Imagining His Dark Materials as a Gesamtkunstwerk

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
Laura MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Scenic Design ◽  
First Century ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
His Dark Materials ◽  
Twenty First Century

Using first-hand interviews conducted with playwright Nicholas Wright and composer Jonathan Dove, this article discusses the adaptation and production process behind the Royal National Theatre's staging of His Dark Materials. It suggests that an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach was essential in bringing Pullman's epic to the stage. Different combinations of dialogue, music, scenic design, staging and puppetry allowed the production to convey detailed character histories and complex emotional experiences, and cover vast geographies, distilling the essence of the compelling epic. In leaving the structure of the interdisciplinary collaboration transparent, this article argues that the director, Nicholas Hytner, and his team invited the audience to enter the worlds of the play as participants in the collaborative work, free to mould their own experience of the heroes' adventures, and complete the adaptation with their own imagination. This twenty-first-century Gesamtkunstwerk bears comparison with Wagner's Ring cycle of music dramas.

The Role of Pedagogy in Developing Life Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
Renu Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
First Century ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Curriculum Framework ◽  
Twenty First Century

In response to recent concerns expressed by Indian industry about the ‘employability’ of school and university graduates, this article examines the role of pedagogy in developing life skills (or twenty-first-century skills) and how these can be incorporated in the school/university curriculum. Recent curricular frameworks have incorporated life skills within the school curriculum by stressing the importance of inquiry and collaborative work through all subjects taught in school. The article finds a similar emphasis in the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) in India, but classroom observations and textbook analyses show that learning objectives in schools are frequently incorrect or misaligned with the NCF vision. The article briefly touches on how the beliefs of teachers affect their classroom practices and recommends that attention should be paid to the professionalisation of teachers, as only then can students acquire skills that are relevant for the twenty-first century, which is what employers want. JEL Classification: O15, J24, I21

scholarly journals Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Paulina Mirowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into

The article reflects upon Sam Shepard’s playwrighting in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to his last play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), written specifically for the Derry/Londonderry City of Culture celebrations in 2013, and originally produced by the renowned Field Day Theatre Company. The article seeks to offer an insight into Shepard’s mature multilayered text, which, in many respects, looks back upon almost fifty years of his artistic creativity and, at the same time, expands his vision. It also addresses the realisation of Shepard’s play in performance and the significance of his text in an interplay of multiple creative inputs involved in the production process. While revisiting the familiar landscapes and themes, Shepard’s most recent work negotiates the boundaries between the actual and the fictitious, raising debates about the persistence of myths, mortality and the haunting legacies of the past. Richly intertextual and conspicuously metatheatrical, it grapples with questions of authenticity, performativity and storytelling – the narratives that are passed down, and how they form and inform our lives. It also engages with, and further problematises, issues of personal and cultural identity, which constitute Shepard’s most durable thematic threads, revealing both the dramatist’s acute concern with fateful determinism and commitment to self-invention. Significantly, while Shepard’s postmillennial output highlights the author’s ongoing preoccupation with instability and frontiers of various sorts (from those topographic, temporal and sociopolitical to those of language and art), it equally intimates his attentiveness to correspondences between times, lands and cultures.

scholarly journals Tailorizing Taylorism: to Investigate the Principles of Taylorism and How They Can Inform the Design of a Contemporary Movement Efficient Dwelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lauren Maire Gasson
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Fundamental Step ◽  
Contemporary Method ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Twenty First Century

<p>Despite contemporary social activities changing drastically at the turn of the twenty-first century, residential layouts have not changed. This thesis takes the position that dwellings should be designed to facilitate movement efficiency and be moulded around our daily routine. This study seeks to investigate how the contemporary dwelling can adopt Taylorism’s principals from the commercial industry, to facilitate movement efficiency in the home. The research will further look at micro architecture as a contemporary manifestation of Taylorism and use it as an architectural precedent. From the investigation, this research helped formulate a brief for a contemporary method of designing, in which the architect views the individual’s routine as a production process to be refined and optimized. The study preformed ethnographic studies on a three individuals whom wanted their home to be an instrument for their living. One study was chosen to analyze. From the study of the individual’s inhabitation, a prototype was designed around the ecology of objects used in their routine. This became a fundamental step in the brief. Once the prototype is created it was revealed that the architect would have an excellent understanding of how their individual dwelled, and therefore could use the prototype to design an efficient routine. Through the method of interrogating and stripping back the individual’s inhabitation, this process helped redefine the architect’s role and approach to designing contemporary dwelling. The dwelling created using the brief was entirely customized and facilitates every aspect of the client’s contemporary routine.</p>

scholarly journals Evaluating the teaching performance of high school mathematics teachers In light of the skills of the twenty first century

