scholarly journals La fortaleza medieval de Isso (Albacete) y su territorio

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Navarro Palazón
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Load Bearing ◽  
Extensive Data ◽  
Traditional Irrigation

This paper presents some of the information obtained during the archaeological surveys carried out in 2019 in the stately fortress known as Torre de Isso, located in the municipality of Hellín (Albacete). These fieldworks have attempted to answer some questions related to the historical interpretation of the preserved monumental remains, specifically two large towers and some walls from the second half of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The initial study and graphical documentation were carried out to obtain the data needed to draft a conservation project in line with current scientific criteria.Extending the investigation to the whole neighborhood of houses that surrounds the towers resulted in the discovery of a quadrangular fortress of 44 x 42 m, which incorporates the towers and in which different construction phases have been identified, certainly prior to and subsequent to the Christian conquest. The remains found were reused in the load-bearing walls of some of the houses. Beside the fortress, we extended the study to the entire village of Isso, in order to find out if the medieval castle had an annexed relevant village. Finally, the surveys expanded throughout the entire territory of Isso, with the desire to know if its characteristic dispersed settlement, made up of small farmhouses, and its traditional irrigation system, have a medieval origin.This multidisciplinary research project has allowed us to obtain extensive data and produce significant information, although it should be noted that many issues and some of the interpretations offered in this article are still hypothetical. Therefore, only future development of additional archeological and historical works will make it possible to tackle those questions that remain to be answered.

scholarly journals Challenging Pedagogy: Emotional Disruptions, Young Girls, Parents and Schools

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalyn George ◽  
John Clay
Keyword(s):  
Initial Study ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Engaged Pedagogy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Uk

This paper follows on from a research project which explored the inclusionary and exclusionary dynamics of young girls’ friendship groups. This initial study received considerable media attention in the UK, Europe and Australia and consequently came to the attention of a wider audience beyond the academy who were thus given an opportunity to engage with the research findings. Having previously explored and analysed the emotionally disabling everyday practices experienced by the girls in the initial research project, the voices of these other adults offered a possibility to explore, examine and analyse the experiences of their daughters and themselves and as a result offered insights that challenge the day to day practices in the classroom. The focus of this paper therefore, is to explore the emotionally raw moments as articulated through the stories told by these adults and to examine what meaning and sense is conveyed about the prevailing norms and values of the school underpinning their pedagogy and practice. We contextualise emotions within a theoretical framework of Sara Ahmed and bell hooks that views emotions in terms of power and culture. The data analysed include contributions from the public to a radio phone-in as well as email responses. The analysis makes explicit the dynamics of power in girls’ friendship groups revealing action/inaction by parents and their accounts about teachers which either disrupt or reinforce dominant practices that pertain. We advocate hooks’ concept of engaged pedagogy to challenge current practices underpinned by neo-liberal assumptions.

scholarly journals What do Master's students' structured reflections say about the learning processes involved in commencing a research project?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Richard Warner ◽  
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Michelle Picard ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Learning Ecology

This study aims to unpack the reflective learning processes involved in developing a Masters’ research project proposal as part of a multidisciplinary Research Design course. Using inductive analysis, we explored students’ reflective blogs written over a period of a semester and defined the reflections according to an adaptation of Hatton and Smith’s (1995) framework. Our findings are that the nature of each individual blog topic affected the quality and level of reflection, which in turn is affected by the ‘learning ecology’ (Harvey, Coulson, & McMaugh, 2016 p. 12). More highly scaffolded blogs showed greater evidence of reflective practice. Likewise the nature of the practice (starting research) influenced reflection, since many processes are internal rather than requiring explicit practice to reflect on. In addition, as nascent practitioner researchers, the students are also involved in reflexivity rather than reflection and therefore some topics encouraged this form of reflection more than others did. This study is significant in that it explores reflection in research and practitioner contexts, focuses on early career researchers/practitioners and brings a multidisciplinary perspective.

scholarly journals Co-production for or against the university: student loneliness and the commodification of impact in COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Cooper ◽  
Charlotte Jones
Keyword(s):  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

