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The Contributions of Jane Smisor Bastien to Piano Teaching
No full textThe impact of Jane Smisor Bastien (b. 1936) on the field of piano teaching is investigated in this document, both in terms of her teaching materials and with respect to her effectiveness as an independent teacher. Bastien has authored a wealth of piano materials that have been used throughout the world, and she is a beloved teacher and mentor to hundreds of students. Through her publishing and teaching, she continues to demonstrate her long-standing commitment and dedication to the music teaching profession.Bastien began publishing educational piano materials with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company in the early 1960s and she continues to work with Kjos today. She is the sole author of numerous publications, and she has also written collections in collaboration with her husband, James Bastien (1934-2005), and her daughters, Lisa Bastien Hanss (b. 1964) and Lori Bastien Vickers (b. 1966). All of the Bastien materials (more than 300 separate titles) are still in print, and these materials continue to be used by students and teachers both nationally and internationally.Interviews were conducted with approximately twenty-five former students, parents of students, and colleagues of Jane Bastien as well as with Bastien herself, her daughters, and Mark Kjos, head of Kjos Music Company. Those interviewed for this study spanned the course of Bastien's career. Bastien's pedagogical techniques, as revealed through these interviews and through personal observations, are presented throughout the document.The six chapters of this document outline Jane Bastien's contributions to piano teaching. Chapter One is an introductory chapter that details the purpose, need for, procedures, limitations, and overall organization of the study. A related literature section offers brief synopses of theses and dissertations that were used at the commencement of this research. Chapter Two offers a biographical sketch of Jane Bastien. Chapter Three focuses on Bastien's perspective on earlier publications including both those solely authored by her and those co-authored with her husband. A description of Bastien's use of materials in her own studio is also provided in Chapter Three in an attempt to explain how her materials relate to her teaching philosophy. Selected methods and supplemental materials on which she collaborated with her daughters are discussed in Chapter Four. An explanation of Bastien's approach to the teaching of technique is also included. Chapter Five provides an in-depth focus on Bastien's teaching philosophy with specific emphases on motivation, the role of the teacher, parent, and student, practice strategies, and performance strategies. Bastien's personality and connection with students, her impact on colleagues, and her greatest contributions to the profession of piano teaching are also explored in Chapter Five. The sixth and final chapter provides a summary and an evaluation of Bastien's continuing impact on her students and on the piano teaching profession. Her former students describe her as a passionate teacher who has become a lifelong mentor. It is clear that she cultivates meaningful personal relationships with her students and that the effects of her teaching and mentoring continue to influence them throughout their lives. As author and pedagogue, Bastien's impact has been both significant and enduring, and her work continues to shape the musical experiences of students and teachers across the globe
Entretien avec Laure Rinié à propos de son ouvrage L’égalité femmes-hommes dans la formation : Les stratégies de valorisation du « féminin »
No full textInternational audienceLaure Rinié’s book, Gender Equality in Training: Strategies for Promoting the “Feminine”, examines how so-called feminine characteristics are understood within a professional world that is determined to promote equality between women and men. To do so, the author presents the results of a field study conducted among actors working, directly or indirectly, on gender equality in a wide variety of professional activities. While Laure Rinié’s findings confirm the invisibilisation of women in the contexts under study, they also suggest adopting a reflexive stance toward “strategies for valuing the ‘feminine’,” which are both essential and debatable when it comes to ensuring real equality between women and men. This exchange, structured around three questions formulated by Bastien Pouy-Bidard, allows the author to revisit her work.La obra de Laure Rinié, La igualdad entre mujeres·y hombres en la formación: Estrategias de valoración de lo “femenino”, examina la comprensión de las dichas características femeninas en un mundo profesional decidido a promover la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres. Para ello, la autora presenta los resultados de una investigación de campo realizada entre actores y actrices que trabajan, directa o indirectamente, por la igualdad de género en diversas actividades profesionales. Si bien los hallazgos de Laure Rinié confirman la invisibilización de las mujeres en los contextos estudiados, también sugieren adoptar una postura reflexiva respecto a las “estrategias de valoración de lo ‘femenino’”, que son tan esenciales como discutibles a la hora de