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The institutionalization of adults education in local society : experiences of Local Centres of Knowledge and Education (LOWE)
No full textSkuteczne wsparcie edukacji osób dorosłych, przynoszące trwałe zmiany ich postaw wobec uczenia się, jest dużym wyzwaniem dla polityk edukacyjnych. Liczne działania wspierające te wysiłki mają w większości charakter rozproszony i nie radzą sobie ze złożonością tych zjawisk. Artykuł bazuje na doświadczeniach 15 Lokalnych Ośrodków Wiedzy i Edukacji - eksperymentalnego wdrożenia w latach 2017-2018, w środowisku lokalnym różnych form instytucjonalizacji wsparcia uczenia się osób dorosłych. Konfrontuje je z literaturą naukową oraz zapisami krajowej i europejskiej polityki w tym zakresie. Pokazuje źródła i charakter złożoności uwarunkowań, znaczenie położenia nacisku na rozwój kompetencji kluczowych, ustalenie jasnych zasad prowadzenia działań edukacyjnych, ich dostępności oraz wsparcia uczestnictwa osób dorosłych. Przeprowadzone interwencje dowiodły, że najważniejszymi czynnikami trwałego włączenia się osób dorosłych w procesy uczenia się były: konstruowanie oferty zgodnie z ich oczekiwaniami - zmieniającymi się w trakcie procesu uczenia się, a także pozostawienie społecznościom lokalnym autonomii w wyborze sposobu organizowania tej działalności. W analizach wykorzystano sprawozdania z działalności oraz wyniki badań (wywiady, obserwacje, analiza dokumentów) przeprowadzonych w każdym z 15 LOWE podczas ewaluacji śródokresowej oraz końcowej.The aim of the effective supporting of adults education is to achieve the constant change of their attitude to learning. It seems to be a big challenge for public policy. Many supporting activities have been taken. However, they were dispersed and didn’t allow to cope with the complexity of adults education. This paper is based on experiences of 15 Local Centres of Knowledge and Education (LOWE). They were the form of experiments which have been conducted in the period 2017-2018. The aim of this experiment was to implement in local so-ciety the different institutional forms of supporting adults education. In the paper, the Author presented collected experiences in the light of rules and principles placed in theory and national and European public policy. The paper shows and explains the sources of complexity and characteristics of adult education. Indicates the significance of developing core/key competencies, providing clear rules for educational activities and their accessibility, and supporting of adults in their education. The results of the experiment showed that the most important factors, which determinate an involvement in learning process were: creating programs in response to learners changing requirements and leaving the decision related to organisational issues in hands of particular LOWE. In conducted analyses, Author used the results of the mid-term and final evaluation in 15 LOWEs (interview, observation, documents analysis)
Neobuthus awashensis Kovarik et Lowe 2012
No full textNeobuthus awashensis Kovařík et Lowe, 2012 (Figs. 1–6, 158, 161–165) Neobuthus awashensis Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 7–16, figs. 5–6, 18–21, 34–38, 44–47, 67–74, 86, 89, 92, 95–96, 100–101; Kovařík et al., 2015: 30. TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Ethiopia, Awash, Metahara env., 08°54' N 39°54' E, 960-1050 m a.s.l., FKCP. TYPE MATERIAL. Ethiopia, Awash, Metahara env., 08°54' N 39°54' E, 960-1050 m a.s.l., 1♀ (paratype), 2008, leg. V. Trailin, 2♀1♀ im. (allotype and paratypes), XI.2010, leg. T. Mazuch and P. Novák, 32♂ (holotype and paratypes) 18♀ (paratypes) 11♀ ims, 5♂ ims (paratypes), 19.-22.VII.2011, leg. F. Kovařík. Most types are in the collection of the second author (FKCP), two paratypes (♂ ♀) are in the collection of the first author (GL). OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ethiopia, 11°43'22" N 40° 56'52" E, 457 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EMA), 20.XI. 2012, 1♀1♀ im., leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP; 11°43'30" N 40°58'45" E, 404 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12EM), 20.XI.2012, 1♂, leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP; Gewane, 10°09'38" N 40°39'45" E, 631 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EO), 23.XI.2012, 1♂ 1♀, leg. F. Kovařík, (UV detection), FKCP; 09°08'10.4" N 40°09' 45.5" E, 835 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12ER), 24.XI.2012, 12♂ 1♀ 1juv., leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP, 26.-27.XI.2014, 8♂ 2♀ 2juvs, FKCP, 3♂ 2juvs, GL, leg. F. Kovařík; Awash, Metahara env., 08°54' N 39°54' E, 960-1050 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EX), 25.XI.2012, 7♂ 6♀ 5juvs., 27.