51 research outputs found
'Family comes in all forms, blood or not': disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family
After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are
still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper
considers how these differences are produced, maintained and
disrupted through an exploration of changing narratives
developed by a small group of South African pre-service teachers,
with a particular focus on the narratives developed around
discourses of fatherhood generally and absent fathers in
particular. We draw on interviews conducted with three students
in which we discussed their digital stories and literature reviews.
In this paper, we draw attention to the limitations of digital
storytelling and the risks such autobiographical storytelling
presents of perpetuating dominant narratives that maintain and
reproduce historical inequalities. At the same time, in highlighting
ways in which this risk might be confronted, the paper also aims
to show the possibilities in which these dominant narratives may
be challenged.IBS
“Let’s Move, Let’s Not Remain Stagnant”: Nationalism, Masculinism, and School-Based Education in Mozambique
Assessing learning and memory in pigs
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in (mini) pigs (Sus scrofa) as species for cognitive research. A major reason for this is their physiological and anatomical similarity with humans. For example, pigs possess a well-developed, large brain. Assessment of the learning and memory functions of pigs is not only relevant to human research but also to animal welfare, given the nature of current farming practices and the demands they make on animal health and behavior. In this article, we review studies of pig cognition, focusing on the underlying processes and mechanisms, with a view to identifying. Our goal is to aid the selection of appropriate cognitive tasks for research into pig cognition. To this end, we formulated several basic criteria for pig cognition tests and then applied these criteria and knowledge about pig-specific sensorimotor abilities and behavior to evaluate the merits, drawbacks, and limitations of the different types of tests used to date. While behavioral studies using (mini) pigs have shown that this species can perform learning and memory tasks, and much has been learned about pig cognition, results have not been replicated or proven replicable because of the lack of validated, translational behavioral paradigms that are specially suited to tap specific aspects of pig cognition. We identified several promising types of tasks for use in studies of pig cognition, such as versatile spatial free-choice type tasks that allow the simultaneous measurement of several behavioral domains. The use of appropriate tasks will facilitate the collection of reliable and valid data on pig cognition
Exploring discourses of sexual and reproductive health taboos/silences among youth in Zimbabwe
Protection from cerebral ischemia by a new imidazole derivative (Y-9179) and pentobarbital. A comparative study in chronic middle cerebral artery occlusion in cats.
An electrophysiological approach to investigations of sensory dysfunction in schizophrenia
Re-thinking Africa : A Contribution to the Swedish Government White Paper on Africa
Edited by Signe Arnfred and Mats Utas.</p
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