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Oral history interview with [Henry Emmanuel Roberts and Gordon Keith Daniel Murphy by Nancy Bonnin, 18 Mar 1980]
No full textWhat we have learned and the way forward
No full textAn Ecological Dynamics-based pedagogy demands that the educator or practitioner operates at the behavioural scale of analysis with the capacities and dispositions of the child, such as cognitions, preferred ways of moving, emotions and perceptual skills supporting functional movements. Where the educator or practitioner is able to create an enriched environment which is purposefully designed to provide feel and freedom experienced with unstructured play, but overlayed with careful learning design, it can provide a powerful platform to support children's physical literacy. Physical literacy has been slowly adopted as a worldwide social movement to support long-term health and well-being of our children and young people. A growing number of countries are investing in physical literacy and are integrating this into public policy in education and health to help children become more physically active. Competitive, backyard games promote the conditions to facilitate the development of holistic physical literacy skills and propose that they should become a key feature of talent development programmes
Physical education. Combining movement education and nonlinear pedagogy to provide meaningful physical education experiences
No full textEthnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
Teacher questions that engage students in mathematical conversation
No full textCurrently, mathematics educators argue that teachers should create classrooms where students are engaged in conversation about mathematical ideas. However, to achieve these goals, it is important that teachers understand how to engage students in discussion. I address this issue by describing questioning techniques that teachers can use to make students' reasoning public and encourage conversation. In this thesis, I examined two student-centered classrooms. The first was three sessions from a high school pre-calculus class, the second was three after school sessions from a longitudinal study in which students solved challenging open-ended mathematics problems (Maher, 2002). The common thread between both research environments was an emphasis on student conversation and thinking, which allowed for a rich data in order to answer my research questions.
The two main questions guiding my research are: What kinds of questions do these two mathematics teachers in student-centered settings ask; and to what extent and in what ways did these teachers' questions engage students in mathematical conversation? These research questions led me to identify teacher questions and student responses, and examine how teachers used questioning to engage students in conversation.
In order to answer my first research question, I used inductive coding to describe teacher questions and student responses. To answer the second research question, I began with a quantitative approach to determine the frequencies of each question and response. Additionally, a frequency chart relating student responses that immediately followed teacher questions allowed insight into how teachers elicited student reasoning in conversation. For a descriptive account of how these teachers engaged students in mathematical conversation, I used inductive coding to examine patterns in teacher questioning. This coding process resulted in questioning themes that describe how the teachers used questioning to elicit reasoning and promote conversation in their classroom.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (219-225)by Daniel R. Ilari
Introduction
No full textThe introduction provides a brief background on the Liverpool born author, as well as explaining how he became interested in the topic. It also indicates some similarities, while acknowledging the differences, between similar variants of sectarianism, specifically in Northern Ireland and in the west of Scotland, highlighting the Irish lineage of all three areas. Most importantly, the introduction offers a relatively substantial definition of the term sectarianism, something too often neglected by academics and politicians, alike; before offering a more specific delineation Liverpool’s own brand of sectarian antagonism.</p
Explaining the Decline of Orangeism
No full textChapter three analyses the decline of Orangeism in the city. Taking into account the perspectives of Orange officials, the author presents these reasons to the membership and affiliates. The overall response challenges the orthodox perception that post-war slum clearance (and the physical removal of lodges and communities) was the main causal factor in the decline of the Institution, suggesting that other factors were just as (if not more) important; such as apathy, a decline in religious observation, and a lost Orange youth.</p
Sectarian Dividing Lines and Post-War Slum Clearance
No full textBuilding on the previous section, chapter four challenges, on a broader basis, the orthodox explanation for the decline of sectarianism. It has often been repeated that post-war slum clearance, which some perceived to be a deliberate policy to break down sectarianism (a point made by the Orange Institution), was the main causal factor behind the derailment of sectarian tensions, the author cites several examples of this. The sectarian geography of Liverpool is outlined, before validity of the slum clearance hypothesis is assessed. The question begged is whether sectarianism would have continued to flourish in Liverpool had a slum clearance programme not taken place. This chapter takes a sceptical view.</p
Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs: New Gods
No full textThe final chapter asks if and (if so) why football has become the ‘new religion’ of the city, as adherence to Christianity went into decline. It acknowledges how those without a religion often designate their football allegiance as their ‘religion’ on social media and even when filling out census returns. As such, it examines to what extent football has taken on an almost spiritual dimension in the city? The author notes how football’s elevation to a level of an all-embracing, hegemonic power within the city may have helped displace religion as the key divide and object of identification in the port, as for many people on Merseyside, Everton FC or Liverpool FC are as significant to their life as the Catholic Church or the Orange Order once were to a majority of people on Merseyside. Evidence gathered from supporters of both teams, politicians, clergymen, journalists, and others is analysed.</p
The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges
No full textThe long atmospheric residence time of CO2 creates an urgent need to add atmospheric carbon drawdown to CO2 regulatory strategies. Synthetic and systems biology (SSB), which enables manipulation of cellular phenotypes, offers a powerful approach to amplifying and adding new possibilities to current land management practices aimed at reducing atmospheric carbon. The participants (in attendance: Christina Agapakis, George Annas, Adam Arkin, George Church, Robert Cook-Deegan, Charles DeLisi, Dan Drell, Sheldon Glashow, Steve Hamburg, Henry Jacoby, Henry Kelly, Mark Kon, Todd Kuiken, Mary Lidstrom, Mike MacCracken, June Medford, Jerry Melillo, Ron Milo, Pilar Ossorio, Ari Patrinos, Keith Paustian, Kristala Jones Prather, Kent Redford, David Resnik, John Reilly, Richard J. Roberts, Daniel Segre, Susan Solomon, Elizabeth Strychalski, Chris Voigt, Dominic Woolf, Stan Wullschleger, and Xiaohan Yang) identified a range of possibilities by which SSB might help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations and which might also contribute to environmental sustainability and adaptation. These include, among other possibilities, engineering plants to convert CO2 produced by respiration into a stable carbonate, designing plants with an increased root-to-shoot ratio, and creating plants with the ability to self-fertilize. A number of serious ecological and societal challenges must, however, be confronted and resolved before any such application can be fully assessed, realized, and deployed
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