-30.XI.2014, 7♂ 1♀, topotypes, leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP. EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. Total length 18–22 mm (males), 22.5–30 mm (females); carapace with area between anterior median carinae fuscous; tergites with fuscous pigmentation unbroken across median area; pedipalp relatively slender, males with femur L/ W 2.50 –2.70, patella L/ W 2.45 –2.70, chela L/ W 4.63 –5.08; chela movable finger with 5–6 subrows of primary denticles, 3–5 external accessory denticles flanking proximal end of each subrow; trichobothria d 2 usually absent from femur and patella; posterior margins of carapace and tergites usually bearing 2–4 macrosetae; pedipalps, legs, metasoma and telson with short, stout macrosetae in males, and long, fine setae in females; males with coxae sparsely granulated, sternites III–VI lightly shagreened to smooth, sternite VII finely granulated with 4 weak, granulated carinae; females with sternites III–VI smooth, sternite VII sparsely shagreened with 4 weak carinae, median carinae granulated; metasoma I–III with median lateral carinae present in both sexes; lateral surface of metasoma V in males densely granulated, with granules separated; soles of telotarsi with relatively sparse setation, leg III of adults with 6–9 macrosetae in retroinferior series of basitarsus, 12–19 ventral macrosetae on telotarsus; pectine teeth: 17–21 (males), 15–18 (females).Published as part of Lowe, Graeme & Kovařík, František, 2016, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part V. Two new species of Neobuthus Hirst, 1911 (Buthidae), from Ethiopia and Eritrea, pp. 1-46 in Euscorpius 224 on page
Correspondence to Mary Ann Smith From William H. Borders and C.M. Lowe, March 22, 1961
No full textCorrespondence from William H. Borders and C.M. Lowe to Mary Ann Smith notifying her of a meeting for the Atlanta Student Adult Liaison. 1 page
Neobuthus awashensis Kovarik & Lowe 2012
No full textNeobuthus awashensis Kovařík & Lowe, 2012 (Figs. 55–56, 403, 418, 421, 438, Table 5) Neobuthus awashensis Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 7–16, figs. 5–6, 18–21, 34–38, 44–47, 67–74, 86, 89, 92, 95–96, 100–101; Kovařík et al., 2015: 30; Lowe & Kovařík, 2016: 2–4, figs. 1–6, 158, 161–165. TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Ethiopia, Awash, Metahara env., 08°54'N 39°54'E, 960-1050 m a.s.l., FKCP. TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ethiopia, Awash, Metahara env., 08°54'N 39°54'E, 960-1050 m a.s.l., 1♀ (paratype), 2008, leg. V. Trailin, 2♀1♀ im. (allotype and paratypes), XI.2010, leg. T. Mazuch and P. Novák, 32♂ (holotype and paratypes) 18♀ (paratypes) 11♀ ims, 5♂ ims (paratypes), 19.-22.VII.2011, leg. F. Kovařík. Most types including holotype are in the collection of the first author (FKCP), other paratypes are in the GLPC, MRAC, RTOC, ZMHB, and ZMUH collections. OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ethiopia, 11°43'22"N 40° 56'52"E, 457 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EMA), 20.XI. 2012, 1♀1♀ im., leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP; 11°43'30"N 40°58'45"E, 404 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12EM), 20.XI.2012, 1♂, leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP; Gewane, 10°09'38"N 40°39'45"E, 631 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EO), 23.XI.2012, 1♂ 1♀, leg. F. Kovařík, (UV detection), FKCP; 09°08'10.4"N 40° 09'45.5"E, 835 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12ER), 24.XI. 2012, 12♂ 1♀ 1juv., leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection), FKCP, 26.-27.XI.2014, 8♂ 2♀ 2juvs, leg. F. Kovařík, FKCP; Awash, Metahara env., 08°54'N 39° 54'E, 960- 1050 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 12 EX), 25.XI. 2012, 7♂ 6♀ 5juvs., 27.-30.XI.2014, 7♂ 1♀ (Figs. 55–56), topotypes, leg. F. Kovařík (UV detection). DIAGNOSIS. Total length 18–22 mm (males), 22.5–30 mm (females); carapace with area between anterior median carinae fuscous; tergites with fuscous pigmentation unbroken across median area; pedipalp relatively slender, males with femur L/ W 2.50 –2.70, patella L/ W 2.45 –2.70, chela L/ W 4.63 –5.08; chela movable finger with 5–6 subrows of primary denticles, 3–5 external accessory denticles flanking proximal end of each subrow; trichobothria d 2 usually absent from femur and patella; dorsoexternal and ventroexternal carinae on pedipalp patella in female well developed; posterior margins of tergites with 1–2 pairs of macrosetae; pedipalps, legs, metasoma and telson with short, stout macrosetae in males, and long, fine setae in females; males with coxae sparsely granulated, sternites III–VI lightly shagreened to smooth, sternite VII finely granulated with 4 weak, granulated carinae; females with sternites III–VI smooth, sternite VII sparsely shagreened with 4 weak carinae, median carinae granulated; metasoma I–III with median lateral carinae present in both sexes; lateral surface of metasoma V in males densely granulated, with granules separated; soles of telotarsi with relatively sparse setation, leg III of adults with 12–19 ventral macrosetae on telotarsus; pectine teeth: 17–21 (males), 15–18 (females).Published as part of Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Abdi, Ali, 2018, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part XVII. Revision of Neobuthus, with description of seven new species from Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland (Buthidae), pp. 1-82 in Euscorpius 271 on page 1
A European union and Canadian review of public health nursing preparation and practice.
