930 research outputs found
Applying a Software Development Product Cycle to Library Technology Adoption and Development
No full textProduct cycles have long been used in software development, but libraries can also benefit from a structured product life cycle to help manage technology development and acquisition. This article outlines a proposed product cycle for library technology management with information on implementing each step of the cycle. It will also include information for librarians assessing the success of structured technology management.Peer reviewe
Coetzee and Costello: What is an author
No full textL’articolo indaga la relazione esistente tra la voce dello scrittore J.M.Coetzee e il personaggio-alter ego Elizabeth Costello, protagonista dell’eponimo romanzo del 2003. Costello è un’anziana romanziera australiana che svolge, in giro per il mondo, una serie di conferenze su temi che collegano letteratura ed etica, sollevando problemi che spesso mettono in discussione se stessa, le sue idee e la sua identità di autore. Non è la prima volta che Coetzee impiega uno scrittore come protagonista di un suo romanzo, utilizzandolo come medium di riflessioni metanarrative – lo fa, ad esempio, ri-creando Defoe in Foe e Dostoevskij in The Master of Petersburg – ma in Elizabeth Costello più che altrove la proiezione dell’autore nel personaggio sembra esprimere punti di vista intimamente condivisi. L’articolo discute in particolare il valore della nozione di silenzio nella riscrittura della Lettera di Lord Chandos nell’epilogo del romanzo
Two new cases with Costello syndrome
No full textCostello syndrome (CS) was described in 1977 by Costello who reported two unrelated children with a new syndrome comprising short stature, redundant skin of the neck, palms, soles, and fingers, curly hair, papillomata around the mouth and nares, and mental retardation. Several additional cases have been reported since then. Herein we report two patients with Costello syndrome; one of these patients had associated mesenteric cyst. © 2013 by the article author(s)
Staging John Coetzee / Elizabeth Costello
No full textThis article reflects upon the persona of Elizabeth Costello as performed by John Coetzee in public lectures, articles and the novels Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. The intimate association between the author and this female character has been the subject of much controversy and the article details the criticisms levelled against Coetzee for his repeated ‘stagings’ of Elizabeth Costello. Whilst there are many political issues raised when a man writes and speaks as a woman, I argue that in the case of Elizabeth Costello this device facilitates a penetrating display of the responsibilities and inevitable failings of writing to be presented. This moves beyond discussions of the ethics of authorship to a religious appreciation of the authorial process
Teaching and participatory media
No full textHow can diversity of teaching practice be appreciated? Perhaps to appreciate diversity we should consider where we have arrived at a consensus, and hence conformity. It is normally expected that mobile phones should be switched off during lectures. For this talk the speaker will request that all mobiles be turned on (though set to silent). As this is against most orthodox teaching practice it could reasonably be concluded that the speaker is not an authority fit to lecture on the subject. For this reason the speaker will instruct the audience not to learn anything during the talk. Notes should not be taken. Instead listeners will be encouraged to send text messages. These messages will be in the form of single words, short phrases or multiple choice answers to questions (similar to classroom voting systems).
It was recently reported that the UK government is considering introducing Twitter to its primary school curriculum (Guardian, 2009). This paper will evaluate ways in which new participatory media are impacting education. A free tool created by the author will be used during the oral presentation of this paper to show how these technologies allow increased participation in learning scenarios. One of the significant aspects of teaching strategies that are utilising text messaging and micro-blogging is that they are allow for teachers to delegate control to learners whilst keeping the format of learner participation sufficiently constrained for use with groups. This can be seen as an application of education research on the concept of Control and how its negotiation and subsequent delegation can be used to increase the degree of autonomy for a learner within a learning trajectory (Moore, 1993; Dron, J. 2007).
References:
Dron, J. (2007) Control and constraint in e-learning: Choosing when to choose. Idea Group Publishing.
Moore, M. G. (1993) 2 Theory of transactional distance. Theoretical principles of distance education. pp22.
