129 research outputs found
Louisa R. Gleason to Horace Kephart, July 12, 1919
No full textIn a letter to Horace Kephart on July 12, 1919, Louisa R. Gleason describes her enjoyment of Kephart’s book “Camping and Woodcraft”. She recommends two helpful remedies to use while camping: darning (repair holes in stockings) and treating flea bites with soap
Narratives from YouTube: Juxtaposing stories about physical education
No full textThe aim of this paper is to explore what is performed in students’ and teachers’ actions in physical education practice in terms of “didactic irritations,” through an analysis of YouTube clips from 285 PE lessons from 27 different countries. Didactic irritations are occurrences that Rønholt describes as those demanding “didactic, pedagogical reflections and discussions, which in turn could lead to alternative thinking and understanding about teaching and learning.” Drawing on Barad’s ideas of performativity to challenge our habitual anthropocentric analytical gaze when looking at educational visual data, and using narrative construction, we also aim to give meaning to actions, relations, and experiences of the participants in the YouTube clips. To do this, we present juxtaposing narratives from teachers and students in terms of three “didactic irritations”: (a) stories from a track, (b), stories from a game, and (c), stories from a bench. The stories re-present events-of-moving in the data offering insights into embodied experiences in PE practice, making students’ as well as teachers’ actions in PE practice understandable
The Magazine Women Believed in: "Marriage Advice" 1950-1955
Get PDFIn the United States society, the 1950s is seen as a time of great conservatism where both men and women were placed into specific gender roles that dictated much of how they lived their lives. One institution that verified these gender roles and stereotypes to be true was women's magazines. These magazines contained sections such as fashion segments, helpful cooking guidelines, advertisements, and advice columns that seemed to target middle class, white, suburban married housewives. One advice column that seemed to particularly focus on the idea of a happy housewife and married life was the column Making Marriage Work, which appeared in the magazine Ladies Home Journal during this 1950s time period. The author of this column, Clifford R. Adams, idealized the 1950s perfect housewife existence and through his advice he encouraged women to strive for this lifestyle, while there were other sources demonstrating that this perceived notion of the perfect housewife did not exist during the 1950s time period
Pollution control in a decentralized economy : which level of government should subsidize what in Brazil
Get PDFSubsidies in Brazil essentially serve three purposes: (i) if assigned to the right level of government, they could reinforce the effectiveness of pollution taxes in reducing pollution; (ii) they offer an opportunity foradditional combinations of instruments and hence more flexibility in dealing with specific institutional characteristics of every state; and (iii) they can serve a purely"public relations"affect by showing that the federal government does not always rely on"sticks"but can also provide"carrots."The authors have four main messages of relevance to the Brazilian economy. First, carrots will not work without a stick. Subsidies of any type will not work without a coexisting pollution tax. Second, some carrots are better than others at achieving the government's objectives. In general, a state abatement subsidy is the more effective instrument to combine with a pollution tax. But when federal or state inspection capabilities are limited, monitoring subsidies may be an effective substitute. Third, increasing abatement subsidy rates can be counterproductive - tending to increase firm investment more than necessary and hence reduce the pollution tax base, while increasing subsidy costs. This can worsen the monitoring and inspection efforts and fiscal revenue. Finally, it is more effective to keep subsidy rates low if they are to be effective and sustainable and at the same time get the endorsement needed from state and federal fiscal administrations.Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Pollution Management&Control,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Taxation&Subsidies
Czy biografia jest prawdą? (A transcript of a panel discussion in English/Zapis dyskusji panelowej w języku angielskim)
No full textOn March 25, 2015, The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives at New York University and the NYU Biography Seminar co-hosted a panel discussion titled Is Biography True? Introduced by Philip Kunhardt and hosted by the late James Atlas, the panel featured three Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers: Ron Chernow, author of Washington: A Life; John Matteson, author of Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father; and Stacy Schiff, author of Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. The following is a transcript of that discussion.]W dniu 25 marca 2015 r. The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives at New York University i NYU Biography Seminar zorganizowały wspólnie dyskusję panelową zatytułowaną Is Biography True? W dyskusji, którą otworzył Philip Kunhardt, a której gospodarzem był nieżyjący już James Atlas, uczestniczyło troje zdobywców nagrody Pulitzera: Ron Chernow, autor biografii Washington: A Life; John Matteson, autor książki Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father, oraz Stacy Schiff, autorka biografii pt. Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. W niniejszej sekcji znajduje się zapis tej dyskusji
Strengthening Uganda's policy environment for investing in university development
Get PDFThe authors examine the policy environment for investment in university development in Uganda, with special attention to the needs of Makerere University. They present data on the structure and financing of higher education, which gets a high priority in government educational spending. A second public university and new private universities have been established since 1986, but Makerere accounts for most university enrollment and government spending on higher education and it trains most of the country's high-level professional and technical manpower. Its revitalization after many years of neglect is central to government and donor plans for investment in human resource development. The authors emphasize how continuing austerity affects staff retention and staff engagement in academic work, as well as the quality of programs Makerere offers. They present a strategy for university development that involves establishing policy structures to: guide and coordinate investments in higher education as a whole; facilitate the expansion of higher education and the development of diploma-granting institutions to accommodate increasing social demand; and promote cost-saving and revenue-generating activities in the public universities - which would require giving them more autonomy in matters affecting their cost structure and budgeting. Among specific actions they recommend: making better use of public university assets by developing night courses, part-time degree and non-degree programs, and contract training and other income-generating activities; investigating possibilities for better use of university farms and other properties; making more use of existing capacity in public institutions and increasing the capacity of the newly established private universities; strengthening secondary education in science subjects and encouraging more women to study science and technology; coordinating future donor investments so they address the broad needs of Makerere and other universities; and raising incomes of academic and nonacademic university staff members.Teaching and Learning,Curriculum&Instruction,Gender and Education,Tertiary Education,Primary Education
Czy biografia jest prawdą?
