Connecting Text

Doing Text ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Christopher Waugh
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Connected Text ◽  
Authentic Place ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Tangible Product

This chapter discusses the act of connecting text. The benefit of a connected text is not as simple as merely 'having an audience'. The act of choice in sending something out into the world, under one's own name, and of one's own creation is a singularly autonomous act. This assertion of self is not uncommon for students in a school classroom, in fact it is an important part of what makes the school such a real and authentic place for students and teachers alike, but the formalisation of this in text is unique. The affordances of this self-assertion are often immediately clear. The text, which frequently represents the most tangible product of the classroom experience for students, extends their voice. The value they place on it is reinforced by the fact that they have the power to publish the text to the world.

Special issue introduction: Collective redress for the enforcement of labour law

2021 ◽  
pp. 203195252110578
Author(s):  
Zane Rasnača
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Collective Redress ◽  
The World ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Justice Gap

This article introduces the special issue on ‘Collective redress in labour law’. Even the best labour code in the world would be practically useless without procedural rules to enable its enforcement. The contributions in this special issue show that, while the mechanism of collective redress certainly functions with mixed results and often is underused in practice, it is nevertheless a valuable tool in the enforcement toolbox, where available. It might be particularly useful for some groups of workers, such as those who lack individual means for asserting their employment-based rights in their own name. While not an answer to all problems, and undoubtedly, not sufficient to close the justice gap for many European workers on its own, collective redress, if adequately constructed, could complement and improve existing enforcement mechanisms in both national and EU labour law.

The Parliament of Things and the Anthropocene

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Simons ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
The World ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
The Way

Among the contemporary philosophers using the concept of the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers are prominent examples. The way they use this concept, however, diverts from the most common understanding of the Anthropocene. In fact, their use of this notion is a continuation of their earlier work around the concept of a ‘parliament of things.’ Although mainly seen as a sociology or philosophy of science, their work can be read as philosophy of technology as well. Similar to Latour’s claim that science is Janus-headed, technology has two faces. Faced with the Anthropocene, we need to shift from technologies of control to technologies of negotiations, i.e., a parliament of things. What, however, does a ‘parliament of things’ mean? This paper wants to clarify what is conceptually at stake by framing Latour’s work within the philosophy of Michel Serres and Isabelle Stengers. Their philosophy implies a ‘postlinguistic turn,’ where one can ‘let things speak in their own name,’ without claiming knowledge of the thing in itself. The distinction between object and subject is abolished to go back to the world of ‘quasi-objects’ (Serres). Based on the philosophy of science of Latour and Stengers the possibility for a politics of quasi-objects or a ‘cosmopolitics’ (Stengers) is opened. It is in this framework that their use of the notion of the Anthropocene must be understood and a different view of technology can be conceptualized.

Calculators in elementary schools? Some tentative guidelines and questions based on classroom experience

1976 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 502-509
Author(s):  
Max S. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
School Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Classroom Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Band ◽  
School Roles

It seems certain that electronic calculators will cause something of a revolution in the availability and use of calculating power in the world outside of schools. This special issue of the Arithmetic Teacher indicates that there is considerable agreement that they should also play an important role in school instruction. But viable school roles will not be established without finding solutions to many problems: problems of philosophy, problems of curriculum and methodology, problems of design, and school management of the calculators themselves. In the belief that solutions to many of these problems should be worked out in actual classrooms, a small band of local teachers and myself began several years ago to explore classroom uses of calculators. This article reports some of our tentative conclusions and our questions resu lting from these explorations.

Measurement from the Bottom of the World to the Middle School Classroom

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 407-411
Author(s):  
Lee Anne Coester
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Mathematics Lesson ◽  
True Story ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
The World ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Ice Floes ◽  
Student Inquiry

Take an incredible true adventure; add a lot of estimation and hands-on measurement; stir in parts of reading, writing, history, geography, and science; and one has the recipe for a powerful mathematics lesson. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World is an extraordinary true story by Jennifer Armstrong. The book follows the story of Ernest Shackleton and 27 men who set out in 1914 to become the first people to cross Antarctica. Instead, their ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the ice and sank, leaving the crew who had no way to communicate with the outside world to find a way back to civilization. They made their way across ice floes and wild seas to an island where 22 of the men made camp to wait. Shackleton and 5 of his crew then set out in a 20-foot boat to cross 800 miles of ocean to find help. Nearly 2 years after the expedition began, the last of the crew were rescued, and all 28 men survived! For a week, in lieu of regular mathematics class and the time when teacher Karen Grokett normally reads to her sixth-grade students at Chase County Middle School in Strong City, Kansas, we went on a daily mathematics adventure. By doing a little planning and by inviting questions to encourage student inquiry, the lesson took on a remarkable life of its own.

Possession

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Luke Rostill
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
Physical Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Own Name

This chapter examines the nature of the possession that gives rise to title. It explains that ‘possession’ is ambiguous, particular senses of ‘possession’ are vague, and that the meaning of ‘possession’ shifts from context to context. It argues that, for the purposes of the rules concerning the acquisition of title, the general rule is that one will obtain possession of certain land or a particular chattel if and only if one has (a) exclusive physical control of the land or chattel; and (b) an intention, in one’s own name and on one’s own behalf, to exclude the world from it.