The Guardian (2009) Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake. 25 March 2009, Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/25/primary-schools-twitter-curriculu
Species per author per decade
No full textUses the same source data as in: Costello MJ, Wilson SP, Houlding B. 2012. Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort. Systematic Biology 61(5): 871-883. This file contains the number and percentage of authors who described one or more species per decade for the non-marine (CoL) and marine (WoRMS) datasets
Subversıon Of Specıesısm In J.M. Coetzee’s Elızabeth Costello
No full textSpeciesism, a term coined by English philosopher Richard Ryder and disseminated by Peter Singer with his book Animal Liberation (1976), expresses the discrimination which is basically caused by being a member of a certain species. However, in his approach Singer primarily defies the bias which claims that mankind has higher moral worth than animals, and as such he asserts that human beings owe moral obligations to animals. Instead of focalising such cognitive differences as faculty of reasoning or discourse between mankind and animals, Singer brings the similarities between these two species to the fore. Thus, enunciating a utilitarian view, he argues that as animals have the ability to feel pain or suffering, they should be given equal consideration. Similarly, in his book Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee explores the lives of animals and opposes to the discrimination that animals are made live through due to their species. The protagonist of the novel, Elizabeth Costello who is also an author, is against all form of maltreatment and exploitation of animals. In this context, by grounding on Singer’s notion of speciesism, Costello, who is invited to give lectures at Appleton College, subverts the principles of speciesism by voicing against the use of animals as food, test subjects, or as in the form of any goods. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore how Costello undermines the basic notion of speciesism through her lectures in which she attempts to examine different perspectives and approaches on animals from Aristotle and Descartes to modern era
FIGURE 2 in Taxonomy as the key to life
No full textFIGURE 2. The author as a naturalist exploring marine biodiversity in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the richest place for species in the oceans.Published as part of Costello, Mark J., 2020, Taxonomy as the key to life, pp. 105-113 in Megataxa 1 (2) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.1.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/387531
Meaning at the Crossroads: A Jig with Bernard Lonergan and Phil McShane
No full textStephen J. Costello holds a BA, MA, and PhD in philosophy. He has addressed two parliaments—Stormont on human rights and the European Parliament in Brussels on mental health. He has twenty-five years’ experience giving seminars and talks and is the founder-director of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Ireland, the author of eleven books, and works as a corporate consultant and practicing analyst
Indigenous Sources for Christian Worldviews and Ways of Living
No full textPart two of a two-part webinar series with Damian Costello, Ph.D.
In recent years many Christians have been giving new or renewed attention to religious insights and traditions of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. While some claim that Christians have much to learn from Native philosophies and spiritual practices, others reject this view, suggesting that drawing upon these Indigenous sources compromises Christian witness. Dr. Costello will discuss this controversy and explain why he believes that Christian life can be enriched through engagement with Native Americans, their worldviews, and their traditions. Part 1: The Vision and Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk (Feb. 16, 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.)
Damian Costello received his Ph.D. in theological studies from the University of Dayton and specializes in the intersection of Catholic theology, Indigenous spiritual traditions, and colonial history from a postcolonial perspective. He is an internationally-recognized expert on the life and legacy of Nicholas Black Elk and the author of Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism (Orbis Books, 2005). Costello\u27s work is informed by five years of ethnographic work on the Navajo Nation. His recent publications include “Indigenous Peoples are filling in the gaps in our Catholic faith” (America, 2019) and “Black Elk, the Lakota Medicine Man turned Catholic Teacher, is promoted for Sainthood” (America, 2017). Costello served as an academic advisor and associate producer for the documentary “Walking the Good Red Road: Nicholas Black Elk\u27s Journey to Sainthood” (NewGroup Media, 2020), which aired on ABC affiliates in 2020 and in which he appeared. Costello is on the faculty of NAIITS (formerly North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies), and is a founding member and the American co-chair of the Indigenous Catholic Research Fellowship (ICRF). Sponsored and organized by the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John\u27s University, with generous support from Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota.
This program will be an online event open to the public. Registration is optional
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