No full textOn March 25, 2015, The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives at New York University and the NYU Biography Seminar co-hosted a panel discussion titled Is Biography True? Introduced by Philip Kunhardt and hosted by the late James Atlas, the panel featured three Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers: Ron Chernow, author of Washington: A Life; John Matteson, author of Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father; and Stacy Schiff, author of Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. The following is a transcript of that discussion.]W dniu 25 marca 2015 r. The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives at New York University i NYU Biography Seminar zorganizowały wspólnie dyskusję panelową zatytułowaną Is Biography True? W dyskusji, którą otworzył Philip Kunhardt, a której gospodarzem był nieżyjący już James Atlas, uczestniczyło troje zdobywców nagrody Pulitzera: Ron Chernow, autor biografii Washington: A Life; John Matteson, autor książki Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father, oraz Stacy Schiff, autorka biografii pt. Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. W niniejszej sekcji znajduje się zapis tej dyskusji
Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries?
Get PDFThe proportion of students enrolled in private rather than public schools varies greatly among countries. The author tries to explain (1) the systematically higher proportion of enrollment in private schools in developing countries than in developed countries, at the secondary level, and (2) the seemingly random variation across countries within a given level of education and stage of development. The author argues that differentiated demand and nonprofit supply - both of which stem from cultural heterogeneity, especially religious heterogeneity - are the major explanations for variations in the proportion of private education within a given stage of development and educational level. By contrast, the author hypothesizes that the proportionately heavy enrollment in private secondary schools in developing countries stems from limited public spending, which creates an excess demand from people who would prefer to use the public schools but are involuntarily excluded and pushed into the private sector. Limited public spending on secondary education, in turn, is modeled as a collective decision which is strongly influenced by the numerous families that opt for many children, and that consequently can only afford to invest small amounts in each child, in developing countries. The results of regressions that determine private-sector size recursively and simultaneously with public educational spending are consistent with these hypotheses.Economic Theory&Research,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Gender and Education,Inequality,Environmental Economics&Policies
J.C. Bach's London keyboard sonatas : style and context
Get PDFJ. C. Bach's keyboard works include several sets of accompanied sonatas, a genre that enjoyed a wide popularity during the Classical era, but never
found its way into the concert repertoire. The accompanied sonata was a genre meant for domestic performance; the solo keyboard sonata, on
the other hand, was adopted in due course by concert audiences. J. C. Bach composed works within both genres during most of his productive years, and his output constitutes a corpus of remarkable consistency. J. C. Bach's removal to London in 1762 coincided with his clear adoption of a galant style, marked by the Italianate influence, and the abandonment of most Baroque traits. The British milieu provided additional factors: the rise of the pianoforte, a thriving music-publishing market, and a great interest in domestic music making among the affluent classes. These factors marked J. C. Bach's output at various levels. Keyboard works had to conform to the proficiency of the amateur performer, a
fact reflected in the accompanied output mostly. The number of movements, their length, and the inclusion of particular technical devices are readily observable differences between the two genres. The most remarkable
distinction lies perhaps in the preference for binary sonata format in the accompanied. sonatas from the mid 1760s to the 1770s, in spite of a later tendency for tripartite designs in both genres. J. C. Bach's lifelong preference for motivic phrase structure conditioned his keyboard production and partly explains the gap in quality between some of his works and sonatas composed around the same time by Haydn and Mozart, who developed more effective means to connect the melodic material
to higher structural units. J. C. Bach's influence, however, endured in Mozart's handling of melody, and his keyboard production constitutes, in spite of some flaws, a noteworthy example of elegance and craftsmanship
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