The Democratic Potential of Narrative, Poetry, and Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-259
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Narrative

This chapter will present an overview of three particular methodologies of arts-based research: narrative, poetry, and performance. This chapter will discuss the ways in which these methodological approaches to research may be effective means through which to capture and share the knowledge possessed by community stakeholders. This chapter has positioned community stakeholders as partners in arts-based research. When university faculty and community stakeholders form reciprocal, mutually beneficial partnerships, it becomes possible to create and disseminate the knowledge needed to support a democratic society.

Advancing Community-Engaged Teacher Education Through Narrative, Poetry, and Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Aaron Samuel Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Narrative

Learning to become a democratic educator requires listening to and learning from the perspectives, values, goals, and concerns of local communities. Obtaining and learning from this knowledge, however, is not without its challenges. This article will present an overview of community-engaged teacher education as well as some of the challenges inherent to this endeavor. This article will then present an argument for how three particular methodologies of arts-based research (narrative, poetry, and performance) may be effective means through which to capture and share the knowledge possessed by community stakeholders.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Relationship

This volume addresses issues central to the study of ancient Greek performance culture: the role played by music in performed poetry; the ancients’ understanding of the relationship between music, poetry, and performance; and music’s relation to other areas of ancient intellectual life. This chapter comprises a brief discussion of the evidential difficulties involved in attempting to appreciate the effects created by ancient Greek music in conjunction with poetic texts. Some contemporary methodological approaches are canvassed as aids to this attempt, and an overview is provided of the chapters that make up the volume.

Granular Flow and Heat Transfer Study in a Near-Blackbody Enclosed Particle Receiver

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Martinek ◽  
Zhiwen Ma
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Granular Flow ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Particle Flow ◽  
Heat Transfer Fluid ◽  
Conductive Heat ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
And Performance

Concentrating solar power (CSP) is an effective means of converting solar energy into electricity with an energy-storage capability for continuous, dispatchable, renewable power generation. However, challenges with current CSP systems include high initial capital cost and electricity price. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot program aims to reduce cost and improve performance of CSP technology. To this end, NREL is developing a solid-particle based CSP system projected to have significant cost and performance advantages over current nitrate-based molten salt systems. The design uses gas/solid, two-phase flow as the heat transfer fluid and separated solid particles as the storage medium. A critical component in the system is a novel near-blackbody (NBB) enclosed particle receiver with high-temperature capability developed with the goal of meeting DOE’s SunShot targets for receiver cost and performance. Development of the NBB enclosed particle receiver necessitates detailed study of the dimensions of the receiver, particle flow conditions, and heat transfer coefficients. The receiver utilizes an array of absorber tubes with a granular medium flowing downward through channels between tubes. The current study focuses on simulation and analysis of granular flow patterns and the resulting convective and conductive heat transfer to the particulate phase. This paper introduces modeling methods for the granular flow through the receiver module and compares the results with an in-situ particle flow test.

scholarly journals Socrative in Higher Education: Game vs. Other Uses

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fátima Faya Cerqueiro ◽  
Ana Martín-Macho Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
First Year ◽  
Perceived Satisfaction ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
First Year University

The integration of clickers in Higher Education settings has proved to be particularly useful for enhancing motivation, engagement and performance; for developing cooperative or collaborative tasks; for checking understanding during the lesson; or even for assessment purposes. This paper explores and exemplifies three uses of Socrative, a mobile application specifically designed as a clicker for the classroom. Socrative was used during three sessions with the same group of first-year University students at a Faculty of Education. One of these sessions—a review lesson—was gamified, whereas the other two—a collaborative reading activity seminar, and a lecture—were not. Ad-hoc questionnaires were distributed after each of them. Results suggest that students welcome the use of clickers and that combining them with gamification strategies may increase students’ perceived satisfaction. The experiences described in this paper show how Socrative is an effective means of providing formative feedback and may actually save time during lessons.

scholarly journals PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES OF EDUCATION OF SOUND CULTURE OF SPEECH OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH THE GAME

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 358-362
Author(s):  
K. Meterbaeva ◽  
◽  
U. Zhanabilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Sound Culture

