Fresh perspective on gauging the conformal group

Most educational models that prescribe teaching and training methods to groom school children into innovators fail to take a deeper view of engineering design methodology. Yet others tend to ignore the importance of human values which must be an integral part of any innovative design process.Â In this paper, We would first disaggregate design capabilities into its constituent capabilities, namely, exploring, creating and converging capabilities, which we need to master to produce better products and services, and then show how the cognitive and affective skills proposed by Benjamin Bloom, and Anderson and Krathwohl in their educational models can directly and significantly contribute to these constituent capabilities. With an improved understanding of the eco-system needed for better design solutions, we suggest that the present education systems, especially in developing countries, be critically reviewed and reoriented from the perspective of producing quality innovative designers, regardless of the problem area.Â Â

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The Only Wonderful Things

10.1093/oso/9780190652876.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa J. Homestead

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

American Southwest ◽

Advertising Agency ◽

Greenwich Village ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Park Avenue ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

The Cold War ◽

Relationship Of ◽

First Time

This book tells for the first time the story of the central relationship of novelist Willa Cather’s life, her nearly forty-year partnership with Edith Lewis. Cather has been described as a distinguished artist who turned her back on the crass commercialism of the early twentieth century and as a deeply private woman who strove to hide her sexuality, and Lewis has often been identified as her secretary. However, Lewis was a successful professional woman who edited popular magazines and wrote advertising copy at a major advertising agency and who, behind the scenes, edited Cather’s fiction. Recognizing Lewis’s role in Cather’s creative process changes how we understand Cather as an artist, while recovering their domestic partnership (which they did not seek to hide) provides a fresh perspective on lesbian life in the early twentieth century. Homestead reconstructs Cather and Lewis’s life together in Greenwich Village and on Park Avenue, their travels to the American Southwest that formed the basis of Cather’s novels The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop, their summers as part of an all-woman resort community on Grand Manan Island, and Lewis’s magazine and advertising work as a context for her editorial collaboration with Cather. Homestead tells a human story of two women who chose to live in partnership and also explains how the Cold War panic over homosexuality caused biographers and critics to make Lewis and her central role in Cather’s life vanish even as she lived on alone for twenty-five years after her partner’s death.

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Insurgent Universality

10.1093/oso/9780190883089.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Massimiliano Tomba

Keyword(s):

Private Property ◽

The State ◽

European History ◽

Monopoly Power ◽

Individual Rights ◽

Modern Conception ◽

Democratic Practices ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

Alternative Institutions

Insurgent Universality presents an intervention in current discussions on universalism, democracy, and property. It investigates other trajectories besides traditional ones of modernity and traces an alternative legacy for contemporary movements. This legacy exceeds the familiar juridical horizon of citizenship, individual rights, and the state by revisiting questions relating to power, democratic practices, and the modern conception of private property. Insurgent Universality investigates and displays alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. These trajectories are not only embodiments of a radical hope and a new conception of universality that arose from insurgencies from below; they also alert us to possibilities in our present that have been underestimated or overlooked. Eventually, they show us alternative institutions by which to reshape our present. These experimental democratic practices and institutions are based on the pluralism of authorities instead of the monopoly power of the state. However, such an inquiry resists the utopian urge to clear the tables. Instead, the book examines more closely, and with a fresh perspective, those aspects of our intellectual inheritance that we have allowed to remain in the darkness. By doing this, Insurgent Universality aims to “decolonize” European history, offering an image of Europe that is not monolithic but, rather, composed of many layers and paths that have been repressed or forgotten. The aim of the book is to rebuild those roads not taken and bridge them with non-European trajectories and political experiments.

