Gaelic in Scotland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
State Education ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This the first comprehensive study of the Gaelic language in modern Scotland, covering the period from 1872 to the present. It considers in detail the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland - from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day - including the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic. In addition, it scrutinises the competing ideologies that have driven the decline, marginalisation and subsequent revitalisation of the language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach - at the boundary of history, law, language policy and sociolinguistics - the book draws upon a wide range of sources in both English and Gaelic to consider in detail the development of the language policy regime for Gaelic that was developed between 1975 and 1989. It examines the campaign for the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 and analyses its contents and implementation. It also assesses the development and delivery of development and delivery of Gaelic education and media from the late 1980s to the present.

Suppression of Spin-Glass State in PrB6

2012 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 221-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Anisimov ◽  
A.V. Bogach ◽  
V.V. Glushkov ◽  
S.V. Demishev ◽  
N.A. Samarin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Spin Glass ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
Phase Formation ◽  
Spontaneous Magnetization ◽  
Initial State ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The comprehensive study of transverse magnetoresistance (MR) and magnetization has been carried out on the high quality single crystals of PrB6 in the wide range of temperatures 2-40K and magnetic fields up to 80kOe. In order to estimate the role of boron vacancies in the formation of the new spin-glass (SG) phase detected by Alekseev et al. below 20K the experiments were carried out on the ordinary (initial state) and annealed single crystals of PrB6. The data obtained demonstrate the appearance of spontaneous magnetization below TSG21.3K with M~1.6 emu/mol for initial state and the absence of spontaneous magnetization for the annealed PrB6 samples. On the contrary, quite similar behavior of MR was detected for various samples of PrB6. Our results suggest the existence of the aggregated boron vacancies which provoke the new SG phase formation in PrB6 at TSG.

scholarly journals Sports Participation For Hong Kong Women And Hong Kong Initiatives

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Mee Lee LEUNG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Value System ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.Historically, sports was globally understood within the context of a masculine value system both in the Eastern and Western Societies. The 'Ying' and the 'Yang' stand for female and male in the Chinese culture implied that the female are more fragile and submissive where as the male being more aggressive and stronger. With 90% of the population in Hong Kong being Chinese, the cultural belief in a Chinese society that "Women's place should be in the home" has confined women to attend household chores and child bearing activities. In early 20th century, with the changing role of women in China and especially in Hong Kong, women are more active that they were a decade ago. Women are equal nowadays in a wide range of activities because they are better educated, play a more committed role and live a more active life. Thus, their participation in sports has increased in the past decade both in recreation and in competition. This paper attempts to report on Hong Kong women's participation in major games and also to recommend strategies which can further enhance women's place in sports.歷史上，無論東西方社會，運動廣泛地被視為屬於雄性的項目。正如中國以陰陽來代表女男一樣，女性被認為較順從和脆弱的，而男性則較強壯和具攻擊性。在九成人口都是中國人的香港社會中，「女性應該留在家裡」的觀念曾規限著女性須要處理家務和照顧孩子的責任。踏入20世紀，女性對社會事務的參與也開始積極起來。時至今日，香港的女性在多方面都能跟男性般獲得平等對待。她們不單止得到較佳的敎育機會， 在社會的角色也越來越重要。因此，無論在運動比賽及健體活動上，女性的參與比十年前的大為提高。究竟香港女性過去在主要運動競賽上的參與情況和未來女性在運動發展上方針應該如何?這都是本文探討的綱領。

scholarly journals The New Dad: The Career-Caregiving Conundrum

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Brad Harrington
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Transition To Fatherhood ◽  
College Educated

AbstractThis chapter draws mainly from “The New Dad” studies, a decade long research series done by the Boston College Center for Work & Family which studied the changing role of primarily college-educated, white-collar fathers working in large US-based corporate settings. The series explored the experiences of these fathers on a wide range of issues including their transition to fatherhood, work roles, definitions of success, attitudes on paternity leave and caregiving, and work-family issues.

The Transformation of Sherwood Forest in the Twentieth Century: The Role of Private Estate Forestry

Rural History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
DUNCAN KOTTLER ◽  
CHARLES WATKINS ◽  
CHRIS LAVERS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Forestry Commission ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

Despite the demise of many landed estates in the twentieth century, the creation of the Forestry Commission and consequent massive afforestation, over two-thirds of British woodland remained in the hands of private land owners at the end of the century. Little research has been carried out into the changing role of landed estates in forming and maintaining woodland landscapes in this period. This paper examines forestry on the Thoresby estate, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire using a wide range of sources. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of this landscape during the twentieth century. Rather than being a slowly changing woodland landscape, it has been transformed through interventions by land agents and landowners in response to changing social, economic and government policy pressures.

