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    Planetary Hinterlands:Extraction, Abandonment and Care

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    This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities, affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and water

    Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

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    Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants. The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation — are affected by climate change, as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation, trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally, the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change, and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it, reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world. The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and, in particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters, the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial

    A Critical Review Of Post-Secondary Education Writing During A 21st Century Education Revolution

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    Educational materials are effective instruments which provide information and report new discoveries uncovered by researchers in specific areas of academia. Higher education, like other education institutions, rely on instructional materials to inform its practice of educating adult learners. In post-secondary education, developmental English programs are tasked with meeting the needs of dynamic populations, thus there is a continuous need for research in this area to support its changing landscape. However, the majority of scholarly thought in this area centers on K-12 reading and writing. This paucity presents a phenomenon to the post-secondary community. This research study uses a qualitative content analysis to examine peer-reviewed journals from 2003-2017, developmental online websites, and a government issued document directed toward reforming post-secondary developmental education programs. These highly relevant sources aid educators in discovering informational support to apply best practices for student success. Developmental education serves the purpose of addressing literacy gaps for students transitioning to college-level work. The findings here illuminate the dearth of material offered to developmental educators. This study suggests the field of literacy research is fragmented and highlights an apparent blind spot in scholarly literature with regard to English writing instruction. This poses a quandary for post-secondary literacy researchers in the 21st century and establishes the necessity for the literacy research community to commit future scholarship toward equipping college educators teaching writing instruction to underprepared adult learners

    Application of Feedback Conversation for the Efficiency of Interpersonal Communication in Teaching in Higher Education

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    Wydział Studiów EdukacyjnychCelem prowadzonych badań była ocena skuteczności zastosowania informacji zwrotnej dla efektywności komunikacji interpersonalnej w nauczaniu w szkolnictwie wyższym. Skonstruowano proces osobistego instruktarzu, który umożliwiał ocenę komunikacji interpersonalnej wykładowcy w trakcie prowadzenia zajęć ze studentami w pięciu wymiarach: organizacji lekcji, klarowności przekazu, kontaktu z grupą docelową (studentami), wzbudzania zainteresowania oraz tworzenia wartości. Aby osiągnąć cel badawczy, przeprowadzono badania jakościowe z zastosowaniem badania w działaniu, które umożliwiło uczestnikom aktywność i zaangażowanie w całym procesie. Wzięło w nim udział dziesięciu wykładowców z Beit Berl Academic College. Narzędziami badawczymi wykorzystanymi były: wywiad częściowo ustrukturyzowany (na początku i na końcu procesu), obserwacja nagrania video z prowadzonych zajęć (trzy lekcje w semestrze), rozmowa z zastosowaniem informacji zwrotnej i refleksji (po każdym filmie). Wyniki badań wskazują na zmianę, jaka zaszła w aspektach poznawczych, emocjonalnych i behawioralnych na każdym z wymiarów komunikacji interpersonalnej. Ponadto ustalenia wskazują, że dla wszystkich wykładowców rozmowy zwrotne były znaczące i przyczyniły się do zmiany ich praktyk dydaktycznych. Wykładowcy doświadczyli rozmów zwrotnych jako pozytywnych doświadczeń instruktażowych, które przyczyniły się do doskonalenie ich nauczania.The objective of this research study is to explore the application of the feedback conversation on the efficiency of interpersonal communication in higher education teaching. For this purpose, a process of personal instruction was constructed that examined the interpersonal communication of the lecturer during the lecture in five dimensions: the organization of the lesson, the clarity of the messages, the contact with the target audience (the students), the creation of interest, and the creation of value. To achieve the objective, a qualitative research was carried out in the method of action research that enabled the participants to be active and involved throughout the entire process. Ten lecturers from the Beit Berl Academic College participated in this research study. The research instruments used in the research study are a semi-structured interview (before the beginning of the process and at the end of the process), films of the lecturer’s lessons (three lessons during the semester), feedback conversation, and reflection (after each film of the lesson). The research findings indicate a change that occurred among all the lecturers in the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects in each one of the dimensions of interpersonal communication during the feedback conversation. In addition, the findings indicate that for all the lecturers the feedback conversations were meaningful and contributed to the change of their teaching practices. The lecturers experienced the feedback conversations as a positive experience, instructional, which contributed to the improvement of their teaching. pracy (max 1400 znaków) The objective of this research study is to explore the application of the feedback conversation on the efficiency of interpersonal communication in higher education teaching. For this purpose, a process of personal instruction was constructed that examined the interpersonal communication of the lecturer during the lecture in five dimensions: the organization of the lesson, the clarity of the messages, the contact with the target audience (the students), the creation of interest, and the creation of value. To achieve the objective, a qualitative research was carried out in the method of action research that enabled the participants to be active and involved throughout the entire process. Ten lecturers from the Beit Berl Academic College participated in this research study. The research instruments used in the research study are a semi-structured interview (before the beginning of the process and at the end of the process), films of the lecturer’s lessons (three lessons during the semester), feedback conversation, and reflection (after each film of the lesson). The research findings indicate a change that occurred among all the lecturers in the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects in each one of the dimensions of interpersonal communication during the feedback conversation. In addition, the findings indicate that for all the lecturers the feedback conversations were meaningful and contributed to the change of their teaching practices. The lecturers experienced the feedback conversations as a positive experience, instructional, which contributed to the improvement of their teaching

