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Challenging the Message of the Medium: Scaling Participatory Arts Projects and the Creativity Agenda in Kenya
No full textThis chapter investigates the efforts made by the Kenyan Ministry of Education to put more emphasis on creative skills development in the country’s national curriculum from the perspective of a teachers’ training programme developed by the chapter’s authors. Here Cooke, Otieno and Plastow discuss the role of the facilitator as artist and the need to understand the particular aesthetic tradition within which a given community is working, while also challenging participants to look beyond this tradition. They reflect upon the role of the ‘message’ in such work, and how message-focussed projects can both help to enhance and hinder the creative skills development of those involved. In particular, they explore the role of the child in this process, looking at how a child-centred approach can be lost in the pragmatic reality and resourcing challenges of the teacher’s everyday experience. This is also often not helped by the ingrained attitudes of some parents and teachers who can be cynical towards the role of creative practice in education, despite the current ostensibly very supportive environment for the arts generally in Kenya
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Exploring Responding
No full textThis chapter purposely leads the reader away from the notion that responding to music is simply a passive and scientific act of listening, where there is a correct response that can be expressed in words, towards considering response as a wide ranging and creative act. The chapter goes on to explore the pedagogical implications of a view of responding to music that embraces the social and the body across multimodal disciplines. The main aim is to consider the potential for such responses to be at the heart of musical experience in music education
A Pleasant conceited Comedie : Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad. /
No full textLabel pasted on front end-paper reads: ... How a man may choose a good wife from a bad. Date of the earliest known edition, c. 1602 Reproduced in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1912.A ms. note on t.-p. ascribes the play to Joshua Cooke. "Joshua" may or may not be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i. e. John) Cooke. cf. Pref., Tudor facsimile texts.Mode of access: Internet
Political silences, an introduction
No full textIn 2018, numerous political silences loudly vy for our attention and response. From Emma Gonzales’s 3 minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, along with the continuing revelations articulated by silence-breakers of sexual harassment strewn throughout, there are indeed multiple meanings and functions of political silence - all of which intersect at the nexus of power and agency. This introductory chapter sets out the volume’s conceptualisation of political silence(s) as productive expression(s) of agency, which it juxtaposes with existing works on the subject. The introduction also identifies the way in which the remaining chapters study political silence(s) and provides the reader with a roadmap to the volume which includes a diverse collection of interdisciplinary studies into the various ways silence, power and agency intersect in the realms of: environmental politics, diplomacy, digital privacy, radical politics, the politics of piety, commemoration, international organization and international law, among others
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Exploring Pedagogy
No full textWhat do we mean by pedagogy in music? Pedagogy is a contested term, often used without qualification or definition – sometimes referring narrowly to particular strategies or types of task, and sometimes used as a catch-all term for all that a teacher does, often so broad that it becomes almost meaningless. This chapter provides a series of provocations to consider what we mean by pedagogy in music education, and how, during the history of music education, different pedagogical relationships have been emphasised. The chapter then takes a view, arguing for pedagogies of attentionality, status fluidity, vulnerability and risk
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Exploring Singing and the Voice
No full textThis chapter focuses on what is the most natural, and in all senses the most “free” of resources at the heart of musical learning. Starting from how the use of the voice has been traditionally framed in various curricula, the emphasis here is on understanding the pedagogical potential for using a breadth of vocal activities, from vocalisation to singing. While some teachers view the use of the voice in the classroom with some trepidation, it is clear from the wider culture that is has the power to address individual learning needs at all levels
The Maryland muse. Containing I. The history of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion in Virginia. Done into Hudibrastick verse, from an old ms. II. The sotweed factor, or voiage to Maryland. / By E. Cooke, gent. ; [Two lines of verse]
No full text[2], 25, [1] p. ; (fol.)Edition statement transposed; precedes "By E. Cooke, gent." on title page.Ascribed to the press of William Parks by L.C. Wroth. See his "The Maryland muse." American Antiquarian Society proceedings 44 (1934): 267-335."To the author."--p. [2], first count. Signed: H.J. Attributed to the Rev. Hugh Jones by Wroth
An antiviral substance from penicillium cyaneo-fulvum (in vivo studies)
No full textA strain of Penicillium cyaneo-fulvum, isolated in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, McGill University by Dr. G. D. Denton in 1947, * was found to produce a toxin neutralizing substance, Noxiversin (Diena, 1954, 1956; Tanner, 1956, 1957; Murray et al., 1958), as well as a separate and distinct antiviral substance (Cooke, 1958, 1960; Cooke and Stevenson, 1965 a, b). The antiviral agent, in both its crude and partially purified forms, was found to reduce the infectivity of influenza virus in embryonated eggs, modified Maitland cultures, monkey kidney cell cultures, and mice (Diena, 1956; Cooke, 1958, 1960; Syeklocha, 1962, 1964; Cooke and Stevenson, 1965b; David-West, 1966)
Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity
No full textThe notion of ‘silence’ in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles’s three minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives, to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, along with the continuing revelations articulated by silence-breakers of sexual harassment, it is apparent that there are multiple meanings and functions of political silence – all of which intersect at the nexus of power and agency.
Dingli and Cooke present a complex constellation of engagements that challenge the conceptual limitations of established approaches to silence by engaging with diverse, cross-disciplinary analytical perspectives on silence and its political implications in the realms of: environmental politics, diplomacy, digital privacy, radical politics, the politics of piety, commemoration, international organization and international law, among others. Contributors to this edited collection chart their approaches to the relationship between silence, power and agency, thus positing silence as a productive modality of agency.
While this collection promotes intellectual and interdisciplinary synergy around critical thinking and research regarding the intersections of silence, power and agency, it is written for scholars in politics, international relations theory, international political theory, critical theory and everything in between
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