No full textThis study explores the preparation and role of the public health nurse (PHN) across European Union (EU) countries (Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and Canadian provinces (Alberta, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island)
Defining absolute environmental limits for the built environment
No full textThe question addressed is whether it is possible to define working limits on environmental impacts from the built environment in terms of global carrying capacity. The main focus is on energy-related impacts, since these are global and relatively well-understood. Four possible approaches to defining limits are explored: static equilibrium, asymptotic, integral of excess and planned future. The conclusions that emerge from this exploration are that global environmental constraints are very tight, but also that they are dynamically and strongly influenced by the trajectory of social and technological development over the coming century. Their use as the basis for practical, quantitative metrics of sustainability, therefore, involves a large measure of subjectivity. A fifth approach - the developmental approach - is identified, which instead of focusing on long-term external constraints to human activity, focuses instead on the internal, short- to medium-term dynamics of the built environment itself. It appears likely that the developmental approach, guided by qualitative conclusions from the analysis of global carrying capacity, is likely to be most fruitful
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Barbaracurus somalicus Kovařík & Lowe & Šťáhlavský 2018, comb. n.
No full text<i>Barbaracurus somalicus</i> (Hirst, 1907) comb. n. <p>(Figures 3, 27, 34, 54–57, 74–75, 83–84, 113–146, 263–265, Table 1)</p> <p> <i>Babycurus somalicus</i> Hirst, 1907: 208; Lamoral & Reynders, 1975: 498; Kovařík, 1998: 104; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 79; Kovařík, 2000: 255–256, figs. 10, 21, tables 1–3; Kovařík, 2003: 134.</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE DEPOSITORY. Somaliland, Berbera and Durbar; BMNH.</p> <p> MATERIAL EXAMINED. <b>Somaliland</b>, Berbera and Durbar, 400 ft., leg. G. W. Bury, 1♀ (holotype), BMNH; Borama, campus Amound University, 09°56'49"N 43° 13'23"E, 1394 m a.s.l., 4-5.II.2017 (locality No. <b>17 SA</b>), 1♀, 9.-13.IX.2017, (locality No. <b>17SR</b>, Fig. 145), 4♂ 3♀ 4juvs. (Figs. 27, 35, 113–144, 260–261, Nos. 1308, 1309, 1332), leg. F. Kovařík, T. Mazuch & P. Just, FKCP.</p> <p>DIAGNOSIS. Total length of adult males 32–36 mm, adult female 38–47 mm. Coloration yellowish brown to grey with darker markings, chelicerae yellow without or with traces of reticulation. Pedipalp chela manus much wider in male than female, chela length/width ratio 3.45 in male and 4.15 in female; proximal margins of pedipalp fingers of female almost straight (Fig. 57, 135), of male strongly undulate so as to leave a gap with fingers closed (Figs. 55, 129); dentate margin of movable finger armed with 6 rows of granules, and a short apical row of 4 denticles (Fig. 3); most proximal granule row with one external accessory granule. Pectines with 17–20 teeth in both sexes. Hemispermatophore basal lobe a weak carina (Figs. 27, 35). No sexual dimorphism in length and width of metasomal segments (Figs. 74–75); metasoma I with 10 carinae, II–IV with 8 carinae. Telson setose, bearing numerous long macrosetae and short, pointed subaculear tubercle; vesicle smooth, elongate, pyriform, telson length/depth ratio 2.75–2.89 in both sexes; aculeus slender, curved, shorter than vesicle.</p> <p> NOTE. Until now, only the holotype and paratype females were known. The recent collection of both sexes of <i>B. somalicus</i> by one of us (F.K.) enables us to show photographs of live specimens, especially of the male, for the first time, and to characterize their sexual dimorphism.