garantizar la igualdad real entre mujeres y hombres. Este intercambio, articulado en torno a tres preguntas formuladas por Bastien Pouy-Bidard, permite a la autora volver sobre su obra.L’ouvrage de Laure Rinié, L’égalité femmes-hommes dans la formation : Les stratégies de valorisation du « féminin », examine l’appréhension desdites spécificités féminines dans un monde professionnel résolument enjoint à promouvoir l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes. Pour ce faire, l’autrice expose les résultats d’une enquête de terrain menée auprès d’acteurices œuvrant plus ou moins directement à l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes au sein d’activités professionnelles diverses et variées. Si les découvertes de Laure Rinié confirment l’invisibilisation des femmes dans les contextes présentement soumis à l’étude, elles s’avèrent également suggérer d’adopter un positionnement réflexif à l’égard des « stratégies de valorisation du "féminin" », aussi essentielles que discutables pour assurer l’égalité réelle entre les femmes et les hommes. Cet échange articulé autour de trois questions formulées par Bastien Pouy-Bidard permet à l’autrice de revenir sur son ouvrage
Indigenous Peoples and organization studies
No full textThis essay encourages scholars of management and organization studies (MOS) to critically reflect on
how Indigenous peoples and their knowledges have been, and continue to be, systemically discriminated
against. This discrimination is the result of colonization; it has deeply impacted and continues to affect
which knowledges and practices are valued and embraced. The impact of colonization is mirrored in
MOS via processes and actions within the academic setting and our business schools. The result is the
continued marginalization of Indigenous peoples and their knowledges. We propose a shift in how MOS
scholars approach research in relation to non-western societies to counter, and hopefully end, these
continued practices of discrimination in our business schools. Specifically, we argue that demarginalizing
Indigenous research in academia and going beyond ‘cosmetic indigenization’ in our business schools are
new, collaborative ways of rethinking indigeneity and breaking down the current barriers in MOS that
reinforce and perpetuate the systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples, their knowledges and
practices.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication
of this article. This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada [430-2019-00070].FacultyReviewe
Simulating cement microstructural evolution during calcium leaching
No full textCalcium leaching is one of the important degradation mechanisms causing dissolution of the crystalline phases such as, AFm, portlandite increasing capillary porosity. Further it leads to decalcification of an amorphous C-S-H phase causing increase in the gel porosity and in turn degrading the long term performance of concrete structures. In this paper a lattice Boltzmann based pore-scale reactive transport approach in the context of simulating the evolution of microstructure of a hardened cement paste during calcium leaching is presented. This approach is based on fundamental principles of chemical thermodynamics and mass transport. The example presented illustrates influence of location of mineral grains and surface area on overall dissolution rate and pore structure evolution.Structural EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
A Tempest in a Transatlantic Teapot: A Legal Historian\u27s Critical Analysis of Frédéric Bastien\u27s La Bataille De Londres
No full textThis review discussed the allegations in Frederic Bastien\u27s book La Bataille de Londres, to the effect that two Supreme Court of Canada judges had improper communications with British and Canadian authorities before and after the hearing of the Patriation Reference. It analyzes in detail the five incidents upon which the allegations are based, and finds that the author\u27s interpretation cannot be supported in four of them because of faulty interpretation of the evidence or incomplete research. The fifth incident, in which Chief Justice Laskin met with the English attorney general, is found to have been arguably inappropriate judicial behaviour, but to have no effect in law on the ultimate decision in the Patriation Reference. In addition, more recent evidence tends to confirm that no leaks to the Canadian government occurred while the Court was writing its decision
Mountain/Body Metaphor in the Andes
No full textAndeans have employed metaphors to their land and communities since Inca times. The author explains the mountain/body metaphor of Qollahuaya Andeans in Kaata, Bolivia. These Indians live in low, central and high communities on Mount Kaata. These communities are united not only bu resource and spouse exchange but also by their understanding of Mount Kaata according to the anatomical paradigm of a human body. This metaphor is expressed in legends, names of place, earth-shrines, and rituals. The properties of this central symbol are: (1) completeness-(2) stratification; (3) telluric; and (4) metaphorical. The mountain/body metaphor indicates another component of the ayllu: it shows how metaphor provides cultural unification for diverse agricultural levels and different communities in the Andes. The ayllu consists of symbolic as well as social and economic structures. (Symbolic anthropology, verticality, dominant symbol, and ayllu).Bastien Joseph William. Mountain/Body Metaphor in the Andes. In: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, tome 7, N°1-2, 1978. pp. 87-103
