14 research outputs found
THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING APPROACH AND PLAYING METHOD AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS ON MOTOR ABILITY OF STATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
No full textThe problem in this study is the lack of motor skills. This study aims to determine the effect of problem based learning and playing methods and nutritional status on motor skills of Elementary School 12 Mandau, Bengkalis RegencyThis study uses an experimental method that uses a treatment design with a level of two x two, namely a factory experiment involving two factors. The sample in this study were 20 students of Elementary School 2 Mandau. Nutritional status data were taken by means of tests and measurements using the Body Mass Index (BMI) instrument and to measure motor ability tests using the "Scott Motor Ability" test instrument.Data were analyzed using 2 x 2 ANOVA at a significance level of α = 0.05 and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov sig normality test> 0.05 and continued with the Tukey test. The results of the data analysis show that 1) Overall, Problem Based Learning is better than the Play Method in improving motor skills of Elementary School 12 Mandau, Bengkalis Regency. 2) There is an interaction between Problem Based Learning and Play Method with Nutritional Status on the results of motor skills of Elementary School 12 Mandau, Bengkalis Regency. 3) In the High Nutritional Status Group, Problem Based Learning and high nutritional status are better and more influential than the play method group with high nutritional status on the motor skills of Elementary School 12 Mandau, Bengkalis Regency. 4) In the Low Nutritional Status Group, Problem Based Learning and low nutritional status are better and more influential than the play method group with low nutritional status on the motor skills of Elementary School 12 Mandau, Bengkalis Regency
‘This dream of Arctic rest’ : Memory, Metaphor and Mental Illness in Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica
No full textJenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica, an autobiographical text published in 1997, engages with Antarctica not only as a literal place, but also as a location of the mind. Her imaginative response to what has traditionally been perceived as an inhuman landscape allows her to view the Polar regions as a mental space, signifying a complex system of images and symbols. Diski’s physical voyage functions primarily as a metaphor for her attempt to locate an interior psychological terrain, the discovery of which will dispel her profound sense of self-estrangement. This article contends that Diski’s use of the interconnecting metaphors of skating, ice and frozen or numbed emotions provide a rich tapestry of associations which serve to illuminate the process whereby 126 traumatic experiences can subsequently manifest themselves in depression and mental illness. In this respect, the narrative, which explores the author’s passion for emotional oblivion and obsession with the colour white, represents a desire to experience her life as an accretion of meaning.</p
The emotional geographies of the 'livingdying'
No full textThis paper engages with Madge's (2016; 2018) notion of the ‘livingdying’ through an analysis of three recent autobiographies of death and dying. Dying: A Memoir by Australian author, Cory Taylor (2016), In Gratitude by British writer, Jenny Diski (2016), and The Bright Hour by American memoirist, Nina Riggs (2017), provide insight into the sometimes contradictory emotional responses to the different spaces traversed by the ‘livingdying’. We identify how the emotions of fear and anxiety, sadness and grief, anger and frustration, and isolation and loneliness infuse the liminal spaces that the ‘livingdying’ occupy. In doing so we highlight how the normative dualism of ‘the living’ and ‘the dying’ shapes emotional vulnerabilities. Finally, hoping to further advance Madge's (2016; 2018) provocation to acknowledge, account for and honour the intrinsic entanglement of living and dying and life and death, we propose a reframing of her notion of ‘livingdying’ that includes the ‘ordinary’ living, that is, those not dealing with a terminal illness.No Full Tex
Introduction
No full textThis is the substantive introduction to 'Writing Talk: interviews with writers about the creative process'. It investigates the role of writer-interview in further examining aspects of the writing process. It including the following sections: 'On these writers'; 'The virtue of interview'; 'On the creative process'; 'Uncertainty and the necessity of not knowing'; 'Image before word'; 'The author is dead, but what of the writer?' This introduction is written by the book's editor and interviewer. The interviewed writers are: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright
Skating in a life context: examining the significance of aesthetic experience in sport using practical epistemology analysis
No full textThe purpose of this article is to suggest and illustrate a methodological approach for studies of learning in physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy in order to investigate and clarify the relation between how people learn and the settings or context in which they learn. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and socio-cultural approaches, a practical epistemology analysis (PEA) with a focus on aesthetic judgements is suggested as a way of developing a valuable approach for investigating situated learning. The approach is illustrated by an analysis of a biographical story written by the English author Jenny Diski. As can be seen from the illustration, the significance of aesthetic experience for learning is visible when an author tells us about skating as a child. By using PEA to examine aesthetic experience-operationalised through the aesthetic judgements the author includes in the story-we can shed light on the relation between the skater and the situation in which skating takes place. The fact that aesthetic judgements are used by the author normatively to decide what is to be included and excluded in skating, and also that aesthetic judgements are used to make relations between the skater and her life as a whole, facilitates an exploration of the relation between the sports learner and the life situation in which learning is situated.</p
Sandettie Lightship and Shipping Lane
No full textCorridor8
Issue 3: The Fast Slow Edition
Corridor8 is an annual international journal of contemporary visual arts and writing based in the North of England.
ovelist Jenny Diski, author of Only Human and Nothing Natural, presents new writing recounting two memorable trips to the North of England. A personal response to the writer is provided by New York based novelist and art critic Frederic Tuten.
