4.1 Introduction Collective oeuvres* produce and sustain group solidarity. They help make a community. Works and works-in-progress create shared and negotiable ways of thinking in a group … externalising, in a word, rescues cognitive activity from implicitness, making it more public, negotiable and solidary. (Bruner, 1996, p. 22) *An oeuvre is normally defined as the total output of an individual writer
5.2 Case study 3: Menon poetry The class teacher (Menon, 1999) was keen to develop the sense of a ‘writing community’ early on in the term. In the first few weeks she invited her students to form groups of their own choice, research a poet from a selected list, then plan and carry out a presentation. Students were encouraged to use the internet as part of this research. At such an early stage in the academic year, when getting to kn Soldiers join protesters in Yemen IDS May 2010 Podcast Greek protest turns violent 21F.035 Topics in Culture and Globalization: Reggae as Transnational Culture (MIT) 22.05 Neutron Science and Reactor Physics (MIT) A Discussion with Janet Napolitano, US Homeland Security Secretary [Audio] The End of Lawyers? [Audio] The Financial Crisis: How Europe can save the world [Audio] Authority, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism [Audio] The SHAPE program. CELI Summer Camp Teaches Children to Love Reading Why Study Orthodox Christianity with Dr Mary Cunningham Master of Health Administration students at the University of Memphis. 2.4.4 Networks 2.3 What is an informal carer? 2.2 Introducing the Durrants 2.1 When is someone an informal carer?
June 29 - Hundreds of security forces in Yemen join demonstrators as the U.N. investigates the situation on the ground. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
5 May 2010
Each month we speak to two people working on development issues across the world, finding out a bit about their work and asking them 'What do you think is the big question that Development Studies needs to answer?'
Following the UK elections this May politicians and civil servants will be considering new directions across government policy. But to what extent will any new policies be informed by solid research evidence?
In this programme
June 28 - Demonstrators clash with riot police as Greece braces for austerity cutbacks. Andrew Raven reports.
This course considers reggae, or Jamaican popular music more generally—in its various forms (ska, rocksteady, roots, dancehall)—as constituted by international movements and exchanges and as a product that circulates globally in complex ways. By reading across the reggae literature, as well as considering reggae texts themselves (songs, films, videos, and images), students will scrutinize the different interpretations of reggae's significance and the implications of different interpr
This course introduces fundamental properties of the neutron. It covers reactions induced by neutrons, nuclear fission, slowing down of neutrons in infinite media, diffusion theory, the few-group approximation, point kinetics, and fission-product poisoning. It emphasizes the nuclear physics bases of reactor design and its relationship to reactor engineering problems.
Speaker(s): Janet Napolitano | Janet Napolitano is the third Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security. Prior to becoming Secretary, Napolitano was in her second term as Governor of Arizona and was recognized as a national leader on homeland security, border security and immigration. She was the first woman to chair the National Governors Association and was named one of the top five governors in the country by Time Magazine. Napolitano was also the first female Attorney General of Ari
Speaker(s): Richard Susskind | Public figures who were once lawyers or law students will speak about how, if at all, their experience of studying, teaching or practising law has been of value to them in their other careers. Richard Susskind is an independent adviser on information technology.
Speaker(s): George Soros; Guy Verhofstadt | This public discussion marks the publication of Guy Verhofstadt's latest book The Financial Crisis: How Europe can Save the World. George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC. He was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune thr
Speaker(s): Yannis Stavrakakis | How is order sustained in capitalist societies? This lecture highlights the mutual engagement between authority, fantasy and enjoyment. Yannis Stavrakakis is associate professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The School House Adjustment Enterprise (SHAPE) program is an initiative to reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) in Memphis City Schools. Begun in 2008, SHAPE has had a major impact in reducing the number of juveniles transported to Juvenile Court.
The Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction recently held their annual summer reading camp at Oxford Middle School. The camp allows elementary education majors to work closely with middle school students to introduce them to new books and improve their reading skills.
Most English-speakers, when they think of Christianity, think only of its Latin, western forms - be they Catholic or Protestant. But this is only half the story: there are also all the churches of the East, often collectively referred to as 'the Orthodox'.
In this video, Mary Cunningham, and expert on Orthodoxy, introduces them.
Master of Health Administration students at the University of Memphis' School of Public Health.
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
