Marshall Carby\u27s An Experiment with an Air Pump

Using Joseph Wright\u27s painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump as an inspirational starting point, Shelagh Stephenson\u27s An Experiment with an Air Pump explores the depth of human existence using universal conflicts such as: morals versus ethics, science versus God and right versus wrong. Since the play\u27s premiere in 1998, it has provided a forum for hot button topics such as stem cell research, abortion, and scientific experimentation. The University of New Orleans\u27 production not only presented the issues in the play, it strives to be an example of theatrical excellence, challenge and engage both the company and the audience

Marshall Carby\u27s An Experiment with an Air Pump

Using Joseph Wright\u27s painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump as an inspirational starting point, Shelagh Stephenson\u27s An Experiment with an Air Pump explores the depth of human existence using universal conflicts such as: morals versus ethics, science versus God and right versus wrong. Since the play\u27s premiere in 1998, it has provided a forum for hot button topics such as stem cell research, abortion, and scientific experimentation. The University of New Orleans\u27 production not only presented the issues in the play, it strives to be an example of theatrical excellence, challenge and engage both the company and the audience

Migración laboral en el Reino Unido post Brexit: políticas y reformas

This chapter analyses the British labour migration laws post Brexit inclusive of the European Union Settlement Scheme. The intricacies of the migration rules are explored and explained, leading the reader to understand the complex points-based system. An evaluation follows of the various employment routes’ visas with a mention of safe and legal routes. Its critical and theoretical conclusion accentuates the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary British migration system.El artículo analiza las leyes de migración laboral británicas posteriores al Brexit, incluido el Plan de establecimiento de la Unión Europea. Se exploran y explican las complejidades de las reglas de migración, lo que lleva al lector a comprender el complejo sistema basado en puntos. Sigue una evaluación de las visas de las diversas rutas de empleo con una mención de rutas seguras y legales. La conclusión crítica y teórica acentúa las fortalez

Personalized Feedback in a Virtual Learning Environment

The immediate shift to virtual instruction during the spring of 2020 forced educators worldwide to quickly adopt distance learning philosophies, technologies, and pedagogies. This lean adoption of virtual learning tools saw an unprecedented number of educators embrace new modalities of providing feedback to students. This paper explores those modalities and recommends that supervisors help educators situate personalized student feedback within the context of self-determination theory to ensure students\u27 needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are not abandoned in a virtual learning environment characterized by isolation and loneliness

Structural Leaders: The Intersection of School Principals, Business Leaders, and Social Networks

Educational partnerships are a convenient but underutilized tool in school improvement and reform efforts. Grounded in social capital theory and social network theory, this dissertation study explores the perceptions of school principals, business leaders, and community members on how resources are embedded, accessed, and utilized in local educational partnerships. Social network analysis examined the social network structures underlying the relationships between principals, business leaders, and community members in educational partnerships. The sample selection of five secondary schools provides multiple locations for the study. A total of twelve participants within the same school district in the southeastern United States will participate in this study. Data was gathered through interviews, surveys, and a document review and was analyzed according to the three themes of Lin’s network theory of social capital: 1) resource embeddedness, 2) resource accessibility, and 3) resource utilization. Interviews and documents were analyzed using constant comparative analysis, and survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and centrality measures. This study is critical because it takes a network approach with educational partnerships and provides practical insight into how school administrators can refine their business outreach and engagement efforts

Not for Sale: How home grown Scandinavian eco-cities take climate change imaginaries beyond market mechanisms

Inter-governmental climate talks have, over a twenty-year period, had little success in implementing measures to mitigate human-induced climate change. Their fundamental perspective, one of economic rationality, has not provided a compelling or effective basis for achieving their desired goals. Over the same interval, at the local scale, various constituencies have come together to address climate change by developing communities that allow their residents to live a lifestyle that includes concrete measures that do deal with the problems of climate change. By taking a perspective that emphasises ecological rationality, these eco-communities and eco-villages are challenging the status quo. This thesis examines four Scandinavian eco-city case sites and uses narrative walking interviews (where in-person observations were made of the characteristics of the built environment), the results of Google Web searches (to examine how these sites are characterised in English digital media), critical literature review, and comparative analysis. It then applies the theoretical frameworks of Critical Institutional Theory and Strategic, Values-based Planning Theory to examine how it is that these efforts have succeeded, to determine who were the key decision makers and who benefited from these projects, and to see what lessons about equity can be drawn from these local actions

Partnerships

"The word “globalisation” has a wide-ranging meaning! It includes (a) the phenomenon of the opening of the national economies upon a liberal global market resulting from progress in Communications and transport; or (b) the liberalisation of exchanges resulting from the interdependence between countries; or (c) the fact of becoming global and therefore spreading throughout the world; or (d) affecting the whole world or all peoples; or again (e) to put something into effect worldwide."(...