PurposeThis paper explores the dissonance between co-production and expectations of impact in a research project on student loneliness over the 2019/2020 academic year. Specific characteristics of the project – the subject matter, interpolation of a global respiratory pandemic, informal systems of care that arose among students and role of the university in providing the context and funding for the research – brought co-production into heightened tension with the instrumentalisation of project outputs.Design/methodology/approachThe project consisted of a series of workshops, research meetings and mixed-methods online journalling between 2019 and 2020. This paper is primarily a critical reflection on that research, based on observations by and conversations between the authors, together with discourse analysis of research data.FindingsThe authors argue that co-producing research with students on university contexts elevates existing tensions between co-production and institutional valuations of impact, that co-production with students who had experienced loneliness made necessary space for otherwise absent support and care, that the responsibility to advocate for evidence and co-researchers came into friction with how the university felt the research could be useful and that each of these converging considerations are interconnected symptoms of the ongoing marketisation of HE.Originality/valueThis paper provides a novel analysis of co-production, impact and higher education in the context of an original research project with specific challenges and constraints. It is a valuable contribution to methodological literatures on co-production, multidisciplinary research into student loneliness and reflexive work on the difficult uses of evidence in university contexts.

The Design of Remote Intelligent Irrigation System Based on Web Servers

2013 ◽  
Vol 416-417 ◽  
pp. 806-810
Author(s):  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Web Servers ◽  
Foreign Products ◽  
Traditional Irrigation ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Intelligent Irrigation

The paper proposed program of lower-cost traditional 8-bit micro-controller with Web servers function, and is designed for remote control system. The system has the flexibility and low cost. And according to the actual needs of the decision-making and management of plant irrigation, intelligent irrigation system was designed and implemented.The system solve the difficult and critical hardware products import prices too high and difficult to promote for distribution of soil temperature and humidity monitoring.The system cost compared to similar foreign products decreased 44.8%.Compared with traditional irrigation methods, crop water use efficiency of 22.6%.The design of software and thinking can popularize and promote practical reference value, the future of smart home system.

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: the <i>TransBrom Sonne</i> expedition in the tropical West Pacific

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1401-1418 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Krüger ◽  
B. Quack
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Biological Parameters ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Scientific Results

Abstract. This special issue provides an overview of scientific results from the TransBrom Sonne expedition in the tropical West Pacific, conducted during October 2009. The ship cruise was part of the national research project TransBrom Sonne, investigating very short lived bromine compounds in the ocean and their transport pathways into the stratosphere. For this purpose chemical and biological parameters were analysed in the ocean and the atmosphere, accompanied by intense meteorological measurements, to derive more insights in this multidisciplinary research field. This introduction paper presents the scientific goals and the meteorological and oceanographic background. The main research findings of the TransBrom Sonne expedition are highlighted.

Walking in a cage: Attuning to atmospheric intensities through corporeality

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Heimonen
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Choreographic Process ◽  
Artistic Research

This article discusses an artistic act: walking for seven sequential days inside a cage made of chicken wire in the grounds of a former mental hospital in Lapinlahti in Helsinki, Finland and its potential to offer insights into past events in mental hospitals through the notions of corporeal attunement and atmosphere. The idea for Walking Cage was prompted by a word in the data, which included memories by patients and non-patients of Finnish mental hospitals gathered in connection with a multidisciplinary research project. Passers-by, occasional co-walkers, weather conditions and the grounds of the former mental hospital partially formed and deformed the atmospheric qualities of the artistic research event. These qualities were experienced through corporeal attuning influenced by the Skinner Releasing Technique, a somatic movement method. The article proposes a singular way of approaching the possibilities of corporeal openness and sensibility in a choreographic process in which, illuminated by, among others, the notions of threshold and limit, one becomes a stranger to oneself by surrendering oneself to atmospheric intensities. This artistic research study adopts a phenomenological approach, drawing mainly on the ideas of Jean-Luc Nancy, Mikel Dufrenne and Emmanuel Levinas.

scholarly journals The Foggara: A Traditional System Of Irrigation In Arid Regions

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remini Boualem ◽  
Achour Bachir ◽  
Kechad Rabah
Keyword(s):  
Water Table ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Traditional Irrigation ◽  
Water Catchment

Abstract This article discusses the traditional irrigation system in the oases of Touat, Gourara and Tidikelt. Since centuries, farmers use the system of foggaras for irrigation of palm groves and gardens. The results obtained following the inquiries and investigations carried out on the sites of foggaras, showed that since the eighties, drilling works multiplied in the oases of Touat, Gourara and Tidikelt. However, despite the application of these new techniques of water catchment, farmers still irrigate their gardens by traditional methods. For social, economic and environmental problems, foggaras degrade more and more; 50% of the foggaras decayed. Currently, the discharge of foggaras in service greatly diminished. The adoption of modern catchment techniques entails to the lowering of the water table.

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