4,571 research outputs found
Rich environments for active learning: a definition
No full textRich Environments for Active Learning, or REALs, are comprehensive instructional systems that evolve from and are consistent with constructivist philosophies and theories. To embody a constructivist view of learning, REALs: promote study and investigation within authentic contexts; encourage the growth of student responsibility, initiative, decision making, and intentional learning; cultivate collaboration among students and teachers; utilize dynamic, interdisciplinary, generative learning activities that promote higher-order thinking processes to help students develop rich and complex knowledge structures; and assess student progress in content and learning-to-learn within authentic contexts using realistic tasks and performances. REALs provide learning activities that engage students in a continuous collaborative process of building and reshaping understanding as a natural consequence of their experiences and interactions within learning environments that authentically reflect the world around them. In this way, REALs are a response to educational practices that promote the development of inert knowledge, such as conventional teacher-to-student knowledge-transfer activities. In this article, we describe and organize the shared elements of REALs, including the theoretical foundations and instructional strategies to provide a common ground for discussion. We compare existing assumptions underlying education with new assumptions that promote problem-solving and higher-level thinking. Next, we examine the theoretical foundation that supports these new assumptions. Finally, we describe how REALs promote these new assumptions within a constructivist framework, defining each REAL attribute and providing supporting examples of REAL strategies in action
Walter E. Scott Correspondence
No full textEntries include typed transcripts of correspondence from the Maine State Library, a typed reply from Scott on plain paper with reference to his writing and a book of verse, a biographical newspaper clipping with a photographic image of the 75 year old captain, and handwritten letters written during an illness on the subject of marine research from an author whose articles appeared in the Rockland Courier Gazette, Portland Press Herald, and Island Ad-Vantages
Ken Lum : Works with Photography = Ken Lum : Le travail de l'image
No full textCurator Scott situates Lum’s art (mainly photography) on the Canadian and international scenes, while tracing his evolution from his beginnings, in the 1970s, to the present. Derksen establishes a direct link between Lum’s work and globalization, considering the artist as an observer of the urban territory, where the consequences of this phenomenon are most apparent. The author underlines how the artist reinterprets the notion of “home” – which no longer refers simply to nation and place – in his images of “urban facts”. List of works; texts in English and French. Biographical notes. 25 bibl. ref
Citizen participation in news
No full textThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
Irene E. Scott letter to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 15, 1914
No full textIrene E. Scott sent this letter to the suffrage headquarters in Ohio to request literature, such as leaflets, that promoted women's suffrage. She wanted to use these materials to prepare herself for a talk on the issue of women's suffrage.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Brian Scott : Trade Show
No full textFarrell studies the commercial product lines imagined by Scott and convincingly packaged as a trade show that parodies corporate strategies. Investigating the market-driven imperatives of the "technological vision", the author unveils the work's social commentary about "techno-dreamworld". Biographical notes on artist and curator. 10 bibl. ref
Scott Lyall : OK!lahoma
No full textAdler’s experiential description of the installation focuses on the aesthetics, ethics and politics of Lyall’s espousal of symbolic “inefficiency.” The author argues that Lyall’s use of reference material maps its variable connections and provides new parameters for the sculptural object, thereby fleshing out the transparency of media culture. Lyall describes the origin of the installation, a research project on the life of Lynn Riggs, author of the story upon which the musical “Oklahoma!” was based. List of works. Bio-bibliography 2 p. 10 bibl. ref
Una aproximación teórica a James C. Scott. Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Raza, fobias e intolerancias. Num. 31 (2004) Vol. 11 mayo-agosto
