117 research outputs found
The ‘insider/outsider’ dilemma of ethnography: Working with young children and their families in cross-cultural contexts
No full textIn this article we unravel the difficulty of being researchers in the homes and classrooms of children and
their families whose origins are, for one of us, very different and, for the other, very similar to our own.
We first situate our work within theories of early socialization and literacy teaching which underpin our
understanding of how young children in cross-cultural contexts learn. We then turn to the question of
working with the families and teachers of these children which poses dilemmas not explained by the theories
presented. We illustrate these through a series of vignettes typifying both the ‘Outsider’ and the ‘Insider’ role.
The stories highlight paradigmatic moments of complexity, clashes or collusion which we unpick in terms of
their generalizability for others working in the field. Finally, we extend theories of dialogue in our search for
a methodology for collaborative work in future cross-cultural ethnographic studies
Correspondence from Hiram B. Clawson to Family, 1848-1894 [02]
No full textScans of letters from Hiram B. Clawson to his family, 1848-1894: (1) Letter dated 21 October 1885 by Hiram B. Clawson to his daughter Ruby Clawson when he was at Utah Penitentiary for practicing polygamy (4 pages); (2) Letter dated 23 August 1871 at San Francisco, California, by Bradley Clawson (Hiram Bradley Jr.) to his father, H. B. Clawson at Salt Lake City (3 pages); (3) Letter dated 1 November 1872 at New York City by Mollie E. Davies, addressed to a cousin, probably H. B. Clawson (2 pages); (4) Letter dated 20 June 1873 at Washington, D.C., by H. B. Clawson Jr. (Bradley) to his mother, Ellen C. Clawson (4 pages); (5) Letter dated 12 March 1878 at Bern, Switzerland, by Bradley Clawson, to his sister, Edna (6 pages); (6) Letter dated 7 June 1882 at Soda Springs, Idaho by Delle Clawson Cummings (wife of Melvin E. Cummings) to her mother, Ellen C. Clawson, in Salt Lake City (3 pages); (7) Letter dated 20 December 1881 at Mosiertown (Crawford Co., Pennsylvania) from Jane Davis to cousin Hiram B. Clawson and family (3 pages); (8) Letter dated 22 June 1883 at Mosiertown (Crawford Co., Pennsylvania) from Jane Davis to cousin Ellen C. Clawson (2 pages); (9) Letter dated 22 June 1883 at Mosiertown (Crawford Co., Pennsylvania) from Jane Davis to cousin Hiram B. Clawson (2 pages); (10) Letter dated 22 August 1894 at Salt Lake City by Ellen Tibbitts to her grandmother, Ellen S. Clawson (1 page); (11) Letter dated 12 June 1891 at Brighton (England?) by "Fred and Sid" to their aunt, Ellen S. Clawson at Salt Lake City (2 pages); (12) Letter in verse form dated 28 August 1894 at Soda Springs, Idaho, to Delle (Lucy Ardella Clawson) Cummings, by "her relatives," Jack, Joe, Jim, Bill, Mary, June, and Emily (2 pages); (13) Letter dated 30 August [no year] at Canaan, New York, by Esther Pomeroy, addressed to a cousin (probably Ellen S. Clawson); (14) Letter (undated) by Jenni B. Whipple to her friend Ellen S. Clawson (2 pages); (15) Letter dated 8 July (no year) at Mosiertown, Pennsylvania, by Jane Davis to cousin Hiram B. Clawson (2 pages); (16) Letter dated 25 August [no year] at Salt Lake City, Utah, to "sister Mattie" (1 page), author not state
High-Pressure Phase Transition of the Oxonitridosilicate Chloride Ce4[Si4O3+xN7-x]Cl1-xOx with x = 0.12 and 0.18
Full text linkThe high-pressure behaviour of the oxonitridosilicate chlorides Ce4[Si4O3þxN7-x]Cl1-xOx, x = 0.12 and 0.18, is investigated by in situ powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Pressures up to 28 GPa are generated using the diamond-anvil cell technique. A reversible phase transition of first order occurs at pressures between 8 and 10 GPa. Within this pressure range the high- and the low-pressure phases are observed concomitantly. At the phase transition the unit cell volume is reduced by about 5%, and the cubic symmetry (space group P213) is reduced to orthorhombic (space group P212121) following a translationengleiche group-subgroup relationship of index 3. A fit of a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state to the p-V data results in a bulk modulus B0 = 124(5) GPa with its pressure derivative B0 = 5(1) at V0 = 1134.3(4) Å3 for the low-pressure phase and in B0 = 153(10) GPa with B0 = 3.0(6) at V0 = 1071(3) Å3 for the high-pressure phase. The orthorhombic phase shows an anisotropic axial compression with the a axis (which is the shortest axis) being more compressible (k(a) = 0.0143(4) 1/GPa) than the b and c axes (k(b) = 0.0045(2), k(c) = 0.0058(2) 1/GPa). The experimental results confirm an earlier prediction of the pressureinduced instability of isotypic Ce4[Si4O4N6]O, and also show that the bulk modulus was predicted reasonably well
