263 research outputs found
John Rennie Short's 3 favorite reads in 2023
No full textJohn is an author, Professor emeritus, Urbanist, Geographer, Maphead, and Geopolitician.https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/john-rennie-shor
History with Jackson: Insurrection with John Rennie Short
No full textToday on the History with Jackson Podcast Jackson sits down to talk with Author and historian John Rennie Short! Today we discuss his book with Reaktion Books, 'Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy'. In this conversation, we spoke about the two insurrections, the polarization of American Politics, and the rise of Donald Trump!https://podfollow.com/1558691645/episode/52d8ea1345733d563bce9b4578470a61c08499d
Feedback from an author: an academic’s experience
No full textThis blog post was written by Professor Frank Rennie*, Lews Castle College, University of the Highlands and Islands.
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Ysabel Rennie photograph
No full textPhotograph of Columbus, Ohio, author Ysabel Rennie posed with a copy of her book "Kingside," from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection.
Ysabel Fisk Rennie (1918-2006) was born in California, and attended Stanford College and Harvard University. During World War II, she worked as a political analyst and later as an intelligence analyst in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, from 1943 to 1945. Following the war, she was an officer of the U.S. State Department until 1947. She moved to Columbus with her husband and children in 1951, and was the author of two novels, "The Blue Chip" (1954) and "Kingside" (1963).
She became interested in prison conditions and prison reform following the 1968 Ohio State Penitentiary riot, and remained active in this effort, helping to achieve many changes in the Ohio prison system. She published newspaper columns and non-fiction works in addition to her earlier novels, including "The Search for Criminal Man" in 1978
New (Probabilistic) Derivation of Diaz-Metcalf and Pólya-Szegő Inequalities and Consequences
No full textClassical inequalities of Diaz - Metcalf and Pólya - Szegő are generalized to
probabilistic setting which covers the initial deterministic (both discrete and integral) variants.
From these two inequalities, by the probabilistic derivation method further well -
known inequalities are obtained (that ones by Kantorovich, Rennie and Schweitzer)
Ernest Hemingway
No full textOn Hemingway\u27s complicated and evolving response to World War I throughout his career. Rennie biographically and culturally contextualizes Hemingway\u27s repeated return to the subject, concluding that the author\u27s varied responses were the result of personal changes in craftsmanship and pressure from the publishing and film industry. Discusses Hemingway\u27s correspondence, prefaces, In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, Across the River and into the Trees, and A Moveable Feast
Lies and Distortions of Pan
No full textThis is article is written in response to an online article entitled "Persistence of Trinidad native pans out" which credits Ellie Mannette with the development of the steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago as well creating seven of the instruments in a ten-piece steelband, but who has been "ridiculed" and scorned by the TandT society. Rennie, the author of the article refutes the claims made in the article arguing that while Ellie Mannette did contribute to the development of steelpan, the work of pan pioneers such as Spree Simon, Neville Jules, Bertie Marshall, Rudolph Charles and Tony Williams cannot be overlooked. Concern was expressed over the legitimacy of the award Ellie received from the US government, as the author felt that they were fabricated
A Thoughtful Approach to Public Education Reform
No full textThis article restates the underlying rationale for the importance of high-quality K-12 public education. The author describes some of the difficulties reformers encounter in engendering support for and determining the most cogent elements of reform. The differences between the aims and capabilities of school-business partnerships, which essentially assist the current system, and systemic reform, which aims to change the system, led to the formation of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. Rennie summarizes the process followed by MBAE in developing a framework for reform and meeting its objectives
Underneath the Observational Snapshot: Looking For Sense and Meaning Behind the First Impressions of a Learning Interaction
No full textEducation practitioners, including Ofsted inspectors and Teacher Educators, try to make sense of behaviour in the classroom by observing the interaction of teachers and learners. They make judgements about what is good teaching, what is bad learner behaviour and what are inclusive and effective learning experiences. This article argues that such observations are inadequate for assessing and evaluating learning behaviour and insufficient to enable teachers to develop their own personalised teaching and learning strategies and their confidence as professional teachers. The article was written in response to examples of Further Education (FE) teachers describing the college classroom as a war zone and a battlefield (Lebor, 2013). The author argues that such metaphors reinforce the notion that teachers and learners are situated at opposing sides of an education institution with differing interests. They also ignore the position of the teacher as being a learner too. The author advocates using an existentialist approach to understanding and reflecting on the learning process. She models strategies she has used herself to attempt to step outside the conventional paradigm of learning in college and create a new framework for reflecting on what is good behaviour from a teacher and good behaviour from a learner
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