198 research outputs found
The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey (1945)
No full textThe essay offers a new reading of African Journey by Eslanda Goode Robeson, who in 1936 set out on her first trip to the ‘Dark Continent’ – a three-month journey that took her from Cape Town to Cairo with her eight-year-old son. At the time Robeson was 40, and a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, specializing in anthropology with a focus on the colonized black people of the world. She had already published Paul Robeson, Negro (1930), a biography of her famous husband, who was a well-known actor, singer and political activist. The notes and photographs she took during her African experience became a volume published by John Day in 1945 as a diary-formatted chronicle of the visit.
Differently from existing readings of Robeson’s diary, the paper argues that Robeson’s quest in African Journey is far less a search for personal roots, far less a pilgrimage in search of an ancestral home for herself as a Black American woman, than it is an offer of a powerful narrative of belonging—a conscious legacy—to her Negro son
Characterization of Preoperative, Postsurgical, Acute and Chronic Pain in High Risk Breast Cancer Patients
No full textFunding: The Ketorolac in Breast Cancer trial has been supported by the Anticancer Fund, the Belgian Society of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation, the Fondation Saint-Luc, and the Commission du Patrimoine of the Université catholique de Louvain, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc. Acknowledgments: Membership of the KBCt Group, Aline van Maanen, Gauthier Bouche, Alain Dekleermaker, Francois P Duhoux, Marc De Kock, Martine Berliere, Pierre Coulie, Jan Decloedt, Jean-Edouard Guillaume, Marc Ledent, Jean-Pascal Machiels, Véronique Mustin, Walter Swinnen, Lionel Vander Essen, and Jean-Christophe Verougstraete.Peer reviewe
Migration et lieu de naissance : l'exemple de Djakarta.
No full textMigration and birth place: the example of Jakarta
This paper examines population dynamics in Jakarta based on the demographic conditions that prevailed in the late seventies.
This is carried out by means of an extension of the classical multiregional approach that accounts for the influence of the place of birth of individuals on their migration behavior. Such an extension brings new insights into migration patterns to and from Jakarta and yields more precise as well as more detailed estimates of the indicators that reflect population dynamics in that city.Cet article traite de la dynamique de la population à Djakarta sur la base des conditions démographiques observées dans la seconde moitié des années soixante-dix. Il est fondé sur une extension de l'approche multirégionale classique à la prise en compte de l'influence exercée par le lieu de naissance des individus sur leur comportement migratoire. Une telle extension mène à une meilleure caractérisation des flux de migration vers et hors de Djakarta tout en offrant une estimation à la fois plus précise et plus détaillée des indicateurs représentatifs de la dynamique démographique de cette ville.Ledent Jacques, Termote Marc. Migration et lieu de naissance : l'exemple de Djakarta.. In: Espace, populations, sociétés, 1994-1. Les migrations internes - Internal migrations. pp. 41-59
Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture
No full textInstitutions such as the state, church, army, judiciary, bank, university—or even marriage—organize our social relations. As inherently social structures, they regulate societies according to various practices, rites, and rules of conduct, and guide our actions by delimiting what is possible and thinkable. An institution’s individual scope depends on society’s understanding of it. They are in perpetual mutation and thus form complex entities. Architecture plays an essential role in the establishment, identification, and perpetuation of this social structure as it formalizes value systems in space and represents ideologies in permanent physical structures. Institutions & the City investigates how architecture establishes and reveals the way an institution functions through different strategies, taking the Tracé Royal (the royal route) in Brussels as an example of an urban figure. This succession of emblematic streets, extending from the Palace of Justice in the heart of the city to the Church of Our Lady and the Royal Domain in Laeken, is home to several of Belgium’s national political, legal, religious, financial, and cultural institutions. The book explores the strategies applied over time by the various institutions to leave a lasting inscription on the country’s social order, revealing similar spatial responses and surprisingly prevalent mutation processes. And it highlights the importance of architecture in inventing new relationships with institutional spaces in order to improve the way we live together in a time when social, political, and cultural reference points are being blurred. Gérald Ledent is a cofounder of Brussels-based architecture firm KIS studio and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning (LOCI), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Cécile Vandernoot is an architect and architectural critic. She is pursuing her PhD and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning (LOCI), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain). https://www.park-books.com/index.php?lang=de&page=books&view=co&booktype=order_1_releasedate&subject=2&artist=all&author=all&pd=pb&book=141
Physical education teachers’ perception of pupils’ motivation.
No full textpeer reviewedMotivational aspects play a particularly important role in teaching. They are considered a powerful mediator between teacher action and teaching effects. Pupils’ motivation towards school and physical education has already been analysed from the pupils’ point of view (Piéron, Ledent, Almond, Airstone and Newsburry, 1996). On another side, its perception by teachers is less documented. This study focused on the identification by PE teachers of pupils’ behaviours indicating that they were motivated or not. Moreover, perception of reasons related to lack of motivation in pupils was also investigated. Twenty-nine teachers fulfilled a questionnaire during an inservice preparation seminar. Their answers were analysed and inductively classified in categories. Thirteen categories of criteria showing the presence or lack of motivation were identified. Motivation was predominantly perceived by (1) the quality of the working climate (16.8%); (2) the intend to be involved in the PE lesson (14%); (3) positive reactions towards the subject matter (11.2%) and an efficient time management (11.2%). The most important categories related to lack of motivation were: (1) absences or excuses (20.2%); (2) low time on task (14%) and (3) negative reactions towards the subject matter (14%). Concerning origins of the lack of motivation, teachers emphasised: (1) the large differences between pupils (13.7%); the lack of sport culture of youth (10.5%) and (3) the negative pupils’ attitude towards school
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