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
Full text linkThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Active Algorithms: Sociomaterial Spaces in the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC
No full textThis paper will explore two examples from the design, structure and implementation of the ‘E-learning and Digital Cultures’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Coursera. This five week long course (known as the EDCMOOC) was delivered twice in 2013, and is considered an atypical MOOC in its utilisation of both theCoursera platform and a range of social media and open access materials. The combination of distributed and aggregated structure will be highlighted, examining the arrangement of course material on the Coursera platform and student responses in social media. This paper will suggest that a dominant instrumentalist view of technology limits considerations of these systems to merely enabling or inhibiting educational aims. The subsequent discussion will suggest that sociomaterial theory offers a valuable framework for considering how educational spaces are produced through relational practices between humans and non-humans. An analysis of You Tube and a bespoke blog aggregator will show how the algorithmic properties of these systems perform functions that cannot be reduced to the intentionality of either the teachers using these systems, or the authors who create the software, thus constituting a complex sociomaterial educational enactment
Ex Vivo Model in Cholestasis Research
No full textTo mimic (human) cholestasis in vitro requires multiple triggers to establish a diseased phenotype. However, this is currently not simulated by existing in vitro models. Therefore, there is a high need for multicellular systems similar to the human physiology. In such an in vitro model, cell-cell interactions and intact bile canaliculi with functional bile flow should be present and preserved during long-term culture. Precision-cut liver slices represent an ex vivo tissue culture technique that replicates most of the multicellular characteristics of a whole liver in vivo. This chapter describes the preparation and culturing of (human) precision-cut liver slices. Furthermore, a protocol to use the precision-cut liver slices technique to predict drug-induced cholestatic liver injury is described
Burnt Lake WI Celebrate 50 Years
Full text linkNewspaper Article - 'Burnt Lake WI Celebrate 50 Years' - January 31, 1993AWI CollectionBurnt Lake WI
Celebrate 50 Years
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eTnhtree wBuarsn bte auLtaifkuel lyC odmecmourantietyd
ith blue streamers, the AWI
crest and plaques to mark the
50th anniversary of. tine Burnt
Lake Womens' Institute branch
organized on Jan. 31, 1923.
Mrs. S. Swainson welcomed
the visitors, our AWI vise president,
Mrs. J. T. Morrisroe of\
Red Deer and Mrs. A.
wvuu yeaia of s^ rvuoe ytSgsCux cuigMLUioia ox t r am al to 34 years
of ii/ yax sieirvuoe. These wdre Mrs
LwoJjd, Ha- ivorson, M r s . Faith Jo-haiibun,
xvias. Dora Oananson.,
i. Bb. Huaa sawyer, Mrs. Alice
BaLauxyne, Mins. Ruby Hatlne
ana M. rs. Mony Landman.
Mrs. J. T. Moraisroe, vice pre-ident
of the Aiberta Womens'
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Mar- \ Insuttuite adaresssd the meeting
tin, also from Red Deer, seven 6 with a case h. story of the Wo-former
members from Red Deer, \ mens Institutes i t am its ineep-
. three from Sylvan Lake, two 3 Lon in Stony Plain, Ontario in
om Centreville and one from I 1897 to the world- wide organiza-
Caigary. and one from Castor. vl » tton which it is now, with mem
Mrs. John Landman, president
of Burnt Lake WI was chair
man and also . expressed th
pleasure it was to have so many
cf our former members with us. ^
Slue reviewed the work of th » \>
,^, c^ Wl1 a n a t l l e Pleasures it had '
/ 1^^, J ^^ JU brought to air members. Since %
k wbsrs i n a i l six continents.