This article discusses the pedagogical features of education in preschool children sound culture of speech through play. In order to improve the sound culture of speech of preschool children, the ways of effective use of games in organized educational activities are revealed. Methodological approaches in the education of sound culture of speech are revealed and analyzed. In addition, the main prerequisites for the formation of speech are specified, their importance in the education of sound culture is determined. Various activities organized through play are an effective means of educating the sound culture of the child's speech. The authors propose forms of work on the formation of sound culture of speech, which are implemented in a kindergarten. In addition, the main prerequisites for the formation of speech are specified, their importance in the education of sound culture is determined.

16Performance, Theater, Drama

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-323
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kastleman
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance

Abstract The year 2018 was an especially fruitful and wide-ranging one for theater and performance studies. Several major monographs deepened discussion in established subject areas within the field, while new methodological approaches emerged, opening fresh directions in scholarship. This review focuses on four major areas of conversation that shaped the field in 2018: 1. Expanding Performance Aesthetics; 2. Economic and Material Contexts of Performance; 3. Enacting Public Justice; and 4. Performance on the Move.

Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 516-530
Author(s):  
Bishnupriya Dutt
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Religious Festival ◽  
Large Corpus

Performative manifestation of protests in recent times in India and elsewhere in the world are identified by gestures, which often emerge from protest sites, circulate in the public domain, and are seen as democratic articulations and dissent, particularly when right-wing state powers are trying to curb freedom of expression and subvert democratic practices. This chapter argues that the power of the gestural idiom surpasses the marginality of its location and has resulted in a large corpus of scholarly works focusing on theatrical gestures as protest dramaturgies and transgressive and agentive bodily idioms. In contrast to the growing right-wing rhetoric and cultural mobilization in spaces of mass congregations, which adopts stereotypical gestural rhetoric, these gestures of dissent can be read as self-critical, coming from theatrical practices, particularly those elaborated by Bertolt Brecht, influential in Europe and the postcolonial world. In addition, the chapter attempts to initiate a dialogue between theater and performance studies and studies in politics as common sites of performing dissent. The chapter further argues that, despite the difference in methodological approaches, there are potentials of critical dialogues across the disciplines. Case studies from contemporary India, relevant to the academic debates, describe and analyze religious festival and pilgrimage, instrumentalized for political electoral gains and a protest performance in civil society on the eve of the 2019 elections.

Methodological preliminaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-56
Author(s):  
Salvatore Attardo
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Triangulation Method ◽  
Fundamental Distinction ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance

The chapter begins by defining the fundamental distinction between competence and performance and introduces various methodological approaches used in the linguistics of humor, with a focus on the principle of commutation. The problem of identifying humor is then addressed, including a review of traditional “markers’ of humor (i.e., laughter). A triangulation method incorporating several markers and semantic analysis is proposed to replace it. In particular the inadequacy of using laughter is investigated by reviewing non-mirthful laughter. Finally the idea of keying, from ethnomethodology is used to explain how a situation may be seen as humorous or not, depending on its keying.

A Sealed System and Compressor Model for Optimal Control of Household Refrigerators

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahman Abbasi ◽  
Keith Wait ◽  
Michael Kempiak
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Evaporator Temperature ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Control Effort ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Flow Phenomena ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Control

Increasingly stringent industry standards have posed significant challenges on manufacturers to enhance the design and performance of household refrigerators. One of the least expensive and most effective means of improving the system is optimizing the control strategy. Some of the most promising control systems, such as adaptive and optimal control methods, require an accurate model of the system to guide the control effort. However, the complexity and interconnectedness of thermal and refrigerant flow phenomena make developing modern control systems a particularly challenging aspect of designing refrigerators, in spite of many decades of research and development. There exist models to correlate the desired compartments’ temperatures to that of the evaporator coil. However, there is a lack of a general approach to translate the required evaporator temperature to a compressor speed that provides it in an energy efficient manner. This work introduces a method to make that connection. The technique developed in this work can be adjusted for implementation on various refrigerator sizes and platforms to help modulate and control the compressor speed in real time.

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