Artist and Northern Art Prize winner Paul Rooney gives us his take on living and working as an artist in Liverpool in a critical examination of the city and its cultural aspirations.
Artist and social researcher Grace Hamilton speaks to the North’s major art education institutions including Christine Borland, professor at BALTIC 31 in Newcastle, Maurice Carlin at Islington Mill Academy in Salford, Juan Cruz, professor of fine art at Liverpool’s School of Art and Design at LJMU, Ian Rawlinson, artist and Route Leader at the Manchester School of Art at MMU and The Free University of Liverpool gives a collective interview.
Also in this issue we present the first print edition of the, usually online, contemporary art and writing magazine Soanyway. This 16-page special edition explores the theme of ‘Content[s]‘ with its double meaning of containment and contentment. Image-led and printed in full colour on glossy paper, it provides a stunning colour supplement to Corridor8.
Contributors to the supplement are Alex Dipple, Andrew George, Phill Hopkins, Eoin Shea, Lisa Stansbie and Anna T, Billy Cancel, Tom Duggan, Claire Potter and Stephanie Richardson
Like a Grain of Sand Irritating an Oyster. Howard Jacobson’s The Very Model of a Man and the Bible
No full textFor contemporary novelists rewriting the Bible (e.g., for Winterson, Barnes, Roberts, Crace or Diski), Scripture proves a potent irritant with which contemporary literature can still maintain a lively, interactional relationship. Far from being taken for granted, neglected, plundered, the Bible functions as a grating cultural presence approached with a sense of both abrasion/unease and incorrigible attachment. This paper focuses on Howard Jacobson\u27s The Very Model of a Man (1992), a novel rewriting the biblical narrative of Abel and Cain, and examines ways the novel plays out its attachment and detachment, friction and acceptance of the Bible. It is argued that the complex character of the novel (written by a Jewish born British author) derives from midrash (a rabbinic mode of reading and relating to Scripture), a form not unknown in English literary tradition. Drawing on those theories of midrash which emphasise the culture-bound, historically conditioned position of the Bible reader, the paper investigates the ways the scriptural “irritant” is filtered through/inflected by the cultural milieu of its late twentieth-century reader
Like a Grain of Sand Irritating an Oyster. Howard Jacobson’s The Very Model of a Man and the Bible
No full textFor contemporary novelists rewriting the Bible (e.g., for Winterson, Barnes, Roberts, Crace or Diski), Scripture proves a potent irritant with which contemporary literature can still maintain a lively, interactional relationship. Far from being taken for granted, neglected, plundered, the Bible functions as a grating cultural presence approached with a sense of both abrasion/unease and incorrigible attachment. This paper focuses on Howard Jacobson's The Very Model of a Man (1992), a novel rewriting the biblical narrative of Abel and Cain, and examines ways the novel plays out its attachment and detachment, friction and acceptance of the Bible. It is argued that the complex character of the novel (written by a Jewish born British author) derives from midrash (a rabbinic mode of reading and relating to Scripture), a form not unknown in English literary tradition. Drawing on those theories of midrash which emphasise the culture-bound, historically conditioned position of the Bible reader, the paper investigates the ways the scriptural “irritant” is filtered through/inflected by the cultural milieu of its late twentieth-century reader
Like a Grain of Sand Irritating an Oyster. Howard Jacobson’s The Very Model of a Man and the Bible
No full textFor contemporary novelists rewriting the Bible (e.g., for Winterson, Barnes, Roberts, Crace or Diski), Scripture proves a potent irritant with which contemporary literature can still maintain a lively, interactional relationship. Far from being taken for granted, neglected, plundered, the Bible functions as a grating cultural presence approached with a sense of both abrasion/unease and incorrigible attachment. This paper focuses on Howard Jacobson\u27s The Very Model of a Man (1992), a novel rewriting the biblical narrative of Abel and Cain, and examines ways the novel plays out its attachment and detachment, friction and acceptance of the Bible. It is argued that the complex character of the novel (written by a Jewish born British author) derives from midrash (a rabbinic mode of reading and relating to Scripture), a form not unknown in English literary tradition. Drawing on those theories of midrash which emphasise the culture-bound, historically conditioned position of the Bible reader, the paper investigates the ways the scriptural “irritant” is filtered through/inflected by the cultural milieu of its late twentieth-century reader