Congratulatory messages were
i received from the AWI through
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• f,
Mrs: Morrisroe, from Mrs. Hilla-by,-
District 3 director, Camrqse;
Mrs. G. A. Phillips of Queensland,
Australia on behalf of her
Ipswich branch; the Golden Star
the organization we have had 4 C u b °* Bsntley; Mrs'.* Helen
91 members, twelve of w h o m ^ \ M o S e i l s o ' n ° f London, England,
have died. The work of the X N C h a r r " r members seated at t he
branch was reviewed by break- ^ l l e a d t a b l e ™ » s i s t e r X a v i e T o f
ing it up into five sections, the\> ° a s t a r > M r s - m t i a Sawyer, Mrs.
first years from 1923 to 1930 w a s l 0 1 ™ a J* i a n s ° -% Mrs. Magnasina
given by Mrs. Barbara Dallaire, vEiteh, Mrs. Olga Mannerfeldt
tne depression years from 1930- x a n i d ^ S t r u n a Swainson, the
to 1939 were given by Mrs. Anita J*** c l l , a r t e ! r ^ m b e r who has
Haivorson, the war years from
1339 to 1945 given by Mrs. Elsie
Schreijider, the post war years
from 1945 given by Mrs. Chff_
Haivorson and the Centennial ^ M r s '
> Swain Swainson and Mrs. Molly
served the branch for the full
£ 50 years. Also at t h e head table
4 1 were Mrs. E^ a Sveinson, Sister
Celina of Red Deer, Mr. and
T. O. Langtton, Calgary,
and later years given by Mrs.
J Kay Johanson.
Songs of the times were ren-a
Lindman,
, branch.
president of ' t he
j Slides were shown by Eaxl
/ - Grimson, showing the 40th an-uuiuga
l> i mic; Liuiirs weie iuii- $
/ ? / ' £ ( - d f e r e d by Mrs^ Ballantyne, Mrs.^ 6
bnc. l-/> y i - in1 " t-:" -• T •- " ^— Gr i. m. s. on, Mrs^ JEJainill and Mrs."-; ~ " " " 7 " ^ T ™ " " L J T " T L 1 j~ 2* JT D a i l a r r e J r . , with „ M rs. Dwig.^ htj/ sl an). r ve. rsa. ry ' party . h el_ d , at the Pres- T , .
^ Sawyer at the piano. Dwight
Sawyer and Mrs^_ Grirnson__ figr-t^**
forrned the " Lame Duck" poikflf
byterian Hall in Sylvan Lake in
^ 1.963, of several of the last Christ
J mas parties held at Burnt Lake
. rp opular in the depression era. v\; mj aannd y o, ht haeprps y wmheicmho rbierso ught back
y'^ JMxs. John Magnus of Calgary;^
f u / ^ * delighted1 the audience with 3
solos accompanied by her sister,
/ V j , s s - iSeg. Dorothea Joluanson, also of
Calgary. I
Seven members were presented
,\ 5> The meeting closed with the
singing of " For They Are Jolly
Good Fellows" and a round of
visiting followed while all enjoyed
the good lunch supplied
by the ladies of the district
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
Full text linkThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
Time, Space and Fantasy' in the novels of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and J. K. Rowling: A Critical Study
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Challenging Male Hegemony: A Case History of Women's Experiences in British and US Higher Education, 1970-2002
No full textThis thesis is located within the discipline of history, and centres around the
experiences of women in US and British universities. Higher education in both the US and
the UK, as throughout the world, has historically been male-led and male-controlled. This
male hegemony of higher education continues to the present, as evidenced by the low
percentage of women in the upper echelons of academia (for example, professors).
Women in the US and the UK have been challenging this male hegemony since their
admittance to higher education institutions in the nineteenth century. They faced fierce
opposition in their efforts to open higher education to women. This opposition was later
echoed in the resistance to twentieth-century feminists' efforts to found women's studies
programmes.
The male hegemony of higher education is evident in the case histories of the
experiences of women at Appalachian State University (ASU) and the University of
Gloucestershire (UG) in the latter part of the twentieth century. ASU and UG, although
located in different countries, have similarities which make a comparison interesting. The
male hegemony of the institutions, and women's challenges to it, is especially illustrated
when analysing three areas: residence hall life (living), staff issues (working), and the
women's studies programmes (teaching and learning).
Women students at both institutions experienced, and successfully challenged,
strict residence rules through the 1960s. National influences, such as the change in the age
of majority, and pressure from the students themselves brought a loosening of these rules
in the 1970s and 1980s. The conservative nature of the institutions also influenced the
experience of women academic staff. Institutional management was not proactive
regarding women's issues, and there is strong evidence of a `glass ceiling' at both
institutions. The male hegemony of the institutions was also illustrated in the struggle to
found and maintain women's studies programmes
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