</p> <p> COMMENTS ON LOCALITY AND LIFE STRATEGY. The first author (F.K.) visited the locality 17SA on 4–5 February 2017 (winter dry season). At this locality, the author recorded a daytime temperature of 24.7 ºC (4 February, 16:08 h), and nighttime temperatures of 21.4 ºC shortly after sunset, dropping to 19.3 ºC (minimum temperature on 5 February at 19:20 h). The recorded humidity was 41% on 5 February at 19:20 h. The first author (F.K.) again visited the same locality on 9–13 September 2017 (summer minor dry season, 17SR) and recorded maximum daytime temperatures of 29.1 ºC (10th September 2017) and 31.8 ºC (12 September 2017), and a minimum nighttime temperature of 19.6 ºC. The recorded humidity was between 31% (minimum at night) and 79% (maximum at day). All specimens were collected at night by ultraviolet (UV) detection near rocks. At this locality, in addition to <i>B. somalicus</i>, the first author also recorded <i>Neobuthus</i> sp., <i>Parabuthus abyssinicus</i> Pocock, 1901 (Buthidae) and <i>Pandinurus kmoniceki</i> Kovařík et al., 2017 (type locality) (Scorpionidae). Fifty metres from this rocky site is a riverbed of an occasional river (figs. 45–48 in Kovařík et al., 2017: 18) where in addition the author recorded <i>Gint amoudensis</i> Kovařík et al., 2018 (type locality) (Buthidae), and <i>Pandinops pugilator</i> (Pocock, 1900) (Scorpionidae).</p>Published as part of <i>Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme & Šťáhlavský, František, 2018, Review of the genus Babycurus Karsch, 1886 (Arachnida, Scorpiones, Buthidae), with descriptions of Barbaracurus gen. n. and two new species from Oman and Yemen, pp. 1-41 in Euscorpius 267</i> on pages 25-27, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6544157">10.5281/zenodo.6544157</a>
Gender and the culture of the English alehouse in late Stuart England
No full textThe world of the alehouse and tavern in early modern England has generally been
regarded as primarily male, a view that was deeply embedded in the period itself.
This essay explores the place of women within the public house, in serving, buying
and consuming alcohol, and the unwritten conventions that underpinned social
practice. It argues that while some female customers matched their contemporary
image, as disorderly, immoral and dishonest, it was also possible for respectable
women to visit a tavern or alehouse without risking their good name, provided they
adhered to the conventions. Middling-sort and elite women might drink and dine in
London taverns with their husbands, or in mixed parties; throughout England married
couples, and mixed groups of young folk, might drink, dance, and socialise; marketwomen
might assemble at the end of the day, and chapwomen often lodged overnight.
And, at least in London, respectable women might enter a public house alone, by
day, without meeting disapproval. Many establishments provided private as well as
public rooms, and these created social spaces for female customers, couples and
mixed parties, serving different needs than those met within the main public space
Z badań nad problemem inherencji. Na marginesie Edwarda Jonathana Lowe’a ontologii czterokategorialnej
No full textNotes on the Problem of Inherence. With Edward Jonathan Lowe’s Four-Category Ontology in the BackgroundIn the paper I analyse some problems with the relation of properties to object. Such kind of relation is usually called “inherence,” “possessing” or “characterization.” I start with Lowe’s concept of inherence contained in his four-category ontology because I think it generates some very interested issues. Lowe thinks that inherence holds between modes individual properties and objects as well as between kinds and universal properties. I argue that there cannot be universal properties but only universals which are instantiated by entities which are properties. Thus property-universals cannot inhere in anything. I also stress that we need a concept of explanatory dependence in order to correctly characterize inherence. Finally I draw attention to great importance of the problem of relationships of kinds to property-universals to the doctrine of substantialism.Notes on the Problem of Inherence. With Edward Jonathan Lowe’s Four-Category Ontology in the BackgroundIn the paper I analyse some problems with the relation of properties to object. Such kind of relation is usually called “inherence,” “possessing” or “characterization.” I start with Lowe’s concept of inherence contained in his four-category ontology because I think it generates some very interested issues. Lowe thinks that inherence holds between modes individual properties and objects as well as between kinds and universal properties. I argue that there cannot be universal properties but only universals which are instantiated by entities which are properties. Thus property-universals cannot inhere in anything. I also stress that we need a concept of explanatory dependence in order to correctly characterize inherence. Finally I draw attention to great importance of the problem of relationships of kinds to property-universals to the doctrine of substantialism
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