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The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe

10.1093/oso/9780199659777.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard Bradley ◽

Colin Haselgrove ◽

Marc Vander Linden ◽

Leo Webley

Keyword(s):

Social Development ◽

Iron Age ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Low Countries ◽

North West ◽

Social Forms ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

Western Germany ◽

New Evidence ◽

Late Mesolithic

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, transcending political and language barriers that can hinder understanding. By surveying changes in social forms, landscape organization, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia, the volume reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron Age. It explores how far common patterns of social development are apparent across north-west Europe, and whether there were periods when local differences were emphasized instead. In relation to this, it also examines changes through time in the main axes of contact between the various regions of continental Europe, Britain, and Ireland. Key to the volume's broad scope is its focus on the vast mass of new evidence provided by recent development-led excavations. The authors collate data that has been gathered on thousands of sites across Britain, Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, western Germany, and Denmark, using sources including unpublished 'grey literature' reports. The results challenge many aspects of previous narratives of later prehistory, allowing the volume to present a distinctively fresh perspective.

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Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the “Litigation State”: The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws

Law & Social Inquiry ◽

10.1017/lsi.2020.25 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-38

Author(s):

David Freeman Engstrom ◽

David K. Hausman

Keyword(s):

Empirical Test ◽

State Level ◽

Welfare Programs ◽

Cost Shifting ◽

Disability Discrimination ◽

Social Welfare Programs ◽

Disability Law ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

Legislative Choice ◽

Cost Shift

Critics have long maintained that the rights revolution and, by extension, the postwar turn to litigation as a regulatory tool, are the product of a cynical legislative choice. On this view, legislators choose rights and litigation over alternative regulatory approaches to shift costs from on-budget forms (for example, publicly funded social provisions, public enforcement actions by prosecutors or agencies) to off-budget forms (for example, rights-based statutory duties, enforced via private lawsuits). This “cost-shift” theory has never been subjected to sustained theoretical scrutiny or comprehensive empirical test. This article offers the first such analysis, examining a context where the cost-shift hypothesis is at its most plausible: disability discrimination laws, which shift costs away from social welfare programs by requiring that employers hire and “accommodate” workers with disabilities. Using a novel dataset of state-level disability discrimination laws enacted prior to the federal-level Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a range of archival and other materials drawn from state-level legislative campaigns, we find only limited support for the view that cost shifting offered at least part of the motivation for these laws. Our findings offer a fresh perspective on long-standing debates about American disability law and politics, including judicial interpretation of the ADA and its state-level analogues and the relationship of disability rights activism to other rights-based political movements.

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Johann Michael von Hermann (1793–1855): A predecessor of Max Schweidler?

Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material ◽

10.1515/res-2018-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (3-4) ◽

pp. 239-270

Author(s):

Susanne Wagini ◽

Katrin Holzherr

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Present Article ◽

Early History ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Conservation History ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Close Study ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

History Of ◽

Paper Conservation

Abstract The restorer Johann Michael von Hermann (1793–1855), famous in the early nineteenth century, has long fallen into oblivion. A recent discovery of his work associated with old master prints at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München has allowed a close study of his methods and skills as well as those of his pupil Ludwig Albert von Montmorillon (1794–1854), providing a fresh perspective on the early history of paper conservation. Von Hermann’s method of facsimile inserts was praised by his contemporaries, before Max Schweidler (1885–1953) described these methods in 1938. The present article provides biographical notes on both nineteenth century restorers, gives examples of prints treated by them and adds a chapter of conservation history crediting them with a place in the history of the discipline. In summary, this offers a surprising insight on how works of art used to be almost untraceably restored by this team of Munich-based restorers more than 150 years before Schweidler.

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Capturing Transformative Moments in a Participatory Values-Based Event

Journal of Transformative Education ◽

10.1177/1541344621996247 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 154134462199624

Author(s):

Felix Okechukwu Dike ◽

JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji

Keyword(s):

Transformative Learning ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

Study Design ◽

Present Moment ◽

Case Study Design ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

The Stability

The theory of transformative learning (TL) has been criticized secondhand for its lack of clarity in capturing and explaining in detail the processes undergone by learners who are going through TL experiences and their link to learning outcomes. Using a case study design, and carefully synthesized TL processes (TLPs) from Mezirow’s TL theory, we present—moment by moment—the TLPs linked to outcomes identified among a group of teachers who participated in a values-based workshop. Participants were followed through interviews for over 72 weeks to trace the stability of their TL outcome. TL processes identified were compared to Mezirow’s 10 processes. The article discusses ontological transformations gained and offers fresh perspective to identifying TLPs that can be linked to outcomes.

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