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Exploring supplementary education: margins, theories and methods.
Existing knowledge of supplementary education, that is education organised and run by political, faith or ethnic groups outside of formal schooling, is patchy. This article is an exploration of the histories of supplementary education in the twentieth century. It is organised into three sections. \ud
The article begins by reviewing some existing literature and argues that supplementary education has been a topic of marginal concern for social historians, sociologists and historians of education. This marginal status has often been reflected in the way in which a dominant account of the history of supplementary education has entered the research literature despite a rather selective evidential base. The second section of the article deploys an expansive definition of education, and presents some new historical evidence concerning African Caribbean and Irish supplementary education. A final arguments section reflects on the significance of supplementary education and suggestions some topics for a future research agenda.\u
Law and norm: justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria
A recurring motif in law and legal studies literature is the relations between justice and legal administration on the one hand, and the social and human sciences on the other. Judicial and non-judicial systems of knowledge and practice are viewed as separate and distinct, as in some recent critique of the ‘New Penology’ that posit fundamental tensions between justice and welfare models of penality. Alternately, theorists have ‘de-centred’ law by focusing on the way in which problems form at the intersection of both legal and extra-legal institutions. This paper reviews the literature on the close interconnectedness of ‘welfare’ and ‘justice’ models of penal policy and ways of conceiving these relations in terms of a ‘complex’ involving justice administration and the conduct of the human sciences. It then attempts to demonstrate these relations, historically, in the ‘cross-talk’ of agencies involved in establishing the children’s court and the court clinic in Victoria. Finally, the paper argues that the specific effects of law in this particular jurisdiction were to mandate the social scientific instruments needed to construct and promote the notion of a ‘normal family’. This account may have implications for contemporary juvenile justice policy and images of family in the present
The Modified-Classroom Observation Schedule to Measure Intentional Communication (M-COSMIC): Evaluation of reliability and validity
The Modified – Classroom Observation Schedule to Measure Intentional Communication (M-COSMIC) was developed as an ecologically valid measure of social-communication behaviour, delineating forms, functions, and intended partners of children’s spontaneous communication acts. Forty one children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged 48 to 73 months were filmed within small-group settings at school. Communication behaviours during a five-minute teacher-led activity and a 10-minute free play session were coded from video-tape. Inter-rater reliability was high. Many M-COSMIC codes were significantly associated as predicted with Social and Communication domain scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and with scores on standardised language assessments. Agreement was more variable, however, at the level of individual M-COSMIC codes and ADOS items. Higher rates of responding, compliance behaviours and following pointing gestures and gaze occurred during the more structured teacher-led activity, compared to the free play. Results demonstrate preliminary construct validity of the M-COSMIC, showing its potential to describe and evaluate spontaneous social-communication skills in young children with ASD for research and applied purposes
Universality near zero virtuality
In this paper we study a random matrix model with the chiral and flavor
structure of the QCD Dirac operator and a temperature dependence given by the
lowest Matsubara frequency. Using the supersymmetric method for random matrix
theory, we obtain an exact, analytic expression for the average spectral
density. In the large-n limit, the spectral density can be obtained from the
solution to a cubic equation. This spectral density is non-zero in the vicinity
of eigenvalue zero only for temperatures below the critical temperature of this
model. Our main result is the demonstration that the microscopic limit of the
spectral density is independent of temperature up to the critical temperature.
This is due to a number of `miraculous' cancellations. This result provides
strong support for the conjecture that the microscopic spectral density is
universal. In our derivation, we emphasize the symmetries of the partition
function and show that this universal behavior is closely related to the
existence of an invariant saddle-point manifold.Comment: 23 pages, Late
Regge-plus-resonance predictions for kaon photoproduction from the neutron
We present predictions for n(gamma,K+)Sigma- differential cross sections and
photon-beam asymmetries and compare them to recent LEPS data. We adapt a
Regge-plus-resonance (RPR) model developed to describe photoinduced and
electroinduced kaon production off protons. The non-resonant contributions to
the amplitude are modelled in terms of K+(494) and K*+(892) Regge-trajectory
exchange. This amplitude is supplemented with a selection of s-channel
resonance diagrams. The three Regge-model parameters of the n(gamma,K+)Sigma-
amplitude are derived from the ones fitted to proton data through SU(2) isospin
considerations. A fair description of the n(gamma,K+)Sigma- data is realized,
which demonstrates the Regge model's robustness and predictive power.
Conversion of the resonances' couplings from the proton to the neutron is more
challenging, as it requires knowledge of the photocoupling helicity amplitudes.
We illustrate how the uncertainties of the helicity amplitudes propagate and
heavily restrain the predictive power of the RPR and isobar models for kaon
production off neutron targets.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures; Minor revisions; Published in Physics Letters
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