Growing Straight : Evidences of active proprioceptive control in plants
No full textInternational audienceStraight growth of slender organs under gravity is unstable. This has been known for long for vertical straight growth, due to Euler self-buckling. However, both primary and secondary growth lock-in and amplify any curvature, leading to a slow instability of the straight configuration [1, 2]. Moreover, mechanisms that were thought to control growth orientation and organ shape, such as gravitropism and phototropism were shown not to solve the problem and even to generate more dynamical instabilities in growth control [2,3,4]. Ten years ago, we proposed and demonstrated that proprioception -the sensing by the plant of its local curvatures -, and proprioception-driven autotropism could solved this problem [3]. This was achieved by combining spatiotemporal modelling, mathematical analysis, and model assessment in 13 species sampling the phylogeny on land plants. Later on, further evidences converged toward the genericity of proprioception in plants [5]. However direct experimental demonstration of proprioception and the active drive of autotropic straightening was missing. Here we show, using novel set-ups allowing to deconvolution of proprioceptive drive, that proprioception is occurring in the primary growth of the herbaceous model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and in the secondary growth of the tree model species Populus temula x alba. Finally we also illustrate an At myosin mutant with modified proprioceptive sensitivity. All this opens a straight…forward avenue toward a more complete understanding of the mechanosensitive shape control in plants [5,6,7]. [1]MOULIA B , BASTIEN, R., CHAUVET H, LEBLANC-FOURNIER N., 2019 Posture control in land plants: growth, position sensing, proprioception, balance, and elasticity. Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 70 (14) :. 1 3467-3494,[2]R.BASTIEN, S.DOUADY†, B. MOULIA.†* , 2014, A Unifying Modeling of Plant Shoot Gravitropism With an Explicit Account of the Effects of Growth . Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Plant Biophysics) 5:136. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00136. ( † co-PI last authors, * corresponding author )[3]R.BASTIEN, T. BOHR, B. MOULIA.† * , S.DOUADY.† , 2013 . A unifying model of shoot gravitropism reveals proprioception as a central feature of posture control in plant. PNAS 110 (2 ): 755–760 († co-PI last authors, * corresponding author )[4]BASTIEN, R., DOUADY, S†., MOULIA, B †*. 2015. A Unified Model of Shoot Tropism in plants: Photo-, Gravi- and Propio-Ception. PLOS Computational Biology, DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004037 Feb (co PI authors, * corresponding author)[5]MOULIA B., DOUADY S. AND HAMANT O., 2021 Fluctuations shape plants through proprioception. Science 372, eabc6868 doi: 10.1126/science.abc686[6]BASTIEN, R., GUYASAMIN, O, DOUADY, S., MOULIA, B . 2018 Coupled ultradian growth and curvature oscillations during gravitropic movement in disturbed wheat coleoptiles. PLoS One, 13(3): e0194893.[7]MEROZ Y (2021) Plant tropisms as a window on plant computational processes. Tansley Insight, New Phytologist, 229(4),1911–191
Growing Straight : Evidences of active proprioceptive control in plants
No full textInternational audienceStraight growth of slender organs under gravity is unstable. This has been known for long for vertical straight growth, due to Euler self-buckling. However, both primary and secondary growth lock-in and amplify any curvature, leading to a slow instability of the straight configuration [1, 2]. Moreover, mechanisms that were thought to control growth orientation and organ shape, such as gravitropism and phototropism were shown not to solve the problem and even to generate more dynamical instabilities in growth control [2,3,4]. Ten years ago, we proposed and demonstrated that proprioception -the sensing by the plant of its local curvatures -, and proprioception-driven autotropism could solved this problem [3]. This was achieved by combining spatiotemporal modelling, mathematical analysis, and model assessment in 13 species sampling the phylogeny on land plants. Later on, further evidences converged toward the genericity of proprioception in plants [5]. However direct experimental demonstration of proprioception and the active drive of autotropic straightening was missing. Here we show, using novel set-ups allowing to deconvolution of proprioceptive drive, that proprioception is occurring in the primary growth of the herbaceous model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and in the secondary growth of the tree model species Populus temula x alba. Finally we also illustrate an At myosin mutant with modified proprioceptive sensitivity. All this opens a straight…forward avenue toward a more complete understanding of the mechanosensitive shape control in plants [5,6,7]. [1]MOULIA B , BASTIEN, R., CHAUVET H, LEBLANC-FOURNIER N., 2019 Posture control in land plants: growth, position sensing, proprioception, balance, and elasticity. Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 70 (14) :. 1 3467-3494,[2]R.BASTIEN, S.DOUADY†, B. MOULIA.†* , 2014, A Unifying Modeling of Plant Shoot Gravitropism With an Explicit Account of the Effects of Growth . Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Plant Biophysics) 5:136. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00136. ( † co-PI last authors, * corresponding author )[3]R.BASTIEN, T. BOHR, B. MOULIA.† * , S.DOUADY.† , 2013 . A unifying model of shoot gravitropism reveals proprioception as a central feature of posture control in plant. PNAS 110 (2 ): 755–760 († co-PI last authors, * corresponding author )[4]BASTIEN, R., DOUADY, S†., MOULIA, B †*. 2015. A Unified Model of Shoot Tropism in plants: Photo-, Gravi- and Propio-Ception. PLOS Computational Biology, DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004037 Feb (co PI authors, * corresponding author)[5]MOULIA B., DOUADY S. AND HAMANT O., 2021 Fluctuations shape plants through proprioception. Science 372, eabc6868 doi: 10.1126/science.abc686[6]BASTIEN, R., GUYASAMIN, O, DOUADY, S., MOULIA, B . 2018 Coupled ultradian growth and curvature oscillations during gravitropic movement in disturbed wheat coleoptiles. PLoS One, 13(3): e0194893.[7]MEROZ Y (2021) Plant tropisms as a window on plant computational processes. Tansley Insight, New Phytologist, 229(4),1911–191
The Monk's Guide to the Sacred Remains. Johannes Scheckmann's Heiltumsbücher between Hagiography and Curiosity
No full textAt the dawn of Reformation and the religious tensions that spread across Europe in the 16th century, the German city of Trier was the theatre of a particular religious craze considered a peak in the development of personal piety.
During his second stay in the Mosellan city in 1512, emperor Maximilian of Habsburg ordered the clergy to excavate the tunica Christi, a relic that had remained buried under the main altar of the eastern choir of the cathedral since the end of the 12th century. This inventio was followed by a series of ostensiones to show the Holy Tunic to the mass of people gathered in front of the cathedral. Being located on the pilgrimage route to Aachen and Cologne, the churches of Trier took advantage of the influx of pilgrims to promote their own places of worship. A real “flood of relics” (“Heiltumsflut”) fell upon the city with all the drifts that went with it such as the digging of bones and a massive consumption of indulgence letters, a lucrative activity heavily criticized by Martin Luther a few years later.
In this context, a whole literature related to these ostensiones reliquiarum as well as to the history of the city and of its churches emerged (so-called Heiltumsschriften), the most notorious example being Johannes Enen’s “Medulla Gestorum Trevirensium”, a vernacular treaty published in 1514, with a second edition in 1515. Two years later, in 1517, a Latin version of the above-mentioned text was released (“Epitome alias medulla Gestorum Trevirorum”). Its author was Johannes Scheckmann, a monk from the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin who had already published four other prints and is believed to be behind a series of hagiographic texts preserved in manuscript form only.
Traditionally, Heilthumsbücher can be defined as printed brochures containing textual and visual information necessary for pilgrims to follow the exhibition ceremony of relics in a particular church. Yet, Scheckmann’s publications intrigue by their prosaic developments that lay far beyond the literary limits of their counterparts.
Acting as a true hagiographer, the monk of Saint-Maximin shaped a new form of compendium by reemploying a classical hagiographical repertory, including one of the two only preserved medieval treaties about the cult of the saints and the worship of their relics: Thiofrid of Echternach’s Flores Epytaphii Sanctorum (ca. 1100).
My paper’s proposal aims to explore to which extend Scheckmann’s work takes place in the context of an increased competition between sanctuaries to attract pilgrims; it also analysis the intended message of his writings in consideration with the past literature about the local saints
How to Create and Maintain a Social Problem: Critically Deconstructing the Canadian National Drug Strategies 1987-2014
No full textThis thesis explores the evolution of the discourses that constitute the social problem of drug use in Canada as described throughout the three Canadian drug strategies: the National Drug Strategy 1987-1992, the Canadian Drug Strategy 1992-2007 and the National Anti-Drug Strategy 2007-2014. In order to do so the author engages with Foucaudian concepts of discourse, power and knowledge to conduct an archaeological analysis of government texts produced during each time period. In particular, the author places a focus on how drug use, drug users, the impact of drug use on Canadian society and the perceived necessary responses to the drug problem are constructed through various discourses. The findings help the author propose a framework to examine how social problems may be politicized in general. The framework highlights the tendency for social problems to emphasize appropriate social norms, be selective in their incorporation of evidence, marginalize those who are considered problematic and politicize objects in a vague manner
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