Stimulus or impediment? The impact of matching grants on the funding of elementary schools in Sweden during the nineteenth century

This study aims to examine the influence of visual thinking learning to problemsolving skill. Quasi experiments with the design of this non-equivalent controlgroup involved Grade V students in one of the Elementary Schools. The design ofthis study was quasi experimental nonequivalent control group, the researchbullet used the existing class. The results of research are: 1) improvement ofproblem soving skill. The learning did not differ significantly between studentswho received conventional learning. 2) there is no interaction between learning(visual thinking and traditional) with students' mathematical skill (upper, middleand lower) on the improvement of skill. 3) there is a difference in the skill oflanguage learning that is being constructed with visual learning of thought interms of student skill (top, middle and bottom).

Download Full-text

Reading Stratigraphical Woodscapes in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders

Victoriographies ◽

10.3366/vic.2017.0280 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 210-223

Author(s):

Anna Burton

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Local History ◽

Space And Time ◽

Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽

Geological Work ◽

Gideon Mantell ◽

Modes Of Thought ◽

The Impact ◽

Visual Cultures

In The Woodlanders (1887), Hardy uses the texture of Hintock woodlands as more than description: it is a terrain of personal association and local history, a text to be negotiated in order to comprehend the narrative trajectory. However, upon closer analysis of these arboreal environs, it is evident that these woodscapes are simultaneously self-contained and multi-layered in space and time. This essay proposes that through this complex topographical construction, Hardy invites the reader to read this text within a physical and notional stratigraphical framework. This framework shares similarities with William Gilpin's picturesque viewpoint and the geological work of Gideon Mantell: two modes of vision that changed the observation of landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This comparative discussion at once reviews the perception of the arboreal prospect in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures, and also questions the impact of these modes of thought on the woodscapes of The Woodlanders.

Download Full-text

Introduction

10.1525/california/9780520293434.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

George E. Dutton

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Vantage Point ◽

15Th Century ◽

The World ◽

Catholic Mission ◽

Historical Moment ◽

The Impact ◽

Main Figure

This chapter introduces the book’s main figure and situates him within the historical moment from which he emerges. It shows the degree to which global geographies shaped the European Catholic mission project. It describes the impact of the Padroado system that divided the world for evangelism between the Spanish and Portuguese crowns in the 15th century. It also argues that European clerics were drawing lines on Asian lands even before colonial regimes were established in the nineteenth century, suggesting that these earlier mapping projects were also extremely significant in shaping the lives of people in Asia. I argue for the value of telling this story from the vantage point of a Vietnamese Catholic, and thus restoring agency to a population often obscured by the lives of European missionaries.

Download Full-text

Liszt at the Piano: The Impact of Iconography on mid-Nineteenth Century Musicology

Studia Musicologica ◽

10.1556/6.2014.55.1-2.9 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 55 (1-2) ◽

pp. 131-144

Author(s):

Suzanne Marie Francis

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Music History ◽

Collective Identities ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Maximum Benefit ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Social ◽

Iconic Status ◽

The Impact

By the time of his death in 1827, the image of Beethoven as we recognise him today was firmly fixed in the minds of his contemporaries, and the career of Liszt was beginning to flower into that of the virtuosic performer he would be recognised as by the end of the 1830s. By analysing the seminal artwork Liszt at the Piano of 1840 by Josef Danhauser, we can see how a seemingly unremarkable head-and-shoulders bust of Beethoven in fact holds the key to unlocking the layers of commentary on both Liszt and Beethoven beneath the surface of the image. Taking the analysis by Alessandra Comini as a starting point, this paper will look deeper into the subtle connections discernible between the protagonists of the picture. These reveal how the collective identities of the artist and his painted assembly contribute directly to Beethoven’s already iconic status within music history around 1840 and reflect the reception of Liszt at this time. Set against the background of Romanticism predominant in the social and cultural contexts of the mid 1800s, it becomes apparent that it is no longer enough to look at a picture of a composer or performer in isolation to understand its impact on the construction of an overall identity. Each image must be viewed in relation to those that preceded and came after it to gain the maximum benefit from what it can tell us.

Download Full-text

Agricultural education and Italian primary school teachers: the Romagna in the late nineteenth century

Modern Italy ◽

10.1017/mit.2020.68 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Omar Mazzotti ◽

Massimo Fornasari

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Agricultural Education ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Educational Process ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Ruling Class ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Agricultural Revolution ◽

Agricultural Knowledge ◽

The Impact

This article examines the dissemination of agricultural education in primary schools in the Romagna, an important rural area in post-unification Italy. The topic is explored within a wider perspective, analysing the impact of institutional changes – at both the national and local levels – on the transmission of agricultural knowledge in primary education during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Two particular elements of the process are examined: students, as the intended beneficiaries of the educational process; and teachers, who as well as having a key role in reducing the extent of illiteracy were sometimes also involved in disseminating agricultural knowledge. The transfer of that knowledge appears to have been a very challenging task, not least because of the scant interest that Italy's ruling class showed towards this issue. However, increasing importance seems to have been given to agricultural education in primary schools during the economic crisis of the 1880s, when the expansion of this provision was thought to be among the factors that might help to prepare the ground for the hoped-for ‘agricultural revolution’.

Download Full-text

Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050720000613 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-41

Author(s):

W. Walker Hanlon ◽

Casper Worm Hansen ◽

Jake Kantor

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

High Temperature ◽

Mortality Data ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Infant Deaths ◽

Digestive Diseases ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Using novel weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and mortality as the city developed. Our main results show that warm weeks led to elevated mortality in the late nineteenth century, mainly due to infant deaths from digestive diseases. However, this pattern largely disappeared after WWI as infant digestive diseases became less prevalent. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths—equal to 0.9-1.4 percent of all deaths— were averted. These findings show that improving the disease environment can dramatically alter the impact of high temperature on mortality.

Download Full-text

The Impact of Professional Development to Infuse Health and Reading in Elementary Schools

American Journal of Health Education ◽

10.1080/19325037.2010.10598857 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 155-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Tami Benham Deal ◽

Jayne M. Jenkins ◽

Laurence O. Deal ◽

Adelle Byra

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Elementary Schools ◽

The Impact

Download Full-text

What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth-Century Britain?

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700004939 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 319-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

George R. Boyer

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Insurance Benefits ◽

Insurance Policies ◽

Union Leaders ◽

The Impact

The article examines the development of the insurance function of trade unions. It analyzes how such policies worked, and why union benefit packages differed across occupations. It also addresses the impact of insurance policies on union organization. Insurance benefits increased the ability of unions to attract and retain members. They did not, however, significantly increase the power of union leaders relative to employers or union rank and file.

Download Full-text