The Rapture of the Christ: The “Pre-Ascension Ascension” of Jesus in the Theology of Faustus Socinus (1539—1604)

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Alan W. Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Human Race ◽  
Teaching Ministry ◽  
The World ◽  
Own Name

In this essay I examine a rather quirky and possibly novel teaching of Faustus Socinus (1539—1604): what George H. Williams calls a “pre-Ascension ascension” (hereafter PAA) of Christ into heaven. Faustus claimed that this bodily ascent into heaven took place before Christ's final visible ascension to heaven some time between his baptism and the commencement of his earthly teaching ministry. The theory states in brief that Christ, “after he was born a human, and before he began to discharge the office entrusted to him by God, his own Father, … was in heaven, and abode there for some time.” Christ took this heavenly sojourn “that he might hear from God himself and … see in his very presence what he was soon to proclaim and reveal to the world in God's own name.”1 In another place Socinus states that Jesus, “after his birth from the virgin, and before he announced the gospel, was raptured into heaven (in caelum raptus fuerit). There he learned from God himself what he was to reveal to the human race.”2

scholarly journals My Presidency of the Academy of Management: Moral Responsibility, Leadership, Governance, Organizational Change, and Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita M. McGahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Own Name

I was the President of the Academy of Management (AOM) in 2016-2017 when U.S. President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order banning immigration and travel to the United States by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries (EO13769). While I immediately sought to condemn EO13769 as immoral and as a threat to the AOM, I was only able to issue a condemnation in my own name and not in the name of the AOM because the Board’s Executive Committee correctly determined that a condemnation would have violated the AOM Constitution. This put me in the untenable position of leading an organization operating under principles that conflicted with my personal beliefs about an immoral act of government. The article is a case study on this situation. In it, I explain how EO13769 and other attacks on science threaten the purpose and functioning of the AOM. The case explores a relatively understudied aspect of leadership: the identity of an organization as distinct from the identity of its leader. It also underscores the importance of strengthening democratic institutions of science. I argue that the issuance of statements of condemnation—while important—does not exhaust our responsibilities in society as scholars for investigating, reporting, defending, and protecting the truth about what is going on in the world around us. I conclude by calling us to redouble our commitment to a defining purpose of the AOM, which is to support the scholarship necessary to overcome polarizing politicization of complex social issues.

scholarly journals Onomastic code in Mandelstam’s poetry

Literatūra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Liubov Kihney
Keyword(s):  
World Culture ◽  
Semantic Code ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
The World ◽  
Hagia Sophia ◽  
Own Name

The article explores the principles of anagraming and intertextual cryptography in the work of Osip Mandelstam related to his own name and surname. It is proved that onomastic ciphers dissolved in poetic fabric (embodied in the images of Hagia Sophia, Joseph, the staff, axis, wasp, Hosian, etc.) add up to the author’s myth about the World Tree / World Axis, which, through a system of complex intertextual references, draws into themselves a number of mythological paradigms of world culture. At the same time, the uniqueness of the myth created by Mandelstam lies in the fact that within the author’s system of onomastic correspondences, all images are likened to each other, and their semantic fields become interpenetrable and mobile, which is explained by their ascent to the single sound-semantic code of the poet’s name and surname.

Narrating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The World ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
History Of ◽  
Own Name

This history of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, and its articulation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda that grew from its adoption, are as familiar to anyone working on the agenda as the alphabet, the rules of grammar and syntax, or the spelling of their own name. This book encounters WPS as a policy agenda that emerges in and through the stories that are told about it, focusing on the world of WPS work at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (noting, of course, that many other equally rich and important stories could be told about the agenda in other contexts). Part of how the WPS agenda is formed as (and simultaneously forming) a knowable reality is through the narration of its beginnings, its ongoing unfolding, and its plural futures. These stories account for the inception of the agenda, outline its priorities, and delimit its possibilities, through the arrangement of discourse into narrative formations that communicate and constitute the agenda’s triumphs and disasters. This is a book about the stories of the WPS agenda and the worlds they contain.

Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4745 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-93
Author(s):  
ROB W.M. VAN SOEST ◽  
JOHN N.A. HOOPER ◽  
PETER J. BUTLER
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Summary Table ◽  
Nomina Nova ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Original Species ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Name Changes

The occurrence of different sponge species bearing the same Linnean binomial name combination, i.e. homonyms, is to be avoided for obvious reasons. In a review of sponge taxon names of the World Porifera Database, we detected 121 homonymic cases (115 species-group names, 6 genus-group names), involving a total of 272 nominal taxa. It is the object of the present study to remove their occurrence by proposing new names for the junior homonyms following the rules of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature as laid down in the Code (ICZN, 1999) and the on-line edition http://iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp . Homonym cases are discussed and, where applicable, junior homonyms are either replaced by nomina nova or reassigned to their earliest available synonyms. The order in which the homonyms are treated is alphabetical on original species name, with genus names separately treated at the end. A summary table with all proposed name changes is also presented to allow quick access to the junior homonyms and their proposed new names. A total of 116 nomina nova are proposed, including five new genus names. 

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