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-184
Author(s):  
Abdulmoneim Ali Al-Abdullah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century Skills ◽  
High School Mathematics Teachers

This research aimed to evaluate the teaching performance of high school mathematics teachers in the light of the twenty-first century skills. Two research tools were prepared: a list of the skills of the twenty-first century, and a questionnaire of “twenty-first century skills among mathematics teachers” that consisted of (22) A single item divided into five responses which are (very important - important - medium important - low importance - unimportant), and included six models for learning in the twenty-first century (collaborative work - knowledge building - self-organization - problem solving and innovation in the real world - the use of technology For learning - methods of presentation and communication with skill), and the results indicated the necessity of working to improve the teaching performance of mathematics teachers at the secondary level in a manner commensurate with the skills of the twenty-first century, as the research reached a number of recommendations and proposals.

scholarly journals Tailorizing Taylorism: to Investigate the Principles of Taylorism and How They Can Inform the Design of a Contemporary Movement Efficient Dwelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lauren Maire Gasson
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Fundamental Step ◽  
Contemporary Method ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Twenty First Century

<p>Despite contemporary social activities changing drastically at the turn of the twenty-first century, residential layouts have not changed. This thesis takes the position that dwellings should be designed to facilitate movement efficiency and be moulded around our daily routine. This study seeks to investigate how the contemporary dwelling can adopt Taylorism’s principals from the commercial industry, to facilitate movement efficiency in the home. The research will further look at micro architecture as a contemporary manifestation of Taylorism and use it as an architectural precedent. From the investigation, this research helped formulate a brief for a contemporary method of designing, in which the architect views the individual’s routine as a production process to be refined and optimized. The study preformed ethnographic studies on a three individuals whom wanted their home to be an instrument for their living. One study was chosen to analyze. From the study of the individual’s inhabitation, a prototype was designed around the ecology of objects used in their routine. This became a fundamental step in the brief. Once the prototype is created it was revealed that the architect would have an excellent understanding of how their individual dwelled, and therefore could use the prototype to design an efficient routine. Through the method of interrogating and stripping back the individual’s inhabitation, this process helped redefine the architect’s role and approach to designing contemporary dwelling. The dwelling created using the brief was entirely customized and facilitates every aspect of the client’s contemporary routine.</p>

scholarly journals Attitudes of mathematics teachers at the secondary stage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia towards teaching in light of the skills of the eleventh century: اتجاهات معلمي الرياضيات بالمرحلة الثانوية على مستوى محافظة الأحساء نحو التدريس في ضوء مهارات القرن الحادي والعشرين

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulmoniem Ali Al-Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Secondary Stage ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Descriptive Survey

The aim of the research was to explore the attitudes of mathematics teachers at the secondary stage of teaching in light of the skills of the twenty-first century, and the descriptive survey method was used. A questionnaire of “twenty-first century skills for mathematics teachers” was prepared that consisted of (22) items that were applied to a sample of (60) Male and female teachers, from different regions of the Kingdom, and the results showed that the teaching performance obtained a general average (4.0 out of 5.0), with a degree of importance (very important), and at the level of learning models, the "self-organization" model obtained the highest average (4.22), followed by a model. Collaborative work with an average of (4.20), followed by the model of “using technology in education” with an average of (4.18), followed by the two models “problem-solving and innovation in the real world and methods of skillfully presenting and communicating” with an average of (4.14), and finally the “building knowledge” model With an average of (3.11), and based on the results, the researcher presented a number of recommendations and proposals to develop the teaching performance of mathematics teachers at the secondary level in light of the skills of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Christoph Marcinkowski (ed., in collaboration with Constance Chevallier-Govers and Ruhanas Harun), Malaysia and the European Union: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century

ICR Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-399
Author(s):  
Eric Winkel
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Political Data ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Twenty First Century

This collaborative work – edited by IAIS Principal Research Fellow and Co-Chair (Publications) Dr. Christoph Marcinkowski of Germany - is a treasure trove of economic and political data across many different areas. The contributors organise data that generally is not found in one place, and their assessment of the  data illuminates the Malaysia-EU connection.

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