    Under construction: infrastructure and modern fiction

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    In this dissertation, I argue that infrastructural development, with its technological promises but widening geographic disparities and social and environmental consequences, informs both the narrative content and aesthetic forms of modernist and contemporary Anglophone fiction. Despite its prevalent material forms—roads, rails, pipes, and wires—infrastructure poses particular formal and narrative problems, often receding into the background as mere setting. To address how literary fiction theorizes the experience of infrastructure requires reading “infrastructurally”: that is, paying attention to the seemingly mundane interactions between characters and their built environments. The writers central to this project—James Joyce, William Faulkner, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Mohsin Hamid—take up the representational challenges posed by infrastructure by bringing transit networks, sanitation systems, and electrical grids and the histories of their development and use into the foreground. These writers call attention to the political dimensions of built environments, revealing the ways infrastructures produce, reinforce, and perpetuate racial and socioeconomic fault lines. They also attempt to formalize the material relations of power inscribed by and within infrastructure; the novel itself becomes an imaginary counterpart to the technologies of infrastructure, a form that shapes and constrains what types of social action and affiliation are possible

    Reshaping the Museum of Zoology in Rome by Visual Storytelling and Interactive Iconography

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    This article summarizes the concept of a new immersive and interactive setting for the Zoology Museum in Rome, Italy. The concept, co-designed with all the museum’s curators, is aimed at enhancing the experiential involvement of the visitors by visual storytelling and interactive iconography. Thanks to immersive and interactive technologies designed by Centro Studi Logos, developed by Logosnet and known as e-REALâ and MirrorMeä, zoological findings and memoirs come to life and interact directly with the visitors in order to deepen their understanding, visualize stories and live experiences, and interact with the founder of the Museum (Mr. Arrigoni degli Oddi) who is now a virtualized avatar, or digital human, able to talk with the visitors. All the interactions are powered through simple hand gestures and, in a few cases, vocal inputs that transform into recognized commands from multimedia systems

    From P.E. to Protests: the History of Dance Activism in Academia: 1920–2022

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    Title from PDF of title page, viewed June 15, 2023Dissertation advisor: Donna DavisVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-190)Dissertation (Ed.D.)--Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2023Throughout history, dance has been regarded as an act of rebellion. This art form has persisted to become a means for the common person to demonstrate impassioned objections to issues from racism and religious oppression to communism, plastic waste, and human trafficking. As early as the plantation era, dance has provided a means of physical intervention throughout U.S. history. With its origins in departments of physical education, dance became a fixture in higher education—first as an artistic aesthetic, then as a weapon for battle. While much has been written about the history and development of dance in U.S. institutions of higher education and about the role of dance in American activism, little has been written about the history of how these roles emerged to exist in tandem. This historical study discusses the role of dance activism in higher education. Firstly, how dance has historically existed as the embodiment of opposition, followed by a discussion about how the introduction of dance into higher education served as a form of activism for women. This study delves into the social injustices that exist within and outside of the academy, as well as the historical events that have led to advances in thought and the practice of dance in higher education. The literature revealed that at every turn in the evolution of dance in higher education, there was activism.Introduction -- Early dance academe and activism (1920s-1970s) -- Here to stay - the solidification of dance in higher education (1970s-2000s) -- From the stage to the streets: dance activism in academia (2000-2022) -- Dance activism in higher education: current experiences, perspectives, and progressive thoughts -- The power of storie
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