Samarbeid mellom kulturskolelærer og grunnskolelærer – utfordringer og muligheter

The purpose of this study has been to try to capture tensions and contradictions in the project «culture day in school», a collaborative project between cultural school and primary school. In addition, it has been an intention to try to understand and analyze the tensions and contradictions. The research question addressed in the article is: How is the collaboration between cultural school teacher and primary school teacher organized and implemented in the project culture day in school, and what tensions and contradictions can be discovered in this collaboration towards common goals / intention. Previous studies of collaboration between cultural schools and primary schools show that there are challenges associated with such collaborations, especially with regard to how such collaborative projects are operationalized. One of the main arguments for the study is to increase the understanding and knowledge of how such collaborations can be improved and developed. In this study, I have interviewed a cultural school teacher and an elementary school teacher. In addition, the project’s goals and intentions have been used as a guiding guide to see how the collaborative project works towards these. The study shows that there are several tensions and contradictions that are revealed, and that several of these have not come to the surface and been addressed by the participants in the collaboration. The study also shows that there is a need for practitioners who are to carry out collaborative projects to a much greater extent to be involved in all processes, from planning to evaluation.

Les Fleurs du Mâle

Focusing on the founding figures of British aestheticism, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walter Pater, this chapter discusses how they embraced the identity of the aesthetic olfactif, the cultivation of scent sensitivity, and the notion of the perfumed atmosphere produced by individual writers and literary or cultural schools, with this reflected in their influential critical prose. While Swinburne’s notorious Poems and Ballads (1866) apparently revels in heady perfumes, his own taste for light airy florals and dislike of musk clearly emerges in his subsequent poetry and prose, although his associations with his favoured scents are anything but conventional. Pater, another lover of delicate floral fragrance, refines Swinburne’s perception of the ‘scent’ of literature into a subtler critical language. His influential notion of the literary work’s ‘scented essence’ was adopted by admirers like Wilde and Symons, while his own writing was noted for its unmistakable ‘perfume’.

Determining Mission Statement Effectiveness from a Fit Perspective

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between the organization's mission statement and its outcomes from a fit perspective in the alignment of the organization's structural and cultural elements. Based on an extension of Campbell's (1991) mission model by combination of ideas from two schools of thought in mission statement studies (structural and cultural), the authors introduce the concept of “fit” to show how it contributes towards a new mission statement model. The results show that both alignments are important to create a fit situation in order to positively impact organization outcomes. Based on Cohen (1988), the detected effect size of .322 is considered large. The managerial implication is that there should be more focus on managing organisational alignment to support a fit situation as this is instrumental to mission statement effectiveness. The originality of this study stems from the idea that while past studies develop model based on ideas from within the confine of a particular school of thought, this study is one of the first to combine ideas from both the structural and cultural schools of thought by extending Campbell's (1991) mission model using the fit perspective.

Liberalism, Group Rights and the Boundaries of Toleration: The Case of Minority Religious Schools in Ontario

Drawing on the proliferating literature on multiculturalism, this article provides a theoretical and critical argument in support of public funding for minority cultural schools, as well as a critique of the Ontario Conservative government's proposal in 2001 to extend tax credits to parents who enroll their children in private schools in Ontario. It argues that governments in Canada committed to the idea of multiculturalism have an obligation to promote the maintenance and flourishing of minority cultures through education and financial support. The article first outlines and refutes neutralist liberal arguments against public funding for minority religious and culturally education, and demonstrates what is meant by a right to culture and the attendant duties such rights impose on the state. It then raises and responds to concerns about such cultural pluralist policies and suggests ways to balance group demands for public funding with other values the state wishes to support. It argues that the Ontario government's proposal to provide tax credits for private education without regulation does not respond to concerns about balancing the right to culture and teaching liberal citizenship values, and offers alternative policy recommendations in the conclusion.

The Power of Women Musicians in the Ancient and Near East: The Roots of Prejudice

Amongst the most fascinating discoveries made in recent years was the identification of the Egyptian songstress Iti (2450 BC) as the first woman composer to have been mentioned by name in musical history. This paper examines the status of professional women musicians in Ancient Egypt, their role in society and their contribution to various aspects of life and death. Reviewing the range of styles, practices and variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles in which women took part as composers, performers and instructors, the author traces the development of a musical tradition which would appear to throw light upon some long standing prejudices, and to have important implications for music education in multi-cultural schools today.