Planning and Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
And Control ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Empirical Material

This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, the book critically reflects on the changing role of planning and governance in sustainable urban development, looking at how a shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in western planning processes has blurred the traditional boundaries between public, private, and voluntary sectors.

scholarly journals The extraordinary and changing role of women in Dutch language history

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-244
Author(s):  
Marijke van der Wal ◽  
Jan Noordegraaf
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Language History ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Leading Question ◽  
Changing Role

Since the second half of the sixteenth century, there has been a tradition of publishing grammars, dictionaries, and linguistic treatises, composed by male authors of various professions. Although women do not seem to have played a visible role in language codification and language studies in the Netherlands, at least two extraordinary femmes savantes stand out. The first of these from the seventeenth century was Anna Maria van Schurman, a highly admired scholar and polyglot who maintained an international network of correspondence and was familiar with a wide range of languages. Her eighteenth-century counterpart, Johanna Corleva, was interested in rational grammar, translated the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (1660) into Dutch, and compiled a Dutch dictionary according to particular explicit principles. Attention will also be paid to female activities in education, from elementary schools to academia. Throughout this chapter, the leading question will be why, despite the activities described, Dutch ‘linguistics’ was such a predominantly male enterprise for more than three centuries.

scholarly journals Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Divine Activity ◽  
The Many

Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet also kindly to mankind and bringer of luck; his functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, commerce, lucre, and theft, rhetoric, and practical jokes; he also plays the role of mediator between all realms of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the Netherworld. The twenty original contributions in this volume bring together a wide range of disciplines, including Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, and drama), epigraphy, cult and religion, vase painting and sculpture. Such an interdisciplinary approach is not only appropriate, but essential to investigating the many facets of this elusive divinity.

scholarly journals Role of the cultural ecosystem services provided by natural heritage in forest territories for sustainable regional development

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Miglena Zhiyanski ◽  
Maria Glushkova ◽  
Yonko Dodev ◽  
Mariam Bozhilova ◽  
Rositsa Yaneva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Employment Education

The paper focuses on the role of the Natural Heritage in Forest Areas (NHFA) as a resource that can generate economic, social and environmental benefits for society through the provision of a wide range of cultural ecosystem services. In the assessment of the role of NHFA, the approach for assessment and mapping of ES in a given territorial scope was applied in a pilot region of Velingrad Municipality, focusing on the capacity of the forest ecosystems to provide cultural ecosystem benefits and services to the people. The study confirms that the identification of NHFA could be a powerful driver for regional development by creating significant positive effects such as improving sustainable cultural tourism in forests, diversifying forestry and supporting sustainable development and management of forest areas. The integration of the cultural services of NHFA into forest-related legislation can encourage job creation in different sectors and for different levels of employment, education and cultural training. Evaluation and mapping of ecosystem services is an appropriate tool to support the development of a concept and methods for assessing and mapping the general knowledge framework for NHFA policy in Bulgaria by applying an interdisciplinary approach.

scholarly journals Impact of Covid-19 in Engineering Online Mode Educational System

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Gomathi R D ◽  
Maheswaran S ◽  
Radhika S ◽  
Sathesh S ◽  
Savitha sri N
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Changing Role

The outbreak of COVID-19 had a huge impact on the educational system as it leads to the closure of the educational institutions across globe. This had an impact on both economy and society apart from affecting the students and teachers. The situation became even more worser in the case of the disadvantaged students as it affected not only their education but also lead to problems such as improper nutrition, childcare and also economic problems as many lost their jobs due to the pandemic situation. In order to move on with the situation, UNESCO suggested the educational institutions to takeover virtual platforms as a replacement to the traditional classes in order to reduce the disruption of education. These virtual platforms became a critical lifeline for educational institution as it helps to reduce the transmission of disease. In this paper we could see the ways that the pandemic has transformed the education sector across the world which include Online learning, Unequal access to technology, and educational resources, a wide range of distance learning tools, new methods of assessment with learning management software, online appreciation for teachers and educators and the changing role of parents in education. But there was some gap between educators and learners.

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