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Difference and belonging, hopes and fears: parenting ‘mixed’ children and the implications for career development
No full textRosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Families & Social Capital Research Group, at London
South Bank University, discusses parenting issues and their implications for career development at the CeGS 10th
Annual Lecture held at the University of Derby on 18th December 2007.
Rosalind has researched and published widely on a range of issues concerning family policy, with a focus on the
perspectives of family members themselves. Her recent book publications include: Assessing Social Capital (ed. with J.
Holland and J. Franklin, 2007, Cambridge Scholars Press); Sibling Identity and Relationships: Sisters and Brothers (with L. Hadfield, H. Lucey and M. Mauthner, 2006, Routledge); Making Families: Moral Tales of Parenting and Stepparenting (with J. Ribbens McCarthy and V. Gillies, 2003, Sociology Press) and Children, Home and School: Resistance, Autonomy or Connection? (ed., 2002, Routledge Falmer). Rosalind's report (with C. Caballero and S.Puthussery) on 'Parenting 'mixed' children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families' will be published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation later this year. Rosalind is also co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Exploratory talk within collaborative small groups in mathematics
No full textThis report describes one aspect of a wider research study on exploratory talk within collaborative small groups in secondary mathematics lessons. It outlines students’ views of using collaborative activity to learn mathematics. The fuller research study explores the extent to which exploratory talk occurs in collaborative peer groups in secondary mathematics classrooms
The contribution of exploratory talk to mathematical learning
No full textThis short report illustrates the relationship between the occurrence of 'exploratory talk' in collaborative peer groups in secondary mathematics classrooms and the extent to which pupils and teacher share common goals relating to small group work
A sample of southern Compact Steep Spectrum radio sources: The VLBI observations
No full textA small sample of 7 southern Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources has been selected as part of the study of a larger flux-limited complete sample of radio sources. High resolution images, using the VLBI network in the southern hemisphere and the high resolution MERLIN array, are presented for all sources in the CSS sample. The overall morphology of each source consists of well-defined double lobes but with substantial diffuse and extended components present. In the majority of cases only a fraction of the total flux density is detected on the VLBI baselines, indicating the presence of larger extended radio structures. However, all sources are unresolved at arcsecond scales and are of sub-galactic size, with linear size in the range 0.1-2 kpc. The radio properties of the sources agree well with CSS sources in other samples.A. Tzioumis, E. King, R. Morganti, D. Dallacasa, C. Tadhunter, C. Fanti, J. Reynolds, D. Jauncey, R. Preston, P. McCulloch, S. Tingay, P. Edwards, M. Costa, D. Jones, J. Lovell, R. Clay, D. Meier, D. Murphy, R. Gough, R. Ferris, G. White, and P. Jone
The struggle for a socially-just pedagogy: an ethnographic study of a mathematics classroom
No full textThis study is based in a social-constructivist framework, interpreted through the lens of feminist and other emancipatory writing. The researchers combine ethnographic and action research methods to explore the activity of a teacher working in what she views as a ‘constitutively oppressive’ context. The focus is on examining how successful the teacher can be in recognising and valuing a variety of forms of knowing while working within a curriculum context that appears to privilege one particular form of knowledge. The study was designed and carried out through collaboration between teacher and researcher. It illustrates how the teacher is mostly successful in generating a connected form of knowing for her pupils, albeit at the expense of her continuous struggle against the constraining influence of what she experiences as formidable external pressures
Edwin Edwards: A study in ethos
No full textIn November 1971, Edwin Edwards entered the final stages of his bid for the Louisiana governorship. Leading a long list of contenders in the fall democratic primaries and emerging as party victor in the December elections, Edwards seems the most promising candidate for the highest state office. The "Cajun Congressman" possesses an extraordinarily high level of ethos with men and women of widely varying ages and occupational categories. The sixteen-year veteran of politics has never lost an election; if he dominates in the February contest, he will be the first south Louisianian in thirty years to inhabit the governor"s mansion. Edwin Edwards claims that the major vehicle that he has used in building his image has been the good-will speech. His role as U. S. Congress man gave him the opportunity to use this medium to reach his bayou state constituency. Almost two years ago when Edwards embarked on an active, albeit unannounced, gubernatorial campaign, the author began this study in an attempt to answer the question- "What factors explain the ethical appeal of Edwin Edwards, Louisiana congressman, in his good-will speechmaking, 1968-1970?", Discovering the answer to this question involved taking three major steps- (1) Part one of the thesis describes the general nature of the good-will speaking of the Congressman, evaluates Edwards in the role of the good-will speaker, and examines a seven-month schedule of Edwards" occasional speechmaking. A knowledge of the specific environment within which Edwards acted out his role and built his ethos is preliminary to an under standing of the specific factors within that environment that account for his success. (2) Part two consists of a detailed description of several specific instances demonstrate the nature of audience responses to the Congressman; general press and interview commentaries concerning Edwards" appeal as a speaker; and a content analysis of interviews with individual members, illustrating opinions of Edwards as a speaker. This section is an attempt to prove that Edwards does indeed enjoy an unusually high level of ethos. (3) Part three is a critical search for the bases of Edwards" ethical appeal, involving examination of biographical data on Edwards; comments by press personnel and political associates; statements by members of the audiences at several of the speaking occasions; self-analysis of the speaker; a study of one speech in the context of the total environment in which Edwards delivered it; and texts of good-will speeches delivered in the past.Communication, Jack J. Valenti School o
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