Towards an ecology of participation: Process philosophy and co-creation of higher education curricula

This article brings together the authors' previous work on co-created curricula (Bovill et al., 2011; Bovill, 2013a; Bovill, 2014) and on partnership and ethics (Taylor and Robinson, 2014; Taylor, 2015), to develop the concept of co-created curricula as an ecology of participation. In doing so, it deploys Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy to formulate a new way of considering co-creation in the curriculum and co-creation of the curriculum in higher education. Two empirical examples are used to illuminate what such an approach offers. From this, we outline three dimensions of an ecology of participation: a process of becoming which recasts subjectivity; acting well in relation which enacts concern; and an orientation to harmony in which difference in equality is valued. The contribution of the article is twofold: first, the concept of an ecology of participation takes forward current thinking on higher education curricula and partnership ethics; second, its use of process philosophy provides a new lens to consider co-creation in the curriculum and co-creation of the curriculum

The Significance of Disease in the Extinction of the New England Indians

The native population of New England suffered from disease at two levels. The first was in the form of sudden onslaught by widespread, extremely lethal epidemics. Two of these, plague in 1617, and smallpox in 1633, caused up to 100 percent mortality in local areas and killed close to 7,000 Indians in the aggregate. The second was manifested in chronic maladies such as tuberculosis and dysentery. These debilitating ailments were effective in reducing the population steadily for nearly two centuries and greatly intensified the unfavorable demographic conditions created by warfare between whites and natives. A study of known mortality on the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket shows that the mean annual population decline referable to all types of disease amounted to approximately 1.5% of the existing population throughout the Colonial period

Quelle fut la stratification sociale au Mexique durant la première moitié du XVIe siècle ?

Cook Sherburne F., Borah Woodrow. Quelle fut la stratification sociale au Mexique durant la première moitié du XVIe siècle ?. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 18ᵉ année, N. 2, 1963. pp. 226-258