Learning communities : schools, parents and challenges for wider community involvement in schools

This presentation will focus, for the most part, on a project of parental involvement in a state primary school located in a predominantly working-class area in a Mediterranean country. It will draw briefly on qualitative empirical work carried out with a colleague (Carmel Borg). The presentation gives an account of the socio-economic context of the school, and foregrounds, through empirical data culled from transcribed semi-structured interviews, the voices of parents, administrators, school-council members and teachers. It will be argued that, if this project is to develop into a genuine exercise in democratic participation, parents must begin to be conceived of not as “adjuncts”, but “subjects”. The parents interviewed in this empirical work see themselves as such, and derive confidence from the fact that, at the time of the interview, their claims and recommendations were translating into concrete developments. The second part of the presentation will discuss the issue of parental involvement in schools within the context of a wider discussion on ‘changing the face of the school’ by helping it develop into a community learning centre. Insights from the work of Paulo Freire and his Education Secretariat, when he served as Education Secretary in the Municipal Government of São Paulo, Brazil, and from SMED in Porto Alegre, Brazil, will be drawn upon.peer-reviewe

Villanova University School of Law Commencement Program - Class of 2007

The Program for the Commencement Exercises of the 52th graduating class of the Villanova University School of Law in 200

Response of Macroinvertebrates to Calcium Addition in the Adirondack Mountains, USAA

Acid deposition is a well-studied phenomenon in the lakes and streams of the northeastern United States and in northern Europe, but the effect of acid deposition on terrestrial communities is less well-known. I examined the effects of large-scale calcium addition on the communities of macroinvertebrates present in the litter layer of maple-beech forests in the Adirondacks, which are strongly affectred by acidic deposition due to poor buffering capacities in the soils. Lime was added to five treatment plots over the course of a year. Untreated deciduous and coniferous forests in Madison County, which has a well-buffered soil, were used as reference sites, and untreated plots in the coniferous Earlville State Forest were used as outgroups. Invertebrates were sampled in both Madison County and the Adirondacks. Discriminant analysis showed differences in calcium-rich invertebrate groups (Diplopoda, Arionidae, and Isopoda) between the three regions. All were now abundant in the calcium rich Madison County sites, indicating that the need for calcium to form extrernal structures (millipedes and isopods) or eggs (slugs) may be a factor in their distribution. One year after liming, invertebrate communities did not measurably differ between limed and control plots in the Adirondacksw. Physical factors of the litter (pH, percent organic matter, elemental composition, etc.) were measured to correlate invertebrate communities to thier microhabits

MS 103 Guide to Don Chapman, MD Papers

The Don Chapman, MD papers contains digitalis research, Diodrast notes, electrolytes, edema congenital heart failure, echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, Eisenmengers complex and syndrome, EKG’s, pulmonary valvular stenosis, primary pulmonary hypertension, ventricular aneurysms, vector cardiography, heart catheterization, arteriovenous fistula, sulfathiazole clearance test, syphilitic aneurysms, thyroid heart disease, ventricular arrhythmias, pyelonephritis, x-rays, fundus of the eye, subaortic stenosis, heart disease and pregnancy, heart tumors, cholesterol, cerebral insufficiency and carotid stenosis, atrial septal defect, atrial ventricular defect, cardiac resuscitation, anxiety heart disease, hypertension, abdominal aneurysms, anatomy and physiology of the heart, surgical treatment for hypertension and hypotension, renal insufficiency, myocardial infraction shock treatment, and other papers related to the research of Dr. Chapman. See more at MS 103

MS 083 Guide to Harold Pruessner, MD Papers (1964-1998)

The Harold Pruessner, MD papers contains documents relating to his role at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, particularly in the Department of Family Practice. Contents include articles, curricula, training material, information about family practice, and other administrative materials. There is also an audio recording of an interview with Dr. Pruessner from 1998. Items date from 1964 to 1998, with most of them corresponding to his time in Houston, Texas. See more at MS 083

Comparative physiology of desert mammals

Includes bibliographical references (page 31)

Don Gonzalo del Campo. Canónigo de Sevilla y Arzobispo de Lima

Tomo II ; págs. 53-78

Fray Payo de Rivera, arzobispo de México y virrey de Nueva España

Tomo II ; págs. 251-29