37 research outputs found
Traces of Time : Emiko Nakano and Sharyn Yuen
No full textAngus presents Nakano and Yuen's paper works, which both deal with memory, time and identity as well as with their respective Japanese and Chinese heritage. The author briefly reviews some of their pieces and installations, which involve weaving and silkscreening. Short artist's statements. Biographical notes
Feng Shui/Wind Water : Lani Maestro, Paul Wong, Henry Tsang, Sharyn Yuen
No full textElaborating on how "feng shui" (the Chinese practice of achieving harmony) is the pivotal notion connecting all aspects of the exhibition, Sage discusses the four artists' site-specific installations centered on the family. Artists' statements. Biographical notes
Developing creativity from school and home experiences: how parents and educators influence students' creative literacy practices
No full textThis dissertation looks at the nature of creativity and what it takes to create a creative environment between the home environment and the elementary classrooms. Children make meaning best through play, creativity and problem-solving; this theory is built on Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development (1978) alongside schema theory and Sternberg and Lubart’s Investment Theory (1991). Vygotsky’s theories have also been mediated with Kress (1997) and with Csikszentmihalyi (1996). This ten-month-long qualitative case study of administrators, teachers, parents, and students utilized interviews, artifacts, and focus groups. It studied the phenomenon of creativity (Patton 2002) while taking an ethnographic approach (Green & Bloome 1997). The observational work took place in families’ homes and at a school in a suburban school district in an upper-middle class community. Part of the interview work took place in the participants’ homes and at school. Focus groups and interviews with teachers and administrators were conducted about how they define, identify, and apply creativity in their planning, teaching, learning, and assessing. Coding was established using the research questions and interview protocol to organize data. Coding schema meant that as codes were created, the goal was to capture the perceptions and beliefs of the participants. Grounded theory combined with discourse theory was used to track terms, concepts, and ideologies that recurred in the data. They were drawn them together into an integrated framework that was offered in the final chapter. My data reveal the findings of the teachers and administrators, coded into five major categories, with corresponding subcategories: the classroom environment, the role of the teacher, the home connection, and difficulties. The major categories that emerged from the family participants were how the children and their families make creative use of space, time, and materials in their quest to observe, question, learn, and explore the world around them. This dissertation contributes to the growing research bridging creativity and critical thinking, implications for standardized testing, and creative literacy practices.Ed. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sharyn Fishe
The City Museum of Art & Design
No full textBook abstract: Including artists' statements and commissioned essays. Includes work by Sutapa Biswas, Daniel Biry, Lloyd Gibson, Mark Haywood, Wendy Kirkup, Lani Maestro, Pat Naldi, John Newling, Andre Stitt, Virgil Tracy, Henry Tsang, Mark Wallinger, Louise Wilson, Paul Wong and Sharyn Yuen
Sounds Local, 1998 August 01
No full textInterview with author Sharyn McCrumb about her novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, the first woman of North Carolina to be convicted and hanged; WTEB reporter George Olsen interviews Dr. Randolph Chitwood on robotic cardiovascular surgery at East Carolina University; Saving Private Ryan (film) review by WHQR's film commentator, Steve Taylor; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
Understanding carers' intention for their child to walk to school : further application of the theory of reasoned action
No full textOne quarter of Australian children are overweight or obese (ABS, 2010), putting them at increased risk of physical and psychological health problems (Reilly et al., 2003). Overweight and obesity in childhood tends to persist into adulthood and is associated with premature death and morbidity (Reilly & Kelly, 2011). Increases in Australian children’s weight have coincided with declines in active transportation, such as walking, to school (Salmon et al., 2005). Investigating the factors which influence walking to school is therefore important, particularly since walking to school is a low cost and effective means of reducing excess weight (Rosenberg et al., 2006) that can be easily integrated into daily routine (Brophy et al., 2011). While research in this area has expanded (e.g., Brophy et al., 2011; Giles-Corti et al., 2010), it is largely atheoretical (exceptions Napier et al., 2011). This is an important gap from a social marketing perspective given the use of theory lies at the foundation of the framework (NSMC, 2006) and a continued lack of theory use is observed (Luca & Suggs, 2013). The aim of this paper is to empirically examine a widely adopted theory, the deconstructed Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) (Fishbein & Azjen, 1975), to understand the relative importance of attitude and subjective norms in determining intentions to increase walk to school behaviour
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In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper
No full textThis thesis explores the common features that unite postcolonial and posthumanist theories, finding that the Cartesian notion of representationalism has enabled the humanist hierarchy that both fields decry. This humanist hierarchy coalesces in the figure of the author, and as such its most effective criticism takes the form of metafiction. The object of this analysis is The People of Paper, which explores the limits of the author perspective through a narrative that follows a character born of paper, as well as a narrative that is unmade by a characters’ war against the author. The characters' war against the author illustrates an intimacy between representation, materiality, and subjectivity that demonstrates the difficulty of engaging in anti-humanist narration – particularly when Cartesian disassociation is woven into the epistemology of authorship. To demonstrate how postcolonialism and posthumanism work together, I mobilize these theories in a reparative reading that evinces a hierarchy inherent to authorship
Ciao Da Vancouver : Portraits of a City : Jamie Dolinko, Brian Howell, Henry Tsang, Paul Wong, Sharyn A. Yuen
No full textMargins of Memory : Rebecca Belmore, Marlene Creates, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Wyn Geleynse, Jan Peacock, Jin-me Yoon, Sharyn Yuen
No full textForefronting the notion that all identity is constructed, Baert analyzes the work of seven artists who investigate the formation of the cultural self as dictated by place and collective memory. Biographical notes. 32 bibl. ref