No full textEn este trabajo se retoman las aportaciones más relevantes de la obra de James C. Scott: los conceptos de las relaciones de poder, la hegemonía, la resistencia y la subordinación, los cuales aparecen plasmados en su libro más relevante, Los dominados y el arte de la resistencia, a fin de insistir, con base en el modelo expuesto por el doctor Manuel Gándara para el análisis del conocimiento, en las contradicciones intrínsecas a los planteamientos de Scott, todo ello según la teoría de que el conocimiento es falible pero perfectible.James C. Scott´s most outstanding contributions in his works are: power relations, hegemony, resistance and subordination. These concepts are used in his excellent book: Los dominados y el arte de la resistencia, and I of insist that I was based in doctor Manuel Gándara´s Understanding Analysis Model, in the intrinsical contradictions to such statements given by Scott, and in accordance to the theory that understanding is subject to error (is fallible), but can be improved (is perfectible).Bordieu, Pierre. 1997. Razones prácticas. Sobre la teoría de la acción, Barcelona, Anagrama.Chartier, Roger. 1995. El mundo como representación. Historia cultural: entre práctica y representación, Gedisa.Chavero, Rosalía. 1997. Voces y silencios en la historia, siglos XIX y XX, México, FCE.Cruz, Manuel. 1991. filosofía de la historia, Barcelona, Paidós.De Certeau, Michel. 1993. La escritura de la historia, México, Universidad Iberoamericana.Foucault, Michel. 1979. Microfísica del poder, Madrid, La Piqueta.Foucault, Michel. 1987. Vigilar y Castigar, México, Siglo XXI.Foucault, Michel. 1991. Saber y Verdad, Madrid, La Piqueta.Foucault, Michel. 1992. Genealogía del racismo, Madrid, La Piqueta.Gadamer, H. G. 1998. El giro hermenéutico, Madrid, Cátedra.Gándara Vázquez, Manuel. 1990. “Algunas notas sobre el análisis del conocimiento”, en Antropología Americana, México, Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, boletín núm. 22, pp. 5-19.Gándara Vázquez, Manuel. 1993. “El análisis de posiciones teóricas: aplicaciones a la Arqueología Social”, en Antropología Americana, México, 27 de julio, pp. 5-20.Hollis, Martin. S/f. “Systems and functions”, en The Philosophy of Social Science, an Introduction, Cambridge University Press, pp. 94-114.Moore, Barrington. 1990. La injusticia: bases sociales de la obediencia y la rebelión, México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM.Navarro, D. 2001. “Sobre los intelectuales y la crítica social en la esfera pública cubana”, en La Habana Elegante, segunda .poca, versión electrónica en http://www. habanaelegante.com/Winter2001/Verbosa.html.Ramírez, J. A. 1986. La polémica de la postmodernidad, Madrid, Libetarias.Rorty, Richard. 1996. Objetividad, relativismo y verdad, Barcelona, Paidós.Salmon, Wesley C. s/f. “Scientific Explanation”, en Introduction to the Philosophy of Sciences, Nueva Jersey, Prentice Hall, pp. 1-103.Scott, James C. 1990. Los dominados y el arte de la resistencia. Discursos ocultos, México, Era.Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, New Haven y Londres, Yale University Press
Francis Alys : Le temps du sommeil
No full textThis catalogue, published on the occasion of an exhibition of small scale paintings by Alys, contains an interpretive text by Scott which focuses on the cinematic, performative and sculptural aspects of the artist's work. Scott also calls attention to how the narrative potential latent in the paintings and drawings informs the performance and video-based works. Includes afterword by anonymous author. List of works. Biographical notes. 12 bibl. ref
Un negocio editorial romántico (Aribau y Walter Scott)
No full textFrom the unpublished letters written by Aribau and Ignacio Sanponts, the author carried out research into the editorial business where both had worked between 1828 and 1830, with Juan Nicasio Gallego and Ramón López Soler. In addition, she round out the reasons why the firm failed. This was the first attempt in Spain to translate Walter Scott\u27s work. The conclusions of this survey allow the comparison of the translations on Walter Scott\u27s work published in Spain in the XIX century, with the original texts. A that time, editors and translators acted with great freedom to cope with the problem of obtaining printing licenses and also to make those books more understandable for the Spanish readers.A partir de la correspondencia inédita entre Aribau e Ignacio Sanponts, la autora ha investigado la empresa editorial en la que ambos estuvieron involucrados entre 1828 y 1830, y los motivos de su fracaso. Fue el primer proyecto de traducción de las obras de Walter Scott al castellano emprendido en suelo español, y en él también tomaron parte Juan Nicasio Gallego y Ramón López Soler. Las conclusiones de este trabajo invitan a cotejar las traducciones españolas de Walter Scott en el siglo XIX con los textos originales, a la vista de la enorme libertad con que actuaban traductores y editores, a fin de conseguir las licencias de impresión y de hacer más asequibles las obras a los lectores españoles
- …
