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The Reasons of Emotion
The paper argues that a careful consideration of the internal relations between the expression of emotion, say, “I am afraid”, and the description of one’s situation, “It is dangerous”, offers valuable insight into the moral and interpersonal aspects necessary to meaningfully describe our emotional life. It also opens for a more nuanced understanding of the kind of reasoning into which we enter when we criticize another person’s emotion or our own
Teacher training and employment
This briefing gives an overview of developments relating to teacher education and career long learning stemming from the 2010 Donaldson review of teacher education. It also looks at the changes to terms and conditions originating in the 2010 spending review agreement between COSLA and the Scottish Government, the 2011 McCormac review of teachers’ terms and conditions and public sector pension reform
Beyond Prometheus: Creativity, discourse, ideology and the Anthropocene
This article considers the strange confluence of the rhetoric of creativity and commerce at key points across the “Great Acceleration”. It argues that although the idea of creativity has its most common contemporary expression in art, it does not in fact emerge from the discourse of art. Rather, the idea of creativity as a specifically human possession emerges from the discourse of nature at the end of the eighteenth century, and particularly in the proliferation of natural scientific ideas about “natural creation”. It argues that if a global response to climate change necessitates a more enlightened remaking of ideas, industries and communities, then one of the ideas that must be “remade” is the Promethean aspect of the idea of creativity, and the relationship it articulates between human beings and the planetary environment we inhabit
A support theorem for nested Hilbert schemes of planar curves
Consider a family of integral complex locally planar curves. We show that
under some assumptions on the basis, the relative nested Hilbert scheme is
smooth. In this case, the decomposition theorem of Beilinson, Bernstein and
Deligne asserts that the pushforward of the constant sheaf on the relative
nested Hilbert scheme splits as a direct sum of shifted semisimple perverse
sheaves. We will show that no summand is supported in positive codimension
Intersection cohomology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a genus 2 curve
Let be a smooth projective curve of genus . Following a method by O'
Grady, we construct a semismall desingularization
of the moduli space of semistable -Higgs bundles of
degree 0 for . By the decomposition
theorem by Beilinson, Bernstein, Deligne one can write the cohomology of
as a direct sum of the intersection cohomology of
plus other summands supported on the singular locus. We
use this splitting to compute the intersection cohomology of
and prove that the mixed Hodge structure on it is
actually pure, in analogy with what happens to ordinary cohomology in the
smooth case of coprime rank and degree.Comment: 35 pages, reviewed according to the referee's suggestion
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School buildings: frequently asked questions (SPICe briefing; 11/11)
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