of this way of life for the philosopher. Among the opponents, the Stoics have an important place, the third book of the treaty being almost entirely devoted to them. Refuting the anti-vegetarian arguments of the Stoics, Porphyry develops his positions with a vocabulary borrowed to them. In doing so, he gives his treatise a Stoic flavour. This dissertation aims to analyze how the dialogue between Porphyry and the Stoics influences the author of the De abstinentia. The anti-vegetarian argument attributed to the Stoics says that it is impossible to ask of human to spare the life of animals, since they are not rational and, thus, not appropriate (oikeion) to us. Because, in the Stoic‟s theory, justice is rooted in the relations of appropriation between rational beings, we could not say that killing animals to eat their flesh is unjust, or impious, like Porphyry argues. One chapter will be dedicated to each of the terms of this debate: oikeiôsis, justice and reason. These three notions will allow us to further the analysis of the disagreement of Porphyry towards the Stoics and to understand how this neoplatonic philosopher uses the Stoics vocabulary to pursue his own metaphysical goals. We will find that behind the question of vegetarianism lies the more complex theme of the way of life
An analysis of factors influencing the shortage of minorities in the teaching profession,1975-1990, 2003
No full textThe shortage of minority teachers has generated much concern among educators and professional organi-zations, such as the Carnegie Forum on Education, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the newly created Homes Group. This research sought to examine the literature pertaining to factors influencing the shortage. r.ority teachers in the teaching field. A preliminary baseline study of the literature relating to the shortage of minorities in the teaching field was conducted utilizing both manual and computerized literature searches. The universe of data studies was literature pertaining to the shortage of minority teachers. An in-depth study of the literature was performed utilizing eight variables, namely: 1. Salary 2. Career Advancement 3. Racial Composition of Teachers 4. Fringe Benefits 5. Bonuses 6. Continuous Testing of Teachers 7. Rural/Urban Working Environment 8. Funds for Professional Growth and Development An in-depth study of the literature in relationship to the variables constituted the major aspect of the research. Content analysis was the major research ap-proach utilized in this study. This approach was selected because it provided a systematic, objective and quanti�tative research technique for analyzing contents. Content analysis is a research technique for making replicable and valid inferences from data to their con-text, or a research technique for the objective, system-atic, and quantitative description of the manifest of communication. The results of this investigation supported the basic premise that the variables identified contribute to the shortage of minorities in the teaching profession
Attitudes of Tanzanian women towards marriage rituals, 1992
No full textThe purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Tanzanian women towards marriage rituals. Data utilized came from three sources: personal interactive observations, the responses from focus discussion sessions and conversations conducted while the researcher was in Tanzania. Findings show that wedding rituals in contemporary, urban settings are a unique combination of traditional Tanzanian culture and aspects borrowed from outside influences. The study also looks at the impact of education, urbanization, occupation, ethnic group and religion on the attitudes of women living in a changing society
Selection bias is not a good reason for advising more than 5 years of adjuvant hormonal therapy for all patients with locally advanced prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy
No full textCirconscrire le spectre de la vérité : l’écriture du deuil traumatique dans Le jour où je n’étais pas là d’Hélène Cixous
No full textDans Le jour où je n’étais pas là, Hélène Cixous revient quarante ans plus tard sur la mort de son premier enfant, Georges : fils trisomique qu’elle avait abandonné aux bras de sa propre mère, Ève. Non seulement l’autrice-narratrice était absente au moment du décès de son enfant, mais Ève l’était également, faisant des circonstances de cette mort un secret bien gardé, dont il est impossible de témoigner avec certitude. L’autrice-narratrice entreprend donc de percer à jour l’événement que représente cette mort subite dans ce texte qui – à l’image du fils dont le spectre ne revient que pour mieux fuir – met en œuvre une faillite du témoignage traumatique. En effet, rêve et réalité, mensonge et véracité, hantise et flux de conscience se mélangent dans une prose poreuse qui ne saura tout à fait éclairer la cause du décès. Le présent article propose donc de montrer comment, dans cette œuvre, le deuil traumatique donne lieu à une écriture affabulatoire qui déroute le lecteur et qui illustre un échec du témoignage, dont la vérité se dérobe. Après avoir défini la notion de deuil traumatique, ainsi que les liens unissant les épreuves de deuil et de trauma, il s’agira d’analyser l’esthétique affabulatoire à travers laquelle l’autrice met en œuvre son deuil traumatique, s’efforçant moins de reconstituer l’exactitude des faits entourant la mort du bébé que d’imaginer, voire de nier, ce qui aurait pu s’être déroulé.In Le jour où je n’étais pas là, Hélène Cixous looks back, forty years after the event, at the death of her first child, Georges: her son with Down’s syndrome whom she had abandoned to her own mother, Ève. Not only was the author-narrator absent at the time of her child’s death, but so was Ève, making the circumstances of this death a well-kept secret, to which it is impossible to testify with certainty. The author-narrator therefore undertakes to untangle the events preceding this sudden death in a text which—like the son, whose specter only returns to better flee—sets in motion a collapse of the trauma testimony. Indeed, dream and reality, lie and truthfulness, haunting and stream of consciousness overlap in a porous prose that will not quite shed light on the cause of the death. This article therefore intends to show how, in this work, traumatic mourning generates an affabulatory writing which confuses the reader and illustrates the failure of testimony, from which truth constantly escapes. After having defined the notion of traumatic loss, as well as the links uniting the experiences of mourning and trauma, the article’s author will analyze this affabulatory aesthetic through which Cixous implements her traumatic mourning, striving less to piece together the facts surrounding her baby’s death than to imagine, or even deny, what might have happened
Rethinking medieval translation : ethics, politics, theory
No full textEngaging and informative to read, challenging in its assertions, and provocative in the best way, inviting the reader to sift, correlate and reflect on the broader applicability of points made in reference to a specific text or exchange." Professor Carolyne P. Collette, Mount Holyoke College. Medieval notions of translatio raise issues that have since been debated in contemporary translation studies concerning the translator's role as interpreter or author; the ability of translation to reinforce or unsettle linguistic or political dominance; and translation's capacity for establishing cultural contact, or participating in cultural appropriation or effacement
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