Teaching slow fashion: an inquiry-based pedagogical approach

Three years ago Sophie Till started working with pianist Edna Golandsky, the leading exponent of the Taubman Piano Technique, an internationally acclaimed approach that is well known to pianists, on the one hand, for allowing pianists to attain a phenomenal level of virtuosity and on the other, for solving very serious piano-related injuries. Till, a violinist, quickly realized that here was a unique technical approach that could not only identify and itemize the minute movements that underlie a virtuoso technique but could show how these movements interact and go into music making at the highest level. Furthermore, through the work of the Golandsky Institute, she saw a pedagogical approach that had been developed to a remarkable depth and level of clarity. It was an approach that had the power to communicate in a way she had never seen before, despite her own first class violin training from the earliest age. While the geography and “look” on the violin are different from the piano, the laws governing coordinate motion specifically in playing the instrument are the same for pianists and violinists. As a result of Till’s work translating the technique for violin, a new pedagogical approach for violinists of all ages is emerging; the Taubman/Golandsky Approach to the Violin. In reflecting on these new developments, Edna Golandsky wrote, “I have been working with the Taubman Approach for more than 30 years and have worked regularly with other instrumentalists. However, Sophie Till was the first violinist who asked me to teach her with the same depth that I do with pianists. With her conceptual and intellectual agility as well as complete dedication to helping others, she has been the perfect partner to translate this body of knowledge for violinists. Through this collaboration, Sophie is helping develop a new ‘language’ for violinist that will prevent future problems, solve present ones and start beginners on the right road to becoming the best they can be. The implications of this new work for violinists are enormous.”

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QUANTITATIVELY ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF THE ‘THINK-PAIR-SHARE’ ACTIVE LEARNING PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH ON CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-CONFIDENCE OF STUDENTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY LEVEL GEOLOGY COURSE

10.1130/abs/2017se-290398 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alex K. Manda ◽

Keyword(s):

Active Learning ◽

Content Knowledge ◽

Pedagogical Approach ◽

Self Confidence

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Collecting to understand: the art of children and the medical-pedagogical approach in twentieth-century Portugal

History of Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0957154x211003768 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0957154X2110037

Author(s):

João Pedro Fróis

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Child Psychiatry ◽

Emotional Development ◽

Pedagogical Approach ◽

Children's Art ◽

The Third

In this essay I look at the art of children as a tool in the medical-pedagogical approach, as proposed by the founder of child psychiatry in Portugal, Vítor Fontes (1893–1979). First, the topic of the art of children is introduced, and the second part focuses on the model of medical pedagogy as it was practised in Portugal. The third and fourth parts present Fontes’s own investigations on the drawings of children with intellectual disabilities under observation at the Instituto Médico-Pedagógico António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira (IAACF) in Lisbon. In the conclusion it is argued that Fontes contributed to the development of child psychiatry in Portugal by showing that children’s art can mirror their cognitive and emotional development.

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Recontextualizing Quality Talk for an Eighth-Grade English Classroom in China

ECNU Review of Education ◽

10.1177/2096531120970174 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 209653112097017

Author(s):

Liwei Wei ◽

P. Karen Murphy ◽

Shenghui Wu

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Small Group ◽

English Language ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Target Language ◽

Eighth Grade ◽

Pedagogical Approach ◽

Language Class ◽

English Classroom

Purpose: Conducting meaningful interactions in the target language is essential for language learning. However, in many English language classrooms in China, it is rare that students are provided with such opportunities. In the current study, we presented and critically evaluated the implementation of a small-group discussion approach called Quality Talk (QT) in an eighth-grade English language classroom in China. Design/Approach/Methods: One eighth-grade English teacher and 82 eighth-grade students in a public middle school in Beijing participated in the study using a pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental design. Recordings of teacher coaching sessions and student discussions, researchers’ field notes, and participating teacher’s written reflections were used to identify successful practices and lessons learned with respect to the implementation of QT. Implications for future directions were also discussed. Findings: The results revealed that to successfully implement a discourse-intensive pedagogical approach in a large English language class, it is essential that (a) the materials used for discussion closely align with the school curriculum, (b) students are grouped heterogeneously and scaffolded to engage in discussions both in their native and target languages, and (c) student leadership be leveraged to facilitate discussion in each small group. Originality/Value: The present study delineated the details with respect to implementing a discourse-intensive pedagogical approach in an eighth-grade English classroom in China. We derived several key insights from recontextualizing QT in an English learning, large class context in China. These insights might hold the potential to improve the effectiveness of English teaching and learning in China.

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Evaluating New York raw fiber-to-retail

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1177/02690942211007119 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (8) ◽

pp. 787-807

Author(s):

Helen X Trejo ◽

Tasha L Lewis

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Value Chain ◽

Future Goals ◽

Leadership Initiatives ◽

Key Dimensions ◽

Farm Business ◽

Slow Fashion ◽

Fiber Processing ◽

Local Fiber

Inspired by the slow fashion movement, this is an exploratory case study focused on New York’s raw fiber-to-retail value chain for local clothing and textiles. New York has over 470 diverse sheep, alpaca, goat farms, fiber processing mills for product development, and fiber festivals for retail. A survey with farmers presents their motives for establishing a fiber farm business, diverse fibers available, fiber products, income, and their multiple retail venues. Interviews were conducted with farmers, fiber mill owners, and artisan designers. Primary research objectives included: (1) determining how fiber farms, mills, artisans, fiber festivals, and fiber agro-tourism intersect to sustain the current fiber community; (2) evaluating the major challenges the fiber community faces; (3) determining if stakeholders of the fiber community have benefited from any policies; and (4) understanding future goals New York raw fiber-to-fashion stakeholders have to sustain the local fiber community. Interviews reveal several leadership initiatives developed by fiber farmers to address challenges of finding a market, limited income, and fiber mill closures. This study uses the five key dimensions of slow fashion as a framework to evaluate New York raw fiber-to-retail.

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